Laura van Driem has a message for bankers facing exile from London as the U.K. prepares to exit the European Union: Congratulations! Your life is about to get better.

Four years ago, Van Driem sold her 590 square-foot (55 square meter) two-bedroom apartment in Wapping, east London, for 500,000 pounds ($650,000) and bought the same space in Amsterdam for half the price before moving to a house that’s a 15-minute bike and ferry ride to the city center.

“London is the best city in the world and nowhere really comes close to it; but for family life, I couldn’t imagine living there,” said Van Driem, 37, a real estate broker.

So what would the average London house price, 550,000 pounds, or about 640,000 euros ($710,000), buy in Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, among the cities scrambling to attract some of London’s banking business post-Brexit?

Dublin

In the days after the June 23 Brexit vote, U.K. searches of the Irish real estate website Myhome.ie rose 35 percent. Browsers would have found the Irish capital in the midst of another mini-house boom. It’s not cheap anymore.

A three-bedroom family home in Sandymount, near the city and beach and beloved of James Joyce, would set you back 1.3 million euros. Closer to your budget might be a 600,000-euro 2-bedroom apartment in the docklands with panoramic views, close to Google and Facebook Inc.’s European headquarters. In the same neighborhood, 550,000 euros buys a three-bedroom, 1,270 square foot apartment on Gallery Quay, a short walk from the International Financial Services Center, home to the likes of Citigroup Inc.

And if you need to move home, it can be rented out for about 2,700 euros a month.

Amsterdam

The Dutch capital has fully recovered from the housing crisis, and now a two-bedroom houseboat with a deck floating on the Amstel river sells for 650,000 euros. Don’t be fooled into thinking houseboat means camping -- this place comes with a luxury kitchen and heated floors. Added bonus: from here, you can row to work at the Dutch Central Bank.

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