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Case Study: Hong Kong BNO Visa Holder Buying in Reading

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A Hong Kong family several years into the BNO visa route were timing their UK move around their daughter’s UCAS offer at the University of Reading. The structural answer was a foreign national residential mortgage at 70% LTV on a four-bedroom house in Earley, with the daughter as primary occupier and three rooms let to

Unlock EU Residency: Fund Golden Visas with UK Property Remortgage

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UK expats exploring European residency-by-investment programmes can fund qualifying investments by releasing equity from existing UK properties rather than selling assets outright. This approach involves remortgaging or refinancing UK residential or buy-to-let properties to access capital for schemes such as Portugal’s Golden Visa fund route or Greece’s real estate programme. The strategy preserves long-term UK