At the time (3 years ago, probably still the case) they wouldn't loan to American tax payers (apartment in Europe) because of the burdensome FATCA regulations. Lucky for me my wife isn't and was paid in Singapore dollars.
Well come to think of it, if you had money in your brokerage account that's worth 3X the loan amount that you are seeking, why don't you buy the place outright? I mean you are borrowing only 60% of the place but you had 3X of the loan amount in your account so you should have more than enough to cover the entire purchase. Why bother to borrow? But anyway don't never ever never ever show the bank your brokerage statement for mortgages because of our trading, our account balance can fluctuate from time to time but that in no way ever affects our ability to pay but those retard bankers don't know that. The bank asked me to show my brokerage statement as well when I was trying to get a mortgage and I flatly refused. I provided them with all the proof of income documents that I could and basically just told them to take it or leave it. They ended up still giving me the mortgage. They want our mortgage business just as much as we want a mortgage from them.
