The answer to this is that it is incredibly easy to obtain a mortgage abroad with different options available to you depending on your circumstances.
1/ Take out a mortgage in the country in which you are buying.
2/ Additional borrowing here in the UK utilising your current assets
To assist, we have produced several information pages based on your requirements. Please click on the following links to steer you to the page of interest and please remember that you can always use our mortgage calculator tool to help you with any figures that you want to work out:
Mortgages in Spain
Mortgages in Cyprus
Mortgages in the Greek Islands
Mortgages in Turkey
Mortgages in Costa Rica
Mortgages in Italy
Additional borrowing in the UK