Guimaraes - I got your meaning.
Take FTE for example - the Spanish bank will only approve a loan against UK property. Even if that were not the case, your property has got to be worth as much as the loan amount - difficult in lots of countries.
I'm selling my house to pay for my training. I can only do that because the housing market in the UK has seen a huge increase in values and added the price of the training onto the value of my house in the last three years. That's good fortune for me but outside of the UK the property market differes greatly.
Only problem is I've been working for ten years to buy a house and get it up to standard and now I have to say goodbye to it!