It would be difficult to find a bank to provide this kind of financing, I did hear about a guy from Hong Kong who inquired with a friend at the local HSBC, they then reached out to a US based HSBC that provided him with the financing for his US based investment (even though he had no other assets or collateral with in the US) but this sort of situation is far and few between. 

Sorry to hear this Hong.

That is indeed correct and I would like to share an example - we are currently working with an investor (PE fund) in Hong Kong looking to acquire commercial real estate in the US for 40 million USD (cash).  

This is not unique at all as there are many countries in the world where foreigners cannot own freehold and landed property except in certain circumstances and these countries include Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, India, Switzerland, Vietnam, Korea, Japan etc. etc As a consequence in our situation we are NOT a condominium but are classed as an APARTMENT complex [REMOVED] and [REMOVED] (a different meaning in law) and as such we only do Leasehold but as previously explained we then give the Land Ownership Company to the owners themselves so they are leasing from themselves and become both the Lessor and Lessee, nothing could be safer!

@Jimmy Hong, if you buy subject-to, then you ARE getting bank financing (in a round about way).

I think he has several international investor clients as well (I see you are from Hong Kong) which is important.

SF, LA, London, Hong Kong and Sydney in Australia are all appreciation markets.Auckland N.Z which I invest in and flip also becoming an appreciation market only. house prices increased by over 75% from the peak of the last boom in 2007 and the median house price is near 1 million dollar. say +800k. 

This is how international investors - mostly British, Canadian, Australian, Hong Kong - buy properties at reasonable rates.

Rich, heading to Hong Kong today.

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