Not eligible for mortgage due to salary in sterling?

ndm79

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My husband is just off the phone from KBC where he was told that we would not be eligible for a mortgage due to him working in the UK. They didn't ask any additional details about our circumstances and said it wasn't their choice it was a rule from the central bank. Is this correct? We spoke a year ago to Aib about getting one and it wasn't an issue at all back then.
 
My OH gets paid in sterling and we were approved for a mortgage last year from BOI. Our mortgage is in € but it is considered a foreign currency loan as OH is the main earner so it can be reviewed if the value of his salary to € drops.
We had to jump through a lot of hoops to get the mortgage and after some discussions with a mortgage broker I believe there are only a couple of banks here offering mortgages on this basis.
We hope to switch down the line when we have cleared some of the mortgage off.
 
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