Take the cash a buy a decent place aboard in an up and comming country, let it out for X amount of years untill your ready to sell or move in.

for £33,000 you can buy a 7 bedroom summerhouse made from marble within one year the price of the place would increase by X amount. If you buy in the right place within 5 years your place could be worth loads

Also some countrys have just introduced their own type of long term mortgage this has so many options if you take exchange rates into account