Century Building Society

Advantages: Old fashioned slow speed of life
Disadvantages: Hasn't woken up to the 21st century

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Advantages: great small building society with a good range of accounts
Disadvantages: none

...The yorkshie building society is a traditional building society which really does seem to be there for its members not only in the range of accounts competitive intrest rates on mortgages and savings accounts but on that old fashioned thing called costomer care. I have been saving with them for a number of years and when one of my accounts became an obselte one I was alerted to the fact practically straight away and changed to the new higher interest account. This is not a building society for the carpet baggers! you sign away your rights when you open your account these days... Read review

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Advantages: Very efficient and helpful
Disadvantages: No branches in London

...The Newcastle Building Society is great for mortgages. We have never had any problems with them and the service when I have phoned up with queries is very good. We have had our mortgage with the Newcastle Building Society for about 5 years (taken out via a broker) and have re-mortgaged with them twice since the mortgage was originally taken out. We live in London and there aren't any branches of the Newcastle Building Society here but this hasn't been a problem since the call centre is so good. The mortgage rates from the Newcastle Building Society are very competitive. When we took the original mortgage deal out everything was dealt with very efficiently and the paperwork was done quickly. Since then when we have re-mortgaged, again all paperwork was done very quickly and efficiently. I would definitely recommend... Read review

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