Ipswich Building Society

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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Advantages: mutual, great product
Disadvantages: only open to people in area, accounts are now closed

...The independent information provider Money£acts announced that the Staffordshire Building Society TESSA’s has given one of the best returns to its members over the last five years. As a Tessa holder this has of course pleased me. Money£acts revealed, if you had put £9,000 in the Staffordshire Building Society TESSA, which was place 6th in the table then you would be £662 better off than if you had invested with the worst. Although Tessa's are now closed I have written this because i feel it is representative of the company as a whole and the current financial services market. Interestingly no high street banks appeared in the top 20 which was dominated by regional building societies and embarrassingly for the clutch of PLC’s who gave up their mutual status Bradford and Bingley was placed highest at 33rd. I am not surprised... Read review

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