Scottish Building Society

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Scottish Building Society (SBS) has announced the opening of a £500,000 branch in Aberdeen to support existing customers and drive new business in the North East. The world’s oldest building society has completed the refit of a three-storey office block on the corner of Union Street and

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Paul Denton, the head Scottish Building Society (SBS) has welcomed a dramatic rise in house prices - but warned the impact of COVID-19 could prove a barrier to a generation of buyers getting on to the housing ladder. Yesterday's House Price Index released by the Land Registry and the Office for Nati

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The Scottish Building Society (SBS) has pledged that none of its customers will be at risk of losing their home over the next 12 months as it announced an emergency support package for customers in financial difficulty due to COVID-19. As well as banning repossessions, the society is extending the c

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The Scottish housing market could recover quicker from coronavirus than the last financial crash if the government freezes sales taxes to help home buyers, according to Paul Denton, CEO of Scottish Building Society. He said support measures such a Land and Buildings Transaction Tax holiday could acc

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Scottish Building Society chief executive Paul Denton has forecast that Scotland’s £18 billion housing market will experience two waves of bounce-back when the country emerges from lockdown. Mr Denton expects that the market will return to pre-COVID-19 levels. 

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Stephen Brown has been appointed as the new head of intermediaries at the Scottish Building Society. Mr Brown was a pioneer as one of the UK’s first internet mortgage brokers. In the early 2000’s he moved on to become senior technical manager for moneyQuest who were at the time, Scotland

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Scottish Building Society (SBS) has been celebrating after scooping Building Society of the Year award at the annual Mortgage Introducer Scottish Mortgage Awards last week. The awards dinner took place at Prestonfield House in Edinburgh, where the brightest and best of the Scottish property finance

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It is "too early" to say if there has been a so-called Boris bounce or Brexit bounce in house prices, Scottish Building Society (SBS) has said. The average price of a house in Scotland increased 2.2 per cent to £151,603, according to the government’s UK House Price Index.

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A tailored mortgage to help Scots entrepreneurs on to the property ladder has been launched by Scottish Building Society (SBS). The innovative package recognises the challenges start-ups face in demonstrating to traditional lenders, who use automated credit scoring, that they have a regular income.

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