Family Building Society
British financial services institution
The Family Building Society is a trading name of National Counties Building Society, based in Epsom, Surrey, in the UK. It is a member of the Building Societies Association.
The brand was created by the National Counties Building Society and opened on 14 July 2014. The society claims it was the first building society to launch in the United Kingdom since the Ecology Building Society was established in 1981, however in fact it is just an additional trading name of an existing building society. Members of the Family Building Society are members of National Counties Building Society, and vice versa.
In January 2019 the society published a report in conjunction with the London School of Economics, The Bank of Mum and Dad: How it really works, on the role of parents ('the bank of mum and dad') when helping family members buy property.
This followed on from a July 2018 report, A tax too far? Monitoring the impact of SDLT, commissioned from the London School of Economics on the effect of Stamp Duty Land Tax on house purchase.
Organisation
The Chief Executive is Mark Bogard. The Society has one branch in Epsom, and transactions can be carried out by phone and internet.
Products
The building society concentrates on providing products and services that are designed to enable members of a family to provide mutual assistance, while safeguarding their savings, in particular parents who want to help their children.
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