Skipton Group, which owns Skipton Building Society and the Connells estate agency group, has handed a record numbers of mortgages to first time buyers and seen their total members number swell past 1.3m.
The building society aided 26,000 first-time buyers in getting on the property ladder, accounting for 50 per cent of all new mortgages handed out across the year, while growing its saver base by returning more than £195m, by way of paying above-market interest rates on savings accounts.
