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The Building Societies Association is the trade association for the UK's building societies.

It represents its members to those outside the sector on a number of issues such as building society legislation, the regulation of the sector, developments in the savings market, financial inclusion and the promotion of building societies' mutual status.

The BSA also provides information to its members on these, and a wide variety of other subjects and acts as a central point for building societies to communicate with each other.

There are 59 building societies in the UK with total assets of exceeding £315 billion. About 15 million adults have building society saving accounts and over two and a half million adults are currently buying their own homes with the help of building society loans. In recent years building societies have diversified and a number now offer, among other services, current accounts, credit cards, cash machines, travel money, unsecured loans, various types of insurance and estate agency services.

www.bsa.org.uk

Latest press releases 

  • BSA: Record half year savings for societies

    29/07/2008 - Building societies’ excellent performance in the savings market for the first half of 2008 saw them achieving record savings inflows of £6,296 million compared to just £3,862 million in the first six months of 2007.

  • Building Societies Association: Savings remain high

    30/06/2008 - Building societies’ excellent performance in the savings market continued in May, with societies attracting savings inflows of £853 million, the highest May figure since 2002.

  • BSA: Modest property price fall expected

    27/06/2008 - Three quarters of people expect property prices to fall over the next twelve months according to the first quarterly Price Tracker survey by the Building Societies Association (BSA).

  • BSA to expand mortgage service

    12/06/2008 - The Building Societies Association (BSA) announces today that it is to expand the work which it does on behalf of building societies by representing their interests in the mortgage and housing markets.