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Download the 2019 prospectus here.
The application window for the fifth student intake of this programme opens on 15 April and closes on 31 July 2019. Students will commence their studies in October 2019.
Authored by Bob Pannell and Dick Jenkins, commissioned by the BSA, this report aims to share practice and ideas that are already helping more young people get onto the housing ladder on a sustainable basis.
The BSA Yearbook is the official handbook of the Building Societies Association, with all the latest facts and figures from the UK's mortgage industry.
BSA Guidance to Building Societies on the UK Corporate Governance Code.
As part of our continuing strategic theme on promoting excellence in governance, the BSA has published a series of articles, Perspectives on governance in building societies, intended to inform and stimulate debate in the sector.
Survey results: Organisational culture in building societies.
In 2015 the BSA published its first report on Lending into retirement.
This update shows how the market has developed over the two years since.
The BSA and National Debtline have produced a leaflet designed to help and support those who are concerned about making their monthly mortgage repayments once interest rates rise.
Lengthening the Ladder: The future of mortgage borrowing in older age
Following on from the BSA's 2015 Lending into Retirement interim report, this report is funded by the BSA, carried out by the ILC and supported by the CML.
The BSA commissioned a specialist governance consultancy, Independent Audit Ltd (IAL), to conduct a survey of building society chairmen to provide insight to the corporate culture and the role of boards in building societies. Read the report here.
The report explores the addition of MMC, particularly offsite construction, into the mainstream repertoire of the UK housing industry: housebuilders, mortgage lenders, surveyors and general insurers.