Bath Building Society is a trading name of the Bath Investment & Building Society, which is a

building society A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization. Building societies offer banking and related financial services, especially savings and mortgage lending. Building societies exist in the United Kingdo ...

, with headquarters in

Bath Bath may refer to: * Bathing, immersion in a fluid ** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body ** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe * Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities Plac ...

, England. Set up in 1904 as a

friendly society A friendly society (sometimes called a benefit society, mutual aid society, benevolent society, fraternal organization or ROSCA) is a mutual association for the purposes of insurance, pensions, savings or cooperative banking. It is a mutual org ...

, the society now focuses on savings and mortgages. The mortgage business specialises in offering niche residential mortgage products to meet the individual demands of customers. Popular products include rent-a-room and buy for university mortgages as well as products targeted at

first-time buyer A first-time buyer (FTB) is a term used in the British, Irish, Canada property markets, and in other countries, for a potential house buyer who has not previously owned a property. A first-time buyer is usually desirable to a seller as they do no ...

s and retired customers. It is a member of the

Building Societies Association The Building Societies Association (BSA) was originally established in 1869. It is the voice for all 43 UK building societies as well as six large credit union A credit union, a type of financial institution similar to a commercial bank, is ...

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Building societies of England Banks established in 1953 Organizations established in 1953 Companies based in Bath, Somerset 1953 establishments in England {{UK-bsoc-stub