SKIPTON Building Society has been declared the best national building society by Your Mortgage.

The prestigious accolade was revealed at the 25th anniversary ceremony of Your Mortgage Awards and comes after Skipton won What Mortgage’s best building society award for two years in a row in 2011 and 2012.

The Your Mortgage Awards celebrates the achievements of top mortgage lenders in the market and pays tribute to those lenders that have offered the best products and services to borrowers.

David Cutter, Skipton Group chief executive, said: “We’re delighted that Your Mortgage has named Skipton as best national building society. It’s a great honour to win this award.

“As a proud mutual, we place our members at the heart of everything we do. And we work hard to offer the right products and services to meet their individual needs.

“We will continue to build on this success by doing everything we can to delight our customers and live up to their high expectations of us.”

The Your Mortgage Awards have been running since 1993. They are highly regarded in the industry and as a benchmark for the public, and are viewed as being completely independent and unbiased.

This latest accolade comes just a few days after Skipton was named the UK’s best children’s/junior savings provider in the Personal Finance Awards.