The Norwich and Peterborough Building Society has scooped the title of Mortgage Lender of the Year (Overseas Property) in Financial Adviser magazine’s Mortgage Awards for 2006.

The Society shares joint first place with Abbey plc. The Awards were held on 11th May 2006 at Quaglino’s restaurant in central London. Independent financial advisers nominated and voted for lenders and providers which were then judged by a panel of experts.

N&P’s local business manager for Gibraltar & Spain, Linda Cooper, told B2B: “We were absolutely thrilled to achieve this award. We are in a position to help meet the growing demand to buy overseas homes and have been helping people with Sterling mortgages in Spain for more than eight years, building on our mortgage service in Gibraltar, which was launched in 1990. Our team offers a friendly, high quality service and has good local knowledge. They should feel duly proud!”

Norwich & Peterborough have been lending on the south coast of Spain and the Costa Blanca since 1998. Staff help UK residents, ex-pats and residents of Gibraltar to buy or re-mortgage their main home, holiday property or retirement residence.