Best Passbook savings account

MoneySaverLog

Looking for the best passbook savings account, they don't seem to pay very good rates of interest now though.

The better rates all seem to either be for online or post only. Are there any suggestions for a branch based passbook account only paying more than 0.1% interest?

psychic_teabag

ISTR virgin / northern rock paid a good rate for branch accounts.

opinions4u

Cheltenham Gold from Cheltenham & Gloucester pays 1.90% or more.

GreenBitterfly

Skipton Building Society has a passbook based account at 2.50% and I think Leeds Building Society has a special Jubilee one at 2.65% (minimum balance is £100 though!)

alanq

There seems little point asking people to suggest best branch access passbook accounts as by definition they will be of no use unless the suggested organisation has a branch locally to the person asking the question.

Some sites list branch access accounts but not all of those come with a passbook. The only tool that does the job that I have found is this one
http://www.money.co.uk/savings-accounts/instant-access-savings.htm

Select Instant Access and Advanced Search. Then Account Access and Passbook.

GreenBitterfly

alanq wrote: »

There seems little point asking people to suggest best branch access passbook accounts as by definition they will be of no use unless the suggested organisation has a branch locally to the person asking the question.

Some sites list branch access accounts but not all of those come with a passbook. The only tool that does the job that I have found is this one
http://www.money.co.uk/savings-accounts/instant-access-savings.htm

Select Instant Access and Advanced Search. Then Account Access and Passbook.

I agree, it's a bit difficult, but I thought best give suggestions anyway, as you never know where they may live and the ones I suggested were the ones I knew from my own enquiries, so didn't require any extra effort!

rb10

alanq wrote: »

There seems little point asking people to suggest best branch access passbook accounts as by definition they will be of no use unless the suggested organisation has a branch locally to the person asking the question.

Many passbook accounts can be operated by post - there is not necessarily a need to visit a branch at any point.

VT82

rb10 wrote: »

Many passbook accounts can be operated by post - there is not necessarily a need to visit a branch at any point.

Quite true. I'm happy with my Monmouthshire passbooks that'll never get re-stamped but I still get my 4% with post and online access

But the OP did specify branch-based, and suggested that 'online or post only' is not what they wanted.