Skipton Building Society is a United Kingdom-based building society. The Company has five divisions: mortgages and savings, principally the Society, but also includes specialist mortgage businesses Amber Homeloans and North Yorkshire Mortgages; estate agency, including survey and valuations, conveyancing, lettings, asset management and mortgage broking carried out through the Connells group; mortgage services, which includes mortgage administration services, principally Homeloan Management; financial advice, which includes provision of financial advice and broking services through three separate financial advice businesses, Skipton Financial Services, Pearson Jones and Torquil Clark, and and investment portfolio, which includes a number of small trading companies that do not fall within the core operating segments. On January 31, 2012, the Company's subsidiary, Connells Limited acquired a 25% interest in Hearthstone Investments plc.