Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of valuation panel management services, has announced the renewal of its partnership with Family Building Society through a contracted appointment to remain the lender’s lead valuer and panel manager until the end of 2025.

This extension marks a 25-year partnership between the two firms after the first contractual agreement was signed in December 2000.

Matthew Cumber (pictured), managing director of Countrywide Surveying Services, said: “We are immensely proud to have a number of longstanding relationships across the industry, and to hit the quarter of a century mark will represent quite some achievement for both parties.

“Such longevity not only helps demonstrate the ongoing quality of our service but also how we continue to innovate and evolve to help support such forward-thinking lenders like Family Building Society to tackle the ever-shifting needs of its specialist and diverse range of borrowing requirements.”

Andy Deeley, director of lending at Family Building Society, added: “Family Building Society are delighted to have renewed our contract with Countywide which will bring up 25 years of working together. We value the relationship we have with Countywide and hope to continue it for many years to come.”