We collect data from the firms we regulate on what products they are selling. Firms operating in the mortgages, retail investments or protection sectors submit product transaction data to us quarterly.
View the 2024 mortgage PSD interactive tables and visualisations[2]
View the 2024 retail investments PSD interactive tables and visualisations[3]
View the 2024 pure protection contracts PSD interactive tables and visualisations[4]
Key information
Firms report details of their sales of regulated mortgage contracts, retail investment products and certain pure protection products to retail and private customers. Firms report transaction-level data on both direct sales by their own sales forces and sales made by intermediaries.
We use the product sales data (PSD) to assist us in regulation of firms and to spot trends in the products sold in the UK market. We publish the aggregated PSD each year so that consumers and market participants can see what firms are selling and understand the trends.
In the mortgage PSD, we have provided geographic breakdowns for the UK nations and the 9 regions of England. To complement this, we have published interactive tables and visualisations[5] of some of the key geographic breakdowns.
For this year’s mortgage sales data, we have used the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory (ONSPD) as our reference source data instead of the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF).
For mortgages sales data, all home finance providers[6] are required to submit their data. In the last year, up to end of December 2024, 182 firms provided mortgage sales data to us.
For pure protection contracts and retail investment products, the following types of firms are required to submit this data to us:
- insurers[7]
- managers[8] of authorised alternative investment funds (AIF)[9] or undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) schemes[10]
- operators[11] of an investment trust savings scheme[12], or a personal pension scheme[13]
- a person[14] who issues or manages the relevant assets of the issuer of a structured capital-at-risk product[15]
In the last year, 44 firms have submitted the pure protection sales data and 269 firms submitted retail investment sales data to us.
What’s included in the data
Pure Protection Contracts PSD
Pure Protection Contracts sales data is collected for a limited number of product types – that is, products with complexities that increase the potential risks to consumers. These product types are:
- critical illness sold as a ‘rider benefit’ to mortgage protection and term assurance
- income protection and
- standalone critical illness.
Retail Investments PSD
We collect product sales data on 29 retail investment products, in 8 product categories:
- endowments
- bonds
- trusts, OEICs and structured capital at risk products
- (stock and shares) ISAs
- long-term care insurance
- decumulation products
- occupational pensions
- personal pensions
Mortgage PSD
We collect sales data for all house purchases and remortgages. We publish the number of mortgage sales by a variety of characteristics, for example:
- sales channel
- advice given
- loan purpose
- loan-to-value
- mortgage term (new in 2022)
- borrower characteristics (new in 2022: first-time buyer sales by customer age bands, sales by gross income bands)
- property characteristics
Understanding the data
Our product sales data does not cover all products and markets, so check 'What's included in the data' section above to understand what data is covered. Find out more details[1] on each product sales data type.
Since 2005 it has been a requirement that product sales data (PSD001) must be reported for all new sales of regulated mortgage contracts. There have been subsequent changes made to reporting requirements, meaning that internal product transfers and further advances must be reported in product sales data (PSD001) where they are completed on or after 1 April 2021. For the purposes of providing results that are comparable with previous time periods, figures for internal product transfers and further advances are not included in the main analysis. Instead, separate analysis can be found in the monthly data tables sheet[16]. Business loans and second charge mortgages are also not included in the main analysis.
We only ask firms to report completed transactions (where the funds have been transferred from lender to borrower). The data each lender submits for mortgage PSD is the same as the data it gives to UK Finance, for its Regulated Mortgage Survey. However, the figures published in that survey will differ from mortgage PSD because a small number of mortgage lenders do not submit data to the UK Finance.
If you would like more information about mortgage sales, the FCA and Bank of England publish other sources of mortgage data, such as those derived from the Mortgage Lending and Administration Return (MLAR)[17] which cover different areas. So please bear these factors in mind when comparing mortgage PSD with other related data. View the MLAR data[18].
For investment products, we also publish further data on the retirement income market once a year. View the latest retirement income data[18].
To find out what we mean by the terms we use in PSD, please see our glossaries of definitions[19]
For further information on the product sales data, view Interpreting the data[16].
Future edition publication date
PSD 2025: To be confirmed