"Was that a 27% fall in the number of mortgages sold to...

"Was that a 27% fall in the number of mortgages sold to investors since September.

The number of investors is DECREASING !!

YEP !! IT SURE IS.


TIMMMMMBERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!"

Sure look at a bit more data from your own source and you will find that is is no where as bad as you state, so no it is not TIMMMMMBERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR when you look at yearly trends! As always you can make numbers say anything you want.

Nov 07 8,221 mortgages written, 32.5% investors (2672)
Dec 07 6,125 mortgages written, 33.9% investors (2076)
Jan 08 6,471 mortgages written, 30.8% investors (1993)
Feb 08 7,574 mortgages written, 29.0% investors (2196)
Mar 08 6,498 mortgages written, 31.4% investors (2040)
Apr 08 7,125 mortgages written, 33.2% investors (2365)
May 08 6,691 mortgages written, 32.8% investors (2194)
June 08 5,939 mortgages written, 32.2% investors (1912)
July 08 6,935 mortgages written, 29.9% investors (2073)
Aug 08 5,770 mortgages written, 30.05% investors (1734)
Sep 08 6,231 mortgages written, 31.37% investors (1955)
Oct 08 7,003 mortgages written, 29.9% investors (2094)
Nov 08 7,003 mortgages written, 27.6% investors (1933)
Dec 08 6,304 mortgages written, 28.0% investors (1765)
Jan 09 5,607 mortgages written, 26.5% investors (1486)
Feb 09 7,673 mortgages written, 25.4% investors (1949)
Mar 09 8,988 mortgages written, 24.5% investors (2202)
Apr 09 8,109 mortgages written, 25.4% investors (2060)
May 09 7,236 mortgages written, 28.0% investors (2026)
June 09 7,062 mortgages written, 29.0% investors (2048)
July 09 7,021 mortgages written, 30.0% investors (2106)
Aug 09 7,653 mortgages written, 27.1% investors (2074)
Sep 09 8,078 mortgages written, 29.8% investors (2407)
Oct 09 7,138 mortgages written, 31.3% investors (2234)
Nov 09 6,541 mortgages written, 33.8% investors (2210)
Dec 09 5,185 mortgages written, 33.9% investors (1758)