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• UK's mortgage market in graphics
  Facts and figures on the key issues that affect the UK's home owners
  
  
• October mortgage lending picks up
  Mortgage lending rose by nearly 7% between September and October, figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show.
  
  
• FBI helps money-laundering teams
  FBI agents are helping Jersey's anti money-laundering teams with how to detect and fight mortgage fraud.
  
  
• Clash over $700bn bank bail-out
  US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke defend the $700bn bank bail-out plan.
  
  
• Buy-to-let market 'is now closed'
  The buy-to-let housing market is "closed", the boss of nationalised bank Bradford & Bingley tells a committee of MPs.
  
  
• Rock arrears driven by 125% loans
  Arrears on controversial home loans of up to 125% of the value of a property are driving Northern Rock's repossession rate.
  
  
• Fraudulent mortgage broker banned
  A mortgage broker who tried to defraud insurance firms of more than £250,000 has been banned by the Financial Services Authority.
  
  
• City helps pay mortgage arrears
  Wakefield council is one of the first in the UK to give interest-free loans to people struggling to pay off mortgages.
  
  
• Squeeze panel: Barrie Lester
  Meet Barrie Lester from our panel of families charting how the economic squeeze is affecting them.
  
  
• Problems looming for buy-to-let
  Some 20% to 40% of buy-to-let landlords will be in negative equity if house prices keep falling at current rates, a report says.
  
  
• How low will house prices go in 2009?
  Will house prices keep falling next year after the record drop in 2008?
  
  
• Surviving the property turmoil
  As Britain's housing market crisis continues, the downturn is taking its toll on the once-booming rental market on both landlord and tenants alike.
  
  
• Low-deposit mortgages evaporate
  The number of mortgage deals available for people offering a 10% deposit has slowed to a trickle, figures show.
  
  
• Timeline: Global credit crunch
  BBC News looks at how the global credit crisis unfolded.
  
  
• NI mortgage arrears almost double
  The number of mortgage arrears issued in Northern Ireland between July and September almost doubles from the same period last year.
  
  
• Tracker deals returning to market
  Major UK mortgage lenders have been reshuffling deals following the surprise drop in the Bank rate to 3%.
  
  
• Property: The end of the affair?
  Escalating property prices are no longer a dinner party conversation topic, replaced by falling property prices.
  
  
• Mortgage squeeze 'stifles' market
  Home sales are at a 30-year low as a lack of available mortgages "stifles" the housing market, an industry survey suggests.
  
  
• Digest of the housing statistics
  A raft of housing statistics revealing a stalled market were released on Tuesday.
  
  
• Fannie Mae loss widens to $29bn
  US mortgage finance firm Fannie Mae reports a third-quarter loss of $29bn in the wake of the slowing housing sector.