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A hundred years ago only one in ten of us were what was quaintly called 'men of property' but now 70% of us own our own homes. Or does the mortgage company own us?

Second of a four-part series of how we came to consider homeowning as a right. In these films people recall their first mortgage and making gains and losses on the property market.

Programme three of four in the series of how we came to consider homeowning as a right. Every week, 1800 people make the dream a reality and move from town to country.

Fewer than a quarter of us now live in a traditional household. Singles and divorcees are transforming the housing market, weakening our family ties.