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245			_aBridget Jones buys a house
260			_ac2004
490			_aHalifax Press Release _v3 November 2004 (3)
520			_aRecent research from the Halifax has shown that young women are increasingly choosing to buy their first home alone. With 51% of Britain's population now women the proportion of mortgages taken out by single women has more than doubled from 9.8% in 1983 to 23.1% in 2003. Women, as well as living longer than men, also leave home earlier than their male peers - 56% of men and only 37% of women in England aged 20-24 live at home with their parents. http://www.hbosplc.com/economy/ResearchReleases.as p
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650			_aWOMEN
650			_aHOUSE BUYING
650			_aMORTGAGES
650			_aFIRST-TIME BUYERS
690			_aHOUSING-MARKET
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