Single women’s incomes rising faster than single men’s
By Patrick Clark | BloombergBusiness
For decades, single women played an important role in the U.S. housing market, buying more homes than single men. But after the housing crisis, lenders made it harder to qualify for mortgages, and the percentage of single female buyers dropped from 21 percent of purchasers in 2009 to 15 percent this year. Now they may be poised to make a comeback.
For more than a year, the majority of respondents to a prospective homebuyer survey by real estate brokerage Redfin have been women—this according to more than 17,000 surveys completed on its website since 2012.
