Single women have been gaining on single men when it comes to buying homes. But that progress stalled last year.
In metropolitan areas across the country, young single men are more likely than young single women to own a home, but the ownership gap had been narrowing and almost closed in 2021, according to Zillow, as more women entered the workforce and their incomes rose.
That gap widened last year, according to a new Zillow report looking at home affordability trends among singles ages 18 to 44. That was partly due to the pandemic's continuing outsized hit on working women and rising housing costs.
