Single women are outperforming other cohorts as first-time home buyers in the US, with many successfully navigating a long-standing gender wage gap, high home prices, and elevated mortgage rates to ...

Buying a home is possibly the largest and most important purchase you’ll make in your lifetime. While 62% of homebuyers in 2024 were married couples, single buyers are a significant and growing ...

First-time homebuyers are typically defined as those entering the market who’ve never owned a home. However, anyone who has not owned a home for the last three years also qualifies as a first-timer.

Before 1974, women couldn’t secure a mortgage without a male co-signer. Single women accounted for 20% of all homebuyers nationally in 2024; single men accounted for 11%. Bria Myers, 27, described her ...

The NAR survey data are the latest sign that single women overall are becoming homeowners at greater rates than single men.