A woman’s place is in the home - her home, that is
By: Beverly Allen - March 30th, 2007
Single women are becoming an increasingly significant force in the Canadian residential real estate market. According to Statistics Canada, sole home ownership among women is on the rise. It reports that one-person households (mostly headed by women) were the fastest-growing type between 1971 and 2001.
A Royal LePage housing survey suggests that, among first-time home buyers in 2004, 51 per cent were women. In her new book, Home Girl: The Single Woman’s Guide to Buying Real Estate in Canada, Brenda Bouw suggests that the gap will widen and that single women will outnumber single men (55 per cent vs. 45 per cent) when it comes to buying a home in the next two years.