Property professionals highlighted the financial disadvantages holding women back from home ownership, including a national gender pay gap of 13.3 per cent and poorer outcomes after separation. A Victorian parliamentary inquiry found only about 34 per cent of women owned a home within five years of separating, rising to 44 per cent after a decade. PIPA chair Nicola McDougall noted that just 27 per cent of investors were women.
Reported by
Kate Aubrey, Mortgage Business, 13 June 2023
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