The worst housing market in years couldn’t stop single women from owning a record-breaking number of homes

Until 1974, a single woman in the U.S. could not get a mortgage without a male co-signer. Just over 50 years later, a record-high share of single women own homes, and they are outpacing single men in the housing market by nearly two to one. It pays to be a single woman. 

According to a new analysis from First American, more single women own homes in the United States than ever before—even as the share of women who own has edged down and buying a house has never been harder. 

Although...