More Chinese women are entering China's property market, with the proportion of women homebuyers having increased by nearly 18% over the past four years, reports South China Morning Post.

 

《南华早报》报道，越来越多的中国女性进入房地产市场，女性房产买家的比例在过去4年间几乎增长了18%。

 

According to a recent analysis from Ke.com, a property listing website, although property market is still dominated by men, there's an increasing number of single women who are new buyers year on year. The company analyzed¹ 67,724 transactions on its platform in 2018 and found that 47.9 per cent of the buyers were women. In 2014, women accounted for about 30 per cent of transactions on the platform.

 

As Beijing Youth Daily reported, the situation has changed a lot in recent years. Wives tend to give more suggestions and advice when it comes to married couples buying houses. Some women even play leading roles in choosing houses, while men seem to take the backseat, according to a real estate salesman in Beijing.

 

Based on a report released by two other real estate websites, 65.2% of the women had decisive effects in buying home, 28.4% offered suggestions, but only 6.4% were ignored.

 

"Women are always an influential² force in our industry," said Liu Ce, the head of research center at Kaisa Group.

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