People living alone in the UK now make up a third of all households, according to the Office for National Statistics. There has been an 8 per cent increase in solo dwellers in a decade, outpacing the 6 per cent increase in the UK population in the decade from 2012.
Of the people living alone 52 per cent are women. However, the number of men living alone has grown more — an increase of 415,000 since 2013, compared with 204,000 more women — perhaps because it’s easier for men, who have higher salaries on average, to afford it.
Male first-time buyers in London have, on average, £11,500 more saved for a deposit than women, according to NHG Homes (part of the housing association Notting Hill
