PHOTO: Renovator and developer Simone Burke had a new kitchen and floor put in at her Sippy Downs investment house on the Sunshine Coast. Picture: Liam Kidston.

ALMOST half of all property investors now were women, but many were still being short-changed out of millions because of the “blokey” nature of builders.

Latest industry data showed that higher levels of working women, lone person and single parent households, divorce and longer lifespans were seeing almost as many females own property as males, 47 per cent according to the Property Council Australia.

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