WASHINGTON — In a city where a first date can include a polite review of each other’s résumés, a new survey suggests a different document may be getting a quiet glance: the deed.
Two in five American women looking for love online, 40.4%, say they want a partner who owns a home, according to The State of Online Dating 2026, released Nov. 10 by the dating-review site DatingScout.com. Among American men, the figure was 18.9%. “Love may be blind, but it can apparently read a property deed,” the company’s announcement observed.
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