Home ownership rates among women have gone up, but there's concern financial barriers are holding them back from investment properties.

The latest edition of CoreLogic’s Women & Property Report shows that 23 percent of women had sole ownership of a property compared to 20.9 percent for men, with mixed-gender ownership accounting for 56 percent.

CoreLogic Chief Property Economist Kelvin Davidson says the gender wage gap is still impacting women's salaries.

"There's a female deficit, I guess, when it comes to investment properties. So great, females own a proportionately higher number of owner-occupied properties, but there is also a deficit when it comes to investment properties."

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