This temporary stopover set in motion a life-long journey that saw Mary become one of Perth’s most successful business tycoons – laying the foundations of a vast real estate empire that helped ultimately fund the creation of the Raine Medical Research Foundation.
The first step in this journey was for Mary to use her savings and a loan to buy a house in Subiaco which she leased. She leased the property and utilised the rental income to pay off the mortgage in just two years. Her entrepreneurial spirit drove Mary to acquire the vacant land next door, where she built another house to rent out.
This strategy of buying, leasing, and swiftly paying off her debt became a foundation for Mary’s systematic approach to property acquisition in the years that followed.

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