PHOTO: Vita Group co-founder Maxine Horne has multiple investments including real estate, stock and new businesses such as this spa in upmarket Hamilton. Picture: AAP Image/Richard Waugh. Source: News Corp Australia

Australia’s richest female chief executive might have come from humble beginnings, but she’s blitzed wealth building since falling in love with Brisbane.

Maxine Horne, chief executive of ASX-listed Vita Group, has just had one of her properties — a sub penthouse in hipster suburb Newstead — snapped up in the rental market.

The property was one of those rare two bedroom apartments that also have two multipurpose rooms, and it’s within the famous Gasworks shopping and restaurant precinct. She allows pets which is fabulous for the inner-city. Residents have their own gym and pool area, according to a listing by agent Angela Edginton of City Realty.

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