She has gone about the latter with gusto, listing impressive residential apartments in the CBD and large houses close to the inner city.
Ridge, who is as famous for her love life as being an artist, interior designer and property developer, is approaching 2020 with the same flair for real estate.
She has great friends in the form of KJ Apa's parents Tessa and Keneti, and has a wedding to help plan for her LA-based fashionista daughter Jaime, whom Spy reported got engaged to her beau, social media guru Tommy Bates last year while on holiday in Europe.
We are not running a Bachelor for Ridge, but we do hope the right suitor is just around the corner for one of the city's most endearing and enduring personalities.