I just dug up an old story on "Perth Now"
Famous Kalgoorlie brothel selling for $5m
JOE SPAGNOLO APRIL 11, 2008 10:00PM
I didnt realise Langtrees used to make 100k a week, also seems Maryanne isnt keen on foreign workers either, unless she is getting a slice of the pie. read below. 100k a week is 5.2 million dollars a year, even if takings are down 40% thats still 3.12 million a year.......
ONE of Kalgoorlie's biggest attractions - Mary-Anne Kenworthy's famous brothel with themed rooms, a museum and a 70-seat restaurant - is going on the market $5million.
Ms Kenworthy said it was time to cut all ties with Langtrees 181 and would put the property on the market in six weeks.
She had planned to leave the bordello to the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Council when she died, but decided it was time to start a new chapter in her life and sell the brothel she has owned for 20 years.
The brothel business wasn't what it used to be, she said.
The 52-year-old said WA's economic boom was oddly having an adverse effect on business. People were too busy making money to have sex.
She said prostitution in Perth was being taken over by Asians, who were under-cutting her prices.
"Over the last five years bookings for Langtrees in Perth have been down 40 per cent _ that works out to about $40,000 a week,'' Ms Kenworthy said.
"Kalgoorlie is down even more because it's now a family town instead of a singles town, but you still make a tidy income.
"During boom times everyone is so busy making money that they don't have time for sex.
"Whereas they used to go to a brothel once a week or once a fortnight, they now go once a month.
"I have been through three or four recessions in my 25 years in the industry and I have done well during every one of them.
"Maybe it's because during a recession people have nothing to do except twiddle their thumbs and have sex.''
But it's the influx of Asian prostitutes which was causing brothels like Langtrees the greatest financial pain, she said.
"There used to be 20 per cent private operators in WA and 80 per cent of the girls worked in the houses,'' Ms Kenworthy said.
"Now, 40 per cent work as private operators and about 60 per cent work in houses. They are coming from Korea, Thailand and China.
"You have got the Asian invasion where private operators are undercutting established houses by 50 per cent.
"They charge $100 to $150 for what the average Australian girl charges up to $300.''
Ms Kenworthy said the Kalgoorlie brothel, which she leases to another madam, had helped the city prosper.
"It's been a very important part of the Kalgoorlie culture,'' she said.
"I'm very proud of what we have been able to achieve in Kalgoorlie.
"It's hard selling a part of your history.
"But I am worried that while I still own it, I will be pulled back into the business.
"I want to be free -- footloose and fancy free.
"I am single and I am looking for a man.
"Applicants can apply in triplicate.''
Ms Kenworthy said she expected the Kalgoorlie brothel would attract a fair bit of interest when it went on the market.
"It's not a gold mine. It's a good steady business,'' she said.
"It's a fun business to run.
"Put it this way -- If you are bored and buy it, you will never be bored again.''
Hope your doing ok, breakups are never a nice thing.