‘Best call of my life’: Ben Fordham lifts lid on property deal

2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham has opened up on the deal he describes as the best he ever made.

2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham has secured a new tenant at $535-per-week.

2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham has secured a tenant at $535 per week at his longtime Elizabeth Bay investment property through Cobden Hayson.

The studio apartment in the Tara, Greenknowe Avenue complex has 46 sqm space.

Fordham had previously offered the studio at $390 per week in 2022 which was the same rental as in 2020 during the COVID pandemic-impacted exodus from inner city rentals.

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2GB radio host Ben Fordham bought the property in the ‘90s. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Fordham’s longtime Elizabeth Bay investment property will one day be home to his kids, he hopes.

PropTrack calculates the suburb’s median apartment rent currently sits at $650 a week, up 35 per cent from its $480 pandemic low. There have been eight studio rental offerings amid the 85 apartments since July with the studios offerings ranging between $420 and $600.

Fordham purchased the property aged 20 for $139,000 in 1997, early in his media career.

He lived for around five years in the early 1940s Moderne style complex.

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Fordham, himself, called the apartment home early in his media career.

The apartment rode the pandemic rental market wave but has come out the other side.

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“Buying that unit was one of the best calls of my life,” Fordham told The Sell.

“I saved a $15,000 deposit and asked my friend Matt Hayson from Cobden Hayson to pick a place out for me.

“I often say to Matt that it was a purchase that changed my life.

“It’s such a beautiful building.

“I hope my kids get to live in it one day when I kick them out of home.”

Originally published as ‘Best call of my life’: Ben Fordham lifts lid on property deal