After a decade of the same judges, social media was set into a tailspin when Channel Nine confirmed that a fresh face would be joining the lineup in 2023 for season 19 of The Block – Marty Fox.
With veteran Neale Whittaker taking a step back that year for personal reasons, the real estate tycoon stepped up, becoming a firm favourite with fans and ultimately going on to become a full-time judge in 2024 when Neale decided to maintain his leave of absence.
But while his appearance may have seemed shocking to some, keen viewers of the renovation reality series remembered Marty from previous seasons of The Block, where he appeared as both a real estate agent and auctioneer.
In 2020 he auctioned Harry and Tash’s home for $4m and in 2022 he was hired as the real estate agent for Rachel and Ryan, who ultimately sold their property for $4.25m.
“It’s really nice to come back into the show having been on the periphery in the past,” Marty has previously said.
“It’s almost like a tick for me professionally.”
Who is Marty Fox?
Prior to his full-time judging duties on The Block, Marty had already established himself as a successful player in the real estate game.
Entering the industry when he was only 21 years old, the freshly minted judge went on to work his way up the literal property ladder and launched his own agency WHITEFOX in 2017.
In their first three years of operation, Marty’s represented over $1,000,000,000 in luxury properties, a success he cites to his knack for marketing real estate online and on social media.
Fast forward to 2024, and WHITEFOX has since expanded overseas to New Zealand, with Marty having personally settled a jaw-dropping $600m in sales, including a property that was sold for $49.6 million.
Who is Marty Fox’s wife?
While Marty has made an effort to keep his personal life out of the spotlight, he is a family man through and through as a loving husband of nine years to wife Charlotte, and doting dad to children Freddy, seven, Olive, five, and Bonnie, two.
The family currently resides in a marble-laden 1890s Victorian home in the elite Melbourne suburb of Toorak, which they moved into only a day before the birth of their youngest child.
Charlotte and Marty met when they were just teenagers, and share a mutual love of property. Over the past 15 years, they’ve flipped 12 properties together.
“In terms of our personal style, it is generally of a period nature, old Victorian homes. My thing going into The Block is to make sure the contestants deliver a house that is as timeless as possible, but still keeping to the trends,” the father-of-three recently shared with our sister publication Homes to Love.
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