- Thomas and Sheena Southam sold their Cable Bay home for $890,000 after a year on the market.
- The sale allows them to move their YouTube show, Chasing a Plate, to Melbourne.
- The Southams plan to fly to Melbourne in mid-January after a trip to Indonesia.
Kiwi social media stars Thomas and Sheena Southam have sold their Northland home for just under $900,000 and are taking their hit YouTube show Chasing a Plate to Australia.
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The Southams finally found buyers for their three-bedroom house in Cable Bay after a year of searching and several price drops.
The sale means they can book their flights for the foodie paradise of Melbourne. “We had a lovely couple who came through. They absolutely adored the view and the house and the way it was set up. We’re really lucky,” Sheena told OneRoof, noting that the buyers were big fans of the kitchen.
YouTube stars Thomas and Sheena Southam, with their daughter. Photo / Supplied
The Southams found fame with their Chasing a Plate videos. Photo / Supplied
“We have 11 days to get out of the property, and then we’ve got a little Indonesia trip for the New Year,” Sheena said, telling OneRoof that they’ll be flying to Melbourne in mid-January.
Thomas added: “We haven’t bought, but there are some great food suburbs in Melbourne’s west. It’s heavily Vietnamese, plus there’s a lot of African cuisine. It’s really interesting.”
The Southams found fame through their Chasing a Plate channel, which they started in 2016. The videos were a fun way to fund and highlight their food travels around the world.
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When the Covid pandemic hit, they returned to New Zealand, bought a 750sqm section in Cable Bay and built a three-bedroom home with stunning water views.
The couple, who now have a toddler, told OneRoof earlier this year that they loved their time next to the beach.
“We’ve loved having fishing, boating and beaches on our doorstep, but it’s time to head to the city again,” Sheena told OneRoof in September.
The house boasts stunning views of the water and is close to the beach. Photo / Supplied
The buyers loved the Southams’ kitchen. Photo / Supplied
In an ideal world, they would have kept the property as a bach, but they couldn’t get the numbers to work. “We’d keep the house if we could. We love it here, we really do. The house and the location are just a dream, but the reality is we need to be in an urban centre to do our job,” Sheena said.
Listing agent Joel Vieviorka told OneRoof that the buyers were from Wellington and loved the house. “They’re basically retiring up here. The view was what really sold the property, plus how nicely the house had been finished. The buyers said, ‘Our tastes are quite similar. That’s how we would have set the kitchen up’.”
The Southams’ home first hit the market in November last year with an asking price of $969,000. It dropped to $899,000 before selling for its RV of $890,000 in November.
Vieviorka said that properties at the higher end of the Cable Bay market were taking “a little bit longer to sell” and typically fetched less than RV.
He added: “We did some good social media, and the vendors helped produce the video.”
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