Heather Duplessy-Allen

Because they reckon the patronage has gone up by 52%, which is probably you can sheet that back to the fuel crisis.

Now, the man who we're going to talk to about this, Warren Ma, Waikato Regional Council.

The last time, second to last time, or the last time I talked to Warren was at the fishing club over a beer in the Coromandel.

The second to last time I talked to Warren was when I was filling in for Mike on this show and we talked about Tahuia and Warren led me to believe that he hated it and he was going to get rid of it.

And yet here we are, about six months later and it's still going and they're putting up the prices.

So hang on, you're telling me that it's become more popular...

That's right.

Yeah.

The logic of this, the science is questionable.

Maybe what Warren is doing is maybe he does hate it and maybe he's trying to kill it off with higher prices, which I could quietly applaud, although he's not going to admit that on the show.

But anyway, he's with us in about an hour's time, five away from seven.

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So according to Cotality, property values have stalled.

These are the latest numbers from May in their home value index.

They show the national median value is just a tick above $808,000.

There's no real change from April.

Prices are down 0.1% compared to three months ago.

They're also down 0.6% compared to this time last year.