Kelvin Davidson

Yeah, it's definitely one to watch.

And I guess all economic and property market indicators at the moment are prone to a bit of variability.

And we're operating in this environment, I guess, at the moment where

Lots of data series are available up to January, up to February.

But we all know that March onwards is going to look pretty different.

And we don't really get a lot of those March indicators for another couple of weeks, really, in terms of those flagship data sets.

We've got real-time indicators, wholesale interest rates and share market changes and that sort of thing.

Obviously, we all prices every week.

every sort of one minute we're getting updates on that but um but yeah those those sort of monthly rolling series of economic and property market indicators we're still just waiting for a little bit so um yeah that's going to be interesting to watch this i guess that's going to be the big issue in the data for over the next four to six weeks just seeing how that's starting to roll through um so but yeah

In general, in terms of property market activity, it's been a sluggish start to the year, but within that environment, first-time buyers still doing really well.

So probably the main message.

I think that's it.

I think that's it, yeah.

Gee, I can hardly remember yesterday, let alone last week.

I think the media response was okay.

I mean, you know, any sort of media reaction at the moment's

to depend on what else is going on at the time with with oil prices and things but um yeah yeah it always goes down pretty well people like a like a good set of charts so um it's one of our one of our more popular ones yeah absolutely yeah cool well then let's look at the uh economic data particularly the q4 gdp result which was out last week and yep noting it's a pretty big lag since q4 finished

yeah yeah so well i mean 0.2 pretty i mean undershot the range of expectations in advance was quite wide so um but generally it undershot some expectations i think the rbnz for example had 0.5 percent uh so

you know, generally on the lower side.

There are some quirks with the numbers.