Nick Goodall

What's your expectation of what the read's going to be for the index for February when you get that shortly?

As you say, it sort of backs up maybe some of that momentum from the lending being done too.

You think about the lending that was being done.

Within that, if there's a bit more competition for properties, then it would stand to reason that maybe those vendors can irk out a little bit of extra price on it if there's two people that are quite keen on their property.

And that's what might start to see this market grow sooner rather than later.

Although, you know, I still want to acknowledge the fact that, yeah, many of the economists have pushed back their expectations and Reserve Bank we spoke about recently, you know, still see values declining for the next few months before seeing some comeback in the second half.

I wonder if it's a bit pessimistic and maybe it just does depend on, you know, not quite the animal spirits taking over, but a little bit of competition that just sees a little bit of upward price pressure on those properties that are listed for sale.

And if that balance starts to redress, then, yeah, we could actually see a little bit more growth come through, I think, in the first half of this year, but still it'll be pretty

Pretty mild, let's just say that anyway.

So yeah, as you say, pretty intriguing.

And that data will be out publicly available on Thursday.

So keep a lookout for that one.

And we'll talk in more detail about it next week anyway.

Otherwise, mate, how was your weekend?

Anything much go on there?

Did you catch the black caps?

I'm not expecting you to have caught it live at 2.30 in the morning or whatever it was.

But get up to too much else other than watch a bit of sport.

And of course, the NRL has started, even though I know your Raiders haven't played yet.

But yeah, how was your weekend?