Nick Goodall

But again, so much to balance up there with the economy as well.

So we'll wait and see on that one.

Certainly, yeah, pay attention to that tomorrow afternoon and

And I'm sure, you know, it'll be covered next week's podcast.

I do have to mention that I won't be in the podcast next week.

I've been called up for jury duty.

So I know you're going to call in our chief economist from Australia, who's pretty good in the global impact side of things, too.

So I'm sure the great chat on everything about that and some of the local things, too.

I can look forward to that one, and you can break down that speech next week.

But otherwise, I just want to acknowledge that this week we do have our mapping the market data updated.

If you go to the website right now, actually, the data is already up to date, but we've got an article going to media tomorrow for Wednesday, so keep an eye out for that one.

I do want to also acknowledge we got a comment on last week's podcast when we were talking about affordability.

from carl horn i'm just going to read it out i think you guys need to stop looking at averages and do some case studies using actual people i think when you use that model and look at wealth distribution in new zealand you will have a very different result and i just wanted to acknowledge that question i think it's a really good point obviously i think we try and do our best to acknowledge that you know we have to use measures such as medians and averages when looking at these types of things around affordability um

because there's no other way of doing it when you're trying to create a measure.

And we've got four measures of affordability, but the main thing we're looking at is relativity over time and relativity between different regions to see what areas might be more attractive from an affordability perspective.

Absolutely acknowledge that the data

when it's an average or a median doesn't tell the full story and and i think that's why we do try and try and put a real term context on it you know we are out there talking to people getting those real stories understanding what's happening at the front line as well to try and add to that conversation because i think yeah there's some you know sometimes the media do too much focus on case studies and they're not real or they're not they're real but they're not representative

and then the data itself obviously needs to be um you know added to with some case studies and some real life impacts as well so um i think you know we we tried to do that coverage i thought you did a good job last week to talk about that relativity that yes things are more affordable than they have been the last few years not the best i've ever been but back to long-term averages and it's better than it has been last few years but that's not to say things are affordable or that they're easy right now whether you're trying to save for a deposit whether you're trying to secure that mortgage from the bank

You know, it's still pretty difficult, but it's certainly more easy now than it has been the last couple of years.

And I hope we do a good job of trying to present that.