• In Southland the stronger outlook for dairy returns is triggering stronger activity.
• Pockets of housing market resilience remain - in particular Wellington.
• The employment situation remains strong across most regions.

As always some care is required in interpretation of the regional statistics, many of them being subject to a sizeable measurement error. Hence the preference here to look at a number of regional statistics together.

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