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Malcolm Fleming: Certified Builders Chief Executive on good signals in the construction sector · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Cost a building house up one point one percent in
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  Speaker 1: the three months to June. This is from cotality. Annual
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  Speaker 1: cost growth up three and a half percent. Actually not
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  Speaker 1: bad given the war price of oil. Building activity starting
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  Speaker 1: to gain traction as well. Malcolm Fleming, New Zealand certified
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  Speaker 1: build as CEO of me this morning, Malcol, get a
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  Speaker 1: good morning, right, So not as bad as it could
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  Speaker 1: have been. You thought it might be.
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  Speaker 2: A surprisingly low number. I'd have to say one point
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  Speaker 2: one percent, as you said in your intro for two
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  Speaker 2: to two, well below what expectations were given the backdrop
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  Speaker 2: of their are war and the cost escalation we saw
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  Speaker 2: in building project products. Soon after it has sort of
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  Speaker 2: calmed down the building cost escalations we're seeing. So a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good number and I think it's important also in
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  Speaker 2: the note that the overall number of the twelve months
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  Speaker 2: is below what Cotality are talking about is usual number
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  Speaker 2: of four percent manually.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, who's coming, When are we going to developer
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  Speaker 1: is going to come back? Because it looks like they've
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  Speaker 1: all kind of pulled back. They're all a bit nervous,
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  Speaker 1: which is more to do with the market than the
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  Speaker 1: cost of building. But what are you seeing hearing out there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sting to hear that the market is slowly changing,
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  Speaker 2: there is some enthusiasm for motion industry, that we are
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  Speaker 2: at the bottom of the cycle coming suddenly come out
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  Speaker 2: of it. We started to see some good signs, and
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  Speaker 2: I've been on your show earlier this year talking about
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  Speaker 2: but those were and then of course we had their
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  Speaker 2: own war, so that then eroded some of those gains
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  Speaker 2: and that positivity was starting to see that and back
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  Speaker 2: in the twenty eighth of February when there are war
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  Speaker 2: started and the month afterwards, we were very concerned about
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  Speaker 2: cost escalations and that has played out, that is it
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  Speaker 2: and slowed things down a little bit. That the actual
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  Speaker 2: cost escalation has been less than we were thinking it
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  Speaker 2: would be is a good sign when you marry that up.
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  Speaker 2: It was only a week or two we were talking
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  Speaker 2: about building consent numbers or year two end of May
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  Speaker 2: being above where they were the corresponding time last year.
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  Speaker 2: You're starting to be some good signals returning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Malcolm, good to see you, are good to
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  Speaker 1: hear you, I should say, Malcolm Fleming news it on
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  Speaker 1: Certified Builders CEO.
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