Issue rendering content in Portal based on entityview total_records count

Hi guys

Having a little issue with using an EntityList/View to render some content based on the outcome of the total_records returned and it's undoubtedly something stupid I'm missing here.

I have an EntityList called Applications that I need to find out the record count for and if it's >= 1 then display certain text and if it's not then display something else.

Here's my code:

{% entitylist name:"Applications" %}
 {% entityview %}
  {% assign recordtotal = entityview.total_records %}
  {% if recordtotal >= 1 %}
   Loaded entity list with {{ recordtotal }} total records.   
  {% else %}
   No records available
  {% endif %}
 {% endentityview %}
{% endentitylist %}

Page is rendering the "Loaded entity list..."  text no matter if the list returns 0 or not.

Any advice appreciated.

Steven