The GPT Group

Welcome to the GBT Group 2026 interim results. Following the formal presentation, there will be a Q&A session for investors and analysts. Participants can ask live audio questions during today's call. To ask a live audio question, press the Request Speak button at the top of the broadcast window. The broadcast will be replaced by the audio question screen. Use the dialer number and access pin provided to ask your question via the phone. Alternatively, for those on a home or personal network, you can ask your questions via the web by pressing Join Queue. If prompted, select Allow in the pop-up to grant access to your microphone. If you have any issues using the platform, dial-in details can also be found on the homepage under Asking Audio Questions. The audio queue is now open. I will now hand over to Russell Pratt, Chief Executive Officer.

Good morning to everyone who is joining the call today. I would like to start by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the lands on which our business operates. We pay our respects to elders past and present and honor our responsibility for country, culture, and community in the places we create and how we do business. In the first half of 2026, capital markets were volatile, but property fundamentals were sound. And it was those fundamentals that underpinned our earnings growth. Funds from operations was $338.8 million dollars representing an increase of 5% on the first half of 2025. Excluding trading profits, which are no longer included in our FFO calculation, this earnings growth was 8.3%. We also continue building our investment management platform, ending the period at $41.6 billion of assets under management, an increase of $1.8 billion, or 4.6%, reflecting the confidence of our partners in GPT to invest capital. Now, in terms of the GPT platform, at $41.6 billion of AUM, we operate at scale across three of the largest and most investable property sectors in Australia, being retail, office, and logistics. That scale gives us the economies to invest in depth of capability in each of these sectors and the expertise that optimizes performance at both the asset and the portfolio level. We will continue to grow with our existing partners and introduce new institutional investors to the platform. Now, turning to our strategy. Our strategic pillars are unchanged. During the first half of the year, we added to our depth of capability by investing in our people and operating structure. We stay true to our investment discipline, using our research and analytics to find, underwrite, and act on opportunities where we see value across sectors. and we invested alongside our partners, ensuring our interests are aligned with theirs. While we always seek to improve how we operate, these pillars will continue to be the bedrock of how we allocate capital. So moving forward, what did that look like in the first half? We delivered at the asset level with leasing activity resulting in like-for-like NPI growth of 5.8% and high occupancy levels across the portfolio. We created value through targeted development projects in each of our sectors, including the Rose Hill Town Center, 51 Plenders, and Camps Creek. And we raised and invested capital, including the $697 million raised by our Shopping Center Fund and a $1.2 billion investment in acquiring the Sunshine and MacArthur assets. Having a clear strategy has shaped where we put our resources, and it shows in our performance in the House. I will now hand over to our Chief Financial Officer, Maren Edwards.

Thank you, Russell, and good morning, everyone. Starting with our group financial performance on page eight, we have delivered 6% growth in our investment portfolio for the period. Our retail investment properties delivered life-for-life growth of 4.6%, driven by rent reviews and positive leasing spreads. Headline net property income was 1.1% lower, reflecting the strategic sell-down of assets into our funds. which released capital for redeployment into higher return opportunities. Our office investment properties delivered like-for-like growth of 8%, with headline growth of 5.7%. Our logistics investment properties delivered like-for-like growth of 4% from positive leasing spreads and structured rate reviews. On a headline basis, planned divestments into our co-investment partnerships reduced net property income by 10.8%, with proceeds recycled into higher returning opportunities. Co-investment net income increased 42.4%, primarily driven by the Grove and Place Partnership. Management operations earnings grew as new assets came under management, partly offset by a lower BLOF contribution, resulting in headline growth of 2.5%. Net finance costs of $113.4 million were broadly flat, with a higher average dawn debt balance offset by a 34 basis point reduction in our weighted average cost of debt. Corporate costs reflect the full year run rate of our strategic investment in talent and performance-based compensation. Overall, this delivered $338.8 million in funds from operations, up 5% from 2025 or 8.3% when excluding trading profits. ASFO of $263.4 million was up 2.3%, reflecting office leasing capital in the half. We continue to expect full-year maintenance and leasing capex of approximately $170 million, in line with guidance. We declared a distribution of $0.1225 per unit for the half-year, which is equivalent to 96% of free cash flow, within our target range of 95% to 105%. Our statutory net profit after tax was $400.1 million, reflecting positive revaluation gains across the investment portfolio. Turning now to our financial position on page nine, which remains strong and flexible, with net tangible assets per security up from $5.53 to $5.61. Borrowings remained broadly flat over the half, having increased in late 2025, to fund strategic transaction and development activity. We continue to take a disciplined approach to capital management with net gearing of 31.5% within our target range of 25% to 35% and with material headroom through our 50% covenant. We have $1 billion of liquidity with no unfunded capital commitments and we continue to maintain our A2 Moody's and A- S&P ratings. We've been proactive in managing our debt position, extending facilities and increasing hedging to 74% of average drawn debt in 2026 and 60% in 2027. This disciplined approach has improved our debt maturity profile with our weighted average cost of debt at 5% at 30 June, down 34 basis points from 5.3% at the end of 2025. I will now pass to Mark Harrison for the investments update.

Thank you, Maren, and good morning, everyone. Our investment portfolio continued its positive momentum, increasing in value by $45 million, or 0.3%, to $16.3 billion for the six-month period. Capital metrics remain well anchored. The portfolio weighted average capitalisation rate and discount rate have remained stable for the half, and consistent with prior periods, valuation gains continue to be largely driven by income growth. Across all three sectors, market fundamentals remain supportive and the stability of our capital metrics through the half gives us confidence in the quality and pricing of the portfolio. Turning to our investment activity on page 12, in the half we executed $1.7 billion of gross transactions across the group, demonstrating the depth of our investment capabilities. Title acquisitions of $1.2 billion were underpinned by strategic investment opportunities, headlined by GWSCF securing 50% interest in two of the country's leading shopping centres, a $622 million investment in Sunshine Plaza and a $568 million investment in MacArthur Square. Tightly held retail assets of this nature rarely come to market. and these transactions demonstrate our origination and execution capability while further strengthening GWSCF's portfolio composition. Divestments of $400 million reflected our ongoing portfolio curation, including the strategic divestment of 750 Collins Street in Melbourne, driving enhanced returns and providing liquidity for Guelph investors. We also have additional assets under review for our sector-agnostic value-add partnership and we look forward to updating the market as these progress. On page 13, we outline how our aligned partnering strategy continues to resonate with investors, headlined by the successful oversubscribed equity raise for GWSCF. Consistent with our strategy, GPT aims to co-invest 20% to 50% alongside our partners. Across our $13.4 billion pooled funds, GPT is the largest investor, with a $900 million co-investment in GWSCF and a $1.3 billion co-investment in GWOF, providing strong alignment and driving investment performance. Beyond the pooled funds, we have invested capital of $1.8 billion in our $4.1 billion partnerships, aligned with our capabilities across office, retail, logistics and purpose-built student accommodation. The performance of our pooled funds speak for itself. GWOP has outperformed the office index over one, three and five years, while GWSCF has outperformed the retail index over every time period since inception. Our focus remains on positioning GPT as the leading diversified investment manager in Australia, delivering exceptional value, innovation and sustainable growth for our security holders and investor partners. Turning to sustainability, our commitment remains to deliver sustainable, long-term value across our owned and managed assets. We continue to deliver market-leading outcomes and all of our ESG activities are aligned with our strategy to optimise asset performance and enhance our competitive positioning. I will now hand to Chris Barnett, our Head of Retail, for an update on our retail business.

Thank you Mark and good morning everyone. GPT's retail business continues to perform, delivering strong results for the half, supported by the quality of our portfolio, the scale of our platform and the continued healthy demand from our retail partners. Our retail platform has expanded further and comprises 18 owned or managed assets with $18.2 billion under management today. The quality of our portfolio when measured on a market value per square metre basis is market and one of the reasons why our platform consistently outperforms our peers. Our portfolio remains weighted to Australia's largest and fastest growing catchments with record visitations nearing 250 million customers a year. Now turning to slide 17 where our investment portfolio has delivered like-for-like income growth of 4.6% for the half. This result was underpinned by strong rental growth and being able to deliver our 14th consecutive quarter of positive leasing spreads. Our leasing team has again produced excellent results with portfolio occupancy improving to 99.8%. Our deal volumes for the half were up 11% and for those deals completed our leasing spreads were up 6.6% which is a meaningful step up on the 4.2% achieved a year ago. This is a clear indication of the strength of our retail demand for spaces within our centres. All deals completed during the half were structured with fixed base rents and annual increases averaging 4.8%. Holdovers have reduced to 3.8% of base rent, down from 5.2%, again reflecting the depth of that demand. Turning to sales, where total centre turnover grew 4% over the 12 months to June, with total specialties up 4.2%. Specialty sales productivity has now grown to over $14,000 per square metre, which continues to support the leasing outcomes I've just described. Within the half itself, we continue to see the recent trend over the past few years where the first quarters outperformed the second quarter. Total centre sales grew 4.9% in the first quarter, ending the half up 3.5%, which is an improvement on this time last year. Finally, turning to slide 18... where we expect to see resale sales to continue to grow throughout 26. With limited new retail supply coming to the market, we expect this to underpin further rental growth and sustained high occupancy across the portfolio. The quality of our portfolio and the scale of our platform will continue to deliver strong leasing and asset management outcomes for both GPT and our capital partners. Our development pipeline remains a significant driver for future growth. The Rouse Hill Town Centre development is fully leased and a head program and we're excited to launch that project in October this year. At Northern Central, construction has commenced on the $170 million expansion with completion expected in the first half of 28. Beyond these projects, we will continue to leverage GPT's development capability to unlock a further billion dollars of projects for our funds and mandate partners. Our assets are in great shape and the quality of our portfolio and operating platform remains well positioned for further growth. I'll now hand you the map for the office sector update.

Thank you Chris and good morning everyone. The GPT office platform delivered another strong operating result in the first half of 2026, extending the momentum established last year supported by the continued recovery across Australian CBD office markets. Our platform remains well positioned to take advantage of this market recovery given the quality of the portfolio, our diversified capital sources and team capability. TPT's recent acquisition of Grosvenor Place in Sydney has been early success, with over 9,200 square metres of new leases executed since settlement with half of these transactions to new tenants. Targeted capital investment is currently underway in the building to bring leasing product to market and reposition the building within its competitive set. Our conviction behind this acquisition has already been rewarded with positive net revaluation gain achieved since settlement. The GPT Wholesale Offits Fund's 51 cylinders lane development in Melbourne's east reached practical completion during the half, with our first tenant moving in this September. The building is currently 39% committed with positive occupier interest. Turning to page 21. The office portfolio has achieved like-for-like net property income growth of 8%, well above pre-COVID levels, driven by structured rent increases and positive leasing spreads. 78,600 square metres of new leasing, including heads of agreement, was secured across 71 transactions during the period. Lease renewals made up a large share of this activity, with 80% of these tenants taking either the same or more space, a clear sign of confidence they have in their long-term space footprint. We welcomed 31 new tenants during the half and four existing tenants expanded their national footprint with us. Occupancy finished the half at 92.1% with positive leasing spreads of 4.7% recorded. Incentives continue to tighten for high quality buildings in the strongest precincts. Looking ahead for the remainder of 2026. We remain focused on reducing current vacancy across the portfolio and addressing longer-dated forward expiries occurring in 2027 and 2028. Turning to page 22. We expect leasing memento for prime assets to keep building as supply tightens in key sub-markets, driving phased rental growth and further leasing incentive compression. Renewed levels of investor interest in the Australian office market and increased transaction volumes will support active portfolio curation, allowing us to concentrate capital in the Eastern Seaboard CBD markets where our conviction is highest. We continue to actively pursue capital partnerships that will broaden our existing investor base and grow the platform. As employers seek to leverage high quality and innovative workplaces to attract knowledge workers, our targeted approach to fostering community, occupier experience and wellness across the portfolio will support tenant retention and attraction, driving our performance for investors. I will now pass to Chris Davis to present the logistics result.

Thank you Matt and good morning everyone. Our logistics platform delivered strong results in the half, with assets under management of $5 billion across 1.3 million square metres. The platform is made up of our $3.5 billion directly held portfolio, alongside an investment management component of $1.2 billion of partnerships and $0.3 billion in mandates. Growing this is a key focus, which we achieve through targeted asset acquisitions and the creation of new stabilised and development products. The majority of our portfolio has been originated from our pipeline and is weighted to the Eastern Seaboard, with Sydney making up half of AUM. Given our weighting to Australia's deepest logistics markets, we're well-placed to grow alongside our customers, providing real estate solutions to meet their supply chain needs. Across our $3 billion pipeline, we're hitting key project milestones, capturing value from in-house development capability and adding quality and scale to the platform. Now on page 25, our investment portfolio performed well with like-for-like income growth of 4%, driven by a combination of leasing outcomes and structured rent increases. Occupancy remains high at 99% and the weighted average lease expiry has extended to 4.9 years. Leasing of 100,000 square metres has been completed in half, doubling the volume in the same period last year. These deals capture income upside, with face leasing spreads averaging 38%. Activity was weighted to Sydney, making up 60% of volume, with size and rent reversion achieved. Leasing has also meaningfully reduced our near-term expiry profile, with 2026 expiry now 2.5% and 2027 at 7.8%. We continue to proactively engage with our customers ahead of upcoming expiries, and that momentum has carried into the second half. Turning to the drivers of future growth on page 26. occupies a favouring quality, with prime-grade space capturing 77% of take-up over the past year, against the long-term average of 58%. Our modern, well-located portfolio is capturing this demand, with 65,000 square metres of leasing completed through July. We also see further upside, with 40% of leases expiring to the end of 2029 and the portfolio at least 10% under-rented. Coupled with this demand, A reduction in speculative supply will reinforce market rental growth as vacancy stabilises and tightens. Logistics platform growth will be delivered through activated development pipeline, with the Asahi pre-lease to Deer Park in Melbourne underway, and three facilities completing at Kemp's Creek in Western Sydney in the second half. Two of these three facilities have already been leased. That success underpinned our decision to commence a further stage of the estate later this year, along with an infill project in Sydney. The scale of our directly held portfolio also provides opportunity to seed assets to form new partnerships and investment products, scaling the platform while maintaining focus on driving quality earnings from our investments. I'll now hand back to Russell for his closing remarks. Thank you, Chris.

And barring unforeseen circumstances, we are affirming our full-year guidance for FFO of 35.4 cents per security, which represents 4% growth on 2025 reported earnings and 5.7% growth when excluding trading profits. We are also affirming our distribution guidance of 24.5 cents per security for the year. And as shown in today's presentation, GPT has a strong foundation and real momentum. and we will continue to create long-term value for our security holders and partners. We will set ambitious goals and pursue them with clear intent. We will continue to build our capabilities and expertise, and we will remain disciplined in our capital allocation decisions. I want to thank everyone on today's call and our people, partners, and security holders, all of whom are critical to success reflected in today's results. I will now hand over to the operator for questions.

Thank you, Russell. If you have not yet joined the live audio queue, please do so now. I will introduce each caller by name and ask you to go ahead. You will then hear a beep indicating your microphone is live. Our first question comes from Andrew Dodds from Jefferies. Andrew, please go ahead.

Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my question. Just firstly, occupancy across the office portfolio weakened pretty materially in the half. It looks like Grosvenor remains a bit of a drag on that. So I was just hoping you'd talk to progress on the asset and where vacancy at that asset currently sits. Thanks for the question. It's Matt Brown here.

So when we acquired the asset, what we mentioned at the date of that acquisition was it was going to be roughly a 12 to 36-month split-up period post-settlement Currently we're tracking underwrite and there really are no surprises in relation to where we're currently tracking. Any vacancy uplift in that asset is effectively no vacancy. At the time of acquisition as well, what we also indicated that we'd need to spend capex to make floors leasing ready. So ultimately what this included was a combination of warm shelf floors, fitted suites and adaptive reuse. So we're actively spending that capital at the moment and we expect it will make some good inroads in relation to the let-up of that vacancy over the course of the next 12 months.

Okay, so are you able just to share how much of the asset is vacant today?

Well, roughly, I think we're quoting around 70% occupied. So that equates to roughly 30% available for lease at this point in time.

Alright, great.

And then just on 51 Flinders Lane, you mentioned it's 39% committed today. I'd just be interested to hear how you're thinking that that number's going to evolve over the next 6 to 12 months and then just any comments around inquiry levels in the Melbourne CBD office market would be great. Thank you.

Yeah, so in relation to inquiry levels in the Melbourne CBD office market, we continue to see good levels of active inquiry in that eastern core part of Melbourne CBD, particularly for those prime buildings like 51 Flinders Lane. When I look at the occupancy for 51 Flinders Lane, as you mentioned, we've got occupancy of around 39%. This building was always going to be a post-PC let-up, just given the nature of that building. When I look at active inquiry, we've got roughly 23% of available NLA with RFPs currently issued and with good inquiry on top of those RFPs issued. So we're looking at tracking an uplift in that commitment level between now and 31 December.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Adam Calvetti from Bank of America. Adam, please go ahead.

Hi, Russell and team. You mentioned at the full year 25 result that you're talking to a series of new investors in opportunities across all sectors. Can you just give an update on where you are in some of the other sectors outside of retail?

Yeah, sure. Well, obviously, retail has been very active with the SHOPS fundraise and continues to be active. It's an area we see a lot of opportunity and a lot of interest from investors. We've obviously on the office side been focused on the GWOF fund and addressing redemption requests as well as looking at the long-term strategy for GWOF, which was restructured last year. We're also looking at possibly launching a few new products in that sector in the second half of this year into next year. Finding mostly interest in the office sector coming from offshore at this stage, but seeing some interesting inquiry domestically as well. And then logistics, as Chris said, we have very strong balance sheet holdings and a couple of partnerships with Quadril. We're looking at a couple of options around development partnerships in that sector, but those will probably be either later this year or early in the next year. I would say, though, there's a lot of discussions with both existing investors and new investors. However, some of these take time to get the structure right and the product right for them, but it is active across all three sectors.

Okay, amazing. Thanks for that. And then just on Kemp's Creek, so those two assets now are fully leased. Are you able to give some colour on what the expected yield on cost is?

Look, not specifically for those projects, but generally we're in the range of sort of 6% to 6.5% just depending on the sub-market, but we're seeing strong enquiry for those assets at the moment.

Okay, perfect. One more quick one from me. Just on portfolio curation, especially in the office market, you mentioned you're going to be curating towards markets outside of the eastern seaboard. Can you just give some colour on what those sub-markets are?

Adam, it's Mark. So obviously as part of the GWOF liquidity program we've undertaken to provide liquidity back to investors we see that coming across core eastern markets in terms of divesting assets to repatriate capital back to investors but at this stage we're not looking to expand outside of and the other major CBD capital city sub-markets across our office investments.

Thank you. The next question is from Tom Bourdon from Jarden. Tom, please go ahead.

Good morning. Good morning, Russell, Maren and team. Thanks for taking the question. I'm just interested in your asset values, which were relatively stable. Cup breaks were also very stable, but you saw pretty strong levels of like-for-like rental growth. So I just would be interested in understanding why you didn't see that rental growth flow through to asset values.

Yeah, thanks, Tom. It's Mark. So obviously pleasing to see our investment strategy continue to be driven by income growth. really it's just a lag from leasing incentives and capital expenditure that's treated below the line by the valuers. So, you know, a bit of offset to the income growth that we saw through below the line adjustments.

Sure, but that would make sense for office, but logistics and retail saw, I think, four odd percent rental growth. So, is it a similar story there? Is it incentives driving that in those sectors as well?

It's incentive and capital expenditure. So some of the assets in our retail and logistics books have had lifecycle CapEx undertaken, and that was part of the offset as well.

Okay, thanks very much. And then maybe just another one on developments and hurdle rates. strategically just be interested in understanding how you're thinking about your hurdle rates in light of higher funding costs and higher cost of capital where do you see your own costs needing to be I think on a previous question you sort of talked to six to six and a half are you expecting to continue to be in that range or do you need them to be higher to commit to future projects yeah thanks Tom it's Mark again I'd say all of our investments in capital allocations driven by

our capital allocation framework. So we're not only looking at the yield on cost as a spot metric, but also where we think the forward IRR is relative to our internal hurdle rates. As Chris touched on, for logistics, we're seeing those between six and six and a half. More broadly, we're sitting anywhere between 6% and 7% field on cost across the sectors. So I would think about it as being more of an individual capital allocation consideration than a homogenous benchmark that we look at.

Thank you. Our next question is from Simon Chan from Morgan Stanley. Simon, please go ahead.

Okay. Hey, good morning. I was wondering if Chris Barnett can walk us through Rouse Hill Town Centre. He mentioned he got leased up ahead of time, ahead of schedule. How does the returns now look like compared to, you know, FISOs or original commerce?

Simon, thanks for the question. I know you have an interest in Rouse Hill and you'll be proud to know that it is in great shape at the moment. So the centre's fully leased. it's interesting if you review the tenancy mix that we took into the project to what we ended up with I think we'll end up with a superior product it really will hit the market in particular for the gaps in apparel that we had dining, entertainment and connection into community we're very proud of the product we had estimated that we would have a yield on cost of about 6.5% and we've been able to improve upon that and very much looking forward to its launch on October 29 this year

How should we think about the rental income to come in, like four-year impact straight away, the 6.5% plus, or is there going to be a staggered profile?

I think all of our projects have some degree of stabilisation, but we're fully leased. We expect to be fully open on the day. We have around about six tenancies that we've taken out of the existing centre to put into the project. They have now also been backfilled, but there will be a slight delay of their income commencement. We think that we will be receiving full income in that asset by about March 27.

Great. Cool. My next question is more of a high-level one. Russ, you've been there for two years now, right? you've thrown up a lot of stuff for us to think about, you know, GWF at one stage, listed retail fund at another. But I guess, you know, to date, all you've done, out of anything that's sizable, is, you know, upsizing current products, right? Like GWSCF, you've done a great job there. Quadra, our relationship, you've expanded that. Should we expect... more, you know, going forward, more expansion of existing relationships or, you know, those new products you talked about, like, with this retail fund or, you know, are they still on the agenda?

Look, I think we're open, Simon, to all different forms of style of investment, sectors that we have expertise in and form of capital. I won't take exception to the word only in that statement, because I think we've made actually tremendous progress in the business, and I think it goes to where I think what we have shown is tremendous discipline. We've only pursued opportunities that make sense for our business and for our partners. If I look at the shops that we've not only restructured, but modernized the liquidity mechanism and seen more than a billion dollars of capital flow through primary as well as secondary clearances of trades, while maintaining the fund has been maintained as number one in its sector. I think that's a tremendous success, and we focus our resources where we think it's the biggest impact. From a profitability standpoint, having many or more funds or platforms is not necessarily the long-term best approach to raising profitability and return on capital. Actually expanding existing platforms and having flagship funds and partnerships is probably the best way. I would also look at other areas we've expanded existing relationships, like you say, like CSC. I think that's a testament to the quality of those relationships. I would also say that the funds raised was about 50% new investors and 50% existing investors. So, again, I think it's success across the board. I think what you do see with our style and approach is that you'll hear from us when we finish things, and not in anticipation so we have maximum flexibility and can pursue things that make sense for everybody involved. So like I said before, I think you and others expect a handful of significant events throughout the course of the year as well as results, but otherwise we'll be busy progressing our strategy.

Thank you. Our next question is from Simon Lang from UBS. Simon, please go ahead.

Good morning, everyone. Thanks for your time. Just maybe back on office. So 92% occupancy. It was down, I guess, a touch half and half, but flat quarter and quarter. I just wanted to get your thoughts on when you expect the trough occupancy to have landed, knowing you've got about 4% expires in the remainder of this year and then 10% expiring in FY27.

Yeah, thanks for the question, Matt, here again. I think just a couple of call-outs. When you actually look at that June 25 occupancy number of 94.4 and compare that to the June 26 of 92.1, that 92.1 includes Grosvenor. So when you actually strip that number out, you get to occupancy which is pretty much comparable to same time last year. Just in relation to future leasing, so I think we've got roughly 10% of the portfolio expiring this calendar year and we've made some really solid inroads in relation to that expiry in the first half. So we've addressed roughly 60% of that vacancy. That being said, we've still got some work to do in the second half, but we think that there's some good momentum coming in that second half. You know, when you actually look at inspections, For the first half, we actually did more inspections in the first half of this calendar year than we did in all of 2025. So we'd like to convert some of that now into active leasing over the course of the next six months.

Great. And would you say that the macro disruption in the first half of this calendar year maybe impacted that conversion rate, despite those inspections being strong?

Well, I think one of the key takeaways from the market at the moment is just that long lead time from when tenants enter the market to when they ultimately convert. That being said, a lot of tenants have generally looked through that geopolitical volatility and still been actively signing leases because at the end of the day, leases still expire. You can't defer that expiry. So we've been progressively working through that, as I mentioned. As I said, we've also got a lot of wood to chop in the second half, but we are seeing that good progress.

Thanks. And just a final question from me. Just looking at slide six, just on the Asian term line for the Shops Fund, maybe, Maren, could you just comment on pricing for that and just give us an update on your cost of debt profiles in the various wholesale funds and how that might evolve over the balance of this year into next year?

Sure, Solomon. I won't quote directly the pricing. That's not public. But what I can tell you is that that was a very competitively priced Asian term loan that we upsized. We also increased the tenor of, obviously, the debt within that portfolio and increased the diversification of debt in the shopping centre fund. So it's a great outcome for the shopping centre fund. and the cost of debt, the weighted average cost of debt in that fund is 5.3% for the period. The office fund is 5%. Thank you.

Our next question is from James Druth from CLFA. James, please go ahead.

Yeah, good morning, Russell and team. Just first question around... the cap rates on your terminal values. Hearing that industrial underwrites have up to 150 basis points of cap rate compression in the terminal, I'm just wondering how your portfolio compares.

James, it's Mark. We're not seeing that level of terminal capitalisation rate compression. We're hardly seeing any in underwrites in the investments that we're looking at or that we're comparing across the market. So, I think consistent with what you've heard from us over recent times, across all the sectors we continue to see a flight to quality. From a logistics perspective, a lot of the valuation movement that we've seen has been predominantly leasing driven, where you've seen renewals and new lease terms, firm and cap rates. So as we said, across the board we've seen valuations remain largely stable and driven by income fundamentals.

Okay, so what sort of compression do you have in your terminals for your industrial portfolio? Zero. Okay, that's clear. And I'm not sure if you get this number, but what's the capex for Grosvenor this year?

So we previously reported capex for Grosvenor for our 50% in year one is roughly $30 to $35 million. We're about one-third through that. at the moment.

Okay, that's clear. And just one more, if I may. Industrial incentives, are you seeing those peaking at the moment, or can you just give us a steer on how you're seeing sort of incentives in the industrial market, please?

Yeah, James, it's Chris Davis here. So from our incentives across our portfolio being stable, so sitting at around 20%, In terms of the broader market, we're seeing Melbourne sort of in that mid to high 20s and Sydney around 20%. So it's overall fairly stable.

Thank you. Our next question is from David Hobaki from Macquarie Group. David, please go ahead.

Good morning Russell, Merrin and team. Thanks for taking my questions. I just wanted to come back to office if I could please and your view on office incentives over the next 12 months. Are you seeing enough of an improvement in office leasing demand and your view on incentives to call a genuine recovery in office or is it still largely confined to prime assets and specific sub markets?

Yes, Matthew again. When you look at incentives across the country, generally we've seen a stabilisation of those incentives over the course of the last 12 months. When you look at the go forward, ultimately those better quality assets in those better quality sub-markets, we're generally seeing a downward pressure on those incentives. So when I look in particular, you know, where we're leading the charge, definitely Brisbane, an area where we're seeing some good inroads there. Same with Sydney Financial District, but also over the course of the last 12 months, we've seen that now start to permeate into the Midtown market and also the Western Corridor market.

Thank you. So if we think about the group's maintenance, CAPEX and tenant incentives as a whole, would it be fair to say that FY26 will be the peak for MC and TI?

I can take that, David. It's Maren here. Yeah, I think that's correct. We'll start to see them taper off into 2027 and we can already see the split between fit-out and rent-free it's currently 40-60 in our 2026 numbers, but the current office deals we're talking to at the moment, that fit out rent-free has changed a little bit and it's 35-65, which also helps.

Just the last one on GWOF, 750 Collins was sold, so just curious to understand what's been satisfied today for the liquidity event, what's left to go? and just any commentary on further asset sales that you can provide. Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, David. It's Mark. We're satisfied about 18% of the liquidity request today. Yeah, as we've disclosed to Guelph investors, we'll go through a strategic assessment of which assets we think are right to sell in the market. We've flagged specific assets, which we won't disclose on this call. But we have a very particular curation strategy identified, which you'll see traction on over the next 12 months.

Thank you. Our next question is from Richard from JP Morgan. Richard, please go ahead.

Russell. Oh, thanks. Russell, just interested. Obviously, the business model is evolving. Just wondering whether your thoughts on retaining at least 20% and up to 50% of the equity across your co-investments is still the right number?

Look, I think it is, actually. I think we're finding that... that aligned partnering concept and the fact that any fees earned or generated are complementary to the return on capital being invested and really ensures that we are focused on where we're investing our capital first is resonating with investors, but also given our equity base of about $10.5 billion, $16 billion of balance sheet assets, we actually have a lot of flexibility around that and can execute against that strategy before it becomes constraining in any way. So I think for those two reasons, you'll see us continue along those lines. But we also still also have a mandates business, which we expect will continue to grow with the existing partners by where we have zero capital invested. So, again, I think it's the right strategy for what we're doing and trying to execute, and it is working in the market and being well received by investors.

Okay. Thank you. And just a quick question just for Chris. Just wondering if you can give us some color on retail sales in the months of June and July, please.

Richard, happy to do that. We've ended the year off the half pretty solid. Total centres are up four, total specialties are up 4.2, but for the half, both total centre and total specialty are up 3.5. We haven't signed July off yet, but it is looking at total specialties will be probably around where we ended up in the second quarter of that, so around about 2% to 3% up.

Okay, so notice would drop off in June or July?

No. Okay.

Thank you.

The next question is from Claire McHugh from Green Street. Claire, please go ahead.

Kyle, just a quick one from me on scaling up the funds management business. How should we think about the trajectory of corporate costs and when do you expect to see some meaningful operating leverage come through?

I think you'll see some leverage coming through in the second half and into next year and onwards. We really have the scale of operations at the corporate level. We need to grow the business. You've seen some increase in the corporate costs year on year as we've had full run rate of the entire team in. But we have a full CIO division now with research, cap trans, and corporate development. Each of the sectors are well tooled up now to support that growth. So we should start to see some of that operating leverage come through, particularly in existing vehicles. We do, as you know, take a little bit back from the restructuring and the go off and having to deal with some of the redemptions, but on a net growth basis, this should be operating leverage starting to come through.

Okay. And then maybe just one other question just surrounding, you know, the momentum on the fundraising pipeline. Have you seen, you know, investors that you've been in discussion with sort of shifting their return hurdles or underwriting requirements across Any or all of the sectors, just in light of what we've seen over the last six months, or have expectations been pretty stable?

No, I think what you saw, if you go back to October of last year, things looked like they were really picking up. There was a rate reduction expectation in the market, and then that changed very quickly. And as you know, on the enlisted side, people don't recalibrate their rates return or benchmark returns very quickly, but they start to shift their decision-making speed and areas of focus. And so we've seen, and it's really selective depending on where the capital is coming from, whether it's offshore or onshore, if they have strong international presence, because some, for example, would say they're interested in European retail, which would be of zero interest to someone else. So from an Australian point of view, though, it remains an incredibly attractive market for an Asia-Pac region. We're seeing a lot of interest offshore. It has been somewhat narrowed by the Victorian tax policy into really New South Wales and Queensland. But overall, I would say going into the midway through the first half, we saw people being probably a little more cautious and maybe a little longer in the decision-making, but we started to see that pick up heading into the second half now. So a little more normalized environment now, but obviously the macro can change pretty quickly.

Thanks, guys. That's helpful.

Thanks. The next question is from Ben Brashel from Baron Joey. Ben, please go ahead.

Russell, thanks. Hi, thanks for your time. Just a question on the shopping centre fund. Is there further appetite to undertake another capital raising in that vehicle? And could you just clarify the pro forma gearing post-acquisition of MacArthur Square and Sunshine?

Yeah, it's Maren.

I'll take the pro forma gearing question first.

The gearing does go up just after the acquisition of Sunshine and MacArthur to close to 30%.

And then as far as the interest or pursuit of further growth in that fund, I think the fund right now just eclipsed $5 billion of total assets under management. I think we could see that fund being substantially larger provided there's opportunities in front of it. to grow and deliver value for investors. But it's performed extremely well. I think every asset in the fund or assets we manage, we think there is opportunity to grow it further. So we would probably have appetite to raise subject to investors' support of that. Great.

Thank you, Tom. Thanks, man.

The next question is from Calvin from Macquarie. Calvin, please go ahead.

I think it's me. Hi, Russell. Thanks for taking the question. Just can you, Maren, would you be able to step us through the capital expenditure commitments that are in the annual report? I think it's $455 million with another 77 in joint ventures. I think there's 210 in office particularly, so I was just trying to understand what that $210 million relates to.

It's probably Grosvenor. Are you in the actual interim report, Colin?

Yeah.

Sorry, what page are you on?

33.

It will be Grosvenor, plus also capital expenditure commitments for some logistics developments that are also in the pipeline.

So roughly how big is the total CapEx expenditure? Because I think Matt said 30 to 35 this year. So what was the total that you got?

It'll be similar next year. Most of this, Callum, will be the logistics developments, which will be Kemp's Creek and Boundary.

And what's the portion of 77 that sits in a joint venture?

Yeah, I was just trying to look at it relative to the development page that you've got.

Maybe then just a separate one along the same lines, though. So, Russell, how do you think about capacity in the business as it stands today, both on balance sheet, but maybe... Sorry, Calum, I won't... Yeah, sorry.

Yeah, so why don't I take that one, Calum? So we call it liquidity availability $1 billion. We've obviously invested the capital of the shops fund. We're dealing with liquidity redemptions in... and office of our free cash flow. So we will need to further release of capital as in line with our strategy. That may involve asset sales and recycling. That may involve creating partnerships or funds. We do have some additional capacity in the leverage side of things, but I don't think you'll see a material reduction in that $1 billion of liquidity going forward. So we can fund our developments. There's nothing in this business that is unfunded. There's nothing in this business that we cannot fund with existing commitments and liquidity, but that's how we'll approach kind of more significant incremental growth would be through attracting new capital to the platform.

Should we expect the gearings going up as we move into the end of the year?

I wouldn't expect material movements and gearing at all. I think the 25 to 35 range and have it hanging around to kind of the low 30s at this point in the cycle is probably the right answer. I think it would be more around us attracting additional equity capital to the platform.

Thank you. Our next question is from Howard Penny from Citi. Howard, please go ahead.

Thank you very much for the presentation. Just the first question on finance costs moving into FY27 and 28. I know you're not guiding those numbers, but it seems like there might be a bit of a step up into FY27. Do you think that that could be a headwind to overall growth, potentially? Or do you think the operational growth could still outplay such a reasonable positive result?

Hi Howard, it's Naren. Look, we've still got strong operating growth which should outpace it. Obviously, you can see from our hedging profile, we've still got a fair bit of protection, particularly in 2027. So the rest of 2026, we're 74% hedged at 3.2. That sets up to 3.6 in 2027, with 60% of our debt drawn hedged. And 28, we've got 41% hedged at 4.2%. So there is a bit of a headwind there. However, we do think our operational performance will outweigh that.

Thank you very much. And it's impressive to see in retail in particular, how things have come, the momentum's continued. Lease rates up to 6.6%. Specialty MIT are furthered. That's new records. One of the conversations we have with generalists, especially guys following the actual retailers, is talking about how the pressure is impacting retail, specifically discretionary retail landlords. but the leasing still seems firmly a landlord market. How long do you think that this could continue and what are those negotiations like?

Howard, it's Chris. Thank you for the question. Look, we're very happy with the leasing spreads at 6.6% and that is a step up from where we were this time last year. Interestingly enough, if you look where we are across the board, the leasing spreads are really captured... in all categories. So we're achieving great spreads in apparel today, in our services, our dining, our homewares and general retail. I think where the secret sauce in leasing spread sits today is the fact that we're 99.8% occupied. And when you sit down with retailers that all have an appetite wanting to continue to grow their business and in effect have little option as to new GLA in the market, we've been able to extract. On top of that, you've got life-like income growth. We've got fixed 5% escalations. we're seeing 5% sales growth, positive leasing spreads, and that gives us a really healthy occupancy cost sitting around at 15.8%.

Thanks very much. And then final question for me, just as a bit of an expansion to the Ross Hill question, but we also visited MacArthur Square and we noticed there was good land there for potential further expansion there. Do you guys have appetite to do further developments on other assets in the short-term to medium-term horizon?

We're constantly looking at driving value in our assets and most of our, I think, future growth will come from our development pipeline. When you look at MacArthur in particular, there is a lot of surplus land. I think from our perspective, what we should be doing there is just making sure that we have entitlements to grow highest and best use to develop that land. I'll be honest, I'm not sure if we would become a residential developer, but if it means that we get the entitlements for a proper residential developer to come in to maximise value, we're happy to work with them. Equally, I think it's important for us to state that retail will always be the hero in our future development pipeline.

Thank you. There are no further questions. I'll now hand back to Russell.

Well, thank you, everybody, for joining the call this morning, and thank you to the team for delivering such great results.