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to the Hamborner Reit Half Year 2026 Financial Results Conference Call. For the first part of the conference call, the participants will be in listen-only mode. During the questions and answers session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key 5 on their telephone keypad or clicking the raise your hand icon in the lower right corner in the video player. Now I will hand the conference over to the speakers. Please go ahead.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining our conference call concerning our figures for the first half year of 2026. I'm Niklas Karoff and pleased to be here today together with members of our team, including my colleague Christoph from the IR team. As usual, I will start with a brief presentation, after which we will open the floor for Q&A session. We hope everything will run smoothly from a technical standpoint and look forward to engaging with you. As usual, let's start with an overview of our key financial figures as of 30 June. Rental income amounted to €45.1 million, representing a moderate decrease of 1.3%, primarily reflecting the impact of our property disposals during the last 15 months. FFO came in at 23.8 million euro or 29 euro cent per share, down 4.4% year on year. Influenced by the dividend payment in June and individual value adjustments within the property portfolio, our loan-to-value slightly increased to 45.2%. Accordingly, APRA NAV decreased by 3.9% compared with year-end 2025 and amounted to €8.72 per share as at the end of June. Operating performance remained resilient with vacancy rate and the portfolio's weighted average lease term remaining at solid levels of 4.1% and 5 years respectively. As always, we will walk you through the details on the following slides. Let's start and take a closer look at our earnings development. Rental income amounted to 45.1 million Euro. As mentioned before, the 1.3% year-on-year decline was primarily due to property disposals completed during the first half of 2025 and the first quarter of this year. In the first half, income from passed-on costs increased by 7.3%. mainly driven by higher ancillary cost payments of our tenants. Operating expenses remained largely stable, decreasing by 2.1% year-on-year to €10.1 million in the first half of this year, mainly due to the property disposals. Maintenance expenses amounted to 3.6 million Euro compared with 3.5 million in the last year. The slight increase reflects ongoing maintenance work and various smaller plant measures. As in previous years, major maintenance projects and larger tenant improvements are scheduled for the second half of the year. And as already indicated in connection with our full year guidance, we currently expect an increase in maintenance costs of approximately 30% in 2026. The increase mainly results from several tenant improvements as part of our letting activities during the course of this year. Although these measures have a short-term impact on our cost base, the expenses are an investment in occupancy, tenant retention, and the sustainability of our future cash flows. Administration expenses increased mainly as a result of higher governance and reporting requirements alongside continued investments in software solutions and increased insurance-related expenses. Personal expenses rose slightly year-on-year to €4.1 million. This development was mainly driven by valuation effects in connection with the company's long-term incentive program and does not reflect a structural increase in the personal cost base. The negative development of other operating income must be viewed in the context of a higher compensation payment received last year as a result of the early termination of a lease agreement. Other operating expenses were significantly lower compared to the previous year, influenced by reduced external consultancy costs. Interest expenses increased by around 8%. primarily reflecting the refinancing at higher interest rates during the second half of last year and the first quarter of the current year. Interest income was down by approximately 15% as a result of the lower income from short-term cash investments. Eventually, total FFO for the first half of this year amounted to 23.8 million euro or 14 euro cent per share, representing a year-on-year decrease of 4.4%. On the next slide, we will briefly review the development of our key portfolio figures. Following the disposal of the DIY store in Ditzing, which was transferred to the buyer in the first quarter of this year, our portfolio comprises 63 properties. As of 30th of June, total market value of our property portfolio amounted to 1.32 billion euro. Compared with the year end 2025, the value decreased by 32.6 million euro. Besides the disposal of Ditzing, This mainly reflects the revaluation of selected properties as of end of June. Although we did not carry out a full external revaluation, we also apply a high level of diligence to our property valuation process during the year and when necessary involve the appraiser in the revaluation to address specific property market or location related changes. In this case, based on recent letting successes, as well as on more cautious assumptions regarding individual location developments and cost projections for future letting activities, we have carried out write-ups and write-downs for a total of eight office and retail properties. Including the valuation enhancement for an office property in Cologne, which had already been recognized at the end of the first quarter, Total value adjustments in the first half of the year amounted to a minus of €20.7 million or 1.5% of the total portfolio value. Operational key figures remained largely stable during the first six months of this year. IPRA vacancy rate increased slightly as of end of June 2026, remaining at a low level of 4.1%. As mentioned earlier, the portfolio wallet amounted to five years with 6.2 years in the retail portfolio and 3.6 years in the office portfolio. Concerning rent development, on a like-for-like basis, annualized rental income again increased by 1.6% year-on-year, primarily reflecting indexation effects. The positive impact of indexation was partly offset by the higher vacancy level and slightly lower rent levels for follow-up leases. which is a consequence of the strong indexation effects over the past two and a half years, particularly in our office portfolio. Against this background, we take a more market oriented approach to follow up leases and new lettings. In individual cases, this may include accepting moderate rent adjustments, where this helps support occupancy, secure future rental cash flows and avoid additional capex for tenant improvements. Compared to previous year, rental income was also affected by the property disposals, which reduced rental income by 1.2 million euros or 1.4%. As at the end of June, our annualized rents amounted to 88.7 million euros. As part of the strategic realignment of our portfolio announced in February this year, we successfully completed the first transaction under this program in the second quarter and signed a sale agreement for our office property in Neu-Isenburg. The agreed sales price amounts to 13.5 million euros and was therefore slightly below the most recently appraised market value. Subject to the fulfillment of a contractually agreed condition, additional proceeds of up to approximately €200,000 may be realized. We deliberately selected this asset as the first disposal under our strategic alignment. Based on the individual letting situation of the property, its current stability and the market development at the micro location, we believe that now is the right time to sell it. The transfer of ownership is expected to take place in the third quarter of this year. Yeah, we intend to reinvest the proceeds as soon as possible into properties in the FMCG and DIY sectors in line with our expended acquisition profile. During the first half of the year, our tenant structure was only slightly affected by index based rent adjustments. Letting Activities and Property Disposals. Therefore, our tenant list remains largely unchanged and the top tenants account for 53.7% of total rental income. This continued stability of our tenant base is an ongoing and important factor for the resilience of our business model. especially in the current macroeconomic environment. Our strong tenant structure supports the stability of our cash flows and provides a solid foundation for the further development of our operating business. A further indicator of this is the consistently high level of tenant satisfaction, which is shown on the next slide here. Since the beginning of the year, we have signed lease agreements covering more than 23,000 square meters. And as in previous years, the majority of our leasing activity was driven by lease extensions and the exercise of renewal options by existing tenants, resulting once and again in a very strong retention rate of around 88%. Looking at, Amborna does not expect any material concentration risk arising from upcoming lease expiries. As illustrated by the lease expiry schedule at the bottom of the slide here, lease maturities remain well diversified over the While our lease maturity profile provides a high degree of visibility on future cash flows, we also see opportunities to generate additional income from our properties. As announced last week and as part of our ongoing efforts to continuously enhance the sustainability standards of our properties, We are expanding the charging infrastructure within our portfolio together with Elektra, one of the leading European providers in this field. In the first phase, we plan to install 140 fast charging points and 20 retail locations over the next 12 to 24 months. generating recurring additional revenue of around 0.6 to 0.8 million euros. The revenue potential consists of a fixed component and a viable usage-related component. In the second phase, the number of charging points at the 20 locations could be increased to up to 248 depending on the demand at each location. This would result in an increase in total recurring revenue to around 1 million to 1.2 million euros. Based on our partnership agreement, all required technical investments will be carried out and financed by Elektra, meaning that no corresponding costs will be incurred by Hamburg. The implementation by an experienced external partner also supports a fast and efficient rollout. By integrating fast charging facilities we should be able to enhance the attractiveness of our properties and at the same time unlock additional revenue and value creation potential for our portfolio. The project is therefore a key element of our strategy to develop sustainable and future-oriented property locations. Let's now move on to our company's financial situation. The development of our debt situation was mainly influenced by the dividend payment for the 2025 financial year. and by the valuation adjustments within our portfolio mentioned earlier. Our LTV therefore slightly increased to 45.2% as at the end of June. Importantly, this increase was not driven by a higher debt level. Compared with the year end 2025, financial liabilities decreased to approximately 628 million euros mainly due to loan repayments and scheduled amortizations. This reflects our continued disciplined balance sheet management. At the end of June, our debt portfolio had an average interest rate of around 2.2% and an average remaining maturity of 2.8 years. The average maturity has come down slightly as we recently tended to favor shorter financing terms. This was mainly a response to the development of the interest environment and a steeper yield curve which has made long-term financing somewhat more expensive. Looking ahead, we will continue to closely monitor market conditions. Depending on the individual asset situation, we may consider an average longer-term financing again with the aim of gradually increasing the average remaining maturity over time. This potentially also applies to our refinancing requirements in the second half of this year, where we remain well on track. Finally, let me turn to our outlook. Despite the continued challenging market environment, our operating business is developing according to plan. Based on the first half of the year, we remain cautiously optimistic for the remainder of 2026. We therefore confirm our full year guidance as published at the beginning of the year. and for 2026 we continue to expect rental income in a range of 87.5 to 89.5 million euros and FFO between 38 and 42 million euros. The development of the operating result will continue to depend on cost developments, particularly in maintenance and interest expenses. We will continue to manage all cost positions with a high degree of discipline. At the same time, we will take a balanced approach and carefully weight short-term cost impacts against measures that support occupancy, strengthen the quality of our portfolio, and secure future cash flows. Our recently announced strategic adjustments, including the stronger focus on retail properties, the expanded acquisition profile and the gradual reduction in office exposure, remain important elements of our medium-term strategy. However, apart from the recent disposal in Neu-Isenburg, Our guidance does not include any assumptions regarding further transactions. Overall, we look positively at the remainder of the year and believe that our stable operating performance, disciplined cost management and clear strategic focus provide a solid base for achieving our full year targets. With that, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to conclude the presentation and open the floor for your questions. So far, thanks so much for your attention.

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Yes, hello, this is Thomas speaking. Thanks for the presentation. I just have two questions, if I may. The first one is regarding your FFO. Obviously, you have achieved, I think, 24 million by the first half of this year. And given your guidance range of 38 to 42 million, this implies that in HD, You expect a significantly lower FFO. Can you maybe just identify any elevated cost blocks which we might model into our model for the second half in order to get to your FFO or is the FFO guidance meant to be rather conservative?

Yes, hi, Thomas. Thanks so much for your question. Yeah, I mean, obviously, I mean, you've seen this in the past that our results in the second half year, second half of the year will be influenced by other topics to a stronger extent. In this case, we expect during the second half of the year additional costs as pointed out on the technical side for the total year on a level of approximately 30% higher than last year. So if you then do the math and based on how much we have invested so far during the first half year, you get a feeling for this point. And then additionally, please take into account also that we expect higher financing costs during the second half of the year or the effect from it. And overall, we expect approximately 10%, roughly 10%, more or less higher financing costs than compared to 2025.

Great, thank you very much. Maybe one additional question regarding your portfolio rotation. You just signed the disposal of New Isenburg and I think you mentioned that you want to recycle the capital into a higher yielding grocery anchored retail. Can you give us maybe an idea what is your target net initial yield for new acquisitions in order to get to FFU accretive targets?

It's not too easy to say because the kind of projects we are looking at, it's quite a mixture. We are typically looking at the moment more on the call plus to value add side, on the acquisition side. and there we are talking about obviously about substantially higher higher ingoing yields than than if you compared with a classical core product on our side so if you talk about a let's say a multiplier on a multiplier base you can say typical projects we are looking at at the moment they start around Okay, thank you very much. The next question comes from Philip Kaiser from Warburg Research. Please go ahead.

Yeah, hello everyone. Thanks for the presentation. Thanks for taking my question. Just a couple of follow ups and starting with the already mentioned maintenance topic. You cited in during your presentation that major maintenance projects and larger tenant improvements are scheduled for the second half of this year. How much of those maintenance projects can you already be quantified? Today we get a rough idea of what's really already kind of off-booked because we thought in the last years that maintenance came always in below your envisaged goals.

Thanks, first of all, for the question, Philip. Two comments on this. I think I understand your point looking backwards. If you look at last year's couple of years, I think last year we didn't do too bad, finally, concerning our maintenance expenses here. But coming back to your questions, currently we have commissioned maintenance measures for the second half year with a total volume of approximately So this should give you an idea of that we think currently we are pretty much on track here.

Could you repeat the number?

I couldn't quite catch that. We have currently commissioned maintenance measures for the second half of the year currently with a total volume of approximately 3 million.

are feeling perfect thanks a lot thanks for the clarification um the next one is on um potential further write downs so as far as I understood it was not the portfolio-wide external evaluation that you carried out and so it was like based on on specific assets and it's a kind of uh office cleanup and now for the second half nothing should be expected on this side or are there any potential further write down risks you see in your portfolio Hello, can you hear me?

Okay, I'm sorry for this. We were still on mute. Sorry. Sorry, it was our mistake. Sorry for that. um so i repeat again so if you look at what we did concerning the valuation um all in all during the course of this year you have seen together with the asset in the first quarter you have seen uh nine assets with with revaluations out of our portfolio two write-ups and and seven write downs um and by the way the two write-ups uh concern two office properties um but apart from this the the office um uh the office market overall um is still to a certain extent in a under pressure from an overall perspective what we simply do is we run through our portfolio on a regular base irrespectively if it's office or retail properties and we simply run through all the assets and have a look where we see or if we see some significant changes here because of new situations and then we follow our internal procedures. And so there is not a point that I would make any predictions coming from this year to the portfolio as it is today. I mean, our intention is to keep on track here, to be very transparent on this and to do it in a very diligent way. That's all I can say.

Okay, thanks so much for the detailed answer. My next one is on the Neue Eisenburg sale. The property was sold at 13.5 million, almost matching the current carrying amount, but marginally below the last appraised value. Could you give us an indication which discount current bidders are demanding for secondary office to get a better idea of this deal? probably future deals in this asset class.

Just maybe a question from my side. Obviously, I don't want to answer your question with another question. But if you talk about discounts, are you referring to overall market perceptions or more on the technical behavior concerning individual transactions?

And more on the on the overall market conditions. So what was your experience on in this particular year? How many bidders? What was kind of the debate across the line? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. So what we observe from I mean, obviously, we don't have a full market view and it's always selected on based on based on where we are active in Germany. But what we see still is that concerning these, let's say, yeah let's transact let's look at transactions in in b and c cities i mean not by quality obviously but by size meaning b and c um you you see but that's i think that's something that you to a certain extent this applies also to the a markets um still a limited um number of investors um on the institutional side clearly um driving the market um especially um family offices, smaller and larger sized family offices, as well as certain smaller or mid-sized funds coming to the market or being active in the market, but it's not comparable to the level that we have seen before the interest hike a couple of years ago. I mean, that's still the situation if you look at the, that's what we observe on the office market. Having said this, you still find interesting potential buyers which have a pretty clear view on what they are looking for, meaning they have clear focus on the kind of product they are looking for. They're very much looking for the investors we see as stability, very transparent cash flow profile and transactions that can be can be checked as part of the due diligence in a very good way, meaning that everything is open on the table and you can really get a shorthand impression of if it's the right asset or not. That's what we see. So a very clear coming in with it with a clear story and and these are the kind of investors that we see at the moment more on the market and concerning pricing I think there's still a certain flight for for quality that you can see in the market not only the a market but also in B and C markets meaning the overall asset has to tick a lot of boxes starting from the cash flow profile as mentioned up to ESG related topics and this narrows the market for obvious reasons and we obviously I mean that's a yeah that's a feedback I give you from today's perspective and six months might be different but That's why we try to remain very flexible also concerning the kind of assets that we bring to the market on the office side so that they can fulfill these kinds of requests. And overall, maybe one comment on size. lower sizes are overall or appear to us more attractive than really assets with large volumes or even larger portfolios. And that's also something that we take into consideration. And if you look at the overall profile of our office portfolio, I think also concerning size, not only, but also concerning the individual size of the assets, It fits pretty well at the moment to what's looked by various investors.

Perfect. It helps a lot. Thank you very much for this detailed insight. And I would also raise a follow-up question regarding your strategy. The February announcement is now backed by one transaction. taken into account everything you already described on the office market. Any major changes on the speed of this office sale? Anything changed between the announcement and now?

Yeah, not fundamentally. I mean, we knew that the market is where it is. And that's what we took into account when we started this process here, meaning that we At the moment, it might appear a bit slow, but you didn't say this, but it might appear because we just sold one asset and didn't buy another one. But that's exactly why we said, okay, we take a medium perspective on this whole rotation process. We don't see ourselves under pressure. We want to maximize value here. And I think it's also fair to say that transaction processes simply in many cases, at least they simply take longer than than before. Yeah. So at the moment, you process between six and 12 months. whereas it was substantially shorter in a couple of years ago for various reasons that I think we also have talked about here before and that's something that you have to take into account as well meaning we are we are active on the sales side we expect to bring further we will bring further or we will bring further assets to the market shortly now and the same applies also on the acquisition Reit Ag Reit Ag

How is the acquisition side looking at the moment in the current market environment? Are there a lot of attractive assets out there or is it the same as you already described for the disposal office side?

On the acquisition side, we really get a lot on the table, especially in connection with the widening of our acquisition profile. This clearly has helped us a lot. What I just pointed out concerning the sales processes is something that you see also on the acquisition process. We intend to be slow, but it's simply that you have to cover various things. And also, if you consider the fact that we are considering the widened acquisition profile in a core plus or or value-add side there are in certain transactions simply more things to cover also on the due diligence side than if you're looking at the pure play core property and this takes a little bit more time but apart from this we feel we are on the right track here and continue to be really active and maybe one additional comment also concerning acquisition within this Reit Ag