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Earnings Call: Q1 2026

May 13, 2026

Operator

They are Leonardo Mesquita, Co-CEO, Paulo Curi, Co-CEO of Engineering, João Mazzuco, CFO, and Ronaldo Cury, IRO. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Ronaldo Cury, who will begin the presentation. Please, Curi, go ahead.

Ronaldo Curi
Investor Relations Officer, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Good morning, everyone. Thank you once again for your interest in Cury and for joining our Q1 2026 earnings conference call. Joining me today from Cury are Leonardo Mesquita, our Co-Chief Executive Officer, Paulo Curi, our Co-President of Engineering, and João Mazzuco, our CFO. During today's presentation, we will discuss the key operational and financial highlights for the quarter. At the end, we will open the floor for the Q&A session. Next, we have a message from the management.

Speaker 17

Good morning, everyone. Cury reports its Q1 2026 results at a special moment in its history. In May, the company celebrates 63 years of operations and begins a new phase with the recently announced executive leadership structure, while maintaining the strategic pillars that underpin its track record of growth, financial strengths, and value creation. Throughout its history, Cury has successfully navigated complex scenarios and adopted the necessary measures to preserve its financial strengths, operational efficiency, and ability to generate value. We remain attentive to the current geopolitical environment and focused on making the company even more efficient, prepared, and resilient. In this context, key real estate fundamentals, such as acquiring high-quality land in prime locations and resilient markets, become even more relevant and essential to navigating periods of greater complexity.

In Q1 2026, driven by strong market demand and execution efficiency, we achieved BRL 2.6 billion in launches and BRL 2.3 billion in net sales, given in Brazilian reals, the highest sales volume in our history. We also recorded SOS of 45.1% this quarter, reflecting company's commercial strengths in the regions where we operate, especially as we expand our presence with high-quality, well-located products aligned with customer needs. Among our key financial indicators, record net revenue of BRL 1.6 billion, adjusted gross margin of 39.3%, net margin of 21.8%, ROE of 79.5%, a record for company. It's worth noting that even in this context, the conversion of net income into operating cash flow remained at high levels, reinforcing the quality of our earnings and company's ability to grow efficiently.

We also maintain the positive operating cash generation of BRL 93.4 million, marking our 28th consecutive quarter of positive operating cash flow, a milestone that reflects our financial discipline, operational efficiency, and resilience while preserving a solid financial structure ready to capture future growth opportunities. We made significant progress with the expansion of income brackets and unit price caps under the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program announced by the Brazilian government, with implementation beginning in April. The new bracket allows families earning up to BRL 13,000 per month to acquire properties priced up to BRL 600 thousand. We should expand the number of families eligible for the program and provide greater flexibility for price adjustment, supporting future results.

The second quarter also began with strong operational momentum, highlighted by the second phase of Novo Mundo Carrão in São Paulo with a PSV of BRL 424.5 million and 1,248 units, which already surpassed 50% sold within just one month of launch. On the sustainability front, Cury launched the Raízes Cury in partnership with the SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation, reinforcing its commitment to forest restoration, biodiversity preservation, and carbon offsetting through the planting of approximately 15,000 trees in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro by the end of 2026. With a track record marked by consistent results, strong management, and long-term vision, Cury closes the first quarter of 2026 with confidence and enthusiasm to continue building with responsibility and excellence, and even more promising future for its customer, employees, partners, and shareholders. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Ronaldo Cury.

Ronaldo Curi
Investor Relations Officer, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Let's now highlight the operational and financial aspects of Q1 2026. This quarter, we achieved a record BRL 2.3 billion in net sales, a record land bank of BRL 24.9 billion, and a record net revenue of BRL 1.6 billion, all given in Brazilian real. We also reported record net income from operations of BRL 351.2 million, net margin from operations of 21.8%. On a Cury ownership basis, we posted record net income of BRL 302.9 million and net margin of 18.8%. We also generated BRL 93.4 million in operating cash flow, marking our 28th consecutive quarter positive operating cash generation. Our ROE reached 79.5% this quarter, a new all-time high for the company. Now I'll provide more color on our operational performance.

During this quarter, we launched 10 developments totaling BRL 2.6 billion in PSV, representing an increase of more than 100% quarter-over-quarter, and a decrease of 5% year-over-year. Over the past 12 months, launches exceeded BRL 8.1 billion, representing 9% growth year-over-year. On the next slide, we highlight the main developments launched the period. Novo Mundo Carrão in the eastern part of São Paulo, launched in January with a PSV of BRL 410 million, and with more than 80% of units sold. Luzes do Rio - Condomínio Candeeiro launched in January in the Porto Maravilha region of Rio de Janeiro, totaling PSV of BRL 184 million, with nearly 80% of units sold.

Cidade Parque Guarapiranga launched in February in the Serra region of São Paulo with a PSV of BRL 294 million, with all units sold. In terms of net sales, during this quarter, we reached BRL 2.3 billion, representing 9.5% growth compared to Q1 2025 and 48.1% growth compared to Q4 2025. Our net SOS reached 45.1%, 0.3 percentage points below Q1 2025 and 5.8 percentage points above Q4 2025. Moving on to the next slide, the average selling price in Q1 2026 reached BRL 325,400 per unit, representing 3.4% growth compared to Q4 2025 and 4.9% growth compared to Q1 2025.

Over the last 12 months, the average selling price reaches BRL 312.6 thousand per unit, representing a 1.3% increase compared to the same period last year. During the quarter, 86.5% of sales had a unit price below BRL 500 thousand. On the next slide, we present the breakdown of our land bank. We ended Q1 2026 with a record land bank of BRL 24.9 billion in potential PSV corresponding to 82,119 units. Currently, Cury's land bank is composed of BRL 18.5 billion in São Paulo and BRL 6.4 billion in Rio de Janeiro. We conclude the operational highlights with operating cash generation of BRL 93.4 million during this quarter, marking our 28th consecutive quarter of positive operating cash flow.

Over the last 12 months, operating cash generation reached BRL 750.9 million, 58% growth compared to the same period last year. I'd like to turn the call over to our CFO, João Mazzuco. He'll provide more color about our financial results.

João Mazzuco
CFO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Good morning, everyone. On slide 15, we highlight our net revenue. This quarter, net revenue reached BRL 1.6 billion or 13.6% growth compared to Q4 2025 and 32.6% growth compared to Q1 2025. Over the past 12 months, net revenue totaled BRL 5.8 billion, a 34.6% increase compared to the same period last year.

On slide 16, we reported record gross profit of BRL 629.7 million in Q1 2026, 32.6% growth compared to Q1 2025 and 10% growth compared to Q4 2025. Our gross margin reached 39% of this quarter, representing a decline of 1.3 percentage points compared to Q4 2025 and stability compared to the first quarter of 2025. Over the last 12 months, gross profit increased to 37.7% compared to the same period of 2025, and a 0.9 percentage point expansion in gross margin. On slide 17, we highlight record 100% net income, which reaches BRL 351.2 million in the first quarter of 2026, 50.3% growth compared to Q1 2025 and 18.2% growth compared to Q4 2025.

Net margin reached 21.8% this quarter, an increase of 2.6 percentage points compared to Q1 2025, and 0.9 percentage points compared to Q4 2025. Over the last 12 months, net income totaled BRL 1.2 billion, representing 54% growth compared to the same period one year ago. On slide 18, net income attributable to Cury. This indicator reached BRL 302.9 million the first quarter of 2026, 41.9% growth compared to Q1 2025, and 12.1% growth compared to Q4 2025. Net margin reached 18.8%, an increase of 1.2 percentage points compared to the same period last year, and a decrease of 0.2 percentage points compared to Q4 2025. Over the last 12 months, our operations generated BRL 1.1 billion net income, representing 47.5% growth compared to the same period last year.

Net margin reached 18.4%, representing a 1.6 percentage point compared to the same period last year. In addition, our return on equity reached a record of 79.5% in On Slide 19, our financial debt profile. We ended the quarter with total gross debt of BRL 1.4 billion and cash of BRL 1.8 billion. This resulted in a net cash position of BRL 407 million. Thank you very much, now I'd like to turn it over to the operator.

Operator

Thank you. We will open the Q&A session. If you wish to ask a question, please click on raise hand. If your question is answered, please click on lower your hand. First question from Andre Mazzini with Citi. Please go ahead, sir.

Andre Mazzini
Analyst, Citi

Hello. Good morning, Leo, Paulo, and Ronaldo and João. Two questions. First, about commercial expenses, 7.4% of net revenue.

We see an improvement compared to the last quarter. This lower level vis-a-vis the top line, is that sustainable considering the current pace of launches? Or is it related to specific factors? Will this go back to historical levels? My second question, considering the adjustments and improvement for the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program, are you reviewing your product mix, and what kind of strategy we will apply for 2026, 2027? Will the average ticket increase considering the bracket four, which took longer than we had expected, or do you believe that the current levels and the current mix will be maintained and perhaps just a slight increase related to pricing?

João Mazzuco
CFO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Good morning, Mazzini. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for your question. I'm gonna answer the first question, then I'll ask Leo to answer the second one.

Regarding commercial expenses, there is, there are some that are related to our customers. During the first quarter we don't have many records. That reflects the lower level of sales in Q4. We have reported commercial sales. We only see 9.5%-10%. For the first quarter of 2025, this number went down to 8.74%, to give you the right number. It is below the average. The first thing now, we see also a further decrease. What should we expect? We should expect it to go back to historical levels. We see this fluctuation here, but, we see this cost of registering properties, and, because it's a front-loaded cost, just as payment of commissions.

As sales pace decrease, we also see an impact, and also gain in leveraging our commercial expenses. We expect this level to go down, but still close to 9%, approximately 9%, which means that we will see this level in the future.

Leonardo Mesquita
Co-CEO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Good morning, Mazzini. This is Leo answering the second question. We see that the changes in the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program. First of all, the government is preserving the program, and the changes that are being implemented, they indicate that it is a long-term program. We see these adjustments being made, and this will not lead to the need of changing products. We obviously try to capture price whenever possible. We can make some adjustments, and then we can certainly benefit from that. The goal right now is to really work on our products and consider the current funding available.

I believe that our strategy has been well determined, and in the future it will certainly work with this program and with funds set aside for this program.

Andre Mazzini
Analyst, Citi

Okay, thank you very much, Leo and João.

Operator

Our next question comes from Gustavo Fabris with BTG Pactual. Please, Mr. Fabris, go ahead.

Gustavo Fabris
Analyst, BTG Pactual

Hello. Good morning, everyone.

I have two questions as well. One is about cost inflation. What about inventory levels and launches? What is the company doing regarding pricing? Have you increased the prices? Also, when we consider what to do. I'd like to also ask you how comfortable you are with your current SOS, sales over supply index. Would it be time to withhold sales, or at least in the short term when there are some uncertainties regarding the war and inflation? These are my two questions.

Leonardo Mesquita
Co-CEO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Gustavo, this is Leo.

You mentioned two things, so let me talk about the commercial aspect and also about pricing of the units. Our policy has been to benefit as much as possible regarding price. This has been our policy, and the results for this first quarter proves that. Even before an event that took place at the end of March, we had a very good quarter and we really benefited from the price regarding price aspects. Now we see the changes in the program. The idea of just increasing inventory to gain price does not make sense from the commercial standpoint and for our business. We don't sell oil that you can store and then adjust price, so this type of reasoning does not make sense to us.

Whenever you have a product with the potential of allowing you to earn more in pricing, then you would consider that. You create the feeling of urgency to your customer, and not only because some news came up, and the next day we are also going to address that. Our policy is to have developments in good areas where people want to live at, and then we can gain on price so that people buy that property rather than just readjusting prices. More than even before, our policy of being present at good areas is really a pillar of our company, and have developments in this area, and not because of a single fact that happened.

Gustavo Fabris
Analyst, BTG Pactual

Thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from Mr. Mattheus Meloni with Santander.

Mattheus Meloni
Analyst, Santander

Hello. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for taking my question. I'd like to understand what's your take about sales in April and May. Do you also see the impact of improvements in the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program, and also about your take on that and also on default? My second question, also going back to costs, we see that, well, the war is lasting longer than expected, do you do a budget adjustment considering that, or what can you share for the future? Do you see vendors requesting price increase, for example?

Leonardo Mesquita
Co-CEO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Good morning, Mattheus. This is Leo. Well, things did not change in April. It followed the pattern we were already observing. Good months, and we also have an excellent launch taking place in the city of Niterói.

April was a good month, but not a wonderful month because there were many holidays, in spite of that, it was a good month. Now, from now on, in May we will address the changes in the program. I'd say that for the Niterói development, we are seeing results that are better than what we had expected. It's for bracket four, we have included more units. Real estate agents are also feeling very comfortable in working with this product, this helps us. We also need to take into account that we need to educate real estate agents for these new brackets. I think that at the very beginning, we have really the best opportunity to capture that. Now this week we have launches in São Paulo, we hope to see the same momentum.

You mentioned one point that is a point of concern, which is debt. We know that today Well, a question that we are always asked is about demand. What about the scope of demand? There are many people who do not who are not able to buy today, so because they are in debt, and that is certainly an issue. We examine that in depth. Caixa Econômica, they also, they are also more careful in examining credit. I believe that both the Caixa and us, we are being very diligent. I'd say that now with interest rates going down and the economic center improving, we would see more people available to buy properties. We know that today there are many people that cannot afford that because they are in default.

Let me now turn it over to Paulo to talk about costs.

Paulo Curi
Co-CEO of Engineering, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

This is Paulo, Mattheus. Thank you. We know that, with the war, oil prices increased from $60-$100 per barrel. With that, we had an increase in price of input, and the main input had this price increase. We have already considered that, we see that as for oil, we are working with the price range between $95-$105, and we have already considered this level. If it increases above that, further adjustment will be required regarding our pricing. With this price increase, there is a possibility of a decrease in demand. We already started renegotiating with some vendors, and we felt that they are more willing to negotiate.

It's too early for us to actually see ourselves optimistic because news about the war change every day. We need to be attentive, and we will work on that depending on the circumstances.

Mattheus Meloni
Analyst, Santander

Thank you. Considering the scenario, let's say you are able to renegotiate some cases. Would that also represent savings in the future?

Paulo Curi
Co-CEO of Engineering, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Well, when you talk about savings during construction works, well, I, we cannot say that will happen. What I can say is that prices will be maintained at the levels we see today. This is our goal.

Mattheus Meloni
Analyst, Santander

Okay. Thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from Ana Júlia Zerkowski with UBS. Please go ahead, miss.

Ana Júlia Zerkowski
Analyst, UBS

Hello. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for taking my question. I'd like to address pricing again. Can you please share what's your take regarding price increase and competition?

Do you see other players increasing their prices, and if so, at what level, both in Rio and São Paulo? My other question is about SOS. What is your priority today? Considering today's inflation, which is the priority, margins or sales? You opened sales for the second phase of Novo Mundo Carrão. Was there a need of, let's say, reduced margins vis-a-vis sales? Thank you.

Leonardo Mesquita
Co-CEO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Ana Júlia, this is Leo. When we examine our track record, we have always worked pursuing the best margin and also the best SOS. I believe that that's why we generate cash, and I'd say that This explains a great deal about our business. Perhaps, I don't know if I'm not being clear, but we want to keep applying our strategy.

This strategy has allowed us to achieve good margins and also good SOS. This SOS may change. We should not forget that we are in a market in which SOS is tightly related. Every launch takes place at a different city, different area. To expect the same SOS for everything, well, that is not applicable. It's not that we can have a means to regulate that. This is not feasible. We need to think about more or less engagement or where we have more or less people. We always work in order to see enhanced and the best engagement. We are looking for meeting our requirements, margin and fast-paced sales. What we'll prioritize, that will depend on the project.

There are some projects in which we know that our margins will be better, and there are some others in which that's not true because of the income of our buyers, of our customers. It's important to once again stress the fact that we don't sell the same product everywhere. Even if you are in the same neighborhood, one project and one street is not the same, just as three streets closer to that. The same about the sales space. Or let's talk about the city of São Paulo and other markets. Today we see that São Paulo and the northern part of Brazil, for example, we cannot apply the same rules, same pricing. It's important that we have a good understanding about that.

We will keep applying the same strategy, which is to really tap all launches so that we can have the best pricing and the best margin at that point in time, but also benefit from the number of real estate agents available because that's a good strategy for us to capture as much as possible, and that's also important for cash generation. These pillars are the ones that brought us to the level we operate today.

Ana Júlia Zerkowski
Analyst, UBS

Thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from Herman Lee with Bradesco BBI. Please, Mr. Lee, go ahead.

Herman Lee
Analyst, Bradesco BBI

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for taking my question. I have just one question about gross margin. It was expected that we would see a drop, but when you go over the rev margin, the decrease was much lower. Can you please address that? Thank you.

João Mazzuco
CFO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Hello, Herman. Good morning. When we make adjustments, we make adjustments to the budget. It is not possible for you to change one without affecting the other. If you go back to our track record gross margin and the rev margin, they do not necessarily go hand in hand, or they do not present the same pace. If you go back 2025, there was a margin increase on the third quarter above 40%, and the rev margin did not change. It was maintained. It was around 43%. Why is that? Because the mix and the weighting of my revenue on the gross margin and rev margin are different. The rev margin is related to launches, especially when you have a company with a strong SOS. When you see developments in the first quarter, launches in the first quarter, the Novo Mundo Carrão, as mentioned here.

Development in Guarapiranga, Rio Bonito. They are successful launches, so good sales, and also that has impact on the rev margin and not much on the appropriated margin. We comply with the accounting rules and the budget adjustment, and that's why you see this difference. What we see is that both are still significant margins. We will keep on addressing inflation, and we do have means to work on that. We want to really to achieve strong margins, and this is how we need to also work around them in the future.

Herman Lee
Analyst, Bradesco BBI

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from Ygor Altero with XP. Please go ahead.

Ygor Altero
Analyst, XP

Hello. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for the presentation. I have two questions. First, inflation of materials, and also considering the construction itself. Who is more exposed considering type of construction?

Also about inflation. What about labor? Labor was also a concern of the company, right? We see that some construction works are also running late because of shortage of labor.

Paulo Curi
Co-CEO of Engineering, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Igor Machado, this is Paulo. Let's talk about impact on cost depending on the construction method. We are now working on temporary mold used to shape concrete because of the lack of shortage of labor. The impact was the same considering masonry or concrete. Concrete and steel also presented the price increase. What I can tell you is that we did not identify any advantage comparing the two methods. As for labor, since the engineering restructuring process, we saw an increase in our productivity in the first four months of 2026. This demonstrates that our internal efforts are now bearing fruits. We were able now to have a proper labor at construction sites. Now we need to keep that running to meet the deadlines for construction works.

Ygor Altero
Analyst, XP

Thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from Rafael Rehder with Safra. Please go ahead.

Rafael Rehder
Analyst, Safra

Good morning, everyone. I have two questions as well. First to talk about receivables portfolio. What can you share about that? Do you feel comfortable? That also works as hedging considering inflation. My question is, do you feel comfortable with the current level? What about the default in that portfolio? My second question is about the dividend policies. Let's assume that the war will last longer. Would you then change your policy, those 80% payouts that you have been discussing?

João Mazzuco
CFO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Well, this is João, Rafael. I wouldn't say that we have a number, a threshold, that makes us feel comfortable or not. Working with non-recourse structure in order to have receivables coming from down re- force structure that meets our needs. As for the portfolio, talking about direct sales, that makes us feel comfortable because of our strong SOS. Highly appealing launches, well-located products. Our portfolio of direct sales. Let's say that we have canceling, there is no issue in reselling that. As for receivables, if it's in line with our growth in operations, there is no issue. As for default, of course, we are closely monitoring that. This is intrinsic to our business.

We know that there is a risk of default, and everybody is reading news about families becoming or presenting bad credit. We monitor different parameters, but we don't see that change. When we'll go over receivables, also level of default over our portfolio, and also considering the timeline after sales, everything is under control. We are attentive to that because we know that today families are facing more challenges. As for dividend payment, that will not be affected. We're talking about inflation, we're talking about impact on gross margin. We have adjusted our gross margin in a very conservative fashion, but our net margin is still very robust. We achieved an excellent net margin this quarter. Dividends come from this, right? Come from the second line.

We are also working with a forecast of a stronger growth regarding our financials, also with increase in our cash generation. We monitor that year- after- year. We don't see why we should change the dividend, the payout policy. For this year, we have already announced BRL 300 million. I believe that this is an indicator of what we are going to see regarding dividend payout.

Rafael Rehder
Analyst, Safra

Okay. Very clear. Thank you and very much. Thank you very much and have a good day.

Operator

Our next question comes from Mariangela Castro with Itaú BBA. Please go ahead, miss.

Mariangela Castro
Analyst, Itaú BBA

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for your presentation. I have just one question. My question's about the backlog margin and the gross margin.

Can you please share if that comes from the price increase of input, inflation because of the war, or because there are some construction works that are running late, which is something you had already communicated in previous quarters? Thank you.

João Mazzuco
CFO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Hello, Mariangela. The adjustment we conducted was based on the inflation levels. Many, we see these adjustments are coming also from investors, so we are considering what we have available, also considering some launches that took place in 2025, 2026. We expect to see an increase in the INCC rate. We believe we have some cushion. As for construction works running late, we don't expect the costs of these units to represent or to have a great impact on the company. Sometimes these adjustments will be made at the end of the construction works.

Mariangela Castro
Analyst, Itaú BBA

We can also certainly have some additional costs because the construction has been delayed, but that does not mean that, we will need to necessarily adjust the margin or the budgeted cost when we consider future trends. I'd say that it's a response to an expectation to see inflation going up. Okay. Just to clarify, this drop on gross margin for this quarter, that's related to cost increase and also something that, related to construction delays also? The delays, did it have an impact on that or not? What I can tell you is that, we will only see some impact, but it was not a material impact. It was really related to expectation regarding inflation and, on the cushion we have and also on the ongoing construction works budget. I think this is where we need to focus on.

Okay, thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from Igor Machado with Goldman Sachs. Please, sir, go ahead.

Igor Machado
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for taking my question. I have two follow-up questions. First, it's about inflation. Can you please share how you see that affecting costs, and how much has your budget increased because of inflation? At what level do you see the INCC set? My other question is that considering the two construction methods you mentioned already, there is no benefit of one over the other. Are you making any changes related to the processes or the type of input you use, or is there anything that you're doing in order to expedite the construction process itself? Thank you.

Paulo Curi
Co-CEO of Engineering, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Ygor, this is Paulo. You asked if we are reinventing or changing the processes.

It was mostly a matter of understanding our construction process, but we did not change the type of material. Can you hear me? There were no changes in the type of material, but on labor, to have the necessary labor to carry out the services required. We have now more people taking care of the construction site, so we changed that approach, and with that we see an increased productivity because our construction work areas, sites are very large. You really need to have the right process and the right people, otherwise it doesn't matter what the process is. As for the increase, there was an impact of 3%-5%, depending on the project. Also our, we expect INCC to be around 8%.

Igor Machado
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Okay, thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from Marcelo Motta with JP Morgan. Please, Mr. Motta, go ahead.

Marcelo Motta
Analyst, JPMorgan

Hello. Good morning, everyone. Two questions. First, can you comment on the participation of third parties in launches and especially in sales? I'd like just to better understand that, and also if you have more partners in order to dilute risk. My second question is about the number of units that are ready. 12,000 units, the number went down, although the number of units built has increased. Is that because of any regulatory issues? Can you please just address that changes in the numbers, please?

Leonardo Mesquita
Co-CEO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Hello, this is Leo rather. With regard to partners, I think it is seasonal and we that number should be very similar to what we have.

Starting in May, we expect to really stabilize the launches that we had planned, to really go back to normal levels vis-a-vis what happened at the end of February. There was a coincidence. The projects that had been approved included partners. It was a coincidence of having those projects with the participation of more partners. They were already included in the project. I believe that we will go back to historical levels. As for deliveries, it was also a seasonal impact. We have many units to be delivered this year.

If I'm not mistaken, for the last quarters, we will see an increase in the number of deliveries, so it's really more of a seasonal fact that is not related to what happened in São Paulo. Because the occupancy permits that we needed, they were approved, and that did not generate any issues regarding the delivery of the units.

Marcelo Motta
Analyst, JPMorgan

Okay, thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from Marcelo Audi with Cardinal. Please go ahead.

Marcelo Audi
Analyst, Cardinal

Thank you very much for taking my question. I have a question about competition. Even before the war, in the previous four, six months, we would see that the environment was becoming more challenging for smaller players because of increase in labor costs, shortage of labor. What can you comment about the competitive environment?

Would that represent more opportunities to you, or would you say that small players will be more aggressive regarding pricing?

João Mazzuco
CFO, Cury Construtora e Incorporadora

Good morning, Marcelo. The truth is that when you go over the legislation in both realms, you need to think that the land with high potential makes any development a great development. I think that that's why Well, this led to making the environment more challenging to small players. It's not easy for you to buy this land at good sites, right? You also need a strong sales team to sell the units, I think that's also an issue for small players. That is such a challenge that even major players, they face challenges in the city of São Paulo.

This is a market in which you see large developments, that takes a large sales team, otherwise you will face challenges. We believe that considering that scenario favors us. When we go to a new region with a large number of real estate agents, that allows us to improve the appeal to buyers vis-a-vis small players. Because the cost of construction is also very different when you consider the scale of the project. I'd say that you're right, the environment now is more challenging for smaller players considering the volume of developments taking place in Rio and São Paulo. As for labor, I don't know if Paulo wants to add anything. I'd say that whenever the number of launches then for the mid and the high income, that also favors us because pressure decreases.

Pressure also takes place when you see more launches for the upper classes. The trend is that for the next months, and we did not see launches taking place this quarter, so probably this will have an impact just as we saw last year.

Marcelo Audi
Analyst, Cardinal

Perfect, thank you.

Operator

Well, the Q&A session is now closed. With that, we conclude the Cury Construtora e Incorporadora's video conference. Thank you all for participating, and have a great day. Thank you.

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