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Earnings Call: Q2 2021

Aug 5, 2021

Speaker 1

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Citycon's First Half twenty twenty one Result Audio Cost. We have this morning published our financial statements. And as usual, those can be found on our web page under the Investor section. My name is Laura Jauhijeinen. I'm the Vice President of Strategy and Investor Relations.

Today, in this call, as usual, you have our CEO, Mr. Scott Ball and our CFO and Executive Vice President, Eero Sigvonen. We'll start today with the presentation of the Q2 results and the main events of the quarter. After the presentation, as usual, you will have a chance to ask questions. Scott, please go ahead.

Speaker 2

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. We're pleased to present Citycon's Q2 results. I'll start with a summary of Q2 and H1, as well as the highlights from the quarter. Eero will then review Citycon's financial results and where we stand now after the first half of this financial year. I will conclude our presentation with an update on our portfolio transformation strategy and the most recent developments on the residential side.

In addition to outperforming the sector during the pandemic last year, Citycon's financial and operational results continued to improve in Q2, with increases in NRI and valuations compared to both the prior quarter and Q2 in 2020. NRI for the period was €50,800,000 which is 1.2% over Q2 twenty twenty levels and a 0.7% increase over Q1 of this year. The operating profit is similarly ahead of Q1 2020 levels, standing at $44,100,000 in Q2 of 2021. Portfolio valuations continue to grow for the 2nd consecutive quarter. During the first half of the year, the total increase stands at 140 point €1,000,000 with €24,400,000 attributed to fair value gains.

On the operational side, footfall continued to increase. Like for like football standing at 11.9 percent over Q2 twenty twenty levels. Tenant sales grew accordingly with like for like tenant sales 1.8% above the first half of twenty twenty. It's noteworthy that in June, tenant sales have recovered to pre pandemic levels of June 2019. Rent collections have remained at high levels.

And for the first half of the year, we stand at 95%. Final collection rates are again expected to increase beyond this already high level. And I should note that these are non adjusted collection figures. We signed over 50,000 square meters of new leases during the quarter with average rents being higher than Q2 2020. The ongoing solid performance demonstrates the strength of our strategy, which is based on a large share of necessity tenants And assets in densely populated Nordic urban markets with a connection to mass transportation.

It is worth highlighting that this Q2 'twenty one improvement is on top of last year's already strong and resilient performance, as Citycon clearly outperformed the industry averages during the pandemic. On the financing side, one of the important highlights was the upgraded outlook from both Standard and Poor's and Moody's. We now have investment grade ratings with stable outlook from all three rating agencies, Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch. On the heels of our successful senior bond offering in Q1, we also issued a green hybrid bond of €350,000,000 with great demand from investors. The bond issuance, combined with the divestment of 3 non core assets in Q1, improves our liquidity, which allows us to speed up our portfolio transformation strategy.

It also reduced our loan to value to 38.9%. As we have communicated previously, one of our key initiatives is recycling of capital and transforming our portfolio towards more residential. The Nordic transaction market Strategic acquisitions that we may pursue in the residential space. This transformation also entails active development of building rights in our portfolio. At the moment, we have identified €220,000,000 worth of building rights, which is approximately €20,000,000 above the previously communicated figure.

And of this, approximately €50,000,000 of this is on our balance sheet, leaving the large majority of value as additional upside for the company. Last but not least, this quarter we appointed Brett McLeod as CFO elect to continue Arrow's great work as he retires at the end of the year. Brett will become CFO and a member of the Corporate Management Committee in January of 'twenty two, after which Arrow will continue to support us as an advisor through June of 2022. We warmly welcome Brett and we thank Arrow for ensuring a seamless transition. Another benchmark of our continued strengthening is the 2nd consecutive quarter of fair value growth.

This is a result of the positive development of the financial and operative key metrics, combined with the fact that the Nordic commercial real estate market is proving to many international investors. We realized a fair value change of over €24,000,000 during the first half of twenty twenty one. And as we previously mentioned, the spread between cap rates and interest rates is at historically wide levels, and we are beginning to see some cap rate compression in some markets, Which revert to the mean. The Nordics have proven to be a safe haven, which provides stability in our business. Consumer confidence has remained at relatively high levels throughout the pandemic and has grown significantly during the Q2 of the year.

It's one of the most important metrics in forecasting consumer behavior and demonstrates that we are on track for a rapid recovery from the pandemic. Consistent with our strategy, we have a large share of necessity and municipal tenants, which adds to the resilience of our portfolio And bring stability to the business and cash flows. Over 35% of our GRI comes from stable, necessity tenants, And only 5% of our leases are turnover based. We do not see this turnover based leasing population growing. I should also point out that 92% of our leases are tied to indexation, providing protection against potential inflation.

The public sector continues to be a growing part of our business. Currently, public sector and healthcare services account for 10% of our contracted GLA, with strong credit behind these leases. We have continued to increase this proportion of public services. As mentioned, football and tenant sales are showing positive development. Like for like football was approximately 12% over the comparable period q2 of twenty twenty.

Tenant sales also developed positively in the first half of twenty twenty one with a 5% increase in grocery sales and 2% increase in like for like total tenant sales. Towards the summer in June, we have even exceeded comparable Pre pandemic tenant sales figures from 2019. These are all forward leading indicators and rents typically follow these trends. We continue to see progress on the leasing front as the number of leases signed has grown both quarters this year. We have signed over 100,000 square meters of new leases this year, putting us in a good position for the remainder of the year.

In Q2 twenty twenty one, the new leases measured in square meters almost doubled compared to Q2 of 2020. The occupancy rate has also remained at a high level, thanks to our strategy of necessity based urban hubs. In Q2 2021, the retail occupancy rate excluding Shista was at 94.1% compared to 94.1% and Q2 of 2020 when the pandemic first hit our markets. So to summarize, Quarter over quarter growth has highlighted several key metrics, including NRI and fair value changes. The trajectory of the Q2 results also bodes well for the remainder of 2021.

As a result, we have tightened our previously announced guidance. I I will now hand it over to Eero, who will give a more thorough review on our financial development.

Speaker 3

Thank you, Scott. And I will start from the Page 11, Q2 Financials. And like Scott mentioned, we had a strong second quarter and strong 1st 6 months. For the 3 months ending at the end of June, basically, we had a net rental income of SEK 50,800,000, Which was €600,000 better than 1 year ago or 1.2%. Or EPRA earnings ended up at SEK 32,700,000 which is close to previous Q2's level, SEK 3,600,000 below.

And earnings were slightly below due to somewhat higher financing costs, JV results and due to the deferred tax items, which were still positive, but we had quite extraordinarily positive deferred tax items in Q2 2020. Quite notably also, our net replacement value improved and net replacement value for Of course, most of you already know that replaced net asset value by as a new EPRA KPI. So NAVNRV also did improve. Then going over to the 1st 6 months. Net rental income for the 1st 6 months was NOK 101,000,000 which was only NOK 1 €400,000 below last year's level.

And I say only because the comparison year obviously naturally included Q1, which was Pre COVID period. So partially, we are comparing ourselves to the pre COVID situation, but still very, very, very close to that level. So overall, a good strong quarter 6 months. Then on Page 30, in the exchange rates. Both Swedish krone and the Norwegian Kvaan were impacted by the beginning of the pandemic and were quite weak, particularly around Q1, Q2 last year, but have thereafter strengthened.

And in a while, I will go through the exact The impact of the currencies. But on the net rental income level, we were supported by strong Both NOK and SEK. Then a more detailed net rental income, income bridge. And here you can see that the impact of currencies for the 1st 6 months was indeed positive, approximately SEK 3,000,000. We had a like for like result, which was only modestly negative.

And again, I would say, Modestly negative because we are comparing ourselves partly to the non COVID period. Then on next page, you can see the estimated COVID-nineteen impact On our rental income. And of course, this is not exact science, and these are not like Exact numbers, but based on our best estimates. And here can be seen that the estimated COVID-nineteen impact Net rental income for the 1st 6 months was SEK 4,300,000 and can be seen here how it Splits between different line items, I. E, slightly higher vacancy, rental discounts, turnover based rents, specialty leasing, parking, credit losses and so on.

Then a very important aspect of our results was the positive valuation, and we had a second consecutive positive valuation quarter. And this quarter, we had a full external valuation by CBRE for our Norwegian, Danish and Estonian portfolio and by JLL for our Finnish and Swedish portfolio. And we conduct a full external valuation twice a year, I. E, Q2 and Q4. So can be seen here that positive valuation for the quarter was SEK 15,500,000 And for the 1st 6 months, SEK 23,400,000,000 And here, the change has really been significant.

It can be seen that last year in Q2, we had a negative SEK76 1,000,000. So The impact is approximately SEK 90,000,000 better valuation result on a quarterly basis. And naturally reflects the stability of our business model and the quality of our centers, But also reflects the investment market and M and A market, which is picking up, and there are more comps in all of essentially all of our markets, particularly now recently in Norway. I already mentioned that the NRV is up, and here can be seen the bridge. And the biggest component, of course, is the good positive results.

Also, We were, this time, helped by the translation reserve, and that means a positive currency effect on our equity in the Swedish and Norwegian subsidiaries. So NOK 11.66 NOK 11.66 NOK 11.66 NOK 11.66 NOK for the quarter. Then a few words about the financing. And we had a particularly successful hybrid issuance in the beginning of June. We issued SEK 350,000,000 of hybrid securities, which are subordinated to our debt obligations and treated as equity In our IFRS statements and the rating agencies essentially give the hybrids of 50% equity credits.

And much of these proceeds are still in our balance sheet, waiting to be employed to be to expedite our strategy execution and drive the net rental income and earnings further, a very successful transaction. And as a result of the Hybrid issuance and as a result of our stable and improving results, like Scott mentioned, Both Moody's and S and P upgraded our outlook to stable, and now all three ratings are stable. And this is naturally very important also for us as management is extremely committed to the IG investment grade ratings and because a majority of our financing does come from the bond markets. Main financing metrics can be seen here. We are mostly based on fixed interest rates, so we are not among the companies Who would suffer when the interest rates eventually would start to increase.

Essentially, all of our financing is unsecured.

Speaker 1

So essentially,

Speaker 3

most of our assets are unencumbered, but of the €250,000,000 of the revolving credit facilities is secured, but none of that is drawn currently. And we do, of course, now have a substantial liquidity buffer, I. E, 800 €1,000,000 And do have any refinancing needs anytime soon. So the next maturity, apart from the short term commercial papers, is in September 22, euros 162,000,000 maturing then. And financing key figures can be seen on Page 21.

And most notably, loan to value IFRS is now within management target of 40% to 45% Or actually, even slightly better. And that is very important from the rating aspects and also generally and other main KPIs as can be seen here. The liquidity position, as mentioned, is reconciled here. And most of the liquidity, of course, derives from the totally Unutilized revolving credit facility, committed credit facility of SEK 500,000,000. Then we have certain Other facilities, and as mentioned, we still have approximately SEK 285,000,000 of the Hybrid proceeds in liquid money market funds, and they are in liquid money market funds because maintaining those funds In bank accounts would cost money.

And as mentioned, these Funds are awaiting to be employed in strategic purposes. And the plan B, of course, could be To repay our next maturity maturing bond, this NOK 162,000,000, which can be quite flexibly called, and that is €162,000,000 and maturing in September 2022. Then turning over to the outlook. Due to the fact that the results were strong And following our practice of previous years, we have narrowed the guidance, Maintaining the same midpoint apart from the adjusted per EPS. And in the adjusted per EPS, which Includes hybrid coupons.

We have maintained the previous low point and narrowed that as well. And the midpoint has there not been kept the same because since the previous updating, We have issued more hybrids, and the hybrid coupons do impact this line. But Otherwise, the same midpoint and clearly narrowed guidance ranges. That concludes my part. Back to Jusska.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Eero. As we previously highlighted, our strategy reflects a stable core business partnered with attractive organic growth opportunities, which have clear synergies with our business. We have assets in prime locations and are located in the top two cities in each country with strong urbanization And direct connection to public transportation. The tenant mix is primarily necessity goods and services layered with a growing share of municipal tenants. On top of the stable assets, the densification plans associated with our urban hubs provide significant growth potential.

This entails developing new residential Office and municipal services space adjacent to our existing assets. We also have strong social and community relationships, which makes us the preferred partner for municipalities to develop the areas around our assets. We continue to remain deliberate And our efforts to dispose of non core assets at pricing that confirms our valuations. We've been very vocal about our intentions and have not deviated from this plan. We have a strong development pipeline and look for opportunities to exploit our improved liquidity for strategic acquisitions.

Speaking of our development pipeline, we have approximately EUR 220,000,000 of building rights embedded in our portfolio. These building rights provide significant organic growth potential, mainly in residential developments close to our existing hubs. It is worth keeping in mind that a large majority of this value is not on our balance sheet, with over 75% of the estimated value as additional upside for the company and its investors. The estimated building rights value is backed by detailed project pipeline. We have this detailed by a specific asset, but what we provided for you here is a detail by country.

This pipeline stretches across our operating countries with around half of the total building rights value in Sweden. These building rights include a total of approximately 5,400 apartment units And is in line with our strategy of densification through diversification. To give you some further color on our residential pipeline, we have over Square meters of residential building rights. Over 20 projects covering all of our operating countries are in various stages of the development pipeline. This means that we anticipate having a steady flow of new residential buildings coming online every year over the upcoming 5 to 10 years.

Lipa Live will be a showcase of this strategy and will open in April of 'twenty 2. This project will consist of 44,000 square meters of grocery stores in necessity anchored retail space, along with a significant quantity of residential units, Offices and healthcare, all connected to a mass transit hub. The residential portion will consist of 8 towers with 4 50 units. 7 of these towers are now under construction, including the picture that you see on the cover of this presentation. This will be a textbook example of what we will accomplish with our development pipeline.

And we estimate an annual NRI uplift of approximately €19,000,000 from Lipa Live. 2 other interesting projects which are currently in development are Hercules in Norway and Lillyholmen in Suburban Stockholm. We've just begun the construction of the first two residential blocks in connection to Hercules and have had strong interest towards the apartments being developed there. Lilly Hillman, on the other hand, is a large scale development project already connected to a train station. The project is being done with the City of Stockholm, the area will become an attractive urban environment with approximately 120 new apartments and 3,000 workplaces.

In addition to the organic development pipeline, we are also now in a position to accelerate this transformation through select acquisitions. The market has continued to pick up, and we've gotten reverse inquiries from potential investors in several of our assets as we continue our capital recycling initiatives. Thanks to the Q1 divestments and the successful hybrid bond issuance, our liquidity position allows us to accelerate our transformation through select acquisitions of residential buildings. So to summarize, in terms of quarterly performance, Financial and operational results were positive with quarter over quarter growth, both against Q1 this year and Q2 of last year. Rent collections remain strong and our leading indicators in our business are signaling a positive trajectory.

We received upgraded credit rating outlooks from both Standard and Poor's and Moody's, meaning that we have now have 3 investment grade Credit ratings with stable outlooks from all 3 major credit agencies. We completed a successful issuance of a green hybrid bond of €350,000,000 With high demand from investors, leading to an LTV of 38.9% and a very strong liquidity position. Our densification through diversification strategy is progressing well. In addition to the organic developments, the Nordic transactions market is looking very attractive And select acquisitions could be used as a tool to accelerate the portfolio transformation. These positive results allow us to narrow our full year guidance.

With that, I'd like to thank you for your time and hand it back over to Laura.

Speaker 1

Thank you, Scott and Eero for the presentation. So we now have time for questions, and we turn the line on. Operator, please go

Speaker 4

ahead. Thank Our first question is from Erik Braxton of Carnegie. Please go ahead.

Speaker 5

Thank you. Good morning. I have a few questions. If we could start off a little bit with the value changes in Q2, I noticed that there were some changes to your yield requirements, and they seem to have decreased about 10 basis points compared to Q1, Mainly in Finland and Norway. Could you say something about how the external evaluations have taken place and why those markets Seem to have strengthened more than perhaps Sweden.

Speaker 2

Hi, this is Scott. Thanks for the question. I think it's interesting. We've been kind of beating the drum that grocery anchored Retail is a different animal than traditional shopping malls that are geared towards fashion. I think that we're beginning Because of the results that we've generated last year as well as the first half of this year, I think we're kind of proving the point And the appraisers are recognizing that performance, not just the appraisers, but also the obviously the rating agencies as well.

So we have seen and as mentioned in the call, we are seeing the beginning some green shoots in terms of yield compression In some of our markets, including the markets you just mentioned. I should also add that We mentioned that we've had reverse inquiries on some assets. There was there's an asset that we may trade on That I think kind of further validates the position that we've taken. And I think the trade that we made in Sweden in the Q1 with the 3 assets also validated kind of valuation. So I think it's a combination of the strong performance as well as the fact that we have transacted and Continue to show that we can continue to transact at pricing that is at or above our valuations has convinced the appraisers That they can begin to compress yields a bit.

Speaker 3

The only other thing I would like to highlight, this is Eero Hi. There has been particularly in Norway real transactions and new like comps Where the appraisers can basically hang their hat and can basically compare to our properties as well. So there has been clearly more transaction. So this is one of the background. Good point.

Speaker 5

All right, fair enough. And in terms of these inquiries, Do you consider them to be interesting enough to actually make some transactions? Or have they been made at Levels that are not interesting enough or at assets that you simply don't want to divest?

Speaker 2

I think that the inquiries are clearly at levels that are interesting for us. We are going to remain very deliberate about which assets we will transact on. As mentioned, I think there is at least one of the reverse inquiries that we will in fact transact on, which will Further validate our pricing and as of a non core asset. There's a second one that we are Also considering, we haven't made the determination just yet. But I think The pricing on the ones I'm mentioning are at or above our book.

So they would validate Our pricing, we of course, you always get reverse inquiries on a regular basis Pricing that is not something you would even consider or transact on. But the ones I'm referencing are ones are only the ones that we would actually consider.

Speaker 5

Yes, understood. And in terms of potential acquisitions, it sounded almost like You were perhaps looking at residential acquisitions in terms of perhaps building rights, I don't know, or actual Portfolios, how do you view your position on the residential market? Is it still going to be purely construction and in terms of development of your own building rights? Or are you perhaps Looking at other type of transactions within the resi space as well?

Speaker 2

Great question. We are We have been focused on our building rights and that's the organic growth that we reference is our existing portfolio and where we have Now that we have this improved liquidity, we are looking at how we might Accelerate our transformation by buying existing residential buildings and existing income because What we're trying to do is obviously diversify our income stream away from just pure or for predominantly retail. So any potential acquisitions would not Be a building rights because we have enough of that already in our pipeline, quite frankly, and would be of existing buildings with existing income stream. The other thing I would remind you is that and we've mentioned this in the past, we have sufficient building rights in our portfolio that we could also use Some of that is currency, if we wanted to transact because we have a lot of, again reverse inquiries from Residential developers who would be interested in buying or partnering up with us on these building rights. Frankly, we're not Focused on selling those building rights at this point, but we could potentially use them as currency to JV or do other Look at other opportunities to acquire some existing residential units and existing income stream.

So it's kind of a 2 pronged approach, if you will. We have organic piece and then we have potential acquisitions as a way to accelerate it.

Speaker 5

Okay, good. And then my final question is regarding like for like NRI development, you mentioned that it's progressively getting better as we're moving along. And Does that mean that you think that you could end up in a positive like for like development for the full year this year? Or Is that still too early to sort of make any decision or any comment on that?

Speaker 3

We certainly hope so that we would end up positive. And as you can see, we are already very near. So it's not by any It's impossible that, that would be the outcome. But we haven't given any guidance on the like for like NRI. But Yes, we are very close at least.

Speaker 2

Yeah. And I think again, as Errol mentioned in the presentation, Q1 we were up against Pre COVID numbers. And then Q2 starting in Q2, we're starting to compare kind of apples to apples, if you will. So I think it's we haven't provided any guidance, but I think it's our anticipation that we will continue to see This improvement that we're seeing quarter over quarter.

Speaker 5

Yes, because I mean, you did make a comment about the fact that footfall was, If I understand it correctly, our turnover in terms of the tenant base was back at 2019 levels. And I mean, if that continues, that should, By all means mean that like for development for 2021 versus 2020 should be positive.

Speaker 2

Absolutely. Yes, no, I would agree. Yes, June was The month of June was at 2019 levels. So if we're fortunate enough for that to continue And again, some of this is dependent on macro conditions with the Delta variant and other things outside of our control. But if that were if that trend were to continue then I think your assumptions are accurate.

Speaker 5

Okay. Thank you so much for taking my questions.

Speaker 2

Yes. No, thank you for the questions.

Speaker 4

Thank you. Our next question is from Rob Fadi of Green Street. Please go ahead.

Speaker 6

Good morning, guys. A couple of questions. So just on the expediting your strategy of diversification Through densification. You talked about these strategic acquisitions. So firstly, where would they be?

Would they be adjacent To your existing shopping centers, is that where you're primarily looking? And secondly, capital requirements for those And also for realizing those $220,000,000 of building rights. So with the new acquisitions, Are you thinking is it purely through capital recycling or are there other ways you're looking at funding this? And then how How do you get that $220,000,000 of building rights? How much CapEx is required for that?

Speaker 2

So To answer your first question, we will be focused in the markets that we already operate in. We're not Looking to go outside of the major cities in the Nordics where we already operate our business because we know those markets well. We already have boots on the ground, if you will. We understand the markets. It makes sense for us to look at opportunities in those cities.

We're not looking at this point to grow outside of that. Ideally, they would be close to our assets. That being said, if we found something in suburban Stockholm that wasn't next to one of our assets, But was still within reasonable driving distance, we obviously would absolutely take a look at it. The challenge in it is obviously I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, Rob, but the challenge is obviously As we look at these acquisitions, yields are lower than The yields for our existing portfolio. That being said, we do believe that between the densification And what we're doing with our existing assets along with any potential acquisitions, when you put those together, I think at the end of the day, the company will should trade at a lower yield overall.

So I think it's I think there is a benefit to the macro portfolio. But again, we're not deviating away from our key Strategy of densifying our sites. We're just simply trying to figure out how do we do this quicker. We've got Lipa Live coming online next year. So I think that'll be a big deal for us.

And I think it will also show the market And be a great example of what it is we're trying to accomplish and how this all kind of fits together. And quite frankly, we'll start to see A diversification in our income stream when that comes online as well. I took so long on the first question, I Forgot what your second question was. Can you repeat, please?

Speaker 6

It was on capital requirements for realizing the $220,000,000 And also how you look to fund any of these potential acquisitions?

Speaker 2

So I think potential acquisitions, I think capital recycling is the way that we've identified the opportunity At this point, and I think that will continue to be a lever that will be available to us, particularly as the transaction market opens up and we're seeing more and more activity. In a presentation we saw yesterday, I think there were more transactions In Q2 or the first half of this year than there have been historically in the markets we operate in. So Clearly, the transaction market is opening up pretty significantly here in the markets we operate in. So I think recycling of capital is the predominant way we'll look at this. As Eero mentioned, we do have Money, we have plenty of liquidity at this point as a result of the hybrid.

We could put some of that money to use as well. We also could use those funds to pay for the remainder of Lipa Live. And as Errol mentioned, we could also use those funds if we don't find the right acquisition. And we're going to be very diligent and deliberate about this just As we've stated and how we've been on the disposition side, we will be equally deliberate on any potential acquisitions. It will have to make economic sense for us.

And if we don't find something, then frankly, we could pay down debt and further reduce our LTV If that be the case. So I think we're in a strong position right now As we look at all of this, and we have plenty of options available to us. As it relates to the funding of the development rights, Again, I'll remind you that securing these development rights is very relatively inexpensive. I mean, it really is more time consuming than it is Capital intensive. And so there's not a big expense or a big capital outlay associated with Securing these building rights.

Once you get them and you start to construct, then obviously the then you have to start spending money. And at that point, then you have to decide, are you going to do it yourself, are you going to JV it or what are you going to do? What we're finding quite Klee, LEAPA Live, I think, is the one we pointed to in the past where we sold 2 of the buildings, sold the rights to 2 of the buildings, And then we're developing 5 of the buildings ourselves. And now we have one remaining and frankly, We've decided we're going to probably build this one ourselves as well just because there's too much upside That we would give away in a potential JV. And frankly, we now have the financial wherewithal to build this last one ourselves as well.

And we're getting a lot of interest in all of the resi, not just the stuff we're building, but also the condo developer who's building the other To as indicated, they're getting a lot of they're doing quite well in terms of their sales. So there's a variety of levers here for us to pull.

Speaker 6

Thanks, Scott. May I just ask one more? Really, How much of your income stream do you think needs to be diversified away from traditional shopping centers Before the capital markets start to reward you?

Speaker 2

Honestly, Rob, you're probably a better person to answer that than I am. And I would correct one thing you said. You said traditional shopping centers. We are not traditional shopping centers. I know you know that's a pet peeve of mine, but We are grocery anchored necessity based.

We're not fashion oriented. As it relates to when will the market Recognize that? Again, you probably frankly know better than I do.

Speaker 6

But what do you think?

Speaker 2

I think we have said at the end of the day, we think we're probably going to be kind of half and half. We'll see at that point. Again, I think the We would argue and I think beginning to see some green shoots around the fact that The model that we already have deserves a lower yield than traditional retail. And I think hopefully, we start to get some credit for that. And then when you layer on that the residential, Hopefully, it all comes together.

And at some point, the market recognizes it. But We'll see. But again, I think what we've stated in our previous presentations that we're looking to be roughly Half traditional excuse me, half necessity based grocery anchored retail and half Roughly residential.

Speaker 6

Great. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2

Sure. Thank you.

Speaker 4

Thank you.

Speaker 7

There are no further questions

Speaker 4

at this time, so I'll hand back over to our speakers.

Speaker 1

Thank you for all the questions. And if you have any more, please contact Eero, myself or the rest of the Investor Relations team. Thank you attending for the call, and we wish you a very nice day.

Speaker 2

Thanks, everybody. We appreciate your time. Thank you.

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