I would now like to hand the conference over to Ryman Healthcare's Chairman, Dean Hamilton. Please go ahead.
Welcome, everybody. I'm Dean Hamilton, Executive Chair of Ryman. We appreciate you dialing in today. There's a lot to cover today, but just before we get into the presentation, I'd like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the passing, sadly this year, of one of our two founders, Kevin Hickman. Kevin, along with John Ryder, founded Ryman 40 years ago and essentially pioneered integrated retirement living and aged care as we know it today. It literally didn't exist before both John and Kevin. Along with others, I was fortunate to attend the service for Kevin at the Christchurch Town Hall. It was certainly humbling to hear of his contribution not only to our sector but also to athletics and to his other real passion, and that was horse racing. A great pioneer with an enormous legacy. Certainly, Kevin, a life well lived.
With me today in the room is our new CEO, Naomi James, and Rob Woodgate, our CFO. Naomi started with us on the 4th of November. We purposely left Naomi free in November to travel around the business, to meet our team members, to meet residents, to meet with a number of our stakeholders. As of tomorrow, I will step back to a non-executive chair role, and Naomi will lead the organization. Given Naomi's recent arrival, Rob and I will present today's result. Naomi will make a few comments at the end, and we'll all be open for Q&A. We've got an hour. We'll present for around 40 minutes and then move to Q&A. I'm also conscious we've got meetings with a number of you over the next week. In terms of the agenda, Rob will cover financials and capital management, and I will present the balance.
A brief snapshot: at 30 September, we had 49 open and operating villages, nine of those of which also had a construction element at them included in that 49. We now have over 9,500 retirement village units, over 4,600 aged care beds, and combined, we've now got over 2,000 units and beds in Victoria, some 14% of our overall portfolio. We've got a further 4,700 units and beds in our land bank. Just recently tipped past 15,000 residents and over 7,700 team members. Stepping back, we own over 15% of all independent retirement units in New Zealand and over 10% of all aged care beds in New Zealand. And interestingly, we provide as many patient bed nights annually in New Zealand as the entire hospital system. Whilst we're going to talk a lot about numbers today, at the heart of Ryman, we are care and resident experience.
We provide care good enough for mum and dad. Importantly, as we move through this transition, our residents remain at the center of everything we do. This year in New Zealand, we're proud to be acknowledged for the first time across three separate cohorts as best in class. We remain a highly trusted brand thanks to the hard work and compassion provided by our over 7,500 team members. On to a review of the six months to 30 September. While the period hasn't been without challenges, I think we've achieved a lot. I'd like to take you back briefly to March 2023. The company was in discussions with both James Miller and myself to join the board.
From the outside, we could see a number of the issues, but we asked the board, as part of our due diligence, to retain a third party to solicit feedback from investors and analysts, many of you on the call today, on their views of the company. There were three quite confronting common themes. One, there was a loss of confidence in the board. Secondly, there was a loss of confidence in the management team. And thirdly, there was a loss of confidence in the numbers, including the non-GAAP measures. With the support of the whole board, we've set about rebuilding that confidence. In terms of governance and leadership, we've completed the board renewal process, and that will be with Claire retiring at the end of the year. We'll be set at the 31st of December.
We have a new executive team, including Naomi, and all are on a new remuneration structure. In terms of financials, once James and I joined the board, the Audit and Risk Committee commissioned an independent review by PwC of our financial reporting, both relative to the sector, relative to best practice, and also how directors were exercising judgment. This led to a list of key actions we needed to undertake. Unfortunately, these changes take time and energy and capacity of the team, and in the short term, create a lot of noise in the numbers. We saw this at the full year result, and we're seeing it again today. I'm pleased to say we're nearer the end than the start of this process. You will notice a significant impact on our numbers today, also through lower capitalization, and Rob will step through that later.
In terms of the highlights, net profit before tax and fair value movements was a loss of NZD 79.8 million, down NZD 17.8 million on the prior half. Cash flow from existing operations was minus NZD 7.8 million, down NZD 24.8 million on the first half 2024, and cash flow from developments, while negative at NZD 44.7 million, was a significant NZD 132 million better than the comparable period in first half 2024. On the consumer and resident reputation front, we talked about the recognitions. It's important to note we've had positive and stable resident NPS across care, serviced, and independent living throughout the year. Our NPS for all of those residents remains above 40.
In terms of our business improvement, we've done what we said we'd do in our September update. We have new RV unit pricing structure implemented on the 1st of October, and our new services and support structure is in an advanced stage.
Obviously, more on that later. In aged care, our occupancy in the mature care centers stayed high at 96%. There's been movement in the regulatory front. Proposed new legislation in Australia is positive for us. However, the impact will take time as it has been grandfathered at 1st of July 2025 for existing residents. In New Zealand, where the majority of our care beds are, Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora, the review of aged care funding continues. While the sector has limited visibility on that review, we understand there's a potential framework for consultation coming out in coming months. In terms of sales and stock, a key part of today is covering this topic. In what is a relatively tough market, we have had record settlements achieved in the period of 827 ORAs and NZD 651 million of gross receipts, our highest level in the last three years.
Positively, we achieved that whilst we maintained our pricing. Despite this progress with strong first half new deliveries, our stock built up to 12% unoccupied units at the half, albeit 45% of these are under contract. On development, we had a good first six months. We've delivered 667 retirement units and aged care beds. We opened three new buildings at James Wattie, Miriam Corban, and Keith Park in New Zealand. These are all fabulous facilities for our residents. In terms of capital management, our debt ended up NZD 50 million higher at the half year relative to March 2024 at NZD 2.56 billion. And as we've previously advised, we had amendments to our financial covenants for testing periods through to March 2026. We've touched on a number of our metrics for the first half. In terms of our retirement unit occupancy, we averaged 87.9% for the period.
It slipped slightly as we bought new stock on. Our aged care occupancy across the portfolio was 91.7%, down slightly. The mature was steady at 96%, and the developing was at 59%. Our gross resale margin at 26.6% was three points lower than what we achieved last year. While we maintained our pricing, our cash resale margin did compress. With two years of flat pricing, mathematically, margins per unit and as a percentage will compress, more so in serviced apartments given the shorter tenure. In independent units, two of the nine years are now relatively flat. We're looking forward to markets improving and being able to stop that compression. In terms of total sales of RV units, of the 827, 224 were new, and 603 were resales. Turning to governance and leadership, it's been a period of significant change, with five new directors commencing since June 2023.
I'm really pleased with the caliber of directors we've been able to attract across Australasia. The latest addition is Scott Pritchard, known to many of you. He's an experienced public company CEO. He's also an experienced developer who I'm sure will make a positive contribution as we transition from a construction mindset to a developer's mindset where we will partner a lot of our design and construction. As previously advised, I'm returning to a non-executive role tomorrow. At that point, all of the board will be considered independent. I'd also like to take the opportunity to thank Claire for her ten years on the board and stepping into the interim chair role in 2022. In terms of the executive team, we have a new structure. We have a new team. We have a new CEO and Naomi, and we have new remuneration structure.
I'm delighted to welcome Naomi as our CEO. Naomi brings a proven track record in transformation and as a successful public company CEO. I'm confident we've got the makings of a high-performance leadership team. In terms of business improvement, we've had a big focus over the last six months. We talked to you about it at a high level in May, and we provided an update in September. For us, it's been about how do we find the right balance between great care for our residents and great returns for our shareholders. They need to comfortably coexist. Our opportunity overview covered five areas: our revenue settings, both in retirement and in care, our services and support structure, our new development processes, our existing village performance, our culture and change capability. We then moved to prioritize our efforts more recently into two areas.
Firstly, resetting our DMF and weekly fee structures to reflect not only residents staying longer, but also to reflect the fact that the operating costs of our villages had escalated substantially over the last four years through COVID and beyond, whether that's in rates, insurance, electricity, or labor. Secondly, we're focused on reorganizing our non-village overhead, our support and services team, and our non-village expenditure. Our cost per resident had grown materially over time. I'll touch more on these now. In terms of our new pricing structure, you're all well aware of our changes we introduced at the 1st of October. It's very early days, but so far, approximately 75% of new sales contracts entered into are at 30%, and they've all been achieved at the price list.
The majority of the balance of new sales have been at 25%, and we have consistently achieved at least a 5% premium to our price list. In terms of the weekly fees of those new sales, roughly half are electing the fixed weekly option, and approximately half are electing unindexed. While these changes aren't going to have a material impact on our cash over the next couple of years, they will create significant long-term value for shareholders. In terms of new services and support, as we've shared previously, the move to the regional model was, in hindsight, premature for Ryman. With our historical underinvestment in systems, we simply replicated overhead in New Zealand, Australia, and the group. We actually got diseconomies of scale per resident as we expanded. We've now moved to a one-Ryman model. We've disbanded the regional overhead.
We've reduced layers, and we're setting out new ways of working. We've had a heightened focus on costs, whether that's IT, whether it's our leasing, whether it's our travel, or the like. At the same time, we've been downsizing our in-house DDC function as we complete existing projects and get ready to transition to an outsourced delivery model for new villages. The reorganization has been significant and has been challenging for everybody involved. I'd like to express my thanks to all the team as to how they've worked through the process and supported each other. While some have left, a number have taken on new or more senior roles. In terms of financial impact, we've achieved NZD 18 million of annualized savings to date in our gross non-village operating expenses, and that's across employee costs and other costs.
One-off costs to date are approximately NZD 10 million, including NZD 6.5 million expensed in the first half. On to the financials, and I'll now hand over to Rob.
Thanks, Dean. As Dean mentioned earlier, we introduced a number of accounting changes in response to the review. On the changes we've made to the statements, I acknowledge that they are somewhat tricky to work through. We've tried our best to lay out the changes, and we don't expect this to be the norm. However, to get through the changes, we do need to show a number of restatements. We've made a number of these changes in the past six months, and these are all significant changes with the aim of improving our reporting and transparency. I'll cover these off in the next few slides.
The key changes identified earlier on were the recognition of ORAs with a change in the sale being based on the ORA and recognizing available units on the basis that they are practically complete. The changes Dean highlighted on the business improvement program have led us to revise other areas, including resident tenure and changes to the valuation where positions have been reviewed after making changes to our pricing model. In the period, we appointed PwC as our new auditor, and while the accounts are not formally reviewed or audited, we have been in active discussions with the partner on positions we've taken in today's presentation. Just moving to the metrics, on the cash flow from existing operations, we saw a cash outflow of NZD 7.8 million, down from a NZD 17.1 million inflow last year.
This was largely down to changes made to interest capitalization, which saw an increase to the net cash interest. Capitalization has been updated to align with active developments, and where we have less activity, it will result in more interest remaining in the operating cash flow. I'll come back to this point later. Cash flow from development activity was an outflow of NZD 44.7 million and an improvement on the first half of 2024 of an outflow of NZD 177.3 million, with lower levels of land acquisitions and lower costs capitalized to development activity. Net debt remained steady at NZD 2.56 billion. EBITDA profit before tax and fair value was a loss of NZD 79.8 million from a reported first half loss last year of NZD 17.8 million.
While care and village fees increased by 11% and DMF increased by 9%, there were increases in operating expenses and interest costs, and with changes in the rate of capitalization, seeing more costs in total expenses. Moving on to the changes in financial reporting, we've detailed in the financial statements where we've made restatements to prior periods, and on pages 12-15 of those interim accounts, we have detailed the restatements and mapped these to this chart or to this table. First point is operators' interest in the IP investment property valuation, which included an adjustment to the accrued DMF, which applied a time-based discount factor. On reviewing this, the positions did not get adjusted and should be shown at face value and not be discounted. This change saw us decrease investment property by NZD 235 million and restate prior periods.
The recognition of occupancy advances has changed to the point when the resident moves in. It was previously on the signing date of the ORA. This is a key change in aligning revenue recognition to the sector. The adjustment sees a NZD 91 million decrease in the fair value movement, with the change in the timing of the recognition and signing being the earlier occupation, and also removes the ORA debtor and corresponding liability. With the occupation date now being the triggering event and settlement normally taking place at the same time, we do not see the ORA resulting in a debtor in the accounts. The treatment of the debtor and liability sees a NZD 515.8 million decrease in both positions, and this will be adjusted or has been adjusted in prior periods.
The debtors that do remain now are either where residents have transferred internally and the units have not cash settled, or residents who have been granted possession prior to cash receipt. In this case, there are health-related issues supporting this. The third point, development land, this has been classified going forward as investment property. In the past, it was property, plant, and equipment. Land is held at fair value, as determined by an independent valuation, and capitalized work in progress is held at cost and tested for impairment. The change has the accounts reclassifying the land held for development, NZD 466.4 million, and historically impairment of NZD 147.5 million, transferring from investment property and fair value movements. In the period, we saw a NZD 28 million decrease through fair value movements, with adjustments made to work in progress booked on development sites.
Similarly, with development land, assets held for sale mirror the same criteria as for investment property and are held at fair value. Historically, expenses relating to assets held for sale are reflected in fair value movements and adjusted by NZD 63 million. Finally, the expected tenure of residents in both independent and serviced units have increased to nine and four years.
Previously, these were seven and three years. The change sees us extend the DMF revenue recognition period to align with the average resident tenure across both unit types. In the period, we saw a reduction in DMF of NZD 1.8 million in the revenue applying the change on residents who took up occupation from 1 April. Moving on to the statutory profit and loss. The profit before tax and fair value movements was a loss of NZD 79.8 million from reported loss in first half 2024 of NZD 17.8 million.
As I mentioned earlier, we saw revenue improvements in village and care fees up 11% and DMF up 14% as we opened more facilities through the period. Total expenses lifted by 27% with the underlying changes in operating expenses and finance costs linked to changes we've made in our approach to capitalization. We no longer take marketing and establishment costs through to the project, and the point we commence capitalization of costs to the site is when we deem it to be an active development. Working through to net profit after tax, the first half position was a net profit of NZD 94.4 million, down 50% from NZD 187.1 million.
There are two variances in play here. On the fair value move ments, these came in at NZD 254.6 million, up on the first half 2024 by NZD 113.2, reflecting underlying movements in the valuation and some of the changes I highlighted earlier.
I'll come back to these when we go through the investment property slide details. Deferred taxes and expense of NZD 80.4 million versus a tax credit in the prior period of NZD 63.5. This was reflecting two elements: a higher expected future taxable DMF following the new price changes, and also changes in New Zealand and Australia resulting in a lower recognition of tax losses. Jumping across to revenue, on aged care and occupancy, our mature villages, we saw occupancy remaining steady at 96.4%, up marginally on last year. When looking at all 43 care centres, we experienced good occupancy within the first half at 91.7%, marginally lower than the same period last year. This difference compared to the mature care performance reflects the opening of three care centres, Dean mentioned, Miriam Corban, James Wattie, and Keith Park.
Revenue on aged care, this was up 13% to NZD 240.7 million, with revenue per occupied bed up 10% to NZD 2,244 per week. On the retirement village side, we saw growth in village fees in both serviced apartments, up 15%, and independent units, up 21%. The change came from repricing of fixed weekly fees, which have lifted over previous years and prior to the business improvements that Dean mentioned, and this also coincided with the opening of the main buildings and the removal of discounts we applied when facilities were not available to residents. Occupied unit days improved by 5% on both unit types, and on a revenue per occupied unit week, we saw a 2% increase in serviced apartments to 827 per week and a 10% increase in independent units to 494 per week.
Moving through to the expenses, on operating expenses, we've experienced a 12% increase in employee costs to NZD 247.3 million, up NZD 26 million on the prior period. This aligns with the additional staff supporting the opening of the main buildings and also included in here are general wage increases and one-off costs relating to the share scheme. Buildings and ground expenses have lifted, also linked to the increase in units in the main buildings, and we're experiencing ongoing inflation on rates and insurance, so in total increasing by 24%. Selling expenses were up, as was marketing, both by 28%, underpinning recent sales campaign activities and sales incentives to residents.
Expenses that we capitalized to projects was down NZD 13.8 million, or 29%. This reflecting a change made not to capitalize operating costs associated with the startup of a village and with the non-village expenses as a result of less development activity and associated overhead capitalization. Our capitalization policies remain under review as we work through the organizational restructure and through the changes to the build program. Finally, several one-offs are documented, totaling NZD 9.9 million, with costs linked to the closing out of previous employee share schemes, restructuring costs associated through to September, and write-downs to inventory. Moving across to the next slide, finance costs. Our interest costs increased by NZD 10.8 million -NZD 92.9 million, reflecting the increase in the debt balance, with borrowings lifting to NZD 2.5 billion and underlying interest rates with an average cost of debt of 6.5%.
As I mentioned earlier, changes to the capitalization of interest, with a move to capitalizing on active developments, resulted in NZD 21.9 million less capitalized borrowings. The combination of both the interest cost and the capitalization saw the net finance cost on borrowings jump from NZD 16.4 million- NZD 48.8 million between the two comparative periods. Capitalization to sites under construction decreased to NZD 25 million, a drop of 29%, reflecting lower work in progress as in-flight sites moved to completion, including the three main buildings. Capitalization on land bank sites decreased too, dropping to NZD 6.4 million, with no capitalization taken on the six of the ten Greenfield sites and the village extension land holdings, and previously we capitalized interest on all land bank sites. As mentioned earlier, debt increased by 3% to NZD 2.59 billion.
Moving through to the cash flow from existing operations, one of our key metrics. While this decreased by NZD 24.8 million to negative NZD 7.8 million, we did see some solid results from the village operations. Cash from village operations lifted by NZD 24.2 million -NZD 16.6 million, reflecting the growth in care and village fees. This was closely matched to the change in payments to suppliers and employees, up NZD 29.6 million. We did see a decrease in the amounts of village and technology CapEx, decreasing NZD 5.7 million and NZD 7.2 million respectively. Net cash flow from the resales of ORAs decreased by NZD 7.5 million to NZD 69.6 million, driven by lower gross margin on resales. Margins were compressed through the period, and these are largely dependent on unit price inflation. You can find more details on our resale volumes in the appendices.
The resale units were up 9% across both countries, and average unit price on resale units remained flat. Non-village cash flow was down NZD 14 million, also impacted by payments to suppliers and employees. And as we mentioned above, with the lower capitalization of interest, this saw cash interest expense coming through the cash flow from existing operations, and interest paid increasing from NZD 20 million- NZD 47.7 million. Moving through to the cash flow from development activity, this improved by NZD 132.6 million to negative NZD 44.7 million on the half. The cash from resident funding dropped by NZD 10.1 million - NZD 250.9 million.
Within this, new sales settlements of ORAs dropped by NZD 5.6 million. New sales ORAs were down 5%, with units sold in the second half of 2025 being 224 units versus 236 in the prior period. As I mentioned before, the slide in the appendix is slide 49, I think it is.
It goes into more detail on the volumes of ORAs, with the decrease coming through largely in the Australian market. This was partially offset with average unit prices having moved marginally higher on new sales units. And the net position on RADs in aged care beds decreased by NZD 3 million. The significant moves on the development CapEx. There was a combined improvement of NZD 44 million, with lower land acquisitions and also having completed the settlement on Newtown. We also saw a slowdown in spend year on year on the inflight projects as we made progress through the main village centers. This resulted in a decrease year on year of NZD 67.3 million -NZD 220 million. Capitalized interest was lower than the year on year position.
As I mentioned before, we reviewed the capitalization on projects with the criteria being under active development, and this has seen less capitalized costs in the development cash flow, with the offset in interest costs in existing operations. Finally, on cash flow, moving to free cash flow, combining both these positions, we saw free cash flow coming at negative NZD 52.5 million and improvement on first half 2024 of NZD 107.7 million. Moving through to capital management, we made a series of restatements to the positions from the five changes I highlighted earlier in the presentation, and we've shown the restated positions for the prior periods shown on the slide here. There was a transfer of development land from property, plant, and equipment to investment property and restatements to investment property, with accrued DMF being adjusted for the time discount factor I mentioned earlier.
There's reclassifications on assets held for sale, moving these to investment property. Adjustments made to the deferred tax asset on the accrued DMF adjustment and changes to the ORAs and the debtor and liability reflected in the trade and other receivables and net occupancy advances. Total equity is up by NZD 74 million -NZD 4.43 billion, and the NTA per share has increased by NZD 0.223 - NZD 5.897 per share. Net interest-bearing debt has increased marginally on the half, with total debt at NZD 2.56 billion, and gearing remains above 37%, which is outside of our target range of 30%-35%. On the bank covenants, the interest coverage ratio for September 2024 was reported at 1.7 times. This is now reflecting the sales based on occupation and will do so going forward.
We continue to operate under the revised ratios that we shared with you in September, with the ratio at 1.5 for this half and also for the full year at 31 March 2025, and then stepping up to 1.75 times in September next year and two times in March 2026, and in line with previous statements we've made, the company is intending to review the dividend policy in FY26, and as such, there has been no dividend declared for this period. Moving on to investment property. With the changes to accounting treatments, we felt it was necessary to show the restated investment property position. The March 2024 position was reported at NZD 10.04 billion. In the restated positions, we've reclassified land from property, plant, and equipment to investment property, increasing the balance by NZD 466 million.
In parallel, we reclassified held for sale property and also applied the adjustment to the accrued DMF, being the time-based discount. This resulted in a restated position of NZD 10.26 billion. In the half, we increased the investment property balance with additions of NZD 259.5 million. The fair value movements in the period were a net NZD 280.6 million based on independent value appraisals. The reported position for September 2024 after the restatement and the valuation was NZD 10.79 billion. Moving on to the investment property valuation. As we outlined in the full year, the independent valuation now underpins most of the positions, with some of the previous judgments being eliminated from the investment property position. The table on the left-hand side takes you through the March to September movements. In March and under our previous recognition policy, we relied on units being subject to an occupancy agreement or contract.
This worked on the concept of near-complete units. In September, we're using the occupancy as a reoccupation point, and valuations are included on completed and not yet occupied units or stock that can be occupied, and development land and land banks are being held at cost, now being at fair value and subject to the value assessment. On the right-hand side of the slide, we show the value assumptions, highlighting that the valuers have adjusted the unit price inflation in the earlier years and also the discount rates to accommodate their assessment of how the new DMF pricing impacts the investment property valuation, and the units include the fair value valuation, total NZD 9,575, with available new sales stock based on a practical completion test. Finally, jumping across to funding and treasury, debt funding remains largely unchanged in its quantum at NZD 3 billion, drawn debt up NZD 30 million.
Post the balance sheet date, we have rolled forward NZD 147 million of facilities with two of the domestic banks. We have no near-term facilities maturing, and all lines are non-current at the end of the year. Our bank group remains very supportive of the actions we've taken over the last three months. We reported a weighted average tenor of 2.7 years, and we'll be looking to work through our annual refinance program prior to the end of the full year, and we expect to restore some tenor at this point. Finally, the fixed-rate debt has increased slightly in dollar terms to NZD 1.65 billion, being 64% of the drawn debt, and the weighted average cost of drawn debt is standing at 6.5%, the same as last year. At this point, I'd like to hand you back to Dean.
Thanks, Rob. We need to acknowledge there's been a lot of noise in these numbers as we work hard to improve our financial reporting. I'm confident we're getting near the end of these changes. Let me dive a little deeper into sales and stock. As Rob talked about, we are now recognizing our ORAs on occupation. This is a substantial change for us and brings us in line with the sector. All of our non-GAAP metrics now are based on this, whether that's sales volumes, gross margins, all recognized on occupation. Why have we done that? Much stronger alignment with cash, stronger alignment with our revenue recognition because weekly fees and DMF start accruing on occupation, reduces our volatility created by canceled contracts where we would book a sale and have to back it back out through a cancellation, and also removes the direct judgment on near-complete units.
In terms of impact in the half, we've had to restate. With the new method, we have sold 827 occupation rights. Our previous method, it would have been 843, so we're 16 less. In terms of gross margin, it's slightly the other way. Our new method is NZD 11 million higher than the period would have been if we had done it on booked sales. In terms of the bottom part of that right-hand chart, there is a bigger cumulative impact on the non-GAAP metrics as we need to remove the historical recognition of a sale that had not been settled at 31 March, in essence backing out 596 units that had been recognized as a sale but had not been completed at that point. It's important to recognize these are non-GAAP measures and no impact on our interim financial statements.
There's little alternative than to go through this process as we achieve the transition to cash. We're much more comfortable now that we're recognizing our ORAs on a cash basis. In terms of new sales of ORAs, in the half, we achieved a 2% growth in independent units, and we only sold 55 on the service side, down 23%. In part, that reflects what's become available. Average unit prices independents were flat, and service were up with reasonable pricing performance on our new stock. In terms of resales of ORAs, as you can see on the charts, this is predominantly a New Zealand story given the younger age of the Australian portfolio. We'd expect to see over time the orange bars here increase as that portfolio matures. In terms of volumes, we delivered a strong half. Independent units were up 2%. Service were up 16% as the portfolio matures.
Average unit prices were flat despite the challenging market. As I talked about before, however, while we are achieving flat prices in this tough environment, that does compress margins, and you're seeing -15% there, that compression has accelerated into the serviced area given the shorter tenures. In terms of where are we with stock, we delivered 388 new RV stock in the period. We ended up at the end of the period with 182 more unoccupied. Of that, some 164 are new units. All of the growth in our unsold stock is in new serviced apartments. In the top right chart, you will see the impact of delivering the B01s at Miriam Corban, James Wattie, and Keith Park. As you're aware, the serviced apartments take two to three years to sell down in these new villages, given we have fewer health issues among our initial IA occupants.
As you'll see in the resales later, earlier, sorry, once the village is full, that product sits comfortably in our continuum of care. Outside of this category, opening and closing stocks are pretty similar. Albeit overall, higher than we'd like to be at 12% vacancy, even though 5.5% of that is contracted. We see a real opportunity to turn this into cash as we improve occupancy. Additionally, of the 1,156 available or unoccupied, 166 of those we also own given early payouts. So the gross cash release will be greater. In terms of development, a quick update. We delivered 667 retirement villages and aged care beds in the first half. 79% of those delivery were the three main buildings and 142 independent units. We do need to mark here that we have achieved some significant milestones in the first half. We opened those three main buildings.
Of themselves, are significant exercises in staffing up and the occupational readiness and testing. The Hubert Opperman Village in Mulgrave opened to its first residents in August, and our Miriam Corban Village was completed and has been removed from our development pipeline. So we now have nine sites under active construction, with two more expected to be completed in the second half, both at Bert Newton and at James Wattie. We'll update our capital recycling projection on an annual basis, and we'll be doing that again at March. Just want to point out that it is an unusual delivery mix that we've had in the six months. We've got 95% in New Zealand and 80% in serviced and care. In terms of the New Zealand pipeline, most of that's been covered. As Rob mentioned, Newtown land settled in September. We're still holding Kohimarama and Karori sites for sale.
We are in discussions on Karori. On the Australian side, post-balance date, delighted to say that Bert Newton opened the B01 building, and the village is now completed, a fabulous asset in the portfolio. Quickly over the sites themselves that we had over the course of the year, all 10. Miriam Corban, as I touched on, is completed. Keith Park, the care facility, is filling up well, and we've pushed the button on stages eight and nine. In terms of Patrick Hogan, the townhouses are filling up, albeit fair to say that it is a competitive environment with two other offers nearby. James Wattie, we opened the B01, which is a great building. We will finish this site and be off it by the end of the financial year. Again, a great facility in the bay.
In terms of in Christchurch, the key unlock for us for this village is to deliver the much-delayed B01 in April/May 2026. In terms of Northwood, we're continuing to build our townhouses. We've got concrete under the ground for the main building, which will be two years in construction. Turning to Australia, you'll see that big stage four sitting there at Nellie Melba. We expect to complete that in the middle of the calendar next year. That will complete that site. We had some surplus land to the side. You can't quite see it. It's down the bottom right of that picture. We've now gone unconditional at AUD 9 million after balance date. At Bert Newton, that's a picture of it at 30 September. That's now complete. You can see some diggers, etc. That's now complete and opened on the 18th. The care centre opened on the 18th of November.
Hubert Opperman, which is our name given to our new Mulgrave village over there. We've welcomed our first residents. You can see the townhouses in that picture. We expect to get five and six done by the middle of next year, and then we'll be pausing in terms of delivery as we move into the IA towers, which will take some time to bring to market. On Deborah Cheetham, it's predominantly a townhouse village, as you'll see down the Bellarine Peninsula. It's a tough sales market down there right now. Second home land tax is occurring in Victoria, and there's also a pending Airbnb tax, both of which are having a nominal impact on this peninsula and the Mornington Peninsula. Seeing a wave of houses in both markets, which is challenging for people looking to settle on their houses and move in.
That will take some time to clear, but in the meantime, the village is slowly filling. Finally, in terms of outlook, the current environment does remain challenging. Interest rate reductions announced yesterday in New Zealand are positive but unlikely to have an immediate impact on residential liquidity and pricing. We had been expecting higher second half 25 settlements of new ORAs, but with the market staying tougher for longer, we now believe it's more likely that a number of these will roll into FY26, deferring cash. In terms of positive progress being made, we continued on a number of fronts. We have implemented the business improvement changes in two of those five focus areas, which will lower costs now and improve our revenue materially over time. As I mentioned, we have NZD 18 million of annualized savings achieved to date in gross non-village operating expenses on an annualized basis.
We're targeting a similar level of savings across the group by the end of FY26. We are delivering our program of main builds, three in the first half and one in the second half. It's critical that we deliver these. It meets our commitments to our residents. It creates a continuum of care, which helps sustain our occupancy and overall adds significant value to our villages. In terms of the guidance, in terms of cash flow, we now expect to be negative free cash flow between NZD 50 million -NZD 100 million as new settlements are deferred into FY26. The previous guidance had been targeted positive free cash flow. So obviously, from a timing perspective, that's disappointing, but ultimately, the stock is sitting there. In terms of capital expenditure, we expect to spend now NZD 625 million-NZD 675 million on total capital expenditure.
This is down from the previous NZD 700 million- NZD 820 million as we look to delay some of our final stages at in-flight projects as we look to manage stock and capital investment. Our build rate, we expect to deliver at the top end of the previously indicated 850-950 retirement village units and aged care beds, given the strong delivery in the first half. Before I open to Q&A, I'll hand over to Naomi for a few comments.
Thanks, Dean. It's great to be here in time for our half-year results and have the opportunity to hear from our investors right at the start of my time with Ryman. Over the last three weeks, I've been visiting a number of our villages and offices in New Zealand and Victoria and have been able to see firsthand the passion and commitment our team members have to providing exceptional care for Ryman residents and the very special communities our staff and residents together create at each of our villages. As Dean has talked to, we are in a period of change for Ryman and a challenging external environment for the property market.
I do believe that there is no better time for us to make Ryman a strong, efficient, and competitive business that's resilient through the bottom of the cycle and can grow sustainably to meet the future demand that we know is coming as our older population grows, while at the same time keeping what's special and unique to our business, which is putting our residents at the center of everything we do. I'm looking forward to working with all of our team and our residents, investors, and other stakeholders as we take Ryman forward and continue to build a strong future together.
Great. Thanks, Naomi. Maybe I'll hand over to the operator now for questions on the phone, and then we'll ultimately go to online questions. So back to you.
Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. If you would like to cancel your request, please press star two. If you are on a speakerphone, please pick up the handset to ask your question. Your first question today comes from Arie Dekker from Jarden. Please go ahead.
Good morning. Yes, first, just thanks for the significant openness and transparency that you guys are showing as you adjust a large number of the approaches from the past. And I'd also just sort of say it's really good to see the benefits coming through from cash flow from existing operations, which are clearly showing some of the challenges in the business that we previously had in with the underlying profit focus. I'll just start on NTA and a question about the balance sheet and value. I mean, obviously, we've seen it. You need to restate it down again this year. So first, just a question of clarity.
The fair value movement that did come through on the restated basis for the half, are you essentially saying this pretty much will arise from the benefits of increasing DMF from 20% to 25% to 30%, albeit with the value of making some negative adjustments to discount rate unit pricing as you're showing?
I'm happy to have a go at that. Rob, you can follow up. In terms of that, Arie, no. In terms of that increase in valuation, there were a number of things. Obviously, part of it, they both put the 30% in. They then moderated discount rates and growth rates. We had visibility on the New Zealand side, and the net impact from those changes just on the DMF is about net NZD 90 million. And given the size of the Australian portfolio, the value didn't lay it out in that way for us. It will be obviously a much smaller part than the 90. So out of the NZD 280, there's a significant amount of just new valuation building into the portfolio as we walk forward.
Yeah. And so, I mean, clearly in the past, you would have, and I'm really glad to see you move away from this, would have highlighted, realized fair value movement linked to development margin. It looks like development was negative. But to your point on that Australian visibility, can you just give a bit of a view on how the company and directors would characterize the valuation of managers' interest? And in particular, is it a black box or is it something that you're pretty comfortable that you've got both transparency and granularity on what's driving the value changes?
Yeah. So we get the value presented to the Audit and Risk Committee. And so we have time to they present their valuations, comprehensive reports. We see it per village. It's a detailed by-resident calculation, Arie, as you're probably aware. And so, yeah, we have a robust discussion with them. So, yeah, but ultimately, it's their valuation. I think in the past, we could be accused of reaching in. We've been purposely saying that is an independent valuation now. And ultimately, we need to trust that.
Thank you. Just on the interest, and you've been clear, I think, on the changes you've made, but I just want to check my understanding of a few things. So the expensed interest was, I'll use round numbers, about NZD 50 million, so NZD 100 million annualized. You're saying the capitalized interest now is much more aligned with active development. So if I use that, if I use, say, 6% interest cost on the NZD 100 million of annualized expense, that would give me circa NZD 1.7 billion of debt on which interest is being expensed. There's about 600 units of new stock. That's NZD 500 million, circa NZD 500 million. Land for development, circa NZD 500 million. Both of those, I understand, interest is being expensed on.
So would I be right then in assuming that the remaining NZD 700 million of debt is essentially not backed by either active development, new stock, or land held for development?
There's a lot of numbers you just rolled off there, Arie. Can we come back to you on that? I can see where you're going, but I don't want to answer that on the fly.
Yeah. Okay. Well. That would be good because I guess on my math there then, there'd be circa, like I said, NZD 700 million of non-development debt or inventory on the new sales side. Now, I appreciate you also have buyback stock and some other things. But I mean, do you have a view yet in terms of the capital structure on what sort of level of debt you think you'd be happy to hold, bearing in mind also that there's probably some further negative recycling that will be added to that 700?
Well, I think we're a bit over two and a half now. I think, as we've said previously, we've got a plan to, A, make sure going forward that the cash flow from existing operations is positive. So we're not building that hole bigger, Arie.
And I think we've got some positive signs there in the result pre-interest in terms of the villages are creating positive cash. We think about the changes in DMF and weekly that will only help that over time. So we think we can start paying down some debt ourselves. We know we need to recycle what is the in-flights, and we believe there is significant opportunity to release cash there. Can you see a path to under NZD 2 billion over the next two to three years? We believe we can. So I think that makes us feel a lot more comfortable and under that level. And then we need to think about how we fund new development.
Okay. And then final question just on the recycling. And I think I understand why you're going to do an annual update on that. But can you just give any directional guidance on whether the recycling outlook is traveling better or worse? And I guess I'm just sort of pointing to the impact of it. It looks like you're sort of indicating new sales is slower, clearly, and also suggesting, though, that the lower CapEx is largely timing or deferral related.
Yeah. And I think it's the CapEx recycling is a pretty simplified number. There's no time value in that. It's not like it's an NPV. We had signaled we thought the projects were going to be about NZD 500 million still over their life or NZD 600 million to come. But we're looking also at overheads and our reorganization. So it's kind of premature to see where that will fall, but we'll give an update at the full year.
Okay. Thank you.
Thanks, Arie.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Bianca Fledderus from UBS. Please go ahead.
Morning, guys. Firstly, just following up on Arie's question on the restatements. So in terms of your accounting changes and as a result, some restatements, would you say all of these changes now have happened, or are there any other line items you're looking at or changes we could potentially expect in the future?
Yeah. Look, I think you can never say you're kind of done. We've got a new order coming in, so we'll have to work through that with them. I think, as Rob signaled, the capitalization piece is obviously a work in progress. We're taking overhead down. We're slowing our development, but then we're looking to bring development back up. How do we think about capitalization of overhead in particular? So yeah, that's a work in progress piece. So in terms of the main outstanding pieces, I would say that's probably the key one for us to land at the full year. But as I say, there's been a lot of change, Bianca, as you're saying. We apologize for the kind of noise in the results, but you can't go from A to B without that occurring. So I do think we're nearer the end than the start.
Okay. Yep. That's fair enough. That's helpful. Thank you and then a couple of questions on Australia so you mentioned the impact in Victoria on settlements because of the new taxes there. Could you talk a bit about the impact from construction cost inflation in Victoria as it doesn't sound like it is stabilizing in the same way we see in New Zealand so just wondering if you expect any sort of potential impact from that on your current projects and margins?
Yeah. I think the land tax piece feels it's more impactful in those regions where people have their second home. So whether you're going down the Mornington Peninsula where we don't have an active development or down the other side where we had the Bellarine. So I think that's really that impact is quite focused in on Deborah Cheetham. So I don't think it's a broad-based Victorian issue for us. In terms of construction, yeah, that's a fair observation. We are seeing the steam coming out on the New Zealand side. But Australia, whilst it's definitely moderated from the COVID period, we're still seeing construction inflation.
Okay. Thanks, and then on a different note, it does seem like capital partners are becoming more common in the retirement village and land-based space in Australia. Is that something that has come up in conversation at all for your Australian developments?
No. No.
Okay. And then last question from me. With the board refresh, has the topic of dual listing in Australia come up recently?
No. No. I think we're very focused on the here and now. We've got a big transformation underway. We've got new directors. We've got a new CEO. We've got a new leadership team. So I think we've got, as James would say, we've got plenty of wood to chop and a lot of opportunity. Wouldn't discount that in the longer term as our portfolio rebalances over time, I expect. But I don't see that, Bianca, in the immediate future.
Okay. Great. That's helpful. That's all from me. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Aaron Ibbotson from Forsyth Barr. Please go ahead.
Hi there. Good morning, and thanks for the increased transparency. Just to reiterate what Arie said, a couple of small questions for me. Firstly, actually, just on maintenance capital or maintenance CapEx guidance. I think you put out 85 to 95. That was a bit lower than I had in mind, and also what you've done sort of historically, we look at the trend. Is this sort of a one-off for this year with lower IT systems, or is this more of a sort of broad-based review of where you sort of see steady state or whatever inflation-adjusted maintenance CapEx coming in going forward?
Yeah. I think there's a couple of buckets there, Aaron. I think in terms of IT, that always tends to be a bit lumpy. If I look back the prior year, there had been a fair few things coming through in terms of the MyRyman app, etc., and some investment in a software package to support our home care business in Australia. But in terms of the village side, I kind of have broadly NZD 55-60 million in my mind. We know the refurbishment side is averaging NZD 30-32 million, which is around 30 grand a site on a resale piece. So some years you're going to be slightly under, some years you're going to be slightly over, and it'll probably be dictated more by when we have our next IT project to hand, Aaron.
So yeah, we're kind of dealing with fives and tens there, which I don't think we're doing anything directionally different at this stage.
Okay. Thank you. And then just on your cost out, I appreciate you said you've done NZD 18 million sort of on a run rate basis now, I guess, and then targeting another 18 for the end of FY26. I must admit that I thought if this is gross numbers, which I assume you're talking to, I thought there potentially could be more. So is this something you know, Naomi is going to look at, or do you think this is a relatively definite sort of end result and that there's not much more to cut?
No. I'll hand over to Naomi.
I think, Aaron, it reflects the work to date, which Dean and the team kicked off obviously earlier in the year. So clearly, that work's ongoing, and our view is going to progress as it develops. So I'd expect that's something that we'll be saying a bit more on at the full year.
Okay. Thank you and then don't take this the wrong way, but if I look at the management team now, the refresh, obviously a lot of corporate experience and finance experience. If I look at care specifically, what do you think, Dean or Naomi, you have people in place that can review the operational efficiency of the care operations more diligently? Is there anything to do there on the cost to get EBITDA margins back to where they were, or are we just waiting for the New Zealand government to pay more, or is there any work ongoing to sort of improve the efficiency of the care operations specifically in village?
Yeah. And I think of care in a couple of ways, Aaron. In terms of that whole compliance governance piece, that has always really sat one level below that SET. So we have a very competent person leading a large clinical management team across both countries, and that's largely unchanged. And they've all been in large hospital environments, either in New Zealand and Australia. So I don't think from that perspective, the quality governance risk piece has changed in the reorg because it's always primarily set one level down. In terms of efficiency, I think ultimately the answer to expanding our per-bed, per-day margins will be a combination of revenue. And as you'll see in those New Zealand numbers, we're working hard on care premiums. It's around NZD 25 million for the half, NZD 50 million for the full. So we would have the largest premium book in New Zealand.
We think there's continued opportunities there. But we also, I think the industry without premiums is struggling. And so I think I will watch with interest, and I'm sure Naomi and the team will in terms of the Te Whatu Ora review. But ultimately, I think that's going to move to what we did in what you're seeing in Australia, which is more user pays rather than government allocating significantly more to it. So that's on the revenue side. I'm optimistic on that, but it will take time. Otherwise, you will see bed closures in New Zealand, particularly in the not-for-profit area, and that's not what the government wants to see. So I think there is some tension there, but they do want to see expansion in standard beds, and we're primarily in a larger bed base than that. But I do think we'll benefit from just general funding improvement.
And thirdly, in terms of our cost side, yeah, that's definitely something we need to look at. Again, that's that balance between great care and great financial performance. I'm expecting Naomi to have a close and hard look at that with the team. So I think ultimately it'll be a combination of the two: revenue up and hopefully more efficiency, Aaron.
Thank you. Just final, very brief question from me. I appreciate you said that it would take or should take two to three years to sell down newly opened serviced apartment buildings. I'm just curious, with occupancy being very high in your mature villages, what's the early indications of your newly opened care centers? How are they filling up relative to expectations, and how long do you think it will take to get the recently opened care centers to reach near or full occupancy?
Yeah. No, good question. They're all improving on a monthly basis. There's a range. Keith Park's filling faster than what we thought. So we're invariably progressively open blocks of those. We don't just immediately open 80. So whatever the number is, we'll progressively do it. So we're opening up faster than what we thought there. Miriam Corban is going well as well. Slower at Deborah Cheetham. Again, it's a tougher environment down there. It's a competing market. So I think there's work to do on the care center there. But if you think of it from a portfolio perspective, the mature stuff's sitting at 96%, a number of our villages sitting at 99%, 100%. So I'm kind of quite comfortable with that piece. There's really no worrying signs that we'll get the balance of this stuff to 90%.
Okay. Thank you. That's it from me.
Thanks, Aaron.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Stephen Ridgewell from Craigs Investment Partners. Please go ahead.
Thanks and good morning. It was good to see what looked like pretty solid settlements during the half against a tough backdrop. I'm just wondering, with the change in the fee structure from October the 1st, do you think you saw a pull forward in demand during the period, particularly late in the period, as residents rushed to beat the price rise that might have benefited trading performance in the first half?
No. I think if anything, we pulled forward probably some sales, Stephen, but all the accounts now are on settlement. So we didn't pull forward a settlement. We would have pulled forward some sales. So the financial cash settlements in the first half won't have been influenced by that. They were things signed up months and months before. We saw some sales contracts pulled earlier as kind of the lead turned into a contract maybe quicker than what it would normally. But yeah, I don't think we benefited. Well, I know we didn't benefit on a cash settlement basis in the first half.
Good. That's clear. And I think the data you provided earlier, that you're achieving the new DMF structure without discounting prices is encouraging. I guess I just also wanted to check in though whether the sales teams have had to offer an increase in non-price incentives to help get sales over the line since the new fee structure has come in. And then just, I guess, some commentary around sales run rates. Are they holding up post the price changes? The price seems to be holding up, but are you seeing sales run rates hold up at this point? I'm just kind of conscious of the downgrade we've seen, obviously, to second half expectations today.
Yep. On the incentive side, it's fair to say, and you'd know this as well, I suspect anecdotally, there are a lot of incentives in the market at the moment. The industry has brought on stock in New Zealand, in particular, at a lot of it at the same time, whether that's in Auckland, whether that's at Orewa, whether that's at Cambridge. So we are seeing people wanting to turn stock into cash. So there are definitely incentives around settlements, whether that's dollars, whether that's move-in packages, etc. So that has stayed high. So it's a bit hard to unbundle. I don't think we've changed materially. We had those anyway. We've still got those now. Certainly, our incentives are very much focused on selected stock and turning that into a settlement. I think that's the first point.
So it was there anyway, that just the market's like that at the moment, Stephen, at this point in the cycle. In terms of our sales run rate, October is invariably quiet for us. It's been building back up. That in part led us to lower our full-year cash flow guidance. But by and large, we've got the stock to achieve most of that already and the sales commitments already to achieve that. So it's more that we're just seeing it's harder for longer, Stephen, I think. So people just are struggling to sell their own houses. And if you dial back four or five months to say that we thought it would still be like this December, January, February, March, I think there were a lot of commentators who thought things would be starting to improve by then.
And I think in reality, things have probably got tougher since then. So I think we've got the stock. I just think it's on that kind of demand settlement side. We've just got a bit more sanguine. So it's a pity it's rolling through the financial year end, but we have got the stock. It'll turn up in FY26. I just think it's stayed harder for longer.
No, that's fair. And maybe just one last one, just wanted clarification. As you say, there's a lot of new information out there today for the market to adjust. But just on the free cash, can you get a NZD 50 million-NZD 100 million? That's the updated number for the year. I'm just trying to reconcile just that you've downgraded sort of CapEx to NZD 625 million-NZD 675 million, but you've also upgraded your deliveries to the top end of the NZD 850 million-NZD 950 million range. I'm just trying to reconcile those changes. Are there just some projects that we're going to fall over just over there into the FY26, which you can actually complete before the year end? Is that what's going on? And maybe you're slowing some of the front, the earlier projects. Just interested to understand that dynamic.
Yeah. No, it's a very good question, Stephen, because we ourselves look at there's almost conflicts. It looks at that prima facie like the three guidance points are conflicting with each other, so you're kind of going to have got to peel that back, so in terms of the cash flow reduction, that's primarily pulling down the second half settlements from where we thought we would be to where we're now expecting to be. That's primarily driven the 50 plus more down in free cash flow, which we're hoping we'll just, well, we'll still have the stock at year end. It'll roll into the next year. In terms of the build, they've achieved it, and we think there's little risk in achieving that full-year forecast now, given where we are.
You say, "Well, how does that coincide with spending less money?" I think you've got to look down below that B01 building stuff, which we're completing into what's happening everywhere else outside of our B01s. It's fair to say we're slowing some of those pieces as we do want to get this new stock down and sold. We just need to balance that capital expenditure, Stephen, with the stock. So it's that layer of stuff that was in the B01. We're effectively just slowing down, in particular in places where we've got some stock, for example, in Deborah Cheetham.
That's very helpful. Thanks, Ben. That's all from me.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Nick Mar from Macquarie. Please go ahead.
When it goes just following on from that, the previous sort of target of deliveries for 2026 and 2027 combined, will that change given that slowdown, or is it just more backed up ways?
Yeah. No, that's a logical next question, Nick. And I think we continue to look at that build rate. We'll give you an update at the full year. We've certainly slowed some of that development, which I think we'll likely see unless the markets change. We're all optimistic they change for the better. We're probably going to see some completions move from 2026 to 2027 and potentially 2027 to 2028. If markets improve, we may well bring some of those back faster. But at this stage, we're just being cautious. I think we'll probably see some deferrals.
No, that's clear. And then in terms of the buybacks that's still lifting, one of the topics of discussion was the sort of HUD reviews now being pushed out, which would have possibly kind of mandated some time frame around that. Are you thinking of reviewing your sort of six-month buyback in New Zealand? And if so, do you have an idea of what you might be set out to?
Yeah. That's certainly a topic of conversation, which we'd held off pending that HNZ review. But as you've seen, Nick, they've effectively pushed that down the road because we were going to be guided by that and see what everyone else was going to do. So it's now going to come back on the table, what do we want to do in our own right? We have the right to not pay the capital, but to pay interest. And ultimately, the six months is self-imposed. It's not a contractual term. It's a kind of a custom and practice term. So I think it's definitely something we'll look at. It's about NZD 166 million of stock we now. We've always owned it, but we effectively hold the ORA ourselves.
So when it comes to new sales, we're very focused on those because the cash impact is the same as a new sale, effectively gross into us. So we're watching that. It went up about NZD 12 million year on year. So it's creeping up. It's not drowning us. But yeah, I think we will watch that. At the end of the day, we'd probably rather pay interest than pay out the capital sum. So yeah, it's certainly back on the table now that HUD hasn't kind of resolved it for the sector.
Yep. No, that's helpful. And then are you looking at land at all at the moment, or are you sort of pretty reluctant to put any more money in the ground?
Yeah. We've got 10 in the bank now. We've got three held for sale. We're down to two held for sale, being Kohimarama and that. It's not like we're short of land at the moment. I think if we had five in the land bank, we'd probably be more active. 10 in the land bank, ultimately, I think we'll probably have to recycle some of that if we wanted to buy some new land and go longer. If we start rebuilding back up, the pace is to be determined. Under a lot of that modeling, we've got enough land if we're going to use all those sites to the end of this decade. I suspect as Naomi gets her feet under the table, they'll be beginning to look at, "Do you want to recycle some of that 10?
Are there better opportunities?" Unfortunately, you're buying and selling in the same market, and it's tough to move NZD 20 million, NZD 30 million dollar blocks of land.
No, that's good. And then one last one, just in terms of the stock you have across both resales and resales outside of obviously the serviced apartments that have just come online, are there any particular build-ups of ILUs or SAs anywhere else?
No. There's a couple of villages. We've got a bit of a build-up at Deborah Cheetham, which when we started that, these taxes weren't on the table. So we've just got—it's one out of 49 villages. We'll just need to bear with that. It's filling, but it's just filling slowly, and it's not like it's going backwards. We're just going to be more patient across the portfolio. We've got little pockets here and there, but there's not big, big blocks, Nick, that concern us when you take a portfolio-wide view.
No, that's great. It's all from me. Thank you.
Thanks, Nick.
Thank you. Unfortunately, that does conclude our time for phone questions. I'll now hand back to Mr. Hamilton to address any online questions.
There are no online questions, Hayden.
Okay. That's great.
Thank you. Hey, I'm conscious we've covered a lot today, everybody. You look through this pack of 60-odd pages, there's just an enormous amount of disclosure. So hopefully, that's useful to you all. Obviously, any follow-ups, you can come back to any of us. Probably Hayden in the first instance. There's a couple of follow-ups we need to take up. But we do appreciate your time and look forward to meeting with a number of you over the next couple of days. Thank you very much. Have a good day.