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Q2 FY2026 · Earnings Call TranscriptJuly 28, 2026

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Neinor Homes first half 2026 results presentation.

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José Cravo

Thank you. Hi, good morning, everyone.

My name is José Cravo, and I'm the Head of Investor Relations at Neinor Homes. Today we're going to go over results for the first semester of the year 2026, and as usual, we are here with Jordi Argemí, that is taking the role as the new CEO; Borja García-Egotxeaga, our departing CEO; and Mario Lapiedra, our CIO.

We'll start the presentation with the key highlights in Section 1. Then on Section 2, we'll provide an update on the Spanish residential market.

On Section 3 and 4, we will review operational and financial results. On Section 5, we finish with the key takeaways.

After the presentation, there'll be a Q&A session to answer any questions you may have. Now I'll hand over the presentation to our CEO, Jordi Argemí.

Jordi Argemí

Thanks, Jose. Before I begin, I would like to thank the Board of Directors and the shareholders for my appointment as CEO, and for the trust they have placed in me.

In my view, after several years in which we have consolidated our position as the undisputed leader of the Spanish residential market, this company has never been stronger. We have the full backing of our stakeholders, a track record that speaks for itself, and a demonstrated capacity to raise capital in both public and private markets.

In my view, these strengths will be the key to lead the company into the next phase of growth, and I couldn't be prouder of what we have done in the last few years, and more ambitious about what comes next. With that said, let's start with the presentation in slide number 4.

Starting with the context, the first half of this year has been tricky. We have integrated Aedas against a backdrop of real geopolitical uncertainty, with a war in the Middle East and volatile energy prices.

Through all of it, this company has done an exceptional work, and I would like to thank every single person in Neinor Homes for keeping the focus after a big acquisition such as Aedas. Now, four big messages today.

First, the market: the fundamentals held through uncertainty, resilient growth, the healthiest household balance sheets in decades, and a market structurally short of homes. We will show you in a minute why Spain continues to be one of the best residential markets in the world.

Second, execution: we have integrated Aedas, the largest acquisition in our history and in the sector, and in just four months, we have done it with zero disruption on the deliveries, construction, commercialization, or IT systems. It is true that we had a strong track record based on Quabit and Habitat transactions, but Aedas is a different animal due to the size.

Third message, the financials: we have operated a step change in scale without disruption, and the year-on-year figures demonstrated clearly. This was not growth for the sake of growth.

Margins remained very solid, and this translated into strong cash flow generation, strong enough to accelerate our shareholder remuneration targets for the year, buy out the Aedas minorities after the second tender offer, and pay back €100 million of Apollo's debt ahead of schedule, all of it in less than six months. Fourth and last one, the guidance: we already reiterated in April, in our AGM, and today, with the first semester closed, our visibility over those objectives keeps on growing.

In my view, the best answer to uncertainty is delivery, and in this first half, we have delivered once again. If we move to next slide, it shows the whole company on one page, and the story this slide tells is both scale and growth.

With Aedas fully integrated, every single KPI has stepped up. On the operational side, we have a land bank of nearly 37,000 units, out of which 23,000 are fully owned, and 19,000 active units under production, giving us years of visibility and tangible cash flow generation.

Commercialization is well advanced, with a record order book of 9,300 units worth €3.3 billion, half of the total active units. On the financials, we delivered close to 2,400 units, also record, and generated €680 million of revenues.

As volume is one thing, and profitability another. Our priority has always been to translate execution into profitability to have better returns for our shareholders.

In that sense, the first semester we have kept strong underlying margins, driving an EBITDA of €119 million. Overall, every metric is materially higher than a year ago.

That is the accretive impact of Aedas flowing through the business in record time and better than our initial expectations. We will review it in detail later on.

Now, let me hand over to Borja, who is going to comment the market.

Borja García-Egotxeaga

Thank you, Jordi. Good morning, everyone.

As always, let me start by giving the big picture. My message is the same one I have been giving you for years.

Spain remains one of the safest and strongest residential markets, not only in Europe, but in the world. This semester, that message was tested once again.

We have a war in the Middle East, energy prices moving up, and plenty of geopolitical noise. Yet, look at the chart on the top right.

In January, the consensus for Spanish GDP growth this year was 2.2%. Today, after six months of geopolitical uncertainty, it stands at 2.3%.

That is nearly four times the eurozone average of 0.6% and well ahead of the UK and Germany. One of the reasons behind this growth has been, without a doubt, the job market and the private consumption in Spain.

Year to date, the Spanish economy has created more than 600,000 jobs, taking social security affiliates to an all-time record of 22.4 million people. More people working and living in Spain means more households and therefore more demand for housing.

Having said this, if there is one variable where we have felt the impact of the conflict in the Middle East, it has been inflation, which accelerated to 3.2% in June. This is mainly the conflict feeding through energy prices, a supply-side effect, not overheating demand.

The takeaway from this slide is simple: the Spanish macro has been extremely resilient. Please, let's move to slide number 8.

On the slide number 7, I showed you the demand. On this slide, I want to show the quality of that demand.

Because a strong economy is one thing, but what makes a housing market truly resilient is the strength of the balance sheets behind it. Here, Spain is a class of its own.

Household debt stands at just 43% of GDP, the lowest level in more than 20 years, and among the lowest in Europe. Look at the chart in the right.

In 2008, Spanish households were among the most indebted. Today, we are below Germany, the UK, and the US.

That is 43 percentage points deleveraging since the year 2010 peak. Mortgage debt tells the same story.

The dashed line, it has halved since the peak to a record low of 30% of GDP. Meanwhile, families keep saving.

The savings rate remains high at over 11%. On financing, yes, Euribor has moved up by around 0.8 points, close to 2.9%, but mortgages rates in Spain remain very competitive at around 2.5% and 3%.

Put it together: low leverage, high savings, cheap fixed-rate financing for 30 years. This is why Spanish demand is resilient to shocks.

When rates move, our buyers do not break, because they were not stretched to begin with. Please follow me to slide number 9.

Far, I have shown you the demand and the strength of the balance sheets behind it. Now let's look at the other side: supply.

This is where the Spanish opportunity becomes truly structural. The message is simple and well known: Spain does not build enough houses, and it hasn't done it for over a decade.

Spain is building less than 90,000 units per year. At the 2008 peak, Spain built nearly 600,000 houses.

We are 85% below that level. Look at the chart.

Since 2020, house building remains almost flat. Demand is booming, but supply has not responded.

The key question is why. There are two structural reasons.

The first is land: there is not enough fully land permitted. Madrid is the clearest example.

New supply has fallen 25% since 2021, simply because permitted land is scarce. The second is structure of the market.

Spanish residential market is extremely fragmented. It is dominated by small, local developers.

These are not institutional players. They lack scale.

Critically, many of them, they lack access to bank financing for construction. Even when demand is there, even when land exists, much of the market cannot fund the CapEx to build at reasonable costs.

This is the heart of the opportunity: a structural shortage driven by fragmentation and limited access to capital. It is a market that needs an institutional-grade, well-capitalized platform to build at scale.

That is exactly what Neinor is. In today's market, that is our competitive advantage.

Now let me put the numbers together. According to the Bank of Spain, since 2021, Spain has accumulated a deficit of 750,000 homes, and the gap keeps widening.

In the first quarter alone, households grew by 56,000. Moreover, this week, the Spanish Statistics Institute released its population forecast for the upcoming years.

In the next 15 years, the Spanish population is expected to grow by more than 4 million people. More households forming and not enough homes being built.

This is not cyclical; it is structural, and it does not correct quickly. Please follow me now to slide number 10.

Let me bring this section together. Think about what I have just shown you: demand is strong, balance sheets are healthy, and supply is structurally short.

Put those three together, and you would expect one thing: significant increases in home prices. That is not what happened in Spain.

This slide is, for me, the most important of the section. Look at the chart.

This is home prices since 2005 indexed across four countries. You see, in Germany, the UK, and the US, home prices have nearly doubled.

Spain isn't anywhere close to it. Here is the key figure: in real terms, adjusted for inflation, Spanish prices are still 21% below the 2007 peak.

Since the trough in 2014, prices have grown 60% in nominal terms, but just 24% in real terms. The growth has been real, but disciplined.

Coming back to the beginning, the Spanish residential market after the global financial crisis is significantly smaller, but much, much healthier. This is where slide number 8 connects.

Prudent bank lending has kept demand disciplined, no excesses. Looking forward, our view is clear: demand is resilient, supply is constrained, credit is disciplined.

With this context, we expect prices to keep rising in the following years at around 5% per year, not a spike, sustained structural growth, exactly the environment in which we operate best. With that, let me hand back to Jordi.

Jordi Argemí

Thank you, Borja. Clearly, the market backdrop is strong.

Now, let's jump to section number 3, where I will comment the operational results. The event of this semester has been the integration of Aedas.

The headline is simple: we have completed it in four months with zero disruption to deliveries. Regarding the timeline, in March, we closed the second tender offer, increasing our stake to 97%.

In April and May, we executed the key organizational changes, mainly in operations, the investment team, and human resources. By June, the integration was complete.

In a business of this size, in my view, that's exceptional. Why it went so well?

Basically, three points. First, a proven playbook: this is our third relevant integration after Quabit and Habitat, and this one increased our land bank by more than 60% in a single step.

Second, the integration is fully derisked: we took control of construction sites and commercialization without any interruption. Accounting, financing, IT, and management control are onboarded.

There is no pending integration risk left on the table. Third, we came out of it stronger: Alberto Delgado, from Aedas, has been appointed Group COO, leading operations together with Gabriel Sanchez, our Chief Business Officer.

We have kept the best people and reinforced the team. That is how we integrate for the long term.

The chart on the right is the proof. Through an integration of this scale, deliveries didn't sleep.

We delivered close to 2,400 units in the first half, which is around 40% of our full-year guidance, right on track. The most important point: we integrated Aedas for the returns, underwritten at a 20% IRR and 1.8 times invested capital, and everything we have seen since closing has confirmed those assumptions.

Now, follow me to slide number 13. If slide 12 was about execution, this slide is about visibility, for me, the most important operational slide in the presentation.

The headline, as said before: 2,400 units already delivered, and almost 19,000 units currently under production with a very significant degree of execution embedded. Three numbers frame it: an active portfolio of 18,933 units, a record order book of 9,300 units worth €3.3 billion, close to half of the portfolio, and 13,400 units in work in progress or finished, 71% of it.

Now, let's focus on the charts. On the left, presales coverage by delivery year: in 2026, 89% already presold; in 2027, 78%; and in 2028, two years out, it's 43%.

These ratios are six months ahead of our standard business plan curves, and that changes the strategy for the second semester. Being this far ahead, we are shifting the focus on capturing further HPA.

On the right-hand side, you have the construction coverage. Everything we plan to deliver in 2026 and 2027 is already under construction, and 2028 is already moving, more than 60% as of today, with turnkey agreements in place.

As conclusion, developments are being built and sold years in advance. We have strong visibility, and this give us confidence to reiterate our guidance.

Please, follow me to slide 14. Now, a question we get in almost every meeting: what about construction cost?

With the situation in the Middle East, cost inflation is once again a key focus for investors. Let me answer this question from two different angles: the theory, margin sensitivity to higher cost, and our real track record.

Regarding the theory: take our selling price as 100. Hard cost, that basically means labor and materials, are only 45% of that price.

The only 55% is land, other cost, and margin. Because hard cost are less than a half the price, a small move in price offsets a much larger move in cost.

Basically, one point of selling price offsets two points of total cost inflation and four points of material inflation. Right now, we are anticipating mid- to high single-digit inflation driven by materials, and a price increase of around 5%, as Borja said before, fully offsets this impact.

Now, our track record: the chart on the right, the black line is construction cost inflation, up 85% since 2015: labor cost, supply chain disruptions, the war in Ukraine, one shock after another. The red line is our gross margin: through all shocks, it has been consistently above 24% to 25% guidance.

Cost up 85% and margins held. That is the result of pricing power and healthy affordability in the Spanish market, especially in our mid-high segment.

We remain comfortable with our margin outlook for the upcoming years and reiterate our 24% to 25% gross margin. Now, let me hand over to Mario to review the investment activity of the first half of the year.

Mario Lapiedra

Thank you, Jordi. After having a look to the operational area, now I'm going to explain how we keep growing as part of our equity-efficient strategy.

Remember what we said at the beginning: good margins are not enough. The goal is to turn good margins into better returns for shareholders, and the way we do that is through a smarter uses of capital through Neinor Asset Management.

The best example this semester is Rio Real, a new luxury-segment JV with Stoneshield of around €120 million through the monetization of a strategic asset. We crystallize value today, accelerate cash flows, and keep managing the asset, maximizing returns with a fraction of the equity.

This is not the first time. We did exactly the same with Joaquin Lorenzo asset together with AXA back in 2023, and with Orion, Santander AM, or Ameris Capital in 2024.

That is the model: proven and repeatable. Behind the model, we have reinforced the engine.

With the Aedas acquisition team fully integrated, our investment team has tripled in size, with specialized teams across three verticals: corporate transactions, granular build-to-sell, and alternative living and affordable. More origination capacity, more diversification, more deals we can look at at the same time.

One more effect worth naming: with the acquisition of Aedas, our largest competitor disappears, one less rival bidding for every plot of land, every portfolio, every deal. Now, the numbers on the right side: year to date, we have closed circa €180 million of investments, roughly half and half: €90 million on Neinor's balance sheet, €90 million through joint ventures.

Of that, around €160 million in build-to-sell, some 850 units, plus a new flex-living project of around €15 million. The pipeline keeps building: more than €350 million under analysis, €150 million in granular build-to-sell, and €200 million in alternative living and affordable projects.

The message is simple: we are not just delivering this year's results; we are deploying capital with discipline, with partners, and with less equity per euro of growth. That is the engine for the years ahead.

Now, I handle the presentation back to Jordi to review financials.

Jordi Argemí

Thanks, Mario. Now, before we jump into the financials, one more announcement, a special one for me.

I want to give a very warm welcome to our new CFO, Ayala Zubiaur. Ayala has been with this company for more than 10 years, and I'm truly honored that she's the one taking over my role as CFO.

Ayala will be with us for the full-year results. Today, as part of the transition, I will cover the financial section one last time.

Let's move into section number 4. Now the numbers: first column, what we have delivered; second, our guidance.

As you will see, every line is on track. Deliveries, as said many times: 2,400 units.

This compares to the full-year guidance ranging 5,000 to 7,000. Revenues reached €680 million: €632 million comes from the development business, and €28 million comes from ancillary divisions, mainly our own construction unit.

I would like to highlight that there are €20 million coming from the asset management business, already more than what we recorded in the whole year 2025. Very strong growth in our core business line as well as in asset management business, and a fulfillment of 40% of our annual objectives.

This figure excludes €100 million from the sale of Rio Real, expected to be concluded during the second half of this year. Now, profitability: in the first half, we have recorded €187 million of gross profit.

That means 27.6% gross margin. EBITDA recorded has been €119 million.

Two aspects here to highlight: first, on our cost structure, overheads are close to €40 million as we start to realize some synergies. Remember, for us, the critical element of the underwriting is delivery and execution, not cutting cost.

Second, a €10 million positive contribution from profits realized in the asset management business. This mainly relates to the sale of La Termica project, which was not assumed in the business plan, and where we had a 20% stake.

Then at the bottom line of the P&L, you can see we earned €54 million. Three concepts here to take into consideration versus the previous years: first, a relevant increase in one-offs.

This is mainly due to the purchase price allocation of Aedas acquisition, €30 million recorded in the first half. Remember that this is purely accounting with no cash impact.

Second, financial expenses have materially increased to €40 million, and this compares to €10 million of last year. This is mainly due to the Apollo €750 million senior secured notes.

As said at the beginning, we have started to repay this bond sooner than the original calendar: €66 million already repaid, and another €33 million to be executed soon. Actually, it will come tomorrow.

We took this decision given the strong cash flow generation and the excess cash available. Third, higher tax expenses: the Apollo's note expenses sit at a holding level, while profits are generated at the development companies, we cannot generate the tax shield.

This fiscal inefficiency was already factored into the business plan, and we are working on alternative to optimize it. Overall, the key message is that we are completely on track to achieve the net income target of €120 million to €140 million, which, once again, is adjusted for one-offs.

Finally, net debt broadly flat at €1,166 million in the first six months. There are a couple of impacts that are relevant.

On one side, we have distributed close to €170 million of dividends. On the other side, we have registered the second tender offer over Aedas, which has implied an investment of around €200 million.

Basically, we have funded 70% of the year's shareholder remuneration, increased our stake in Aedas to 97%, and began repaying the Apollo's notes ahead of schedule, and net debt stayed broadly flat. It shows the strong cash generation of this business.

With that, we reiterated every single target for 2026: deliveries, revenues, EBITDA, net income, and net debt. With that said, please follow me to the last slide of this presentation: the key takeaways.

Let me close with four messages that summarize the investment case of this company. First, the market: strong structural fundamentals and a persistent supply shortage.

As Borja showed before, demand is healthy, balance sheets are strong, and Spain simply doesn't build enough homes. All this in a fragmented market with limited access to capital.

Our scale is our real competitive advantage. Second, guidance: we reiterated every target for 2026, and we do it with multiyear visibility: almost 19,000 units under production, nearly half of them already sold.

2026 and 2027 are largely built and sold. This is not a forecast; it is a portfolio with significant execution embedded.

Third, cash flow: strong underlying margins maintained through the largest acquisition in our history, and that converts into cash. This semester, we funded 70% of the year's shareholder remuneration, increased our Aedas stake, and we began repaying the Apollo's note in advance, with net debt broadly flat.

Fourth, growth: further growth ahead, powered by an expanding asset management platform: more scale, more partners, less equity per euro of growth, that means higher returns. To summarize the semester in one line: we have integrated the largest acquisition in our history, delivered record results, and strengthened our visibility for the years ahead, all at the same time.

Thank you very much for your attention. Now we are happy to take your questions.

Operator

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We'll now move on to our first question. Our first question comes from the line of Ignacio Domínguez from JB Capital.

Please go ahead. Your line is open.

Ignacio Domínguez

Hello. Thank you for the presentation and for taking our questions.

I have a question on gross margins, looking specifically at the pure build-to-sell development business. What gross development margin do you expect in the second half?

Given the strong mix seen in the first half, do you expect total mix to remain strong in the second half? Thank you.

Jordi Argemí

Thank you. I take it.

That our guidance, no, for the full year is always the same, no, 24%, 25%. It's true that in the first semester we are above, that's a reality, no?

It's also true that when you look the past, our track record, despite our guidance that has been always the same 24%, 25%, we get an extra margin of 1% to 2%. Let's see, no, how we end the year.

I think that there are still a lot of challenges, no, operationally speaking. A lot of deliveries to be done in the second semester.

We prefer to be cautious and keep that 24%, 25% and keep that upside risk, no, for the year-end if we are able to get it.

Ignacio Domínguez

Okay. Thank you, Jordi.

Operator

Thank you. We'll now move on to our next question.

Our next question comes from the line of Fernando Abril-Martorell from Alantra. Please go ahead.

Your line is open.

Fernando Abril-Martorell

Hello, Borja, Jordi, and team. Thank you for taking my questions.

I have a few. Please, first on land sales: so can you give us more details around the €100 million disposal to Stoneshield?

When do you expect this to be closed in H2 or what is pending for this to be closed? Also linked to land disposals, in the AGM, you mentioned you wanted to sell around €400 million cumulative in '26 and '27.

What is the visibility on this today? Also, should we assume €100 million this year, €300 million next year?

Any comment on this would also be helpful. Second, on the Apollo's loan, you've early repaid €100 million out of the 750.

Maybe you can comment on any internal objective you may have of new repurchases in the near future, just to try to see how can we model the financial cost going forward. Third, on guidance, H1 EBITDA, you've almost reached 50% of the year target, and, well, the expected delivery volumes should be bigger in the second half.

Then on top, you may have the profit from the land sale to Stoneshield, no? My question is, I don't know if you can elaborate a little bit more on the guidance, because it seems quite prudent, especially if the land sale is finally closed before the year-end.

Also any comment on this would be very helpful. Last one, sorry, slide 13, there is a presales coverage ratios, 89%, 78% on the Neinor's fully owned portfolio, and Jordi, I think you've mentioned '28 is at 43%.

My question is, based on what targeted deliveries? What is internal delivery target you have for the fully owned portfolio?

Thank you, and sorry for the many questions.

Jordi Argemí

Fernando, a lot of questions. I have tried to write in a paper your questions.

I answer the last one, which is, to be clear, I don't know what I have said, but it should be 33%. If I have said 43%, is a typo.

Fernando Abril-Martorell

Probably

Jordi Argemí

I'll take it I said wrong, sorry for that. It's 33%, okay?

Okay. Perfect.

Going to your first question: land sale Rio Real, no? Rio Real is closed, by the way, that means we have signed the contracts.

The only thing is that pending so to some urbanistic milestones, and we do believe that these urbanistic milestones should be achieved, mainly in Q4, no, between October, November. It should be recorded by year-end, it is assumed.

Actually, in our business plan was already in our numbers. I also answered part, no, of your guidance question that Rio Real is not an upside, it's embedded, it's included, okay?

What else? The second question was about the €400 million land sales Mario will take it.

Mario Lapiedra

Regarding the disposals, for us, it's more rotation of equity and a way to create more JVs. This year, with Rio Real, we are covering the budget.

On top of that, we have had around €50 million of sale as is, small land plots nonstrategic that we sell in the market. For the next year, we are already working on potential vehicles with the land bank that would achieve the figures.

Potentially, we will anticipate, but today we are working on it.

Fernando Abril-Martorell

I guess, Mario, in this...

Mario Lapiedra

Yeah.

Fernando Abril-Martorell

...Just to follow up on this, Mario, I guess this €50 million is now in the market, plus new more for the next year. I guess this is all coming from Aedas?

Mario Lapiedra

No, the €50 million that we have sold are as sale as is, granular land plots from Aedas and Neinor, is the combined.

Fernando Abril-Martorell

Then

Mario Lapiedra

the other figure, we are working with both balance sheets.

Fernando Abril-Martorell

Okay. Thank you.

Jordi Argemí

Regarding your third question, that was about Apollo, Apollo's bond, you know that we have a kind of €180 million mandatory payment, no, on annual basis. What we have done is to accelerate, no, this €100 million mentioned in the call.

That means that we have €80 million left, no, for this year. Fernando, it's it's too soon, no, to to change, no, our our guidance only four months after the mandatory tender offer.

What we are trying is to improve everything. Probably at year by year-end, no, once we see, no, if we are able to accomplish with all our targets, or even go be above, we will see if we are in a position to to, to optimize even better, no, that that debt and and those those repayments.

Still, I think it's too soon to to take conclusions, okay? Regarding the fourth guy that was the guidance that I have already mentioned, no, part of it.

Rio Real is in the number, it's not an upside. Given that this depends on urbanistic milestones, that's why I was saying that we still have a lot of challenges to be achieved during the second semester, and we don't feel comfortable enough to say that we can go beyond the guidance we set to the market.

If this is conservative, cautious, this is relative, obviously, no, anyone can has, no, their their mindset in that sense. We prefer to say a number that for sure we will accomplish.

That in the last seven, eight years we have done it, and we want to continue with this strategy, no? Probably in October, November, we will be in a position to see if we achieve the numbers or if we can go beyond those commitments.

I think that we have covered your questions, but let me know if it's

Fernando Abril-Martorell

if anything is missing. There's only one, the last one: so the percentage of the 33% coverage ratio for '28 is just based on what is the ambitious for you guys to deliver in '28?

Jordi Argemí

That we never give guidance, no, in the third year, only in the very short term. In any case, should be the same range.

I think that in the next five years, we should be in a global deliveries of ranging 5,000 to 7,000 units.

Fernando Abril-Martorell

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

Operator

Thank you. There are no further audio questions at this time, I'll hand the call back to Jose for any web questions.

José Cravo

Thank you, Operator. We're just going through the questions in the webcast.

The first one is on the expected dividend payments throughout the rest of the year, if we can provide any additional color on the next payments.

Jordi Argemí

I take it. That we had a commitment of €250 million for the full year.

We have anticipated, as commented in the presentation, €170 million roughly. That means that we have still, no, €80 million left.

All the dividends in Neinor, when we say, no, the guidance and commitments, are always in the first quarter of the following year. Whatever we have done is just anticipate, and it should be an upside in that sense, no?

This €80 million left should be paid in January once we deliver and we generate that cash in the fourth quarter. If at some point in time we feel that we have strong visibility and we have available cash, obviously, as always, we will anticipate it.

José Cravo

Thank you, Jordi. Then we have another question regarding Aedas on what are the benefits and costs of keeping the company listed.

Jordi Argemí

No, I think that there is no real benefit, no, to have Aedas listed. There is only 3% free float, which is, as you can imagine, nothing.

There is no liquidity. For us, this doesn't change.

We are operating as a group, as we explain very clearly, no, in the tender offer prospectus. For us, there is no change.

The only costs are minor, are irrelevant, just to be listed and to have two independent directors at the board level. In any case, even not being listed, we would have those independent board members, because it's good for us and for the good transition.

José Cravo

Thank you, Jordi. On the next one, it's about cost inflation, if we can give an estimate of what we are seeing this year and the potential impact on our guidance.

Jordi Argemí

I have said that in the presentation, the cost inflation that we foresee is the mid- to high single digit. Let's see, no, how we end the year, if it's a 6% or 8%, let's see where we end.

In any case, with a 5% HPA, we should offset, no, any cost inflation, we don't foresee any erosion of the margins. On the contrary, as we were mentioning, no, I think that there is more upside risk than downside risk in that sense.

Remember that when we project, we don't consider HPA nor cost inflation. As far as we have both variables, no, and they offset each other, we are in the good position to at least keep the guidance, no, of the last year.

José Cravo

Thank you, Jordi. The last question, it's about the capital location in the company, and how do we prioritize further dividend acceleration, debt repayment, and new investments?

Jordi Argemí

It's not an easy question. I think it's a balance, no, and we have to monitor during the course of the year.

In regards of your last point, investment, you know that we have six years of land bank, in theory, we don't need to invest in land this year. There is no rush.

This doesn't mean that we will not buy, because if we see opportunistic deals, we will jump. We are developers, no?

Actually, in our numbers internally, we have €150 million of budget, out of which roughly €40 million have been invested, still we have €110 million that we are not obliged to invest, but we have optionality. Regarding the dividends, you know that we have €250 million commitment, €170 million distributed, only €80 million left, no, to accomplish with the commitment.

That means that the focus probably in the second semester, no, would be more on the deleveraging of the company with the cash generation. I think in the very, very short term, once we have accomplished with the shareholder remuneration, we would be deleveraging the company.

I think it's fair, it's good, and we will be stronger as company for what can come in the coming years.

José Cravo

Thank you, Jordi. With this question, we finish the half-year results webcast.

Thanks, everyone, for joining, and if you have any further questions, we are available to take it. I would like to finish by wishing you a good everyone.

Thank you. Thank you.

Jordi Argemí

Thank you.

Borja García-Egotxeaga

Thank you.

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