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Q2 FY2026 · Earnings Call TranscriptJuly 17, 2026

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Operator

Welcome to Hemnet's Q2 Conference Call. For the first part of the conference call, the participants will be in listen-only mode.

During the questions-and-answer session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key five on their telephone keypad. I will hand the conference over to the speakers.

Please go ahead.

Operator

Jonas Gustafsson

Good morning, everyone, and a warm welcome to this 2026 Q2 release call for Hemnet Group. My name is Jonas Gustafsson, and I'm the Group CEO of Hemnet.

We are a slightly bigger group than usual today, given the extended agenda. I'm joined here at our Stockholm headquarters by our Chief Financial Officer, Anders Örnulf, our Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Farrar, our Chief Technology Officer, Hanna Lindqvist, and our Head of Investor Relations, Ludvig Segelmark.

We have called for an extended session to cover an update on some important strategic and commercial topics and will therefore have a slightly longer presentation than usual. Let's have a brief look at the agenda and what we have ahead of us for the coming 120 minutes.

We will start with a normal quarterly presentation where we will go through the financials and a business update from Q2. After that, we will follow up with a deep dive on Hemnet's market position, followed by a deep dive on both the commercial and product side as well as the technical and AI side.

There will be opportunities to ask questions at the end of the presentation. We will combine the Q2 Q&A with a deep dive Q&A into one session at the end of the presentation.

Today's presentation will be moderated by our operator. Please follow the operator's instructions to ask questions through the provided dial-in details.

With that, let's get started. During the quarter, net sales decreased by 23%, driven by lower listing volumes, paired with a timing shift in revenue recognition from Sell First, Pay Later.

The financial results reflect an expected transitional phase following the nationwide rollout of Sell First, Pay Later. Anders will explain this revenue recognition effect in more detail further on in the presentation.

Published listings declined by 14% and amounted to 43.3 thousand. Paid listings came in at a total of 32.9K, with a difference between paid and published listings being explained by the Sell First, Pay Later listings that were published but not yet sold in the quarter.

ARPL, Average Revenue Per Listing, grew by 12.4% in Q2, driven by higher demand for Hemnet value-added services. The EBITDA margin amounted to 46.4% in Q2.

The lower margin year-over-year is explained by lower revenues driving lower fixed-cost leverage. As volumes improve and our Sell First, Pay Later listings continue to convert into sold listings, we will see a stronger margin development going forward.

Net sales amounted to SEK 372 million, down 23% compared to Q2 last year, driven by a combination of a timing effect on revenue recognition from the introduction of Sell First, Pay Later and a decline in listing volumes during the quarter. As a result of the lower net sales, EBITDA decreased by 33.9% to SEK 172 million.

Lower revenues lead to lower fixed cost leverage, which explains the lower margin in the quarter. The EBITDA margin amounted to 46.4%.

As per usual, Anders will break down these profitability dynamics in more detail as we move on in the presentation. In Q2, we saw a sequential improvement of listing volumes compared to the previous quarter.

Published listings decreased by 14.3% year-on-year in the second quarter. The trend improvement in number of listing versus the previous quarter is driven by a number of factors.

Number one, the launch and the rollout of Sell First, Pay Later. Number two, the introduction of strategic partnerships.

Number three, new regulations implemented by the beginning of the quarter. Number four, more healthy online market transaction dynamics.

The market remains soft; the slow market also continues to be negatively impacted by longer selling times. The average listing duration on Hemnet has increased by 33% year-on-year to 64 days, compared to 48 days in the same period during the last year.

Please remember that this is a LTM figure. This number is also impacted by the higher number of transactions that we saw in April and onwards, where more old inventory was sold, which pushed up the age of the sold listings on the platform.

I will break this down in more detail on the next slide. All in all, a broader market recovery is progressing slightly slower than anticipated at the start of the year, but we do see clear signs of gradual improvement during Q2.

From the spring of 2022 up until the fall of 2025, we had a gradual and steady buildup of supply of listings on Hemnet. That means that during this three-year period, more listings were published on Hemnet and in the market that were sold.

During the second half of 2025, this trend started to reverse. During the first half of 2026, we've seen a declining year-on-year trend for the first time since 2022.

This follows a pattern that we've seen historically, where a period of oversupply is followed by a correction where the number of transactions outweighs the number of new listings on the platform. From a short-term perspective, this has a negative impact on Hemnet, but from an overarching level, this positively impacts the market dynamics in the quarters to come.

In 2021, almost 80% of sold listings were less than 30 days old. In 2026, the same number is 44%.

On the same note, in 2021, only 5% of sold properties had been on the platform for longer than 90 days, whereas today, that number is almost 30%. As the property market is showing signs of improvement and recovery, more sellers and buyers are able to meet, which is driving more transactions and more of the existing supply being sold.

This has a short-term effect on the listing days development, but is very positive going forward as it opens up for new listings to come to the market and onto the platform. The Swedish property market is showing signs of improvement going into the second half of this year.

In Q2, transactions on the property market increased by 11% compared to the same period last year, driven by the eased credit restrictions that were put into play on the 1st of April. A more active market where sellers and buyers are able to meet is very positive for Hemnet and tends to drive more listings to the platform over time.

After several years of a higher interest rate environment, rates have stabilized into 2026. A stable interest rate environment creates predictability for buyers and sellers, which is a good sign for the period to come.

We have also seen a strong price development in Q2 2026. During the quarter, prices increased by 6.2% for apartments year-on-year, while the development for detached houses was +4.5%.

In addition to the strong price performance, we're also seeing a continued positive market sentiment on price expectations in our monthly buyer barometer, where a significant share of prospective buyers expect prices to continue to increase in the coming six months. The share expecting prices to come down continues to be below historical averages.

All in all, there are a number of positive signs that indicate that the market will be stronger during the second half of next year and next year, which will help listing volumes on the platform as well. With that, I will hand over to Anders for a financial update.

Anders, over to you.

Jonas Gustafsson

Anders Örnulf

Thank you, Jonas. As Jonas mentioned earlier, we are seeing a gradually improving market environment.

While the volume of new published listings fell by 14% year-on-year, this represents a significant recovery compared to the steeper declines we experienced in the first quarter. The underlying volume trend, combined with the deferred revenue effects from our Sell First, Pay Later model, resulted in a 23% decline in net sales, landing at SEK 372 million.

While paid listings fell by 35%, the widening gap between published and paid listings is driven by the SFPL listings that remained unsold at the end of the quarter. I want to emphasize that Q2 is the peak quarter for absorbing the financial impact of this transition.

Following our nationwide rollout in April, where the service was offered to all property sellers for the first time, we naturally saw a high volume of initial listings under the new model but with a relatively low share of listings actually sold and invoiced during the period. The vast majority of the revenue decline stems directly from this timing effect.

In Q2, 40%-45% of all published listings were under the SFPL model. At the same time, we are building a clear pipeline of around 10,000 unsold listings, which will be realized as revenue as these properties are sold going forward.

Also, on a positive note, we continue to see strong underlying performance in our paid ARPL, growing 12.4%, once again proving the sustained and increasing demand for our value-added services. Another noteworthy point is the average listing time, which on a rolling 12-month basis increased from 48 days in Q2 2025 to 57 days in Q1 2026 and now 64 days in Q2 2026.

The year-on-year effect of the longer listing duration time is negative SEK 13 million in revenue, and the sequential effect of the seven additional days from Q1 to Q2 is negative SEK 5.5 million. The development of listing duration time is important even at a time when parts of the revenue are recognized in full upon invoicing.

Listing sold as pay now and pay when the listing is removed are recognized over the advertising period. EBITDA for the quarter amounted to SEK 172 million, corresponding to a margin of 46.4%.

The margin contraction is primarily explained by the lower net sales, as we maintain a large portion of fixed costs that cannot be fully adjusted in the short term to offset the drop in listings. One important component in the EBITDA margin is compensation to real estate agents.

When expressed as a percentage of property seller revenue, this ratio increased year-over-year from 30%-31.4% in Q2 2026, driven by a further improvement in both recommendation rates and actual conversion. The high commission reflects a substantially stronger underlying improvement in our value-added products.

I will walk you through the specific cost dynamics in more detail on the following slides. The increase in leverage to 1.1x is primarily an effect of our active capital allocation, combined with a drop in paid listings during the period affecting rolling 12-month EBITDA.

Notably, we expanded our share buyback program from SEK 450 million-SEK 600 million at the 2025 AGM, and the current mandate from 2026 remains at SEK 600 million. We ended the quarter with a headcount of 184, representing a strategic increase of 19 employees compared to the same period last year.

This growth was primarily driven by reinforcement within product and tech, as well as new resources within the sales team to enhance engagement with the agent community. Additionally, we have strengthened our marketing capabilities.

Our largest segment, property sellers, which we have previously covered, generated revenue of SEK 318 million. Revenue from real estate agents decreased by 8%.

While this was impacted by the weak market volumes, it was partially offset by the continued growth in our Sold by Us product. Revenue from property developers increased by 1%.

This reflects lower display revenue on reduced listing volumes offset by our new annual subscription package launched in January 2026. Revenue from other advertisers increased by 7% to SEK 17 million from continued growth from bank integration and also demonstrated our ability to improve performance with price.

The B2B segment is performing well despite the fact that the lower volume of listings reduces impressions, which negatively impacts display sales across the B2B business. Continued optimization and focus on Hemnet's unique products are making a significant difference, keeping B2B revenue broadly flat, down 1.6% year-on-year.

Turning to our EBITDA bridge, we can clearly see the dynamics at play this quarter. We start with an EBITDA of SEK 261 million for the second quarter of last year.

The primary impact, and by far the largest, of course, comes from net sales, which had a negative effect of SEK 112 million. Once again, a majority of that negative revenue is from SFPL, where revenue is recognized only when the property is sold.

Compensation to agents decreased in line with a decline in revenue from property sellers, resulting in a positive impact. Other external expenses increased by SEK 6 million, largely due to overall marketing spend.

This was aimed at capturing earlier traffic and listings leading up to and alongside the launch of SFPL. Personnel costs increased by SEK 3.2 million, driven by headcount expansion and salary inflation.

However, cost growth is not pacing directly with the headcount, as our average FTE count remains below our total headcount. Finally, other items had a positive impact of SEK 3 million, driven by higher year-over-year capitalized development costs for our own staff, underscoring our intensified focus on product development.

In total, this results in an EBITDA for the quarter of SEK 173 million. Our rolling 12-month free cash flow amounted to SEK 621 million.

While our lower EBITDA is reflected in this figure, we maintain a highly robust cash conversion rate. This cash generation, combined with a strong balance sheet, enables us to consistently return capital to our shareholders.

As illustrated, we repurchased shares for SEK 147 million during the second quarter, representing approximately 1.5 million shares. At the current valuation, we view the share buyback program as an exceptionally attractive capital allocation tool that allows us to deliver significant value to our shareholders alongside our dividend.

Turning to the chart on the right, you can see our net debt and leverage ratio. Net debt stood at SEK 689 million, representing a leverage ratio of 1.1.

While this represents an increase compared to previous quarters, we remain comfortably below our long-term financial target of under 2x, ensuring we retain substantial financial flexibility. In line with maintaining this flexibility, we've secured a SEK 50 million extension of our revolving credit facility, bringing our total credit facility to SEK 900 million.

This extension was driven by a one-off effect related to the implementation of SFPL, coupled with our ongoing commitment to our attractive share buyback program. With that, I will hand the call back to Jonas to summarize the quarter.

Anders Örnulf

Jonas Gustafsson

Thank you, Anders, and thanks for this part of the presentation. Given that today's presentation represents the last update to the market from your perspective, I wanted to take the opportunity, both from a personal but also from a Hemnet perspective, to thank you for a great collaboration and strong contributions over the last three and a half years.

You've been a great colleague, a good friend, and a true professional. Best of luck in your future endeavors, and we'll stay in touch.

To sum up the second quarter, we do see an improvement listing performance in a continued hesitant market; we do see a continued strong ARPU development. The main highlights, a decline in net revenues and EBITDA, reflect an accepted transitional phase following the nationwide rollout of Sell First, Pay Later.

Paid ARPU growth of 12% in Q2, driven by continued high demand for Hemnet value-added services. Sign of gradual improvement in the Swedish property market in Q2.

Transactions are increasing and supply is coming down. Despite launching a number of new strategic initiatives, such as Sell First, Pay Later, and bringing live features to the strategic partnerships, such as the Under-the-radar feature, we are not satisfied with the quarter; we're working at an accelerated pace to announce and to deliver the next wave of strategic initiatives.

That sums up the first part of the presentation; we now progress into the second part around our strategic priority areas. In this second part of the presentation, we wanted to take the opportunity to provide a deep dive on Hemnet's business.

Firstly, I will go through and present Hemnet's current market position, how the market is evolving, and what our main focus areas are going forward. Secondly, our Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Farrar, will provide an update on our key product initiatives and the commercial roadmap.

Thirdly, our CTO, Hanna Lindqvist, will provide a deep dive on how we work with AI across the organization. With that, let's get started with the second leg of this presentation.

Let me start with a backdrop. The Swedish property market looks different today than it did just a few years ago from quite a few different perspectives.

Consumer behavior has changed. A slower market has driven a new kind of behavior; the way people buy and sell homes today isn't the same as before.

Secondly, increased competition and an evolving industry value chain. We're seeing new players entering our space.

Mostly, we're seeing new dynamics between agents, portals, and sellers. Thirdly, new technology that's shifting user expectations.

At the same time, enabling much faster product development on our side. I will walk through each of these in turn because understanding them is essential and crucial to understanding our strategic priorities and how we plan ahead.

Selling and buying a property in Sweden follows a different logic today compared to a few years ago. The three datasets that we showcase on this slide illustrate this clearly.

Firstly, sales cycles are getting longer. Average listing days on our platform have risen steadily in the past four years, from 20 days in Q1 2022 to 64 days in Q2 2026.

The longer sales cycles are impacting how properties are being listed from a strategic perspective. Secondly, more sellers are selling before they buy.

Back in March 2022, 65% of people bought their next home before selling their current one. Today, that has flipped.

We see a reverse pattern. Around 64% sell first.

That is a meaningful shift in how people approach a move. Driving the intent level to sell throughout the extended sales cycle.

Thirdly, property price development has been weak. Both nominal and real Swedish apartment prices have been essentially flat to negative since 2022, with real prices being meaningfully below where they started.

This weak price development is creating lock-in effects, especially in the high-volume apartment segment, which has impacted listing volumes negatively. All in all.

As a sum, these trends have driven a shift in market dynamics and consumer behavior. An increasingly prominent pre-market characterized by lower seller intent, longer sales processes, and a changed way of working among real estate agents.

This pre-market has had a direct measurable effect on Hemnet. Sold properties published on Hemnet decreased by 5% in 2025, while total market transactions increased slightly year-on-year.

That combination lowered our share of sold properties by 7 percentage points in 2025 compared to 2024. The reason is straightforward.

As more of the sales cycle happens on the pre-market, more properties are being sold before they reach Hemnet. This is a trend that we're clearly not happy with.

We're 100% committed to addressing this challenge. We will, during today's presentation, come back on this and how we attack the pre-market challenge.

These evolving market dynamics are shifting both consumer expectations and agent behavior. Pre-market listings, that is, properties being marketed before they are formally for sale, are becoming increasingly relevant as listings are being published earlier.

Transactions are happening earlier in the sales cycle. The longer sales cycles.

The sell-before-buy dynamics have emphasized this trend. At the same time, we're seeing new market entrants popping up that scrape content from real estate agents' own websites.

These new platforms get access to a lot of supply. They lack the traffic and reach to actually convert that supply into transactions.

As a response to that, sellers and agents want to regain control of their own sales cycle, which is a strength of the Hemnet platform. That's led to more early phase Under-the-radar listings being placed behind login, which has added effect on the limiting the ability of scraping sites to republish that content without consent.

We've seen this trend clearly materializing during the last month and during the second quarter with the Hemnet-Svensk Fastighetsförmedling collaboration, Bonnier launching Smygtitt, which would be sneak peek in English, and Fastighetsbyrån launching Förtur, which would be priority listing in English. Despite changing market dynamics and a competitive dynamic, Hemnet's core position remains extremely strong.

Hemnet has almost 40 million sessions per month, about 2.5 times more than our closest competitor. On a per-listing basis, we have roughly four times more sessions per published listing than our nearest competitor had in 2025.

While the competitive landscape is evolving, our audience advantages remain substantial. Hemnet's core model is strong; changing market dynamics require adoption and change to cater to the new circumstances.

Our overarching strategic ambition is simple to state. Hemnet, every step of the journey for every property transaction.

That ambition rests on six pillars that reinforce each other. Number one, we should have all the relevant listings.

Number two, we're the number one partner for agents, property developers, and banks. Number three, we're top of mind with the largest property audience in Sweden.

Number four, we know our users and give them a superior experience. Number five, we hold the most comprehensive and valuable data set in the market.

Number six, all of this has been built on more than 25 years of relationships with the real estate agent industry. That foundation is strong, just as I've shown you; changing market dynamics mean that we cannot stand still.

We need to actively adapt each of these pillars for where the market is heading to ensure that we continue to win, and we will win. At our Q4 presentation and business update that we conducted in end of January earlier this year, we outlined four strategic priorities for the first part of the year.

Number one, launching Sell First, Pay Later nationwide to address the emerging pre-market and lower the barriers to use Hemnet. Number two, building out strategic partnerships with agents and franchises to strengthen collaboration with key players in the industry.

Number three, leveraging AI and product innovation to accelerate what we build and get better return on investments from our products and tech teams. Number four, increase our sales and marketing efforts.

On an overall and on a summary level, we have executed and implemented all of these. Sell First, Pay Later launched countrywide in April after a gradual geographical rollout, and it had a strong uptake from day one.

The share of sellers choosing this payment option has been stable at 40%-45% since the nationwide rollout, an adoption rate we are quite pleased with and which is very much in line with our expectations going into the launch. The new model has been well-received among both sellers and agents and has successfully lowered the barriers to list on Hemnet while generating increasing customer satisfaction.

In Q2, seller NPS for Sell First, Pay Later was seven percentage points higher than for our other payment options. Sell First, Pay Later is also contributing to ARPA growth.

The VAS conversion, the uptake of our value-added services, was more than 5 percentage points higher among sellers using this option compared to other payment methods in the quarter. We're also seeing that the number of listings with Sell First, Pay Later that are sold and the time it takes for those properties to sell are very much in line with our expectations.

We launched our strategic partnerships in Q1 2026, with onboarded partners receiving increased branding and more exposure on the platform. We've seen a strong interest from across the market.

More than 100 strategic partnerships were signed during the first half of 2026, representing more than 30% of the market, and we have signed nine out of the largest 20 franchises into the partnership agreements. After being live with the partnership for a few months, we're now very happy to see how some of our largest partners are really leaning into the model, proving the value that they see in the Hemnet platform.

Svensk Fastighetsförmedling went live with Under-the-radar or Underhand in June with a full countrywide rollout from the 1st of July. Lisa will provide more details on this in her section later on in the presentation.

We're very happy with the initial feedback and the data, and the number of additional strategic partners are set to join Under-the-radar or Underhand within a short period of time. Beyond these two strategic initiatives, AI has enabled us to significantly accelerate our product development in 2026.

In the first half of the year, we've added more features than ever to the platform, including Hemnet Home Potential, which shows sellers the development potential for their property. Under-the-radar listings, which enable agents and sellers to publish properties earlier while still maintaining control in the cycle.

In our home segment, a way for sellers to initially get an early introduction indications from buyers' interest before committing to a full sales process; conversational search, which I know Hanna will cover more in detail; and a reimagination feature that lets users visualize a property restyled. These are just a few examples of the new features we've added to Hemnet in the past couple of months, and Lisa will go through more in detail of some of these later on in the presentation.

With AI changing product development and features on the platform, does that mean that AI is also changing the way Swedes are searching for their next property? The honest answer, based on data, is not in any material way.

AI services have become part of everyday life, and the majority of Swedes are now using AI services on a weekly basis. Despite that widespread usage, traffic from LLMs to Hemnet remains very low, still significantly below 0.1% of our total sessions.

What AI is doing is changing what product features users expect from us. It is not, at this point, meaningful change how users find their way to Hemnet or how they search for properties once they're there.

Still, a very low part of our traffic comes from the LLMs. Over the last 18 months, we've done a lot.

We've done a lot of things. Firstly, we have transformed our culture, where more focus has been put on accelerating operational efficiency and output generation across the organization.

We have implemented a clear strategic roadmap where supply and traffic are our top priorities. We have increased our sales efforts and are working more closely with agents than ever before, and we've put a stronger focus on marketing and brand, which is already showing visible and tangible results in our brand metrics.

This has led to increased productivity. We've launched significant strategic initiatives over the last six months, including Sell First, Pay Later and the strategic partnerships, and we're deploying more product updates and features than ever before, enabled by the new culture and fueled by AI adoption.

There is more to come. We are not satisfied with the development, and we're working harder than ever to bring more supply to the platform.

We have accelerated our development pace, and we will continue rolling out new improvements to make Hemnet as value-creating as a platform possibly can be for sellers, buyers, and real estate agents. Despite the changing market environment that I've described, Hemnet maintains a uniquely strong market position.

Number one, we have superior traffic; we have superior reach. Number two, we have an industry-leading brand built and nurtured over more than 25 years of market leadership.

Number three, we have the scale to win through continued marketing and technology investments. We hold a structured and proprietary data collection that we've collected over the last 25 years, which is now enabling a whole new suite of AI products for buyers, sellers, and agents.

We have deeply integrated industry relationships supported by an active and more frequent sales force. We have a proven platform that significantly increases the chance of a successful outcome for sellers, meaning getting better bidding premiums and selling your properties in a shorter period of time.

Looking ahead, we will continue to build from our strong market position. With nearly 40 million monthly sessions and exceptional brand awareness, Hemnet remains the engine for Swedish property search.

Our core value proposition relies on gathering all buyers and sellers in one place, providing a complete overview for the market. We are deploying new product features that solidify Hemnet's role throughout the homeownership journey, creating more value for all our stakeholders and further strengthening Hemnet's network effects.

The strategic initiatives that we have launched during the year have helped to capture more listings at an earlier stage in the selling process; it's also very clear for us that they're not enough. It's very clear for us that we need to do more.

Securing all listings from the beginning of the transaction life cycle is our highest priority. From a strategic perspective going forward, we are working at an accelerated pace to announce and deliver the next wave of strategic initiatives as we approach the cyclical listing peak of the autumn.

With those words, I will hand over to our Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Farrar, who will take on a journey and talk a bit about some of the products that we've already taken to the market. With that, over to you, Lisa.

Jonas Gustafsson

Lisa Farrar

Thank you, Jonas. Before I take you through our product strategy, latest product launches, and how I view our future direction, I wanted to start off with the very foundation of how we build our product strategy, why we do what we do.

Hemnet's business is built on network effects, and everything we build and are building is designed to make that flywheel turn faster. It starts with the key to the network effects, which is supply.

The more listings we have on the platform, the more users we attract and the more often they come back. A larger, more engaged audience makes Hemnet a more attractive place for sellers, agents, and partners, which drives value for all of our stakeholders and therefore more opportunities to drive growth.

Supply attracts demand attracts supply, and the loop reinforces itself. We believe everything we build should make these network effects stronger for agents, sellers, and buyers alike.

Our ambition holds firm, and our execution at the start of 2026 has been centered on delivering against it. As Jonas covered, we've communicated several key strategic initiatives so far this year, and just as importantly, we've delivered on them.

Sell First, Pay Later went from announcement to full nationwide rollout within a quarter. Strategic partnerships went from zero to +100 agreements, including nine of the 20 largest franchise firms.

Under-the-radar, bringing the invisible market onto Hemnet is live with our first strategic partner, with others in active discussion to join. Together, these initiatives are how we hit the ground running in 2026.

We're shipping more value and better products than ever before. They've laid the foundation on which we've continued to build from when forming the next chapter of Hemnet.

Three main forces are structurally reshaping property search, and together they're forming a new era for us, as Jonas previously referenced. First, we're operating in a market that demands more from Hemnet.

Buyers are demanding to see as many properties as possible and more information than ever before. Sales cycles are longer, with more emphasis on the pre-market stage.

Given the sell-before-you-buy shift, sellers only transact if all criteria are met, significantly impacting seller intent. Secondly, our users expect more.

Users demand new ways of discovering property beyond a static list. They expect personalized, interactive, and extensive property information and decision support.

AI enables us to provide that elevated, personalized experience, which we showcase in several of our latest product releases. Hanna, our CTO, will dive deeper into our user-centric approach to AI in a moment.

Thirdly, we have to be present earlier in the property journey. We're evolving from a platform that serves high-intent sellers at the point of selling into a lifelong customer relationship, one that partners with homeowners through every stage of their property and sales journey.

With an efficient platform, rich user data, a superior product, and an unmatched brand and reach, we stand prepared to build for a new era from a position of strength. A new era demands a new relationship with our users.

We are moving from an on-sale listing platform, one that meets users only when they've already decided to buy or sell, to a lifelong property ecosystem present at every stage of the home ownership journey. As we summarize it, Hemnet all the way.

That ecosystem has three stages. Buy, own, and sell, all fueled by a close partnership with real estate agents and a clear focus on marketing and sales.

When we provide value in every part of that ecosystem and build relationships with Swedish property buyers, owners, and sellers, we manage to strengthen all aspects that contribute to our network effects while providing more value for real estate agents. In the buy stage, we're building an interactive and personalized experience for people searching for their next home.

On the own stage, we're partnering with homeowners who seek information, decision support, and guidance through the largest investment of their lives, while also taking position when homeowners are taking their very first step towards selling their property by leaning into the off-market, the period before a property is formally listed. In the sell stage, we're securing supply by bringing the invisible market onto Hemnet and continuously lowering the barriers to list.

Underpinning all of these stages is a true partnership with real estate agents, where we are uniquely positioned to deliver value to agents through data, through leads, through intent tracking, and partnering with them at every step of their journey. All of this is fueled by an increased sales and marketing focus to keep building relationships side by side with the industry and making sure we are top of mind for all things property-related.

We're actively building and strengthening this ecosystem, continuously launching new features and services for real estate agents and our millions of weekly active users across the buy, own, and sell stages. This momentum strengthens our relationships across the board, which in turn reinforces our strongest moat and unmatched position and brand.

On the agent relationship side, we've expanded our strategic partnerships with Under-the-radar listings that I will talk more about in a minute. A core focus has also been to elevate agency branding and generate more leads to agents.

This has been done through opening up more lead generation sources and ensuring lead generation for agents sits at the very core of our products. Let me share an example of the impact of our seller lead features.

We know Hemnet is a primary catalyst for an agent's next listing. In fact, half of all sellers who connect with an agent through our platform list their property with that specific same agent.

For our strategic partners, we elevate this advantage even further by ensuring premium visibility across our seller touchpoints. Proceeding to the buy stage, we are powering our supply with more intelligent discovery for our buyers.

During H1, we delivered on this by giving our buyers property X-ray vision with Hemnet Home Potential, which is now live as a beta, while also launching and scaling conversational search. Earlier this year, we launched an AI-enabled personalized starting page.

We are also live inside ChatGPT, and we have property sold price history live. In the own stage, we are engaging homeowners earlier.

Focusing on homeowners through My Hemnet allows us to cultivate deeper relationships with our most frequent visitors across their entire property journey. This is a key to scaling the Hemnet ecosystem and driving stronger network effects.

For the sell stage, we are launching new products to secure more supply on Hemnet. By launching Under-the-radar listings, we are now bringing a previously invisible market to Hemnet.

Together with our launch, Sell First, Pay Later, we are continuously lowering barriers to listing. Each of these products reinforces our most important and long-standing moat and unrivaled position and brand at the very center of the Swedish property ecosystem.

For the buying stage, we are completing Sweden's property market with a new product called Home Potential. Traditionally, finding out if you can invest in a property through rebuilding and expanding and knowing if it is a good investment requires weeks, if not months, of work and bureaucracy.

This product, using AI to ingest 240 fragmented data sources, including 30 analog sources, gives buyers those answers instantly. Digitizing 15 years of building permits, development plans, risk maps, and renovation history and connecting all of it directly to a Hemnet listing creates a unique data asset that is difficult to replicate.

What does that mean in practice? Buyers get immediate AI-identified answers about building rights, risks, and development potential.

Things like lucrative investment potential or necessary renovations, right inside the listing in real-time. Sellers get all the relevant documentation assembled upfront, and agents, well, they get a head start going into every intake meeting.

We are launching Home Potential together with a partner. It has been live as a pilot since July 1st, and scale-up is now ongoing.

We see this as a way to strongly increase the value we provide in segments where we have additional room to monetize. For the owning stage, we are engaging the 3.5 million homeowners in Sweden beyond registering a home through an evolution of My Hemnet, where homeowners get more data, insights, and can initiate their selling journey.

Our most engaged users of Hemnet are those that have registered their own home on the platform. They generate 75% more sessions than the average user, which makes them a highly prioritized segment for us to leverage and grow.

With My Home growth being a priority for us, we have driven a 73% increase in registered My Homes in the last 12 months, and we continue to see good traction. Capitalizing on data that shows that more than a third of Swedish homeowners are open to selling under the right price and conditions, our next evolution of My Home is to provide our users the ability to understand the value of the property and potential interest.

We see this working in three simple steps. First, activate.

From My Home, a homeowner indicates that they are interested in selling. They are prompted to contact an agent to receive evaluation.

Secondly, signal. A pin appears on the map, and buyers can show real interest and demand that the homeowner can see building up in real-time.

Thirdly, agent handoff. When the homeowner is ready, they contact an agent, and that agent receives a seller lead that already comes with a tested price and real, demonstrated buyer demand attached.

With this, we see the potential to increase mobility on the Swedish property market by allowing homeowners to test real demand before they commit to a sale. Agents gain access to more and earlier and warmer leads.

Buyers, well, they get access to unique properties on Hemnet that they wouldn't otherwise see. This is a genuine win-win across the ecosystem.

For the selling stage, we're continuing to lower the barriers to list and bringing the invisible market onto Hemnet through our newly launched product, Under-the-radar, or in Swedish, Underhand. Since going live on July 1st, Under-the-radar gives our strategic partners the ability to publish upcoming listings behind login in the upcoming result list at no cost.

Under-the-radar is designed to target early listings that are in the very beginning of their sales cycle. For partners who have chosen to use Hemnet for a controlled behind-login launch, the listings are available on Hemnet before reaching the broader market.

For buyers, it means a first look at homes that would otherwise be entirely invisible to the market. We've had a very promising start for Under-the-radar listings.

In the first half of July, we already saw more than 1,000 published listings. Our strategic partner, Svensk Fastighetsförmedling, has been our launch partner in this new initiative.

Their new way of working means that all of their new listings are automatically published as Under-the-radar listings at Hemnet. Together with Sell First, Pay Later, we're lowering the barriers to list to secure more supply on Hemnet and are fully committed to continuously evolving our platform to ensure that Hemnet remains the comprehensive, engaging, and commercially powerful marketplace it has always been.

We're continuing to have relentless focus on products to drive supply to Hemnet, and we will keep developing products in the short term designed to do just that. Now I want to zoom in on the sales and marketing engine behind everything I've just walked you through.

We keep leveraging our presence to keep our flywheel running faster through our side-by-side presence with the real estate industry and continuing efforts to strengthen our brand. Our sales team continues to be a strategic pillar of how we go to market.

We're in the next wave of sales transformation, ensuring our sales organization serves as genuine trusted advisors for every real estate agent in Sweden. We've strengthened the team itself with dedicated sales representatives, customer success managers, and customer support agents.

We've continued to deepen our proximity to the industry. More boots on the ground, meeting agents face-to-face where they are.

That proximity showed up directly in the Sell First, Pay Later rollout. Our sales team contacted more than 7,000 agents, held 700 in-person sales meetings, and met with more than 2,000 agents.

That's the kind of hands-on execution that turns a real launch into adoption. On the brand side, we ran a nationwide campaign earlier this year under the theme More Eyes on Your Ad, and it moved the numbers that matter.

We saw improvements across the board: awareness, top of mind, consideration, and preference. Once again, we hit the top score on brand awareness amongst property sellers at 97%.

Together, this is what strengthened sales and marketing engine looks like in practice. More agents met, more trust built, and a brand that keeps leading.

To close, I want to bring this back to the big picture. This year, we've done more and moved faster than at any point in Hemnet's history.

Where it made sense, we've been willing to take bigger and bolder steps too. Sell First, Pay Later; strategic partnerships; Under-the-radar—these weren't incremental tweaks.

They were structural changes to how sellers, agents, and buyers use our platform. That's really the point.

We're moving from a platform that connects a buyer and a seller once to an ecosystem that stays relevant across someone's entire relationship with a property. Before they sell, while they own, and long after they've bought.

That shift means more engagement with Hemnet at every stage. In practice, this means three things.

A data advantage that deepens with every transaction. Seller, buyer, and agent intelligence all in one place.

It moves us closer to the actual transaction, not just the moment of discovery; it opens up monetization opportunities that go well beyond a single listing. None of this works without supply.

Supply is still the foundation everything else here is built on. It's what makes our flywheel turn; it's what we're focused on most.

We've made real progress this year, but we're not done; there's more to come on this front very soon. Of course, AI, both in our products and in how we work, has an instrumental part to play in all of this, which Hanna will talk you through next.

With that, I will hand you over to our CTO, Hanna Lindqvist.

Lisa Farrar

Hanna Lindqvist

Thank you, Lisa. My name is Hanna, and for the past 18 months, I have served as chief technology officer at Hemnet.

I've spent 25 years in tech. I lived through the dot-com boom and crash and the mobile revolution, and I worked in TV during the shift to streaming.

Most recently, I've spent five years building and scaling marketplaces at Vend and here at Hemnet. I mention this not to list credentials but to give you perspective.

I've seen several moments where technology genuinely rewrote the rules of an industry, where the question wasn't if things would change but how fast and who would be ready. I can tell you with conviction, 2026 is the most exciting moment I've seen in my career.

What's happening with AI isn't incremental; it's transformational, and it will likely exceed what streaming did to media. Here is what those past transitions have also taught me.

Excitement without discipline is how companies get hurt. The winners weren't the fastest movers.

They were the ones who moved with clarity, who knew what they were building and why. That's the lens I lead Hemnet's technology organization through, and that's what I want to share with you today.

Let me start with how our technology organization actually works. We are a team of around 60 engineers running the technology for the entire business, and that compact size keeps us nimble and able to adapt quickly.

We don't sit as a separate tech department next to the business. Instead, our engineers, designers, product managers, and UX specialists work together in cross-functional teams covering mobile, web, and backend.

That means that the people building the product are the same people that talk to users and our own outcomes. We also have dedicated data and machine learning teams that have been doing serious machine learning work for nearly 10 years.

They haven't just been experimenting, they have actually been building production-grade models and pipelines that run every day for millions of users. That depth of experience is a real underappreciated asset, and it puts us in a strong position for what's coming with AI.

Our tech platform rests on three pillars. First of all, we have a modular architecture.

We have gradually moved away from monolithic systems to a modular setup using GraphQL Federation. This means that teams can build and deploy independently, and the platform scales without becoming more complex.

Secondly, we use a standardized and proven tech stack. We are a thoughtful follower, not the bleeding edge chaser.

We use well-established, widely adopted technologies, and that lets us move fast, while it also makes it easier to hire great engineers. Thirdly, our decisions are data-driven.

Every core decision is backed by analytics, experimentation, and engineering judgment, not gut feel. Underpinning all of this, we are 100% cloud-based, no legacy infrastructure holding us back, and we have full flexibility to scale whatever we build next.

This is the foundation everything else is built on. We approach AI with a focus on concrete user benefits rather than for technology's sake.

I want to pause on this because it's the principle that guides everything we do when it comes to AI at Hemnet. We don't chase AI because it's fashionable.

Every investment we make has to translate into something concrete. Could be a better decision for a home buyer, or it could be a faster workflow for our teams or a stronger product.

With that principle in mind, let me show you how our AI capability has actually evolved and where we are today. Our engagement with AI in property valuation spans a decade, and it has evolved in three distinct waves.

Wave one, 2016-2024, was all about prediction and valuation. This is when we built our first statistical models to understand the Swedish housing market.

Over time, we developed this into what is called an automated valuation model. Essentially, our own algorithm for estimating what a home is worth.

It retrains continuously on more than 1.4 million historical listings and powers our My Hemnet feature with a price estimate, a price range, and a confidence level. Wave two, 2024-2025, was about visualization and tagging.

We built computer vision pipelines that automatically read and classify listing images and text. This created the data structures that are now the critical infrastructure underneath both our valuation models and our newer AI features.

Wave three, 2025 to today, is generative AI, natural language, conversational interfaces, and personalization. This is the wave everyone is talking about now.

Unlike many other companies, we didn't start from zero. We were building on almost 10 years of data infrastructure.

As I mentioned earlier, our approach to AI centers on concrete user benefits. Those who follow us closely may recognize this slide from six months ago when Lisa walked through how we work with AI.

While much has changed since then, our core approach hasn't. Over the past six months, we've focused on building a solid AI foundation, one that positions us to roll out new products and features that sharpen the user experience and help people make better and more informed decisions.

That foundation comes down to three things: automated tagging across every listing, predictive, personalized recommendations powered by historical and active listing data, and AI-enabled workflows that make our own teams more efficient. With this foundation in place, we are now able to build on it, delivering continuous improvements and new features for our users.

This includes intent-based search that complements our existing filters, richer and more interactive property information, better qualified leads for agents, and deeper personalization throughout the experience, among other things. AI is also transforming how we work, significantly increasing operational efficiency and output.

Let me give you three numbers that show what this means for us. We now ship more than 100 deployments a week.

This is up 24% quarter-on-quarter with a very low failure rate. That means that our teams can move fast, take smaller bets, and course-correct quickly if needed.

Nearly 70% of the code we write today is written with the help of AI. This is up 190% since January.

Each developer saves an average of six hours a week using AI tools. This is a 40% increase since January, and the trend is continuing.

These numbers are the result of a deliberate decision to become an AI-first organization, not just in our product but in how we work day to day. We invested in training, built internal communities, and made it safe for people to experiment.

I do want to be honest, though. When you increase output this much, you create new bottlenecks.

The constraint is no longer how fast we can write code. It moves upstream to how fast we can align, decide, review, and test.

We are actively working on each of those. This transformation is still very much on the way, and we will continue to reap the benefits over time.

Let me take this opportunity and walk you through a concrete example, because it provides a good illustration of how we actually work with AI. The problem we wanted to solve in this example was that when someone looks for a home, they don't necessarily think in filters and drop-downs.

They might think, I want a house near a good school with a fireplace, somewhere my kids can play outside. Translating that into checkboxes can be difficult and sometimes even impossible.

The solution for this was conversation search. You type what you want in plain Swedish, the way you say it to a friend; Hemnet does the rest.

Here is the important part. Taking the easy approach of pointing a large general-purpose AI model at your data wouldn't work particularly well at our scale.

We have millions of searches, and running a large frontier model on every single search would be both expensive and slow. Instead, we made a deliberate engineering choice to run a small and fast general model on our own infrastructure and put our effort into closing the capability gaps ourselves.

We did this in three ways. First, we don't let the model guess at geography.

We built our own database of almost 8,000 Swedish places, adapted to how places are categorized by the Swedish people. For example, if someone says SoFo, the model should know what a person normally defines as SoFo, and this is resolved through data and coordinates rather than through AI and guesswork.

Secondly, we tag every listing in advance offline and not in the live search. An AI model reads each listing's text and images and assigns structured tags like features, proximity, conditions, and so on.

This means that we get speedy answers and that nothing is invented. If we have unclear tags, they are simply dropped.

Third, we constrain what the model is allowed to say. It cannot invent the price, an address, or a count.

Every fact in the answer comes from our own search index and not from the model's imagination. This resulted in a system that is exact where exactness matters and intelligent where intelligence genuinely helps.

Where are we today? We are live for users on the web behind login; the product compares favorably with early releases we've seen from international peers.

Getting a small model to respond reliably in a structured format was our hardest engineering problem. We moved from about 70% reliability to above 95%; that hard work is largely behind us now.

Why does this matter beyond this one feature? Yes, because the infrastructure underneath it, the geodatabase, the tagging pipeline, and the intent detection are a platform.

The same tags that power a conversational query can now also be used to improve search ranking, saved alerts, recommendations, and area pages, and much more across the whole product. This technology is built to compound.

One last point on philosophy. AI at Hemnet is there to support people in making informed decisions, not to make those decisions for them.

Buying or selling a home is one of the biggest moments in a person's life, our role is to make that process more transparent and trustworthy and not to replace human judgment. Let me close with where we're taking this.

Deeper personalization. We hold the richest data set in the Swedish housing market: historical, behavioral, geographical, and transactional.

That data lets us build an experience that feels built for you and not for everyone. That is a competitive advantage that only gets stronger with scale and usage over time.

Traditional search along intent-based discovery. As Jonas mentioned, filters and traditional search aren't going away.

They are core to how people find homes and will likely continue to be for a long time still. Expectations are evolving alongside it, we are building the infrastructure to understand intent and layer richer discovery on top of search rather than replacing it.

AI as an operating model. The productivity gains we're seeing are still in the early days.

As AI becomes embedded in how every team works, we expect those efficiency gains to multiply. The principle I keep coming back to is simple: Let AI do what AI is genuinely good at and keep every exact factual decision grounded in data we control.

I believe that this is the right way to build AI into a product that people trust with the biggest financial decision of their lives. I started by saying that the winners in major technology transitions aren't necessarily the fastest movers.

They are the ones who move with clarity. At Hemnet, I want to say that we have both.

We have built a small and agile team of engineers shipping over 100 deployments per week and accelerating. We also have a platform built on nearly a decade of deliberate architecture decisions and an AI foundation that is difficult to match.

With that, I want to say thank you and hand over the floor to Jonas again.

Hanna Lindqvist

Jonas Gustafsson

Many thanks, Hanna, also a big thank you to Lisa for these presentations. With that, let's move on to the wrap-up of today's presentation and a quick overview of the main highlights.

Financial performance in Q2 2026 was characterized by the Sell First, Pay Later rollout, negatively impacting net sales and profitability. Q2 absorbs the peak financial impact of this timing shift before the platform will benefit from a maturing pipeline of completions.

Number two, market recovery has been slower than anticipated, but there are clear signs of gradual improvement in Q2 and promising signals for the coming year. Transactions are increasing, pushing down supply from historical high levels.

With prices pointing up, we're in a better position to see more supply coming to the market for the second half of the year and next year. We continue to build from a position of strength.

With nearly 40 million monthly sessions and exceptional brand awareness, Hemnet has a unique opportunity in an evolving market environment. Number four, our ambition is for people to use Hemnet on every step of the journey for every property transaction.

Therefore, securing all listings from the beginning of the transaction life cycle is our highest priority going forward. We have announced a number of things today; that's not going to be enough.

We're working with an accelerated pace to announce and to deliver the next wave of strategic initiatives as we approach the cyclical listing peak of the autumn. With that, concludes today's presentation; we will open up for the Q&A.

Jonas Gustafsson

Operator

If you wish to ask a question, please dial pound key five on your telephone keypad to enter the queue. If you wish to withdraw your question, please dial pound key six on your telephone keypad.

The next question comes from Will Packer from BNPP. Please go ahead.

Operator

Will Packer

Hi there, many thanks for taking my questions. Three from me, please.

Do you mind spending a bit of time talking about how you will monetize Under-the-radar listings? I think it's a really interesting idea, and thanks for the presentation, but I didn't take away the precise mechanics.

Eventually, will they pay a typical fee if those Under-the-radar listings turn around to a sale? How do you stop adverse selection where people take them off, et cetera?

Second, you've provided lots of interesting updates on how you plan to close the inventory gap with your peers, and some of those actions have been in place for a little while now. If I do a very basic piece of analysis, which is compare the absolute number of listings on Hemnet versus Booli, the gap has actually increased in the last 12 months.

Booli's gone from 1.8 times-1.9 times. Is that a methodological flaw?

Is that not a representative underlying, or will these actions take time? Final question from me.

Consensus expects double-digit ARPL growth for 2027 and 2028. You look well set to deliver that for this year.

Is that a reasonable assumption in the context of today's update? Thank you.

Will Packer

Jonas Gustafsson

Good morning, Will. I'll take the first two questions and then hand over to Anders.

When it comes to Under-the-radar and those listings, it's important to take one step back and think about why we're doing this. The key priority is obviously to get more listings at an earlier stage.

Also, talking about the relative ratio that you mentioned in your second question is an important dimension. The way this model works is that this is a period of time in the very early listing stage, meaning the absolute beginning.

The plan that we do have, these Under-the-radar listings, are not monetized from a Hemnet perspective, but they will be as they move on to the pre-market or to the on-sale segment; that's where we basically will monetize them in the same way. This is sort of a traditional upsell, where we get a clear relationship with the listing and something that we will work on.

Obviously, this is a new model, but I think we have a number of different tools to ensure that we steer this and not cannibalize the on-sale segment, which is most important from a monetization perspective. Early stage, but we will ensure we have business rules to ensure this becomes also very attractive from a monetization perspective.

Number two, in terms of the supply, we're working on this on a number of different actions and in a number of different areas. Per your point, we have launched a quite large set with both Sell First, Pay Later, and then most recently we have the strategic partnerships with the Under-the-radar that obviously went live, sort of in full-blown mode, in the early Q3.

I don't think we've seen the full upside potential coming from this. We also need to ensure that we continue to do more.

Working on supply is absolutely a top priority, and we will have more actions to ensure that we continue to work on that dimension. Important to say as well is obviously, when you look at that and you look at the totality of the number and the 1.8-1.9, please keep in mind that the relationship and the development of the pre-market have been slightly stronger during this period of time when Hemnet has a lower listing market share.

That trend shift is also impacting it. Going back to our top priority, this is something that we are addressing across a number of different levels.

In terms of the ARPA growth for 2027, Anders, I'll just hand over to you.

Jonas Gustafsson

Anders Örnulf

Thank you for that. We would say that we are well-equipped for double-digit growth going forward.

Some of the parameters for the time being are against us, such as the very slow housing market in Sweden when it comes to new published listings for the time being. That will get better over time.

We also know that we have the products and services in place to be able to deliver better when the listings come back, such as the B2B division that will also, of course, benefit from a better position with the growth in published listings on the platform. Yes.

Anders Örnulf

Will Packer

Thanks for the color. Just to quickly come back on the first question.

A listing is an Under-the-radar listing, and if it sells in that initial period because the market goes back to being quite hot, Hemnet would not monetize. In the event that it transitions to be a typical listing, you would monetize it in the usual way.

Is that a fair summary?

Will Packer

Jonas Gustafsson

That is a fair summary. In the case where we see that too many listings would get sold in a very early phase, that's obviously something that we would steer to ensure that you don't get a too high share being sold in Under-the-radar or below-the-radar.

I think we have various tools, and we just went live, and based on the early indications that we have, we don't have any sort of concerns around that. If that would materialize, we have various tools to ensure that we can convert them.

Jonas Gustafsson

Will Packer

Thanks very much for the color. Very helpful.

Will Packer

Operator

The next question comes from Georg Attling from Pareto Securities. Please go ahead.

Operator

Georg Attling

Hello, thanks for taking my questions. I also have one on Under-the-radar.

When I think of this and the impact on paid listings, it's penetration of Under-the-radar, then conversion of those listings to paid listings, and then the volume uplift, call it the market share regain, that you might get from it. I'm just thinking or just wondering how you think of these different factors all impacting what it's going to lead to in terms of paid listings.

Georg Attling

Jonas Gustafsson

Good morning, Georg. Just one thing to clarify, also going back a bit to Will Packer's question before.

I think it's important to say that these very early-stage listings that we would have from Under-the-radar are listings that typically don't come to Hemnet today. This means an incremental volume uplift coming from this.

We think from a strategic perspective that it is very important; it's a clear upside for Hemnet, both from a short-term and from a long-term perspective, to get these listings. It has a big strategic importance.

When it comes to working with partners, the sort of concepts that the various partners have that you see out in the market differ a bit. If you would compare how Svensk Fastighetsförmedling are running their sales processes, that would be different from Fastighetsbyrån or Erik Olsson.

Right now, we've launched a big partnership together with Svensk Fastighetsförmedling. When we roll out the other Under-the-radar or underhand partnerships, there might be certain tweaks.

I think it's very important for us that we continue to ensure that we monetize. It goes without saying.

I think this opens up a great opportunity to increase our market share among those listings also in the paid segment, given the fact that we do get a relationship; we do get a relationship with the agent; we do get a relationship with the seller. We could showcase and convert these into paid listings given the strength of our paid products.

Jonas Gustafsson

Georg Attling

Just a follow-up on that. If a listing is Under-the-radar, then removed and then sold outside of Hemnet, is there an obligation from the seller to pay you?

What would they pay you then, essentially?

Georg Attling

Jonas Gustafsson

No, there's no such an obligation. We definitely have the ambition to convert 100% of those into paid listings.

Jonas Gustafsson

Georg Attling

Okay. Second question, because if I understand it correctly, you have to have the strategic partnership to be able to offer this feature or product.

How have the discussions evolved with additional strategic partners since you launched this Under-the-radar with Svensk Fastighetsförmedling?

Georg Attling

Jonas Gustafsson

I think to answer the first part of the question, Georg, you are absolutely right. This is a part of the strategic partnership slate and the strategic partnership proposition that we do have.

I think there's a lot of interest from many of our other partners, and it's also a gate opener for additional discussions. I think there is a clear trend in the market that having a controlled startup of the sales process is becoming increasingly important.

As you could imagine, this requires some technical adoption and integration. The tech team and Hanna's team and Lisa's team are working very intensively to also tag on new partners.

Jonas Gustafsson

Georg Attling

Okay. Just a final question.

You said sell-through on SFPL is in line with expectations. If you could just quantify that, is that the same sort of sell-through as you see on regular listings or on pay-when-sold, or does it differ a lot to the sell-through of normal listings?

Georg Attling

Jonas Gustafsson

I think on an overall level, it's a very fair comparison comparing Sell First, Pay Later and pay later if removed. You see similar levels.

You have when it comes to the pay now; we expected to see some differences there, given the fact that there's a different sales dynamic in those, but it's very much in line with our expectations and actually slightly better.

Jonas Gustafsson

Georg Attling

Perfect. I'll jump back in the queue.

Thank you.

Georg Attling

Jonas Gustafsson

Thank you.

Jonas Gustafsson

Operator

The next question comes from Yulia Kazakovtseva from UBS. Please go ahead.

Operator

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Hello, good morning. Firstly, Anders, I wanted to say thank you, and I wish you all the very best in your future.

With regards to my questions, I have two, if that's okay. My first question is about Max package penetration.

Have you seen any consistent and sustainable improvements in penetration rates in H1 and into Q2 specifically? It would be helpful if you could provide some numbers and an update on where the penetration stands today.

My second question would be about the two-day listing rule for Sell First, Pay Later. You recently announced that you will not reintroduce the rule following the investigation by the Swedish Competition Authority.

Could you please elaborate a little bit on this, on how you view the medium- to long-term impact of this decision compared to your initial plans? Do you think this may somewhat limit the Sell First, Pay Later listing generation in future?

Thank you.

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Jonas Gustafsson

Thank you, Yulia. I see Anders just across the table, and he's very grateful for your words.

To go into the specific questions. Number one, in terms of the Max penetration, we don't comment or disclose specific penetration numbers on our individual packages.

What I can say is that we've seen slight and gradual improvements throughout the year, both in Q1 and Q2, but we're still at low levels. We have done a few product changes over the last two quarters that we have seen is having a positive impact on the penetration levels, clearly sort of interlinked to the new feature coming in.

We've seen a slight uplift. I think also the market is now becoming a bit warmer.

As we've spoken about the outlook for the remainder of 2026 and also into 2027, it looks like the underlying property market is more healthy. I think that would also benefit the Max penetration as we move ahead.

Secondly, when it comes to the two-day rule, I just wanted to clarify there, Yulia, that the main rationale and the main decision were not driven by the Competition Authority's initial investigation. The main rationale was that we looked at this from a holistic perspective, including a few different dimensions.

I mean, first of all, one of the rationales for having a two-day rule when it comes to Sell First, Pay Later was linked to the fact that, as you know, this had quite some effect on our short-term financials, and we wanted to ensure that we have a viable and sustainable model. Given the findings from the first four months or the first five months since we launched Sell First, Pay Later in early February in Stockholm, we do see that the model is sustainable.

Second to that, maybe that's where you're coming from, Yulia, as part of the SCA investigation, it was pretty clear that there were concerns from the agent industry around especially the two-day rule. This feedback, obviously, shows that we think that this is a fantastic product.

We don't only think it's a fantastic product; we want to have the positive reception from that specific product. That's also baked in.

Obviously a discussion with SCA, it's one component, but it was definitely not that one being the needle mover. I think from an overall level, this will actually have a positive impact on Sell First, Pay Later because if we remove the rule where we basically had quite some negative feedback, that negative feedback is obviously being removed.

Anecdotally, we've heard from a few of the chains that this is sort of improving the likelihood of them using Sell First, Pay Later. If we take a step back, what's most important with Sell First, Pay Later is to get more listings.

With that feedback from the industry, I think that's definitely helpful. Hopefully that clarifies—

Jonas Gustafsson

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Thank you.

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Jonas Gustafsson

...Yulia.

Jonas Gustafsson

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Yes. Thank you very much.

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Operator

The next question comes from Ed Young from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Operator

Ed Young

Hello, I've got two as well, please. First is on the package, so a bit of the follow-up on the Max question, I guess.

To us, it looks like it's a very stable and low level. I guess with Sell First, Pay Later increasing VAS by five points, premium listings already represent the majority of the inventory.

Just sort of wondering, does that not strengthen the case for you to revisit the product structure, particularly Max, it wasn't really talked about today, or is it not the right time from a market context perspective, or is it not the right time for the business when you've got a focus on a lot of different areas? That's the first question.

The second is on the development of the homeowner services on My Home. Just wondering if you could give us an idea of the proportion of homeowners that are on the platform right now?

You made it clear that this is under development with input from agents. Just wondering if you could talk about the tensions there or what the areas are that are key to get right in that respect.

Thanks.

Ed Young

Jonas Gustafsson

Good morning, Ed. First, when it comes to Hemnet Max, I think we've seen improvement, as I also indicated based on Yulia's questions before.

Per your point, we're still at a low level. I think going back to one important thing that's been hindering the penetration of Max has also been the underlying market conditions, where we do expect to see improvement going forward.

In terms of the package structure that we do have, I think it is something that we are very much working on as we speak. We currently have three packages, right?

Or four packages, with Bas, with Plus, with Premium, and with Max. The relative feature differences is something that's the lever to pull.

I think the most obvious one is obviously the relative price difference between Premium and Max, but also the relative feature difference between Premium and Max. I think one of the key strengths that we do have with Hemnet Premium is obviously the renewal, where it gets renewed every 30th day.

You could think about exploring alternatives with Hemnet Max being renewed more frequently. In terms of the increased Bas penetration coming from Sell First, Pay Later, I think that would also benefit Max as we move ahead.

On the second question, Lisa, do you want to take that one and just elaborate a bit?

Jonas Gustafsson

Lisa Farrar

Sure, Ed. Thank you for the question.

We don't disclose the absolute numbers for My Hemnet registrations, but as I mentioned on the call, we are very focused on it. We see they are incredibly engaged on the platform.

I think I mentioned 75% more sessions than our average user. We've spent a lot of focus these past 12 months just to increase the number of My Homes registered but also to increase the features that we make available to them.

This specific one around putting your home on the market under My Home is a feature we are developing together with the agent industry. Our focus is to increase the mobility on the market.

Actually seeing this early supply grow. There, we're very focused on how we could make that mobility into specific leads for agents, so more business for agents.

That's what we meant by working together with agents to launch this feature.

Lisa Farrar

Ed Young

Okay. Thank you.

Ed Young

Operator

The next question comes from Andrew Ross from Barclays. Please go ahead.

Operator

Andrew Ross

Great morning, all. I've got two, please.

First one is back to Under-the-radar. Can you give us a sense as to how many listings you may expect from that product if you fast-forward to a year or 18 months to try to understand how differentiated this may be in terms of your presale content versus Booli?

First question. Then the second one builds on that and also on your comments, Jonas, in the opening remarks about your biggest priority being securing all listings from the beginning of the transaction life cycle.

I guess philosophically, why not go much harder in terms of unmonetized content and have some kind of free tier or pre-sell inventory to get it all on your platform? When you think about the balance between inventory and monetization and network effects, can you just give us a glimpse in terms of how you as a management team think about it, and why not go much harder on initiatives to get inventory on your platform, even if it means sacrificing ARPL growth into 2027?

Thank you.

Andrew Ross

Jonas Gustafsson

Good morning, Andrew. On the first one, in terms of Under-the-radar, I think right now we're going live with Svensk Fastighetsförmedling.

They represent some 12%-14% of the overall market volumes. I think, as they are really leaning in and have the ambition to start every single sales process with this Under-the-radar, this would have an impact on the overall numbers.

I don't want to put any overall number out there, given the fact that we're in discussions with so many other partners, and how they roll out and when they roll out would obviously impact the numbers. I think it is a very strong feature from a strategic perspective to ensure that you get all early listings for a certain partner in a certain way.

In terms of looking at our overall strategic priority of ensuring all listings, that is something that we are actively working on. There are many different levers and many different ways of getting there, and we look forward to reverting back on how specifically we plan to do that.

That's definitely something that we are working on. I think that's all we can say on that specific topic right now.

Jonas Gustafsson

Andrew Ross

Maybe just to follow up on that. Is it right to think that that could involve a move into more unmonetized content in the pre-sell market, or is that not something you're considering as part of the suite of options?

Andrew Ross

Jonas Gustafsson

We're looking at all various options. Commenting on specific ones, we don't want to do at this point in time, unfortunately, Andrew.

Jonas Gustafsson

Andrew Ross

Okay, thanks.

Andrew Ross

Operator

The next question comes from Eirik Rafdal from DNB Carnegie. Please go ahead.

Operator

Eirik Rafdal

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my questions.

I've got a few. I'll try to do them one by one.

Kind of beyond SFPL, Under-the-radar, and better lead generation, what do you guys think are the one to two most important moves you can make to make sure that the kind of default choice on the individual agent base is going first with Hemnet? You clearly have the franchise level or HQ relationship in place, but how would you work more closely with the individual agents?

That's my first question.

Eirik Rafdal

Jonas Gustafsson

Good morning, Eirik. Not a small first question.

That's quite a big one. I think at the end of the day, if you look at the daily life of an individual agent, what matters is essentially two things.

Selling your property that you are responsible for as quickly as possible to the highest maximum price. We know that Hemnet delivers those dimensions.

We have the largest reach, and with the largest reach, by default, you would get the highest likelihood of a successful sale and a successful outcome. That's one dimension.

The most important thing, secondly, for an individual agent is not the existing property that they're selling; it is the next property that they're selling and getting that lead generation. I think, given the way the market is structured and given the way that Hemnet is operating, per your point, you have relationships at the HQ level.

You have both a transactional and contractual relationship with individual franchise owners. For the individual agents, I think helping them with branding, helping them with lead generation, and if we have a compensation model that is bringing money to the franchise owners, that would not be an opportunity from a regulatory perspective in Sweden to have that relationship with the individual agent.

There are a lot of non-monetary incentives that you can work on, and that's something that we are actively working on as we speak. A bit of some broad strokes there, Eirik; hopefully that sort of indicates how we're thinking about it.

Jonas Gustafsson

Eirik Rafdal

Absolutely, I appreciate it. If I can kind of phrase maybe the question a bit of a different way.

Is there anything you feel that you have in the toolbox on a more individual agent basis that you haven't tapped into or haven't used? I feel like it's kind of the same answer as always; that's not a criticism, it's just a kind of reflection.

Is there any kind of new thinking on the product side if we can be a bit more firm on kind of explicitly what you're doing on the individual agent basis? Is that possible at this point in time?

Eirik Rafdal

Jonas Gustafsson

Two examples. Especially for the agents that belong to our strategic partners, we're working much more with branding and contact generation for the individual agent.

If you would go to a listing that's part of one of our strategic partnerships, you would see a material difference there. That's one way of attracting the individual agents.

I think, I hear what you're saying, Eirik. I think maybe the largest lever that we do have, all of you know it and you know it, Eirik, is that it is sort of like a flywheel of using the leading property platform such as Hemnet where, if you use Hemnet for one listing, the likelihood of getting a new listing or a new lead is much higher.

I think in all fairness, we have an improvement potential for our sales team to be out there and spread the gospel to a larger extent and help to educate individual agents to understand the flywheel dynamics in a better sense. That's something that we are working on intensively.

Jonas Gustafsson

Eirik Rafdal

Thanks, Jonas. I just have one more, which we haven't really touched upon that much today, and that's if you could help us understand your bigger picture thinking around cost in the context of one more need from marketing and maybe touch points with agents, two efficiencies from AI, three potential alterations to the commission model, and four, maybe the midterm guidance of above 55% EBITDA margin, which we haven't really talked about for some time.

Eirik Rafdal

Jonas Gustafsson

Obviously, if you look at our cost base, I think it's a few things that really matter, and you laid them out well. We have the compensation model.

You have OpEx, primarily including personnel, but also marketing. In terms of the overall sort of cost picture, this is something that we are working on, especially where we now have seen a softer market impacting our revenues.

The compensation model, as you know, is one of the most powerful steering tools that we do have. That's something that we are looking into actively and all the time.

We've increased our marketing investment to some extent, and I think with what Hanna presented before, AI is enabling us to be much more efficient. Right now, or up until now, we've taken a cautious approach, deciding that we think it's important to get out more products and get out more features.

It's obvious that also from a cost perspective, this can be a lever going forward. Anders, I'm not sure you want to add anything there?

Jonas Gustafsson

Anders Örnulf

Maybe a quick comment on the long-term EBITDA margin of more than 55%. We can all see that the EBITDA margin is 46.4% in Q2.

We also have a situation we have with a paid listing, not only a soft market but also the one-time effect of SFPL. We believe that we absolutely can deliver that over time, at least.

Anders Örnulf

Eirik Rafdal

That's very clear. Thanks for the color, and thanks again for everything.

Eirik Rafdal

Jonas Gustafsson

Thanks, Eirik.

Jonas Gustafsson

Operator

The next question comes from Annabel Hames from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Operator

Annabel Hames

Morning. Just two questions from me.

The first one is, when you start to see the market meaningfully recover and time to sell reduces, do you see a risk to premium package uptake as the value of the listing refresh feature declines? Are there other standout features within Premium that you would point out that would benefit in a better market?

The second is you've said that the Sell First, Pay Later initiative increased your NPS score by seven versus the other packages offered. Can you give the actual NPS score for each package?

Annabel Hames

Jonas Gustafsson

Good morning, Annabel. I think when the market recovers, and I understand where the question is coming from, I think another way of phrasing it would be, Has premium had a significant uplift just driven by a slower market?

I think obviously it's a theoretical question, but I think if we look at Hemnet Premium, Hemnet Premium was launched back in 2019. Hemnet Premium has been through a normal year in 2019, a red-hot market in 2020 and 2021, a market that completely changed and is ice-cold in the latter part of 2022 and also in 2023, a recovery in 2024 and 2025, and a hesitation in 2026.

The only constant across all these market dynamics has been that Hemnet Premium has increased, and I think it goes back to the textbook and the logic of being a marketplace and having a tiered product structure. I don't see a major risk in that, in all fairness.

Then in terms of the specific NPS score, we don't disclose NPS for various packages, and we haven't done that in the past. What we can say at this point in time is that we've seen a significant uplift on the NPS, or the seller NPS, when it comes to Sell First, Pay Later.

Jonas Gustafsson

Annabel Hames

Thank you.

Annabel Hames

Operator

The next question comes from Rasmus Engberg from Kepler Cheuvreux. Please go ahead.

Operator

Rasmus Engberg

Yes. Hi.

Thanks for taking my question. Can I start with a really stupid question?

Given SFPL, what happens with the real estate that's not sold? Do you see a risk that you have things that are always for sale but not at the right price?

Rasmus Engberg

Jonas Gustafsson

Good morning, Rasmus. One of the reasons for us to making the move and actually launching Sell First, Pay Later, one part that was critical in the overall assessment was that we know that Hemnet is working and properties are selling.

There's obviously a part of the market that is not selling; the way we sort of designed the entire business case, we expect, on the upside, to get more listings. That's an upside, from an overall Hemnet perspective.

Sell First, Pay Later is priced roughly 15% higher. Then there's a share of those that would not get sold.

We feel confident that this will be an overall positive business case. You're absolutely right; there are a few listings that will not sell, and that's also why we have certain business rules.

If you remove it from Hemnet, you would sell it outside Hemnet. Six months after removal down from Hemnet, you would also need to pay.

That's part of the contract that we now rolled out with individual sellers. Hopefully, that's helpful, Rasmus.

Jonas Gustafsson

Rasmus Engberg

Yeah. Just wondering whether you can have certain markets where things are apparently for sale, but at the wrong price all the time.

I was just wondering about that. You presented a lot of things to sort of increase or stabilize your market share in terms of listings.

How should we see that? You released a couple of weeks ago, I believe, your share was down to 83% of property sold.

What you have presented now, is that enough to stabilize or reverse or slow the decline? Basically, how should we think about what you presented today?

Rasmus Engberg

Jonas Gustafsson

The way you should think about it is that we saw this during 2025. The reason for us to launch Sell First, Pay Later; launch the strategic partnerships; and launch Underhand was to address the challenge.

We know, and what we're saying today is that these have moved the needle, but we need to do more. We're 100% committed and 100% convinced that we have a lot more levers to pull, and we will ensure to continue to prioritize the listing development.

We're not happy with the development that we saw, but we're 100% convinced and committed that we will address them.

Jonas Gustafsson

Rasmus Engberg

Do you think you can reverse that drop that you had, or can you stabilize it?

Rasmus Engberg

Jonas Gustafsson

Absolutely.

Jonas Gustafsson

Rasmus Engberg

Okay. Just a final question: I don't know if you're willing to answer that, but given all the moving parts that we see in Q2 and Q1, and we'll also see some in Q3, when do you think it's realistic to assume organic sales growth again?

Rasmus Engberg

Jonas Gustafsson

It's very technical. It's very much market driven, right?

We see positive signs for the outlook of the second half of 2026 and also into 2027. Our sales is very much driven by the market.

We think the underlying fundamentals look healthy.

Jonas Gustafsson

Rasmus Engberg

Okay, thanks.

Rasmus Engberg

Operator

The next question comes from Giles Thorne from Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Operator

Giles Thorne

Thank you. My first question was back on the two-day rule, Jonas, could I just get you to quantify the impact that you think that that could have on your SFPL listings and overall listing trends?

If you're not comfortable doing that, then maybe just some commentary about whether the two-day rule since launch resulted in a listing not happening or whether the listing did happen but became the traditional kind of pay on listing or pay on removal? The second question is back on Under-the-radar.

Because you've put this content behind a logon on the agent's website, it's obviously not going to be available to Booli, which I guess is the whole point. I'd be interested in any feedback or negative feedback you're getting from agents about their loss of exposure to Booli's audience.

Giles Thorne

Finally, a question for Anders

It's a bit of an oversimplification, really, but would it be useful to know the sequential impact on EBITDA in the second half from the SFPL listing revenue that was effectively deferred in the first half of the year? Hopefully, that makes sense.

Thank you.

Finally, a question for Anders

Jonas Gustafsson

Just taking a step back and looking at the launch of Sell First, Pay Later, it is very clear when we did the geographical rollout that Sell First, Pay Later boosted listing volumes and had a positive impact on the overall volumes. I think that if you look at it, it is not like if you did not put it on Hemnet over the first two days, you could not use any of our other products.

We have always had the pay-up-front alternative. I would not say that it has been a material sort of downside or upside.

We know for a fact that Sell First, Pay Later has had a positive impact. Part of the reason, as well, is that during the month of May and June, we ran a summer campaign where we had the two-day rule removed, and we saw positive impact from that.

That was also part of the business case decision that we took. On the second question, on Under-the-radar, you are absolutely right.

I think the logic, as you lay out, is that it has become non-scrapable. That is obviously not impacting Booli, but also the other ones that are scraping out there nowadays.

I think the entire concept that we are running with Svensk Fastighetsförmedling, that is a new way of working for them and a changing way of working that could trigger some negative feedback, but overall, there is a very positive response from the team. Again, coming back to what I sort of read from a few of the other questions, the thinking is not that you would sell during this below-the-radar time period, right?

This will come up to the public market as well, so you would get full market exposure.

Jonas Gustafsson

Anders Örnulf

The final question to me is around SFPL and the EBITDA effect in the second half-year. I understand why you ask.

We do our own simulation of that, and the way to do it is to look at the unsold listings for the second quarter and then run a simulation on them because they are theoretical numbers because you do not know how many will end up being sold. We cannot give you an exact number because we do not know.

You have some data, at least, in the not-sold SFPL listing in Q2, and then you can simulate sell-through rates in different month and quarters.

Anders Örnulf

Giles Thorne

Okay. Thank you.

Giles Thorne

Operator

The next question comes from Nikola Kalanoski from ABG Sundal Collier. Please go ahead.

Operator

Nikola Kalanoski

Hey, thanks for taking my questions. I think firstly, could you please give us some more color on what sort of engagement you've seen so far from the Under-the-radar feature or product with Svensk Fastighetsförmedling?

Has engagement been above, below, or in line with your own expectations?

Nikola Kalanoski

Jonas Gustafsson

Hey, good morning, Nikola. First of all, it is really only two weeks down the line; it is too early to draw any conclusions.

Also, what I think is important to keep in mind—everyone who's based in Sweden knows this—but Sweden is in early July, and up until where we are now, it is empty, right? The agents are not working.

They typically go for summer break as part of the midsummer, being around the 20th of June. I don't want to draw too large conclusions because you also have the sort of seasonality effect and are especially impacted by the vacation period.

There are no agents working now as we speak; I think that's impacting it. It's too early.

A bit of a boring answer, but sorry, Nikola.

Jonas Gustafsson

Nikola Kalanoski

No, that's completely fair. That's just how it is.

I guess the second one is—I guess I can't help but ask, of course. I understand if it's too early to say, but what types of strategic initiatives are you working on into the autumn selling season, which is pretty big?

If it's too early to announce, which I understand from this conference call, could you at least hint as to whether these initiatives are more tilted towards the buying, owning, or selling phase?

Nikola Kalanoski

Jonas Gustafsson

It is too early to tell. I think what we said is that ensuring that we get all relevant listings is an absolute top priority.

I think that's impacting buyers, it's impacting sellers, but it's also impacting agents. I have to be a bit vague there.

Jonas Gustafsson

Nikola Kalanoski

Yep. All right.

Fair enough. That's all from me.

Thank you very much.

Nikola Kalanoski

Operator

The next question comes from Yulia Kazakovtseva from UBS. Please go ahead.

Operator

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Yes. Hello again.

I have one follow-up question about the mechanics of the Under-the-radar listings, if that's okay, and apologies if I missed it. I just wanted to clarify and confirm some details.

On the website, in the upcoming section, I can see your usual, regular upcoming listings and these new Under-the-radar listings, which do not show a package. I guess, given you said that at that stage you don't monetize, it means that Under-the-radar listing, someone advertised without the package.

Is this correct? Then as a next stage, if the seller decides to take the listing off, then they don't have an obligation to pay.

Then if they decide to convert this into your usual upcoming or available for sale listing, at that stage, the package gets assigned. That's the second question.

I presume that all the Plus, Premium, and Bas, Max packages, they also apply in this case, right?

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Jonas Gustafsson

Hi, Yulia.

Jonas Gustafsson

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Is this correct?

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Jonas Gustafsson

Correct. I think you laid it out well.

We're not monetizing this. If you would take it out, we cannot monetize it.

I think most importantly from our upsell perspective and our ability to convert them into paid listings, those are top priorities. Please keep in mind that in this early stage there are many of those listings that we would never get to Hemnet.

This is actually a big upside for us because we can work on upselling and converting them with all the various tools that we do have. You're absolutely right.

I think the below-the-radar listings will be able to convert into a Bas, Plus, Premium, and Max package.

Jonas Gustafsson

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Yeah. Thank you.

Very helpful. Maybe one quick follow-up.

Is there a time limit over which this listing can stay in the Under-the-radar section or not?

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Hanna Lindqvist

It is not as we speak, but again, if we would see that this would potentially become a concern, that's something that we would put into play.

Hanna Lindqvist

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Understood. Okay.

Thank you very much. Very helpful.

Yulia Kazakovtseva

Operator

There are no more questions at this time. I hand the conference back to the speakers for any closing comments.

Operator

Jonas Gustafsson

With that, a big thank you for everyone who tuned in over the last 120 minutes. We will conclude today's sessions.

Have a great day, and have a great summer.