Brigade Enterprises Limited

Brigade Enterprises Limited

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Q4 FY2026 · Earnings Call TranscriptMay 7, 2026

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the Q4 FY '26 earnings conference call of Brigade Enterprises Limited. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen-only mode and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes.

Should you need assistance during the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your touchtone phone. I now hand the conference over to Ms.

Pavitra Shankar, Managing Director of Brigade Enterprises Limited. Thank you, and over to you, ma'am.

Pavitra Shankar

Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us for Brigade Enterprises Limited's Q4 FY '26 earnings call.

I am joined by the management of Brigade Group: our Chairman, Mr. M.R.

Jaishankar; Joint Managing Director, Ms. Nirupa Shankar; Executive Directors, Mr.

Roshin Mathew, Mr. Amar Mysore, and Mr.

Pradyumna Krishnakumar; and our CFO, Yogesh Patel. FY '26 has been marked by steady operating performance for Brigade, with demand conditions across our core markets remaining supportive.

I will take a few more minutes today to share a more detailed perspective before handing it over to our CFO for the financial details. The residential sector for our key markets of Bangalore, Chennai, and Hyderabad grew 6% year-on-year in calendar year 2025, increasing their share from 32% to 37% across the top seven cities in India.

For Brigade, FY '26 pre-sales was ₹7,424 crores, which is 5% lower than FY '25. This was primarily on account of delays in obtaining approvals, with many project launches pushed to the latter half of Q4 and some moving into FY '27.

New launches contributed to 43% of full-year pre-sales despite being concentrated in the back end of the year. Specifically, for Q4, we launched 4 million square feet, which resulted in pre-sales of ₹2,521 crores, a Q-on-Q increase of 44% by value.

Successful launches in Q4 include Brigade Lumina, which was almost fully sold out, Brigade Belvadaire Phase 1, both in Bengaluru, Brigade Stelleris in Chennai, and Brigade Manor and Enclave in Hyderabad. We ended the year with 8.3 million square feet of new launches in FY '26 versus a plan of 12 million square feet.

Around million square feet that got pushed into FY '27 was in Chennai, including the second phase of 1 million square feet in Brigade Morgan Heights. Sustenance sales contributed 57% for the year, but was also impacted by a regulatory issue post launch in Brigade Morgan Heights, Chennai, requiring a pause on sales of Phase 1.

Whilst this issue was disposed by Madras High Court in favor of Brigade in February itself, we chose to wait until Q1 FY '27 and after state elections were concluded in order to resume sales. We are in process of relaunching in this quarter.

Our FY '26 average realization increased 9% year-on-year to ₹12,109 per square foot. This was achieved with disciplined pricing increases in our existing projects and a positive shift in our product mix towards higher-value homes.

We continue to see healthy site visits with consistent conversions of 10% to 12% across cities and projects, with a broad customer base spanning multiple sectors. NRI buyers have remained stable at around 10% of the pre-sales value.

For FY '27, the residential launch pipeline stands at 11.6 million square feet with a GDV of ₹11,900 crores. We expect to launch 4.5 million square feet in Bengaluru and 3 million square feet each in Chennai and Hyderabad.

This year, we are aiming to pull in some of the launches before H2 on approvals. In both Bengaluru and Hyderabad, the share of FY '27 sales from new launches in mid-segment can be more front-ended, whereas in Chennai and ultra-luxury projects in general, the sales absorption is generally evenly distributed throughout the construction life cycle.

While we are watchful of the macroeconomic uncertainty due to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and the broader implications of AI, the fundamental demand drivers in our core markets remain intact. If the current sentiment and market conditions hold up, our outlook is that demand on ground will support a pre-sales outlook of at least 20% growth on our FY '26 numbers and aiming for ₹9,000 crores.

From a business development perspective for the residential segment, we added ₹15,000 crores of GDV across 13 million square feet in projects during FY '26. The addition was predominantly in Bengaluru and Hyderabad at 60% and 30% respectively.

The Indian office market sustained strong momentum through Q4 FY '26, with GCCs, tech, and BFSI remaining the primary demand drivers. Brigade's commercial leasing portfolio delivered stable performance in FY '26, with cumulative leasing of approximately 1.1 million square feet across new leases, renewals, investor leasing, and managed office transactions, with sustained occupier preference for Grade A, amenity-rich, and technology-enabled assets during the year.

We launched 1.3 million square feet during FY '26, with 4.5 million square feet planned for FY '27, while our rental collections sustained at 99%. GCCs account for 58% of our leased portfolio, while traditional IT and ITES accounts for 26% of the leased portfolio, and the balance spread across consulting, BFSI, engineering, healthcare, and flex operators.

Tenant concentration is also well-managed. Large anchor tenants above 1 lakh square feet account for 65% of the leased portfolio at an average of approximately 3 lakh square feet each, providing revenue predictability.

The remaining 35% is distributed across mid-sized and smaller tenants, limiting single-tenant risk. We have a pipeline of approximately 10 million square feet to be launched over FY '27 and FY '28.

The capital expenses towards the construction of this 10 million square feet will be approximately ₹6,000 crores spread over the next four years, ranging between ₹1,200 to ₹1,700 crores per annum. Looking ahead, the office market outlook remains constructive, supported by GCC expansion, growth in flexible working spaces, and rising institutional participation.

While global macro uncertainties and cost pressures persist, a diversified occupier base and adaptive supply pipeline provide resilience. Turning to retail, the Orion Malls portfolio continued to see healthy operating momentum during FY '26.

The three Orion Malls collectively churned approximately 1.5 lakh square feet of leasable area and onboarded multiple new tenants, strengthening the mall vibrancy. This activity translated into improved footfall and sales performance during the quarter.

Key performance highlights include 7% year-on-year growth in footfalls during Q4 FY '26, 25% year-on-year growth in retailer sales for all three malls combined. In hospitality for Q4 FY '26, geopolitical developments during the period impacted foreign tourist arrivals and led to some MICE cancellations.

Despite this, the Indian hotel industry continues to benefit from ADR growth supported by strong domestic corporate travel. Brigade's hospitality portfolio delivered a resilient performance during the quarter, supported by disciplined rate management.

While occupancy growth remained stable at 78% compared to Q4 '25 due to external disruptions, revenue and RevPAR showed steady improvement on the back of ADR growth, with a 8% and 13% growth over the previous quarter. FY '26 saw a 15% increase in revenue and EBITDA compared to FY '25.

RevPAR growth of 6% was driven by a 7% improvement on ADR. Demand for FY '27 remains strongly anchored in domestic travel, with international travel expected to recover gradually.

With that, I will now hand over the call to our CFO, Mr. Yogesh Patel, to take you through the financial performance for the quarter in detail.

Yogesh Patel

Thank you, Pavitra. Good afternoon, everyone.

Further to operational highlights shared by Pavitra, I'll just highlight few financial highlights here. Q4 of FY '26 was a quarter of positive momentum translating into strong sequential growth.

The positive sales performance for the quarter of ₹2,521 crores, and with demand fundamentals remaining steady, we are strongly positioned to capitalize on the momentum led by new project launches. To start with group's revenue update for FY '26, the consolidated revenue for the financial year stood at ₹5,909 crores, an increase of 11% over FY '25, with an EBITDA of ₹1,638 crores.

EBITDA margin for the year stood at 28%. The real estate segment clocked a turnover of ₹4,002 crores, an increase of 11% year-on-year on 20 FY '25, with an EBITDA of ₹525 crores.

The leasing segment clocked a turnover of ₹1,303 crores, with an EBITDA of ₹906 crores, also an increase of 12% and 18% respectively. The hospitality segment clocked a turnover of ₹604 crores, an increase of 13% over FY '25, with an EBITDA of ₹207 crores.

Consolidated PAT stood at ₹725 crores, which is a growth of 7% over FY '25. PAT after minority interest for FY '26 is at ₹644 crores.

Coming to group's performance for the quarter four, FY '26, our consolidated revenue for this quarter stood at ₹1,523 crores, with an EBITDA of ₹430 crores. EBITDA margin for the quarter as well was at 28%.

The real estate segment clocked a turnover of ₹1,026 crores, with an EBITDA of ₹142 crores. The leasing segment clocked a turnover of ₹337 crores in the quarter and an EBITDA of ₹228 crores.

The hospitality segment turnover was at ₹160 crores and an EBITDA of ₹60 crores on that. Consolidated PAT stood at ₹190 crores for the quarter.

PAT after minority interest for quarter four is at ₹145 crores. To touch upon cash flow performance, primarily linked with sales performance in the initial quarters of the year, our overall collections for the year remained at levels similar to FY '25 at ₹7,476 crores.

Cash flow from operating activities have moderated due to increased construction spend, where the total area under construction is higher by about 4.5 million square feet in this year. Our cash flow and collections will continue to be robust, as they will be further supported by the new product launches and sales.

Collections from real estate segment stood at ₹5,480 crores, leasing segment stood at ₹1,298 crores, and hospitality segment contributed ₹698 crores collections. Net cash flow from operating activities stood at ₹1,411 crores.

On debt and liquidity, we continue to have adequate liquidity and undrawn credit lines from banks and financial institutions to support our growth plans. Our average cost of debt has reduced meaningfully in the year by 110 basis points, which now stands at 7.57% as of March '26, which was 8.67% as of March '25.

Gross debt for the group stood at ₹5,231 crores. The cash and cash equivalent balance as of March 31st, 2026 stands at ₹2,953 crores.

Consequently, the company's net debt outstanding as of March end was ₹2,278 crores. Of this, BEL's Brigade share is ₹1,679 crores.

It's noteworthy to mention 88% of the debt pertains to our commercial portion, which is backed by lease rentals itself. The debt-equity ratio for the year stood at 0.27.

With this, I'll now hand it back to the moderator to initiate the questions.

Operator

Thank you very much, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin with the question and answer session.

Anyone who wishes to ask questions may please press star and one on their touchtone phone. If you wish to withdraw yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two.

Participants are requested to use only handsets while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while the question queue assembles.

The first question is from the line of Adhidev Chattopadhyay from ICICI Securities. Please go ahead.

Adhidev Chattopadhyay

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for the opportunity.

My first question is on the World Trade Center Bengaluru. I believe it's maybe Amazon which is exiting there, that's why we see a drop in the area under lease.

Could you just help us understand how we intend to fill this space up? Do we already have someone lined up or it will take a little bit longer?

That is the first question. Yeah.

Nirupa Shankar

Hi, good afternoon. This is Nirupa here.

Yes, Amazon has vacated their space. They had about 630,000 square feet that they vacated.

We have leased a couple of floors, we've leased close to 100,000 square feet of that, and line of sight, there are a lot of client interactions and the idea is to lease it out over the next couple of quarters. There are very high-potential client visits that are happening on a regular basis.

What we expect is that there may not be one single client that comes to pick up the entire space and we're expecting the leasing to happen either floor-wise or maybe two to three floors at a time.

Adhidev Chattopadhyay

Okay. Just to follow up, are we expecting the rates also to be much higher considering Amazon was an older tenant, I guess some of these rates will be marked to market right now, right?

Could we see some uptick in the leasing rate overall?

Nirupa Shankar

I think with the way the current market condition is, we should look to expect anywhere between 10% to 15%. In some cases, if it's half a floor, it's gone up to even 20%.

Expecting larger transactions of two floors, etc., I think a normal increase of 10% to 15% is expected.

Adhidev Chattopadhyay

Okay. Fair enough, fair enough.

Thank you. My second question, sir, is mainly pertaining to our residential business, some more broader questions.

If you could help us understand currently in the land bank and projects we have, what is the cumulative GDV which is available for launch for the next few years? Considering you're targeting close to ₹9,000 crores of sales right in the coming year, what would be your land bank replenishment strategy over the next few years?

Some more broader level questions, if you could address that. Thank you.

Yeah.

Pavitra Shankar

From our overall standpoint, we normally talk about our four four quarters on a rolling basis pipeline. For that, we are looking at 11.5 million square feet for the coming year, and that GDV is around 11.9 to, say, ₹12,000 crores GDV.

From an overall land bank perspective, we have 57 million square feet. Of that, residential is around 75% as a portfolio.

In terms of replenishment, naturally every we launch, we aim to replenish, focusing on increasing the presence in Bangalore and Hyderabad, and moderately in Chennai based on opportunities available.

Adhidev Chattopadhyay

Okay. Sure.

Sure, fine. Fine.

That's it from my side. I'll come back in the queue if I've got more questions.

Yeah. Thank you and all the best.

Pavitra Shankar

Thank you.

Operator

The next question is from the line of Karan Khanna from Ambit Capital. Please go ahead.

Karan Khanna

Hi. Good afternoon and thanks for the opportunity.

Just a couple of questions from my end. Firstly, Pavitra, on the pre-sales guidance of ₹9,000 crores, if I look at the unsold inventory of around ₹10,000 crores and sustenance sales track record of around 55%, is it safe to infer you're building sales from new launches at around ₹3,500 crores?

If that's the case, isn't this a very conservative number considering historically you have seen 35% to 40% sales in new launches and you're guiding for a ₹12,000 crore launch pipeline for FY '27?

Pavitra Shankar

Hi, Karan. Yes, in some ways, it is a little conservative, but also we are looking at the mix of the new launches of the number that I mentioned, 11.5 million square feet.

At least 3 million coming from Chennai. As we've seen in the past, Chennai, in terms of throughput from the launch to that same financial year itself, we tend to see the contribution to be more evenly spread throughout the construction life cycle rather than being front-ended.

This is one of the reasons why that number may look a little conservative. The other aspect is that launches in general, sometimes we do see them shifting out.

If it shifts out maybe into H2 or towards the end of H2, the amount of time that we have to make those pre-sales happen within the same financial year is going to be less. This is one of the reasons why in FY '26 also, we experienced a lower number.

Right in terms of how much we have in terms of opening inventory and that's an area that we'll be trying to push further because that's inventory that we have in hand. Looking at both that as well as trying to advance some of the launches, we have better visibility.

As the quarters come through in this financial year, we'll be able to update on that.

Karan Khanna

Sure. On the launch guidance of 12 million square feet, if you can just give some color in terms of what are the current status in terms of approvals and any indication on quarter-wise break up for the 12 million square feet of launches?

Pavitra Shankar

I think like the previous years part of the launches will come in H2. We anticipate if I just go by market, for example, for Hyderabad, we're anticipating about or so million square feet to be coming in Q3 and another million square feet to be coming in Q4.

In hopefully, we will get some of that in some from a Q3 number and we'll be expecting another million square feet in Q4. Morgan Heights, as I mentioned earlier, there is a million square feet of the phase of the project that we'll be launching now in or relaunching in one.

The other projects in Bangalore, I think will still be pushed into Q2 and Q3.

Karan Khanna

Sure. Second and lastly on the partnership with Bain, can you talk a

Operator

bit

Karan Khanna

Yeah.

Operator

I'm sorry to interrupt you, sir. Sir, I think we should connect the management's line again because there is a disruption when ma'am was speaking.

Allow me a few seconds, please. I'll call the management's line.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for patiently holding. The management's line has been reconnected.

Sir, you may proceed.

Karan Khanna

Question for you, Nirupa. If you can talk a bit about the partnership with Bain and as part of the deal, will you also be evaluating more opportunities besides the 2 million square feet office asset and hotel in Whitefield?

What are the timelines for completion of this project? Yes.

Nirupa Shankar

Thank you for the question. Yes, this is for a 10.8-acre project right opposite ITPB in Whitefield in Bangalore.

It's a very strong location. It's a 50-50 joint venture partnership, they are pure equity partners with us in this project.

We have the potential to develop about 2 million square feet of office, and we're also planning around a 250-key hotel for the project. It's a five-star hotel as well.

Yes, this was the first we decided that we do one project first, and we are definitely open to looking at more partnerships with them.

Karan Khanna

Timelines? The

Nirupa Shankar

timeline, as you said, we're expecting to complete the project around 40 months in about 40 months.

Karan Khanna

Sure. Thank you, and all the best.

Nirupa Shankar

After approval. Thank you.

Yeah. Thanks.

Karan Khanna

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Girish Choudhary from Avendus Spark.

Please go ahead.

Girish Choudhary

Hi. Thanks for the opportunity.

I have a question on the cash flow. How should we look at the trajectory going ahead because what we have seen is the construction costs have seen a material increase, which is understandable given you also mentioned about a significant increase in the area, right?

On the collections, any reasons why they have been flattish for the year and when do you expect this to pick up?

Yogesh Patel

The collections for the year, obviously, if you see from a residential perspective, for the new launches give us a certain amount of collection upfront. The sustenance collection as the milestones of construction gets completed, they get converted into milestones which then gets billed and collected.

The reflection of the flattish collection which we talked about is primarily because of the initial part of the year where the launches were deferred. That kind of getting materialized is converting into cash is ongoing right now.

From here, as the launches are getting planned, the cash flow of them will continue to increase, while sustenance cash flow comes based on milestone growth itself. At different stage of each project, the construction intensity differs, and that's what's reflected in the extra construction cost.

The operating cash flow generations continues to be positive and it will improve as new launches take a faster pace.

Girish Choudhary

Understand. How should we look at the collection trajectory going ahead because this year, we have seen impact to our operating cash flow in the sense we have seen a decline Y-o-Y.

Can we expect a material or a significant increase in your overall operating cash flows for the year?

Yogesh Patel

We should see an increase for sure. It should come in percentage terms pretty close to the way we look at our sales growth as well.

Few 100 basis points probably lower from there given the timing per se. That's what would be the trajectory in terms of cash flow generation.

Girish Choudhary

Okay. My second question, if you can give us some updates on all your Chennai projects, specifically the Velachery project.

How has been the response? What sales absorption we have seen?

Also for the year fiscal '27, you mentioned about three launches in the Chennai market, right? Which are these projects?

Pavitra Shankar

Yeah. The project is Brigade Stelleris that we just launched in Q4.

That is a pretty high-end project. It's 284 units and each unit is around ₹6 crores plus.

Far in Q4, what we did, we sold around 30 units, and I think we're pretty pleased with that performance. We expect to be fairly stable over the course of the three- to four-year construction life cycle.

Round are also pretty good after the launch quarter. In terms of million square feet coming up in Chennai, 1 million square feet of that is part of Morgan Heights.

Morgan Heights overall is a 2 million square feet project. We launched 1 million of that last year.

As I mentioned earlier, we had to pause it. We are launching the entire project as a full-scale relaunch in Q1 FY '27.

Basically within the next two months, we're doing that. The square feet of that is what is being counted.

We have two more projects that we're talking about. One is part of a larger multi-phase township that is 3 million overall, but we would only be launching 1 million of that in the coming financial year.

Both of those have visibility towards H2, Q3 and Q4 respectively.

Girish Choudhary

Sure. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Biplab Debbarma from Antique Stock Broking.

Please go ahead.

Biplab Debbarma

Good afternoon, everyone. My first question is on the approval-related issues that we faced in FY '26.

In your view, have all the issues related to approval resolved and do you anticipate any challenges in FY '27?

Pradyumna Krishnakumar

Hi, yeah, this is Pradyumna here. I think the primary issues of approvals are now behind us and as Pavitra also mentioned, we've launched about 4 million square feet in the last couple of months.

We are on track as far as approvals go from a comparative perspective. I think we are behind the issues that we faced earlier.

Biplab Debbarma

That's great. Secondly, I don't know whether I have heard it properly.

You have said that around 10 million square feet of commercial projects to be launched in next two years. Is that correct?

Pavitra Shankar

Yes, that's right. The moment we start construction, we consider it as launched.

While we next year, we have said that in FY '27, we'll be launching about 4.5 million square feet, the balance will come in FY '28. From a sense of completion, it will take about four years by the time the entire project is up and running with OC, etc.

That's what we have clearly said. We've already tied up lands for about 10 million square feet for commercial.

Biplab Debbarma

Ma'am, 10 million square feet upcoming and three around 3 million ongoing.

Pavitra Shankar

From this

Biplab Debbarma

13 million square feet, how much rental, once they become operational, how much rental Brigade's share do you anticipate?

Amar Mysore

See, what I would say is between what is currently ongoing, which is getting completed, and the 4.5 million square feet that will come up, it'll be about ₹800 crores. That is something that we have already estimated.

For the balance 5.5 million square feet, we will come out with the number soon.

Biplab Debbarma

Okay. No, that's great.

Thank you, sir.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Sourabh Gilda from JM Financial.

Please go ahead.

Sourabh Gilda

Hi. Am I audible?

Operator

Yes, sir. Please proceed.

Sourabh Gilda

Yep. Sure.

Firstly, on the commercial bit, our commercial monetization run rate has increased significantly to ₹550 crore annually now. How should one think about this run rate going ahead given the fact that you're launching a sizable amount of portfolio over the next two years?

See,

Pavitra Shankar

ideally, we would like to grow our annuity income portfolio. The idea is to hold on to many of the projects as much as possible, but sometimes based on how demand is for a particular project, in this particular year, you saw the additional of 100,000 square feet sold mainly because of the Twin Towers project.

For us, we take it on a case-to-case basis and if there are smaller projects and if the commercial is part of larger mixed-use townships and is not a very large project, in some cases, we might decide to sell. The strata sale is very project-dependent.

By and large, as a company, we want to enhance our annuity income portfolio. The larger projects, we would like to hold on to it, and maybe some of the smaller commercial projects or joint development, ideally those get into the strata sale perspective.

We'll have to look at this on a case-to-case basis, especially when, for instance, for Twin Towers, we saw that there was much more demand for end-user ownership. We had to take it based on that.

Sure.

Sourabh Gilda

Got it. Lastly on your leasing income of ₹1,300 crore, can you please share any bifurcation between the office and rental and also the contribution of few of the large office assets?

Pavitra Shankar

Yeah. If you look at of the ₹1,300 crores, ₹877 crores was from office, we had about ₹220 crores from retail, and ₹206 crores from the management business.

Of course, hospitality was separate at ₹605 crores. Yeah.

Sourabh Gilda

Sure. Got it.

Thank you so much.

Operator

Yeah. Thank you.

The next question is from the line of Pritesh Sheth from Axis Capital. Please go ahead.

Pritesh Sheth

Thanks for the opportunity. Just firstly on clarification in terms of timeline of launches, you were cracking up in between, just wanted to clarify.

All the Hyderabad projects would largely be in second half, Chennai also largely second half barring Morgan Heights, and Bangalore should be in Q2-Q3, if I heard you correctly. Is it?

Operator

I'm sorry, sir. The line for the management has been disconnected.

Please hold the line while we reconnect. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for patiently holding.

The line for the management has been reconnected. Mr.

Sheth, you may proceed with your question.

Pritesh Sheth

Sure. Just repeating the question.

Just wanted some clarification on the timelines of launches. If I heard you correctly, you said Hyderabad launches largely in second half, Chennai also second half barring Morgan Heights which would be launched in first quarter, and Bangalore would be in Q2-Q3.

Is it?

Pavitra Shankar

That's right. Hyderabad, I had said 1 million in Q3.

That project is actually 2 million square feet. Yes, timing-wise, you're right.

Pritesh Sheth

Sure. Got it.

If you can highlight the key projects in Hyderabad and Bangalore which one should look forward to? In Chennai, you already highlighted, but same for Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Pavitra Shankar

In Hyderabad, the 2 million square feet is the second plot that we purchased in Kokapet in Neopolis. That is the one we're hoping to launch in Q3.

Then there is another project in northern Hyderabad that we're looking at launching in Q4. That is 1 million square feet.

In Bangalore, we have a couple of North Bangalore that should be a Q2 Q3 launch. We do have upcoming launches in East Bangalore as well in the OMR corridor, again in the Q3 time frame.

Pritesh Sheth

Sure. Bangalore launches also include the large project in North Bangalore and the JDA that we signed, which is again a 39-acre, probably I think Cornerstone Utopia 2.

Is that also included in the launch plans for this year?

Pavitra Shankar

The North Bangalore project, there was some approval change or some bylaw changes. That we're still working on, and we'll see if we can work on that for the financial year.

Some of the bylaws changed, we've had to redesign. In terms of the new JDA that we signed, we've just now signed it.

I think it'll take some time in terms of design and approvals. If it's possible to bring it into this financial year, we'll definitely be looking forward to that and we'll update in the next couple of quarters.

Pritesh Sheth

Sure. Got it.

Just on the balance sheet side, while we are now looking forward to roughly ₹6,000 crore worth of capex, how should one think about the debt trajectory? Will the commercial debt continue to increase and residential capex would largely be funded through the accruals or what's the thought process and how should we look forward to?

Yogesh Patel

Yeah. That's right.

From a model perspective, residential generates its own cash during the tenancy of the construction itself, it get kind of self-funded from that perspective. What we have invested into is our own capital asset, which is the leasing asset, and towards which for construction and to create that project itself, the debt augmentation has been.

As I kind of detailed earlier, our net debt as of end of the year stands at about ₹2,200 crores, and that net debt number, as these commercial assets which have been launched commence or progress, we would see certain addition coming in there. However, from a debt-equity perspective, which is 0.27 for us, I think we would be pretty lower than 1x as well.

Pritesh Sheth

Sure. Just on capex, will everything be funded through debt or since the portfolio is already generating the rentals, portion of the capex would be funded through those cash flows?

Yogesh Patel

It'll be a mix of both for sure. Obviously, we would continue to optimize our cost of finance per se, as well as look at maximizing the return on equity.

Pritesh Sheth

Got it. Fair enough.

Okay. That's it from my side and all the best.

Thank you.

Pavitra Shankar

Thank you.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, in order to ensure that the management will be able to address questions from all the participants in the conference, kindly limit your questions to only two per participant. Should you have a follow-up question, please rejoin the queue.

We'll take the next question from the line of Parvez Qazi from Nuvama Group. Please go ahead.

Parvez Qazi

Hi, good afternoon team and thanks for taking my question. My first question is, what was the GDV of launches that we did in Q4 and also a similar number for FY '26 would be great.

Pavitra Shankar

Yeah. Overall, in FY '26, we launched 8.3 million square feet with a GDV of ₹10,000 crores.

In Q4, we launched 4 million square feet with around ₹4,500 crores of GDV. Sorry, what was the second part of the question?

Parvez Qazi

No, you answered the second part. My second question is, what was the contribution of launches to our Q4 FY '26 pre-sales?

Pavitra Shankar

Overall launches for the year, which was predominantly in Q4 entire year, it was around 43% of the total sales number.

Parvez Qazi

Possible to get a similar number for Q4?

Pavitra Shankar

For

Yogesh Patel

Q4.

Pavitra Shankar

Only for Q4?

Parvez Qazi

Yeah.

Yogesh Patel

60

Pavitra Shankar

50 60 60 Oh, you the percentage is only Yeah, the percentage is around 55%.

Parvez Qazi

Sure. Just one more question from my side.

For the roughly 12,000-odd crore of launches that are planned for FY '27, what would be a broad ticket size split? Let's say less than ₹3 crore, ₹3 to ₹5 crore, and ₹5 crore plus, what would be a broad split of this 12,000-odd crore in this respect?

Pavitra Shankar

Yeah. See, overall, we look at our portfolio as say affordable is up to 75 lakhs, then mid-segment to 1.5 CR, then our premium portfolio is what we look at up until 3 CR, and then above that is our ultra-luxury portfolio.

Far it's been around 30% and it'll come down a little bit over the next financial year in terms of mix.

Parvez Qazi

Sure. Last question, of the 10 million square feet office projects which are planned over FY '27 and FY '28, what would be this split in terms of the three cities where we are present?

Thank you.

Pavitra Shankar

Yes. Currently, the portfolio is maybe 60% in Bangalore, 27% in Chennai, and then 10% in Kochi and a little bit in Mysore.

I think once the 10 million comes up, it will be somewhat similar with Bangalore still holding about 55% of the portfolio, Chennai about 25 22%, but we're adding two more cities. We're adding Trivandrum, which will have about 7% of the portfolio.

We will be adding Hyderabad, that'll have about 5% of the portfolio. Of course, Kochi and Ahmedabad as well will have about 6% and 4%.

We are expanding our base, we will be adding a couple of more cities to this commercial portfolio.

Parvez Qazi

Thanks, and all the best.

Pavitra Shankar

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. A reminder to all the participants that you may please press star and one to ask questions.

The next question is from the line of Heta Vora from Monarch AIF. Please go ahead.

Heta Vora

Hi ma'am. This is Heta here.

I had a couple of questions. Firstly, could you share the current inventory level in million square feet?

Pavitra Shankar

It is 7.5 million square feet.

Heta Vora

Okay.

Operator

Ms. Vora, any further questions?

Heta Vora

Yes. I do have.

In Q4 FY '26, could you please share the pre-sales geographical split?

Pavitra Shankar

Yes. Just give me one second.

In Q4

Heta Vora

For the full year FY '26.

Pavitra Shankar

Sure. In Q4, 65% came from Bangalore.

Actually, this is the same for full year as well. Actually, the numbers for Q4 and FY '26 just happen to be around the same.

So, 65% Bangalore, 20% Hyderabad, and 16 or 15% from 20% from Chennai, 15% from Hyderabad.

Heta Vora

Okay. Could you please help us with the average ticket size for the launches planned for FY '27?

Is it all largely still an ultra-luxury?

Pavitra Shankar

No, it's not. Actually, on an APR basis, it's more like ₹10,000 crores

Heta Vora

in

Pavitra Shankar

terms of what we will be looking ₹10,000 per square foot in terms of what we will be launching. Predominantly, most of the ticket sizes will be below the ₹3 crores, while we still have some of this higher than ₹3 crores ticket size in our ongoing stock and one or two of the launches, some of the larger units as part of the projects.

Heta Vora

Okay. Okay.

Just lastly, what is what million square feet of projects will be completed on the leasing segment side as like in FY '27? Not the launches, the completions for FY '27 on leasing segment.

Yeah.

Pavitra Shankar

Currently, we have about 3 million square feet of projects that should come into the portfolio and or we're expecting the OC for that. Ideally, when we look at the budget, we would like to lease out the entire portfolio that is coming into the market, but of course it could take six quarters instead of four quarters, but we are aiming to at least double what we did in FY '26.

Heta Vora

Okay. All right.

That's it from my side. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Abhishek Khanna from Kotak Securities.

Please go ahead.

Abhishek Khanna

Hi, Pavitra. I just wanted to check, while you answered this partly, but on the 4 million square feet of launches that you did in 4Q, I just wanted to understand when were some of these larger projects in Bangalore like Lumina, Belvadaire launched, likewise the ones in Hyderabad, the ones you had Enclave and Manor?

What was the response like in terms of the check-up in the launch quarter itself? Was it like a 40-50%?

I think specific details that you could share on these would be helpful for both the Bangalore and the Hyderabad launches.

Pavitra Shankar

Sure. Of that 4 million square feet, we launched Lumina, that is in West Bangalore on Tumkur Road.

That project, although it came from an approval standpoint towards the end of March, we were still able to do a very high number. In fact, we almost sold out, it was more than 85% sold at the launch itself.

I think a lot of this was because we were expecting the approvals to happen much earlier in the year, there was some awareness of the project. By the time we launched, given the micro-market has historic under-supply, metro connectivity, all those things, the project did extremely well at a much higher rates than expected also.

Belvadaire also came towards the end again like in the last week of March. There, we did not have that luxury of time to sort of build up the market.

It has done well initially and also continuing into the first part of Q1. The projects in Hyderabad actually came in There are two small projects.

One came in in January, the response was good. The second one again came in only early March.

That is still taking some time as it's just recently been launched. Overall, I think the response in Hyderabad has also been quite good considering it's not a West market West Hyderabad sort of market, it's a core central part of Hyderabad market, we're still quite happy with the response.

Sure.

Abhishek Khanna

Any number that you'd like to share for Belvadaire, what was the take-up in the month of March in terms of percentage?

Pavitra Shankar

We basically sold around 150 units. Overall project size is 760 units, 150 we sold.

Abhishek Khanna

That's great. Helpful.

Thanks a lot. The second question that I had was on the weakness in your recognized margins, both residential and particularly on annuity.

Resi, of course, has been in the low teens or mid-teens and annuity at the high 60s or 70s. When can we expect an improvement?

What's been causing this weakness? While you've given some reasons earlier, but when can we expect an improvement in both of these businesses in terms of the reported margins?

Pavitra Shankar

Yogesh, you want to answer?

Yogesh Patel

From a margin perspective, on the resi part, I think it's obviously a mix of projects which kind of come up for revenue recognition, which is upon completion and handover the way recognition standards work. This is kind of reflective of the mix of project which would have come up during the year for recognition.

Traditionally, this would be some of them which have been sold much earlier and wouldn't have taken the increases which kind of the market grew with over last three-odd years. That's a reflection of that.

The current margins what we see on operations basis, they continue to run in the higher 20s, which we have kind of always said.

Abhishek Khanna

Can we expect that to reflect in the reported margins somewhere in FY '27?

Yogesh Patel

Correct. On the operation, the POCM basis, we continue to see this in that 30% range of EBITDA itself.

On the leasing piece, the EBITDA margins continue to be 80% and above. What you see on a reported basis lower primarily is a section where a certain amount of fit-outs were recovered on annuity basis, which kind of diluted the overall margin from a reporting perspective.

For quarter four, if you are looking at specifically, there was an accounting gross-up done for the full year in quarter four from a accounting perspective, so that's kind of further diluted, but the full-year number would give you a reflection of what fit-outs. In addition to that, what Nirupa explained, our leasing revenues also have a facility management component of about ₹200 crores there on an annual number, so that piece also runs at about 15% margin.

That's kind of blended basis would dilute as well.

Abhishek Khanna

Annually, you have ₹200 crore of facility management revenue at 15%, which brings down the blended numbers.

Yogesh Patel

Yes.

Abhishek Khanna

When you said there was for certain fit-outs that were recovered, which was over and above this facility management revenues, is it?

Yogesh Patel

Correct. Correct.

Abhishek Khanna

How much is that number for FY '26?

Yogesh Patel

Normalizing for all these, leasing income comes at margin of approx above 80% of EBITDA.

Abhishek Khanna

Sure. Just one last one.

What was that fit-out revenue that you would have recognized in the year if you have knowledge?

Yogesh Patel

Would be around ₹35 crores.

Abhishek Khanna

Okay. All right.

Thanks a lot.

Operator

Thank you. Participants, you may please press star and one to ask questions at this time.

The next question is from the line of Parvez Qazi from Nuvama Group. Please go ahead.

Parvez Qazi

Hi. Thanks for taking my follow-up question.

Two questions. One, we still have some space left in Twin Towers, what's our thought process there?

We want to lease it or we can convert it into sale model? The second is on pricing on the housing side.

What is the situation now in the market and what kind of price increase, if at all, we are building for FY '27? Thank you.

Pavitra Shankar

Regarding the first question with respect to Twin Towers, the idea is to just sell the project. There is only maybe 100,000 square feet that of common amenities that we plan to hold on to, but the balance, we plan to sell.

We hope to complete and exit that project in the coming fiscal year. On the residential pricing side, while we're looking at an APR increase year-over-year of a 13%, a lot of that is due to the product mix as well.

If you look at a like-to-like basis, what we've been able to take across various projects is high single digits, like 8% to 9% year-over-year, and we still feel this is fairly healthy. When we come into the market depending on the project or expect to sell at the time of launch, that's a fairly fully priced number.

It's not really a price discovery at this point. After the launch, we will look at an annual price increase of around 7% to 9% based on that micro-market.

If we look at our upcoming launches as well, there I had mentioned earlier, the average or the APR for that portfolio is around ₹10,000 per square foot. If you look at our current portfolio available as inventory, that number is north of ₹12,000 per square foot.

What it signals is that the product mix itself is going to be changing in our upcoming launches as well. That's something to be planning for, while we are still priced sort of at the higher end in terms of any of the sub-markets in which we're present.

It's a unit mix that and a product mix that we're going to see shifting back towards mid-segment, upper mid-segment, and away from ultra-luxury over the next financial year.

Parvez Qazi

Thanks, and all the best.

Operator

Thank you.

Pavitra Shankar

Thank you.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this will be the last question for today from the line of Heta Vora from Monarch AIF. Please go ahead.

Ms. Vora, I have unmuted your line.

Please proceed.

Heta Vora

Yes. Hi, am I audible now?

Operator

Yes, ma'am. Please proceed.

Heta Vora

Okay. Yes, thank you so much for the follow-up question.

I wanted to understand, what percentage of our buyers would be from the IT and IT services segment? In terms of our leasing segment, what percentage of our portfolio is leased out to IT and IT services sector?

Pavitra Shankar

I can start with the leasing portfolio. Basically we've said that about 58% to 60% of our portfolio is from the GCC segment, and IT/ITES is about 26% of the leasing portfolio.

The balance comes from BFSI, consulting, engineering, healthcare, and flexible operators.

Heta Vora

Okay. On the residential side?

Pavitra Shankar

On the residential side, since we're in three different markets, in Bangalore, it's around is split between GCC and IT. GCC is around 30%, IT services around 20% to 25%.

The rest is again BFSI and startup predominantly. In Hyderabad also, that number is around 45% to 50%, where again it's split equally between GCC and IT, and the remainder again from BFSI.

There is some customer demographic coming from pharma and life sciences as well in Hyderabad. In Chennai, it's a slightly lower percentage and IT around 20%.

Heta Vora

I'm sorry, ma'am. Can you please repeat your last line?

We missed on the numbers. Okay.

Pavitra Shankar

For Chennai, GCC is around 15%, IT around 20%, BFSI around 20%, and there is a higher contribution from, say, automobile and manufacturing in Chennai around 15%

Heta Vora

to 20%. Understood.

Are we seeing any softness in the walk-ins or the EOIs from any of these cities due to the expected layoffs coming in the market? No.

Pavitra Shankar

As I mentioned earlier, actually we were really happy with the performance of the launches, especially in a Lumina situation. All of the projects have really healthy walk-ins.

Even in terms of inquiries, it's there. It's more skewed towards end user, whereas I'd say in the last few years, we were seeing a lot of inquiries from speculators.

In terms of conversions, the conversions are still healthy at 10% to 12%, but what is happening is that in some of the markets, it takes a little longer than usual in terms of the conversion cycle. That is where we're seeing some of the increase in time, but in terms of percentage overall, it is still healthy and something that we consider positive.

Heta Vora

Okay. All right, ma'am.

That's really helpful. Thank you.

Pavitra Shankar

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. As that was the last question, I would now like to hand the conference over to Ms.

Nirupa Shankar, Joint Managing Director, for closing comments. Thank you, and over to you, ma'am.

Nirupa Shankar

Thank you. Before we wrap up, we'd like to highlight a few key achievements beyond this quarter's financial performance.

We marked an important development milestone with the completion of Brigade Cornerstone Utopia in Varthur, a 6 million square feet mixed-use development now home to over 10,000 residents and a key landmark in the Whitefield-Sarjapur corridor. Orion Mall at Brigade Gateway completed 14 years of operations, marking a significant milestone to one of our earliest malls.

Holiday Inn Chennai completed 9 years of operations and Grand Mercure Mysore completed 10 years, marking another milestone in our hospitality portfolio. The World Trade Center Bangalore became the first development in India to receive the WiredScore Platinum certification, reinforcing our focus on digitally enabled workplaces.

WTC Kochi earned the WTCA Premier Accreditation certificates, reflecting strong alignment with the global WTC standards. Brigade Gateway Hyderabad was awarded the Mixed-Use Project of the Year at the Realty+ Excellence Awards 2026.

Our facility management arm, Orion, achieved the Great Place to Work certification, underscoring our emphasis on employee engagement and workplace culture. We were recognized by Business World as one of India's most sustainable corporates, ranking third in the real estate space and 44th overall.

With that, we wrap up our Q4 earnings call. Thank you all for joining and see you next quarter.

Operator

Thank you, members of the management. On behalf of Brigade Enterprises Limited, that concludes this conference.

We thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect your lines. Thank you.