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- RAM Essential Services Property Fund (ASX:REP) is a stapled Australian real estate investment trust that invests in a geographically diversified portfolio of high-quality medical and essential retail properties leased to essential services tenants including leading national supermarkets such as Woolworths, Coles, and Target; private hospital operators such as St John of God Health Care, Healthe Care, and Genesis Capital; and medical service providers such as IPN Medical Centres, Tristar Medical Group, and Top End Medical. The Fund, headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, at Suite 15.01, Level 15, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, was formed in 2021 through the stapling on 20 October 2021 of RAM Australia Retail Property Fund (ARSN 634 136 682, established 2016) and RAM Australia Medical Property Fund (ARSN 645 964 601), managed by RAM Property Funds Management Limited (AFSL 514484), the responsible entity of both underlying funds. Its portfolio, comprising approximately 33 properties across Australia with 100% occupancy and a weighted average lease expiry of around 5 years as of early 2025, generates stable rental income from day hospitals, fertility clinics, medical centres, neighbourhood shopping centres, and standalone supermarkets, underpinned by long-term leases to covenant-strong tenants and supported by active asset management including leasing, repositioning, capital expenditure, and value-add development opportunities. The Fund operates in the real estate sector, targeting defensive income and capital growth for securityholders through exposure to resilient essential services assets with favourable sector trends, selectively acquiring properties aligned with its medical and essential retail theme while pursuing embedded growth levers such as development pipelines. Geographically focused on Australia, including New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and Northern Territory, the portfolio features key assets like Coomera Square (Woolworths-anchored), Keppel Bay Plaza (Coles-anchored), and various private hospital facilities such as Cairns Surgical Centre and Miami Private Hospital, delivering robust cash flows from gross lettable areas exceeding 100,000 sqm. In recent developments, the Fund completed strategic disposals in the half-year ended 31 December 2024, selling Yeronga Village Shopping Centre in Queensland for $21.5 million (settled August 2024) and Tanilba Bay Shopping Centre in New South Wales for $23.0 million (settled November 2024) as part of a capital recycling strategy to increase healthcare exposure alongside essential retail. Earlier in FY25, it acquired the Cairns Surgical Centre for $23 million in March 2025 to bolster its medical portfolio momentum, while maintaining an acquisition pipeline of $124 million in assets under exclusivity or advanced contracts; additionally, it extended its on-market securities buy-back program to 31 March 2025, repurchasing and cancelling over 6.9 million securities in HY25 to support capital management. Gearing stood at 31% as of December 2024 with access to $340 million in debt facilities, and distributions totaled 3.30 cents per security for the half-year.