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Positioning Landsec for growth
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Overview | Mark Allan |
Our strategic priorities | Mark Allan |
Marcus Geddes | |
Colette O'Shea | |
David Heaford | |
Culture, capability and organisation | Mark Allan |
Financial implications | Martin Greenslade |
Summary | Mark Allan |
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Six key findings that inform our strategy
Our strategic review identified six conclusions which shaped the development of our strategy
London portfolio
Very high-quality London portfolio
Resilient and liquid
Strong foundation for new growth opportunities
Talent | Balance sheet | ||
Significant capability | We have a strong | ||
and expertise | balance sheet | ||
in the business | With an uncertain | ||
Clear opportunity | outlook due to Covid-19 | ||
to leverage this, through | and Brexit we cannot | ||
developing the right | afford to be complacent | ||
culture |
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Six key findings that inform our strategy
Our strategic review identified six conclusions which shaped the development of our strategy
Retail
Not all retail is the same
Structural challenges are significant, but limited primarily to our regional shopping centres (only 13% of our portfolio)
We need to be realistic in our outlook and proactive in our decision making
Balance sheet strength gives us the ability to withstand short-term rental pressures
Portfolio mix
Some elements of the portfolio are subscale with little or no competitive advantage
Structural growth areas under-represented
Covid-19
Long-term implications of Covid-19 are unclear and our strategy will adapt as the picture becomes clearer
We are managing near-term challenges proactively and focused on positioning the business for the undoubted post-pandemic opportunity
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Our approach to strategy
Combining the best of Landsec with fresh thinking
Operational risk = opportunity
Customers are the top priority
Culture is as important as strategy
Supported by long-term macro trends
A clear, authentic purpose
Sustainable competitive advantage
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Six 'Global Forces of Change' will impact our business over
the next 10+ years
Macro trends shaping our future markets, customers and competitors
Rapid urbanisation | Demographic and | Technologically | Climate change and | Borderless | Shifts in global | |||||
social change | advanced living | resource scarcity | access | economic power | ||||||
One in three | A global population | The digital | Growing energy, | The liberalisation | Political unrest, | |||||
people will live in | boom, paired with | landscape will | water and food | of global economic | populism, trade | |||||
cities of at least | people living | continue to disrupt | demands, alongside | policy and the | wars and mounting | |||||
500,000 habitants | longer and having | how we live, work, | rising weather and | accessibility of air | recessions are | |||||
by the year 2030 | fewer children, will | communicate, | health events show | travel has opened | reshaping the map | |||||
(source: UN) | drive significant | shop and beyond | the global need to | borders, supply | of economic power | |||||
demographic shifts | reverse | chains and trade | and driving new | |||||||
environmental | patterns | culture clashes | ||||||||
degradation |
Covid-19 impact
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We have a clear, authentic purpose
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Our purpose articulates what we want to achieve, how we will do it and the benefits this will bring to our stakeholders
Sustainable places. Connecting communities. Realising potential.
Our purpose is…
To create places that make a lasting positive contribution to our communities and our planet.
To bring people together, forming connections with each other and the spaces we create.
To provide our customers, partners and people with a platform to realise their full potential.
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Landsec's six key areas of competitive advantage
The quality of | Our track record, |
our portfolio | reputation and |
relationships
Our development | Our ESG |
leadership | |
expertise |
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Our scale
Our people
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Four strategic priorities
Our strategy will comprise four priority areas as we look to reshape the portfolio
to position Landsec for growth
Our central
London business
- London will remain a gateway city
- High quality, best-in-class portfolio
- Portfolio should provide resilience in the down- cycle
- New opportunities will emerge post-Covid
- We will align the business to growth sectors and geographies
- Creating value through development and a greater range of propositions
-
Targeted recycling
can fund long-term growth
Our retail business
(shopping centres and outlets)
- Structural shifts are putting retail rents under pressure but not all parts of the sector affected in the same way
- Understanding where sustainable rent levels currently sit is fundamental to our approach
- We will apply lessons learned from the outlets model to shopping centres
- We will re-evaluate the type and volume of space at our centres
- New leasing models will be based on alignment and affordability - a customer-centric approach is key
Capital from subscale sectors
- Our portfolios of subscale sectors have been earmarked for disposal in the medium-term
- Lack of scale or competitive advantage are reasons for exit
- We will reinvest proceeds into higher growth areas
Through urban opportunities
- Urban mixed-use is a growth area for Landsec
- Our analysis of megatrends shows there is structural support for this area
- We have attractive existing opportunities, but will also use a number of approaches to expand and accelerate progress
- We have a proven skillset
- We will consider urban regeneration opportunities in large regional centres over time
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How do we think about risk and return?
Positioning the business for growth with an appropriate level of risk
TotalGenerating
return"alpha"
Leverage | The |
cycle | |
We intend to focus on total return through the cycle and position the business to deliver above market returns
Income is a key part of the property return, but should not be the key driver
A greater focus on value creation
Taking on more risk but doing so in a managed, proactive way
Our tolerance for financial leverage will be guided by the level of operating risk in the business and our view of the cycle
We operate in a cyclical market
Understanding and responding to the cycle is a key part of generating and protecting alpha
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Our central London portfolio
High-quality portfolio | 83% office sector |
in central London | weighting |
Like-for-like office | High liquidity |
WAULT 8.1 years1 | in core markets |
1 As at 31 March 2020
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Other5%
Retail 11%
£8.2bn
portfolio 83% Office
Southwark and other | 11% |
Mid-town | 21% | ||
5.6m sq ft | 50% | West End | |
office
City18%
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Strong defensive characteristics
High-quality customers
Stable and secure income
Low capex requirements
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Central London portfolio
Growth potential |
Bubble size reflects total asset value |
Income quality
City | Victoria | Southwark and other |
West End | Mid-town |
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Delivering growth
Myo, 123 Victoria Street, SW1
Targeted submarket and sector exposure
Judicious development across a diverse pipeline
Customer-led products responding to changing needs
CGI of Portland House, SW1 | Southwark | |
CGI of Lavington Street, SE1
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London will continue to be a magnet for global capital, talent and tourism
Top 15 global business districts
(as per EY and Urban Land Institute index score)
59 | 58 | 55 | London | Other Europe | Non-Europe | |||||||||
52 | 52 | |||||||||||||
49 | ||||||||||||||
46 | 46 | 46 | 46 | |||||||||||
43 | 43 | |||||||||||||
40 | 40 | 38 | ||||||||||||
London | New York | Tokyo | Paris | London | New York | Beijing | Seoul | Singapore | Chicago | Toronto | San | Hong Kong | Sydney | Amsterdam |
The City | Midtown | Marunounchi | La | Canary | Financial | CBD | Gangnam | Downtown | The Loop | Financial | Francisco | Central | CBD | |
Defense | Wharf | District | Core | District | Financial | District | ||||||||
District |
Points movement since 2017
-2.5 | -1.2 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 4.7 | n/a | -0.1 | -0.8 | n/a | n/a | 3.7 | n/a | 1.5 |
Source: "The Attractiveness of Global Business District (GBD)" Report Ernst & Young / Urban Land Institute (May 2020)
Note: (1) 84% of respondents consider this factor the most important in determining the attractiveness of GBD; n = 349; (2) City of London and Canary Wharf ranked 1st and 2nd respectively
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Investment volumes
Covid constrained, but set for strong end to the year
£bn 20
15
10
5
0
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | ||||
YTD | |||||||||||||||
Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | 10-year average | |||||||||||
Source: CBRE Research
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Five occupier themes
Tech remains | Deferred | Strong pre-let | Grey space | Hybrid of |
active | decision- | momentum | pushing up | physical |
making | vacancy rate | and digital | ||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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Partnering with customers
- Creating Covid secure workplaces
- Qualitative and quantitative research from existing and prospective customers
- 82% maintaining or increasing space
- 81% believe office-based work boosts productivity
- Supporting the ground floor to survive and evolve
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80 Victoria Street, SW1
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Office customer proposition
We form partnerships | We offer great experiences | We create healthy and |
with customers | for clients and employees | sustainable spaces |
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Blank Canvas
Self contained offices completed to a Cat A or Shell condition with traditional pricing
Leases of 10+ years Typically 100+ headcount
Customised
Self contained offices fitted and managed by Landsec 'on-demand' fitout delivery
Leases of 5-10 years Typically 50-150+ headcount
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Myo
Private serviced offices with communal facilities and dedicated on-site team
Leases of 1-5 years Typically 10-100+ headcount
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Proposition backed up by customer-led products
Level | Area (sq ft) | Product | Availability |
17 | LET | ||
16 | 9,006 | Blank Canvas | Q4 2020 |
15 | 9,005 | Blank Canvas | Q1 2021 |
14 | 9,007 | Blank Canvas | Q1 2021 |
13 | LET | ||
12 | 8,871 | Blank Canvas | Q1 2021 |
11 | 8,872 | Blank Canvas | Q3 2021 |
10 | 8,871 | Blank Canvas | Q3 2021 |
09 | Available from | MYO | Q4 2021 |
08 | |||
10+ desks | MYO | Q1 2021 | |
07 | and flexible | MYO | Q1 2021 |
meeting rooms | |||
06 | MYO | Q1 2021 | |
05 | LET | ||
04 | 8,867 | Blank Canvas | Q3 2021 |
03 | 8,868 | Blank Canvas | Q4 2020 | |||
02 | 8,868 | Customised | Q4 2020 | |||
01 | 8,869 | Blank Canvas | Q2 2021 | |||
G | Business lounge and café | |||||
The Ivy City Garden | ||||||
Dashwood House, EC2 | ||||||
B | Basement shower and | |||||
cycle facilities | ||||||
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Maintain resilience, recycle for growth
- Between 2010 and 2017 sold £3.5bn London assets
- Delivered 3m sq ft in a £1.7bn speculative office pipeline
- £0.5bn into 20+ acquisitions
- Actively tracking stock across diverse geographies
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20 Fenchurch Street, EC3
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Optionality in our development programme
CGI of 21 Moorfields, EC2
- 2m sq ft on site or near-term
- All speculative schemes have optionality and flexibility over delivery
- Site assembly, design, planning and ground works continue
- Build out prioritised on risk adjusted returns
CGI of Lucent, W1
CGI of N2, SW1
CGI of 21 Moorfields, EC2 | CGI of The Forge, SE1 | |
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Optimising for growth
- Both London and our portfolio provide a resilient platform for growth
- Increased churn and development optionality
- Customer-ledproposition promoting healthy and sustainable spaces underpinned by choice and flexibility
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80 Victoria Street, SW1
123 Victoria Street, SW1
CGI of Portland House, SW1 | Dashwood House, EC2 | |
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Reimagine our retail business
- introduction
- £4.3bn of retail assets with different characteristics
- Central London retail is heavily linked to the London economy
- Suburban London retail is supported by regeneration potential
- Outlets are the strongest performing retail segment
- Shopping centres seeing greatest structural challenges
- Retail parks are subscale
- Reimagining retail focuses on outlets and shopping centres
- Sustainable rents in shopping centres likely to be 20-25% below March 2020 ERVs
- We have considered the significant impact of Covid-19 and are responding accordingly
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Retail parks | 10% | Central London | ||
22% | retail | |||
£4.3bn | Suburban | |||
of retail | London | |||
10% | retail | |||
assets | ||||
Shopping | ||||
centres | 38% | 20% | Outlets |
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We need to reimagine our portfolio and our relationships with customers
- Online choice has fundamentally changed the role of bricks and mortar
- Covid-19accelerated what might have taken 5 years into 5 months
- Met over 30 retail, leisure and F&B operators to understand what they want and need
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Offers more than 12m products - including Amazon marketplace, the figure increases to 350m
UK shopping centres typically carry 250,000 products
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Reimagine portfolio
Subscale sectors | Central London |
portfolio |
Retail parks Central London
10%retail
22%
Shopping
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Outlets
37%
£4.3bn | 10% | Suburban | Urban | |
Shopping | portfolio | London | ||
opportunities | ||||
centres | 38% | retail | ||
20%
Outlets
March 2020 segmentation
of retail assets
centres£2.4bn
63%
Today's segmentation
aligned to strategic priorities
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Reimagine portfolio is made up of some of the most attractive retail in the UK
- Focus on regional shopping centres and outlets
- August BRC national benchmark footfall down 42% year-on-year
- Landsec shopping centres down 34%
- Landsec outlets down 31%
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Growth potential
Bubble size reflects total asset value
Income quality
Regional retail | Outlets |
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Reimagine portfolio - we have five objectives
Determine | Elevate the | Create | Maximise |
sustainable | consumer | operational | our vibrant |
rents | experience | excellence and | outlets |
new leasing | |||
models | |||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Repurpose space to reduce the retail footprint and enhance the mix
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Changing the conversations with our customers
Three themes emerged from research
- Role for the physical store, but it needs to work much harder in the omni channel world
- Strong willingness to collaborate to find solutions
- No one solution to fit all needs
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Clarks Village, Street
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Determine sustainable rents
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- Sustainable rents could be 20-25% below March ERVs
- This moves occupancy costs for our shopping centres
to around 14% - Realistic base to make investment decisions
Store level sales | |
projections | |
Commercial | |
balance | |
Actual/ | Determine |
sustainable | |
estimated | |
operating costs | rents |
ERVs
Target OCR
Actual/ estimated retailer operating profit margin
Recent deals
Online spending projections
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Elevate the consumer experience
Creating the pull and push
The "pull"
The mix needs to
- Be relevant and supported by catchment demographics
- Be made up of sectors growing, not declining
- Be curated as part of enhancing the consumer experience
- Bring back convenience retail
Shopping centres need to be segmented to suit the consumer
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Westgate Oxford
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Elevate the consumer experience
Creating the pull and push
The "pull"
The journey through a shopping centre needs to be frictionless
- Physical changes to aid the customer journey and increase efficiency
- Quality environment and facilities
- Easy parking
- Brilliant basics
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Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
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Elevate the consumer experience
Creating the pull and push
The "push"
- Marketing based on large imaginative concepts involving collaboration across the centre
- Campaigns rolled out across centres
- Synergies between our marketing spend and that of our customers
- Collaboration and digital marketing to amplify our consumer reach
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Operational excellence
Service charge
- Reduced our annual costs by 3% this year, targeting a further 3% reduction by April 2021
- In response to Covid-19 reduced this year's costs by a further 10%
New leasing models
- No "one size fits all" solution
- Need greater flexibility on all sides
- Customer segmentation to identify which
model works for which retailer | |
Bluewater, Kent | |
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Maximise our vibrant outlets
- Our outlets have performed well
- Sales tracking at 91% of last years' levels
- Continue to offer income stability
- Relatively shielded from online competition
- Often most profitable channel for retailers
- £14m planned enhancement works across our assets
- Works include white boxes, new facades and improved landscaping and wayfinding
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Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
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Repurposing space
- Looking at opportunities to reduce the amount of retail space
- Introducing new uses to reinforce the ecosystem
- Published a report 'Reimagining empty retail space'
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Actively looking at opportunities
in Oxford, Leeds, Cardiff, Bluewater and Glasgow
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Working with local authorities | Repurposing space | |
Masterplan zones, Bluewater, Kent | Space as a service | |
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Our "reimagine" portfolio will look and feel different
- Sustainable rents will give us a realistic basis for decision making
- A more collaborative approach to enhancing the consumer experience
- Customer segmentation as a foundation for a more flexible approach to leases
- Making the most of our vibrant outlets
- Repurposing a proportion of the portfolio
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Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
Trinity Leeds
St David's, Cardiff
Junction 32, Castleford
White Rose, Leeds
Bluewater, Kent | Westgate Oxford | |
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We will realise proceeds from the disposal of subscale sectors
Our strategy review identified three segments of the portfolio as subscale
Xscape, Milton KeynesNovotel, HammersmithThe Bishop Centre, Taplow
Leisure | Hotels | Retail parks |
18 assets | 23 assets | 10 assets |
£649m value, 6.4% NEY | £469m value, 5.2% NEY | £444m value, 7.4% NEY |
10.6 years WAULT | 11.2 years WAULT1 | 5.6 years WAULT |
Predominantly out of town | 21 hotels let to Accor with | Exposure to this sector has |
leisure parks anchored by | rental income turnover based | been reduced significantly in |
a cinema | recent years |
1 We own 21 Accor hotels in the UK. They are leased to Accor until 2091 with a break clause in 2031 and 12 yearly thereafter.
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Our growth opportunities are underpinned by global trends
Macro trends shaping our future markets, customers and competitors
Rapid urbanisation | Demographic and | Technologically | ||
social change | advanced living | |||
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Our growth opportunities are underpinned by global trends
Macro trends shaping our future markets, customers and competitors
Rapid urbanisation | Demographic and | Technologically | |||||||
social change | advanced living | ||||||||
Climate change and | Borderless | Shifts in global | ||
resource scarcity | access | economic power | ||
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Urban opportunities
Principal considerations
Cities need to continue to evolve
1
Co-ordination of local ecosystems is key
Mixed-use | Residential | Growth | Lasting sense |
focus | potential | of place |
2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Local demand | Likely to play | London and | We are experts |
will drive mix of | a significant | regional cities | in large scale, |
asset classes | part - housing | offer growth | complex |
shortage | opportunities | regeneration | |
across the UK |
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New investment
- Short-termcapital investment recycled from elsewhere in the portfolio
- Targeting
- Near-termreturns
- Mixed-usepotential
- London and regional cities
- Variety of potential investment methods
- Acquisition
- JVs
- Larger scale partnerships
- Forward funding
- Up to 25% of the Landsec portfolio in the next 5 years
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O2 shopping centre, Finchley Road
W12 shopping centre, Shepherd's Bush
Lewisham shopping centre, SE13
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Experts in large-scale transformation
Post-investment Victoria
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Experts in large scale transformation - Nova
- Delivered mixed-use regeneration of a 5-acre site in Victoria
- 700,000 sq ft across office, residential, convenience retail and leisure
- Latest of a long line of complex developments successfully delivered
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Nova, SW1
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Urban opportunities in our existing portfolio
- Over 50 acres of land with 1.6m sq ft of existing use space
- Potential to densify by a 5 times multiple, up to 8m sq ft
- Includes up to c.7,000 new homes
- Vibrant local communities
- Well connected to existing transport an infrastructure
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We have substantial medium-term opportunities in the portfolio and are actively pursuing acquisition opportunities delivering near-term returns
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Landsec's strategy - what does it mean for our organisation and culture?
Building on the strengths
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Hallmarks of our desired culture
of our people
- The expertise and capability of Landsec's people is one of its greatest assets
- Will augment skills over time
- The right organisation and culture will help us maximise our capabilities
Lean andagile
Greater levels of empowerment and accountability within clear strategic framework
Long-term perspective
Truly customer-centric
Striving for continuous improvement
Data-led insight and decision making
Strong strategic partnerships
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Five key performance drivers which apply across all aspects of the business
Central to how we deliver our plan and sustain competitive advantage
Development expertise
Capital discipline
Customer centricity
Data- driven decisions
ESG leadership
- Our expertise lends itself to large, complex, long-term projects that can focus on the needs of multiple customer segments
- Leading our sector in applying DfMA, MMC and sustainable development practises can help lower our carbon impact and differentiate our end-product with customers, eventually leading to increased returns
- Repositioning the portfolio for growth, investing in sectors and assets that can deliver through the cycle to drive a NAV / NAV premium valuation
- Combination of attractively priced partner capital and fee income could enhance returns on longer-term projects
- Build deep understanding of evolving customer needs to ensure we design market-leading propositions
- Measure and track all facets of the customer experience across our portfolios to enable proactive interventions and validate the impact of our actions on key customer metrics e.g. churn and retention
- Enable clear articulation of who our customers are and how we can deliver value to them
- Build data as a strategic asset for the long-term, blending proprietary and public data to enable focused, strategic decision making
- Set the foundations, then benefit from our transition to being a 'modern digital business'
- Create increased/additional value and income through new propositions and routes to market
- Leading the industry in pursuit of our science-based environmental targets
- Take a more pro-active approach to our social and environmental impact to turn a cost of doing business into triple-bottom line investments which also help drive positive employee and stakeholder engagement
- To ensure the business remains relevant and delivers value in the long-term
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Reminder of our approach to risk and return
Positioning the business for growth with an appropriate level of risk
Total
return
We intend to focus on total return through the cycle and position the business to deliver above market returns
Income is a key part of the property return, but should not be the key driver
Generating
"alpha"
A greater focus on value creation
Taking on more risk but doing so in a managed, proactive way
Leverage
Our tolerance for financial leverage will be guided by the level of operating risk in the business and our view of the cycle
The
cycle
We operate in a cyclical market
Understanding and responding to the cycle is a key part of generating and protecting alpha
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Broad shape of our capital management over the next six years
Estimated investment/divestment FY21 - FY26
Investment
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Divestment
- As we implement our strategy, capital rotation will increase, starting with an initial phase of disinvestment
- Later years will see net investment primarily in our central London and Urban opportunities portfolios
- c. £4bn of capital recycling over next six years
- Net debt is expected to be broadly stable overall - investment and capex will be funded through disposals over time
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Implications for leverage
- Our strategy is set against a backdrop of increasing operational gearing from changes in leasing structures and reducing lease lengths
- Our aim is to rotate more rapidly out of low growth, low risk assets into those with higher total return
- This approach will increase our operational gearing. As a result, we expect financial leverage to be slightly lower
- We expect the normal range for our financial leverage to be an LTV of 25% to 40%, with +/- 5pp at the top and bottom of the range depending on the cycle and our operating leverage
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Previous guidance on LTV range
Normal gearing range of 35-45%
+/- 10pp at the extremes of the cycle
New guidance on LTV range
Normal gearing range of 25-40% +/- 5pp at the extremes of the cycle
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Boosting total returns and delivering a sustainable dividend
Short-term impact of Covid-19 and capital recycling followed by recovery
- Asset recycling and positioning the business towards growth sectors will boost total returns over time
- In the short-term, earnings impacted by Covid- 19 and disposals
- Subsequent earnings increase driven by post-Covid recovery and asset mix
- Dividend reinstated post interims at a level which reflects current underlying earnings
- Dividend will be c.1.2x - 1.3x covered by underlying earnings
CGI of The Forge, SE1
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Summary
- Our focus is on total return with a greater emphasis on generating alpha through higher operating leverage
- Financial leverage will be lower to compensate
- Short-termearnings will be impacted by Covid-19 and disposals
- Overall impact of the revised strategy will be a shift to lower yielding assets but with higher growth potential
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New Ludgate, EC4
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What could the portfolio look like in 2026?
A more focused portfolio with greater growth potential
March 2020 | March 2026 |
Central London | Regional retail | Subscale sectors | Urban opportunities | |||
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Our strategy
Repositioning Landsec for growth
Our competitive advantage | Our purpose | Global forces of change | |||||||
Strategic priorities | |||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||
Our central London | Our retail business | Capital from | Through | ||||||
business | (shopping centres and outlets) | subscale sectors | urban opportunities | ||||||
Key performance drivers
Development expertise | Capital discipline | Customer centricity | Data driven decisions | ESG leadership | ||||
What it means for…
…Shareholders
Total returns, delivered through the cycle
A focus on creating 'alpha'
Higher operational leverage, offset by lower financial leverage
…Other stakeholders
A continued commitment to becoming net zero carbon by 2030
A partnership-based approach
The creation of vibrant communities with a lasting sense of place
…Our culture and organisation
Outward-facing and customer-led
Lean, agile, nimble, empowered and supportive Driven to be customer-centric and data-led
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Competitive advantage
Best-in-class
London portfolio
Positioning | |
Landsec | Strong track record |
for growth
Urban regeneration potential
Realistic reimagining for shopping centres
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Improved total returns and significant value
for all stakeholders
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Expectations over the next 12 months
- Reinstated dividend
- Capital recycling in central London portfolio to realise significant value creation
- Balanced progress on central London developments
- Increasing range of office propositions
- Clear progress towards a new retail operating model
- Planning progress across our urban opportunities portfolio and potential growth in that portfolio
- Steps to put in place the right culture and organisation to support the strategy
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