AEW UK REIT PLC (AEWU) — Q4 Update

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the AEW UK REIT PLC Q4 update. Throughout today's recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time just using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please simply type in your questions at any time and press send. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll and as usual, we'd be grateful for your participation. I'd now like to hand over to today's management team, Henry, Laura. Good morning. Thanks, Mark. And thanks everyone for joining us today. As Mark said, this is our q four update on the company. And before we start today, I'd just like to address, perhaps some of you have seen some announcements or press articles linking AEW UK REIT with a possible merger with Alternative Income REIT in recent weeks. It was announced by both of the companies yesterday afternoon that a recommendable position between the two boards hadn't been reached. And I would urge shareholders to have a look at both of the 2.8 announcements, the withdrawal announcements from those discussions by both companies yesterday afternoon for more information in respect to that. Now, what what what we can say is governed by the the the regulations of the city code on mergers and takeovers. So I'm afraid I can't say any more than that to you today. But please do look at those announcements and you will understand that, of course, we can't take questions on that matter either. But irrespective of any other part of the presentation today, please do submit your questions and we can take those at the end. So for anyone who I haven't met before or spoken to before, I'm Laura Elkin. I'm the portfolio manager for AEWU. Henry and I have been managing ...