CUSTODIAN PROPERTY INCOME REIT PLC (CREI) — Investor Presentation

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the CUSTODIAN PROPERTY INCOME REIT PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time by the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. And I'd now like to hand you over to Richard Sheppencross, investment manager. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, and good afternoon, everyone, who has joined on this last day of January. We've dealt with Blue Monday. I think for many, the when you take a look at the economy, it's been a fairly blue January. So I hope to offer some more optimistic words as we look forwards into 2025 and talk to you about CUSTODIAN PROPERTY INCOME REIT. We set out to be the REIT of choice for those private and institutional investors looking for high and stable dividends from well diversified UK real estate. And I thought it would be good to start by looking at what other people have said. So not my thoughts, although, I echo a lot of what I have seen in the property press and in the broadsheets. And because these are other people's words, I'm gonna read some of these to you, if not all of them. The first says that we are forecasting stronger returns in 2025 compared with 2024. This is talking about the direct property market. This is driven largely by resilient occupational markets, above trend leasing, robust rental growth, improved investor sentiment, and lower debt costs...