HARWORTH GROUP PLC (HWG) — Full Year Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the HARWORTH GROUP PLC full year results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, they can be submitted at any time by the q and a tab situated in the right hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to CEO, Linda Shiloh. Good afternoon. Thank you, and good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us. And, again, our apologies to those of you who dialed in earlier in the week when we were unable to to go ahead. So I'm Linda Shiller, chief executive of HARWORTH GROUP. I'm joined by my colleague, Dougie Maudsley, who is our interim CFO. Katie Patmore, our CFO, is currently on maternity leave. And Dougie's other day job is our group finance director. So you're you're in good hands on the numbers. I'm gonna sort of dive straight into the presentation and talk about the operational performance that the business sort of delivered during 2024. And it was a year of outperformance and and strong returns. And hope you can see that from this slide. We delivered a total accounting return of 9.1% in the year, and that was a really strong result in the context of the low leverage at the end of the year, but actually sort of the market as a as a whole. And it puts us sort of in that front pack in terms of real estate company sort of returns. That drove our rep rep NDV on to 719,500,000, so that's up 8.5% year on year. And that...