WATKIN JONES PLC (WJG) — HY Results for the six months ended 31 March 2025

Investor webinar replay

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the WATKIN JONES PLC Half 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 via the q and a tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just 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 we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. And before we begin, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from WATKIN JONES PLC. Alex, good afternoon, sir. Good morning, and welcome to the 2025 financial half year results for WATKIN JONES. I'm Alex Pease, the chief executive, and I'm joined today by Simon Jones, our chief financial officer. The agenda for this morning will begin with a short overview for myself, reflecting on the business and operational performance over the half year before looking at our key focus areas and our diversified strategies looking forwards. We will update on the core occupational and investment markets we operate in before focusing on our financial and divisional highlights. The first half of FY25 has seen a continuation of a number of similar key themes from FY24. Whilst wider economic conditions have continued to generate significant headwinds for the property sector, We have focused on controlling the controllables within the business, targeting incremental gains a...