LON:BTRW Barratt Redrow H2 2025 Earnings Report GBX 376.90 +6.30 (+1.70%) As of 12:10 PM Eastern ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Barratt Redrow EPS ResultsActual EPSGBX 25.50Consensus EPS N/ABeat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/ABarratt Redrow Revenue ResultsActual RevenueN/AExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/ABarratt Redrow Announcement DetailsQuarterH2 2025Date9/17/2025TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateWednesday, September 17, 2025Conference Call Time3:30AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckEarnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Barratt Redrow H2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrSeptember 17, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Despite a challenging market, Barratt Redrow delivered 16,565 home completions in FY25, achieved an adjusted pre-tax profit of £591.6m and finished with a net cash position of £773m. Positive Sentiment: Completion of the Redrow integration unlocked £89m of cost synergies in FY25—well ahead of target—with a further £45m expected in FY26. Neutral Sentiment: The land bank margin improved to 19.2% and outlet numbers are expected to remain flat in FY26 before growing organically from FY27, providing visibility for a return to 22,000 annual completions. Negative Sentiment: Barratt Redrow holds £886m of building safety provisions on its balance sheet, including £187m for concrete frame issues, with ongoing remediation costs and potential further liabilities. Neutral Sentiment: FY26 guidance highlights anticipated land investment of £800m–£900m, building safety spend of c.£250m, adjusted admin costs of c.£400m and a year-end net cash balance of £400m–£500m. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallBarratt Redrow H2 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:00:00Great. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being with us this morning for the Barratt Redrow FY25 full year results meeting. Just a couple of points of housekeeping. There is no fire alarm expected. If there is an alarm, follow Mike through that door because he'll be the first off, or through this door with myself. We're going to start with David in a moment. David's going to do a first intro, then pass over to Mike, then return to David, and then we'll open up for Q&A. With that, I'll hand over to David. Thanks, David. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:00:36Thanks, John, and your comparing role. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the first full year Barratt Redrow presentation. As John said, Mike and I are going to take you through our FY25 performance and current trading, as well as updates on sales outlets and also building safety. We'll conclude by looking at the market and the underlying fundamentals and why Barratt Redrow is the best place to perform across the cycle. First of all, I'd like to just take you through some of our key messages for today. In FY25, the market clearly remained challenging. Affordability was a constraint for many, and consumer confidence remained low, with political and economic uncertainty persisting. Despite this, the business has produced a very resilient performance, both operationally and financially, alongside completing the majority of the Redrow integration whilst delivering cost synergies well ahead of target. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:01:59The business remains financially robust, underpinned by our strong balance sheet. Now, through our acquisition of Redrow, we have three distinct brands that position us well for future growth. Looking in a little more detail at the operational highlights from last year, bringing the Redrow brand into the business was, of course, a particular highlight, allowing us to reach most of the market as well as capitalize on synergy opportunities. We received CMA clearance in October 2024 and, as mentioned, have already completed the bulk of the integration. This allows us to concentrate on maximizing the benefits of the combination and driving the total business forward. In the year, we remained active in the land market, enhancing our land position through strong approval levels, utilizing our numerous land channels. We delivered 16,500 homes, which is a significant achievement in what is a challenging market. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:03:23I would also like to take a moment to highlight some of our externally accredited achievements over the past year. Our repeated success in the HBF ratings and the NHBC Pride in the Job Awards are a testament to the dedication of our teams across the business, as well as the quality of the training and the customer-first culture we maintain across the group. This quality is also reflected in our Trustpilot scores given by our customers, which award all three brands with the highest rating of excellent. Mike will cover the financials in much more detail, but just to pull out a few highlights. Whilst our completions came in modestly below guidance, our adjusted profit before tax and PPA was in line with market expectations. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:04:26This reflected our rapid progress on cost synergy delivery, with £69 million confirmed in the year and £20 million crystallized in FY25, double our previous forecast. Our return on capital employed, excluding PPA, improved to 10.7% from 9.5%. We finished the year with a strong net cash position, supporting our growth and capital allocation plans. Now, looking at reservations, our growing portfolio of PRS partners helped to increase our overall reservation rate to 0.64. Additionally, some improvement in mortgage competition and availability provided a boost to our net private reservation rate, excluding PRS and other multi-unit sales. However, the improvement in the rate was offset by the reduced number of sales outlets and our opening order book. Turning now to completions, our total completions were down 8% compared to the aggregated figure for FY24. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:05:45This was due to a reduction in affordable completions, reflecting the nature and timing of these types of deals. However, we were pleased that our underlying private completions in the year were up around 3.5%. Our average selling prices saw price inflation of around 1%, with customers remaining very sensitive to both increases in headline prices and reductions in incentive levels. Other increases in underlying private ESP were largely due to increased delivery of larger homes outside of London. For more detail on reservation rates, completions, and ESPs, please see the information in the appendices. Our land bank supports our medium-term growth ambitions. Our multiple land pipelines allow us to source high-quality land throughout the cycle. While planning remains a slow process, we are very optimistic about the reforms and the positive changes we will see once the legislation is passed. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:07:03Gladman remains an important part of our business and will also benefit from the planning reforms. Being the partner of choice continues to benefit us in the land market as well. In the year, we announced the MAID partnership alongside Homes England and Lloyd's Banking Group, and also the West London partnership with Places for London, giving us access to further high-quality land opportunities. Moving on to outlets, the proposed planning reforms, as I've said, are extremely positive. However, they have taken longer to come into law than we expected. Therefore, as announced in our July trading update, we expect outlet numbers in FY26 to be largely flat. From FY27, we will start to see organic outlet growth, plus the benefit of our revenue synergy outlets. As seen on this graph, the vast majority of our FY27 outlets are already open or have detailed planning consent. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:08:19In FY28, there is still a relatively low proportion of forecast outlets that rely on future planning approvals. This provides us with excellent visibility over the next few years and gives us confidence in our growth forecasts. On current trading, in July and August, we saw our net private reservation rate, excluding PRS, increase slightly compared to the same period in FY25. However, we recognize that the market remains subdued, and after speculation about stamp duty, some customers are going to wait to see the impact of the budget in late November. Meanwhile, the lack of PRS reservations in the period simply reflects the timing of deals. Our year-to-date completions are marginally ahead of last year's, and our forward-sold position is in line. We are very pleased with the solid start to the financial year. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:09:30I'm now going to hand over to Mike, who will take you through our FY24 performance and financials. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:09:40Thanks, David. Morning, everyone. As David said, I'll take you through our FY25 performance and also spend a few minutes this morning on building safety. This slide shows FY25 performance against the reported position for FY24, which obviously excludes any impact of the Redrow acquisition. I'll touch on the P&L metrics shortly, but you can see here our total home completions of 16,565 homes and strong closing net cash position of £773 million after the payment of £249 million of dividends, £50 million spent on the share buyback, and just over £100 million spent on building safety remediation. If I move on now to a more meaningful comparison of performance as Barratt Redrow. As we did at the half year, we're focusing on the FY25 performance, stripping out the impact of deal purchase price allocation adjustments, which I'll touch on later. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:10:40These are non-cash accounting adjustments, which largely fall away from FY26 onwards. We think this is the best view of underlying trading in the business during the year. In the comparative for FY24, we're including Redrow here from the 24th of August 2023, but without any adjustment for accounting policies. We've put a more detailed slide in the appendices, if anyone has the appetite, which shows the reconciliation of all of these amounts to ensure you've got full transparency. Several points to highlight. First of all, total home completions, as David said, were down 7.8% as a result of lower outlet numbers during the year. Despite the lower volume, adjusted gross profit was broadly flat at £970.3 million, and gross margin improved by 30 basis points to 17.4%, which mainly reflected modest sales price inflation and the positive mix effect of more recently acquired land coming into production. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:11:38Adjusted operating profit was up 2.9% at £595.4 million, with margin up 50 basis points at 10.7%, reflecting the benefit of cost synergy delivery during the year. Adjusted profit before tax was £591.6 million, slightly ahead of guidance in July, and adjusted EPS was £30.80, which delivers a full year dividend up 8.6% to £17.60. Overall, we're pleased with the performance the combined group delivered in the year, despite the reduced total home completions, and particularly positive to see both growth and operating margins moving in the right direction. This slide updates on the accounting fair value adjustments that have been finalized since our provisional position at the half year, and four changes to draw out here. First of all, the uplift on land and work in progress is now £120.4 million. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:12:33That's up from £93 million at the half year, and that reflects the final valuation of sites in the opening balance sheet. Secondly, as I mentioned back in February, the recognition threshold for building safety liabilities is lower than normal for Redrow because we were required to bring contingent liabilities onto the balance sheet by the accounting rules. As we detailed in the July trading statement, we've increased Redrow's building safety provisions to take into account concrete frame issues in London, and this has increased this adjustment to the £144.5 million shown here. The final changes relate to the tax effect of the fair value adjustments, resulting in a £94 million adjustment to deferred tax. Goodwill recognized on the Redrow transaction is therefore £321.9 million, and that's up from the provisional estimate of £259 million. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:13:26Most of these fair value impacts have actually already unwound in FY25 with a reduction of £103.3 million in adjusted profit before tax. We're expecting a further £20 million charge in FY26 before this becomes immaterial to future years. Moving on to land, and this is the updated position on embedded gross margin in the land bank. Pleasingly, the land bank margin continues to improve, up 90 basis points this half year to 19.2% at the end of June. With little net inflation impact, roughly a third of the improvement came from the utilization of land in the half, and the remaining two-thirds from the new sites that we've added to the land bank. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:14:09As you know, we remain focused on improving this position over the medium term to our current gross margin hurdle rate of 23% by optimizing price, managing build cost inflation effectively, and bringing new land into production. Moving on to look at adjusted operating margin in FY25, and from last year's Barratt-only operating margin, we saw a reduction of 120 basis points from reduced volume. That was almost all offset by improved pricing across the year. As we've said previously, build cost inflation was broadly flat in FY25. Looking at our same site, same house type measure of inflation, which covers around a third of our volume, like-for-like sales price inflation was around 1.4% in the year. Last year, we saw a step up in completed development costs, but these have normalized this year, resulting in a positive margin benefit of 80 basis points. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:15:06The impact of other mix effects, including Redrow coming into the group, contributed 70 basis points, together with a further 30 basis points from the cost synergies we realized during the year. Our adjusted operating margin before the impact of fair value PPA adjustments was therefore 10.7%. You can see the impact of those PPA adjustments, which take margin to 9% flat on the Barratt-only margin from last year. Just to update on cost synergies, we're making really good progress on realizing the cost synergies target of at least £100 million, with £20 million included in the income statement in FY25. With nine office closures confirmed, six were completed by year-end, and three are in the final stages of closing at the end of June, with £23 million of savings confirmed. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:15:57The head office rationalization is also underway and will complete shortly, with £21 million confirmed at the 29th of June. On procurement, we're making good progress in aligning pricing and terms across key materials categories, with £25 million confirmed at the 29th of June. As we said, our operational leadership was aligned and effective from the 1st of July 2025, and the IT integration is in progress, with the migration of six remaining divisions expected to complete in FY26. Having crystallized £20 million of cost synergies in FY25, we're well on track to deliver an incremental £45 million in FY26. On revenue synergies, just to give you the latest numbers to date, we've now submitted 25 planning applications at the end of August, and we've already received planning permission on nine of those sites. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:16:50We expect to submit the remaining applications during the course of FY26, and we're very much on track to see the first incremental outlets ready to open at the start of FY27. I'd like to spend a few minutes just updating on building safety. As you know, our approach from the start of this issue has been to focus on the safety of the buildings we built and the people who live in them. We've been very engaged with government, and we were the first house builder to create a unit dedicated to remediation, and we commit significant time and resources to support it in delivering our program. We apply a rigorous process in assessing buildings within the scope of our obligations. That includes using reputable fire engineers and seeking peer reviews of all fire risk assessments undertaken on our buildings. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:17:39We're also making some progress with recoveries from the supply chain, where we have a robust case to pursue them for substandard workmanship or design. Looking at our building safety provisions, we currently have £886 million on the balance sheet relating to fire and external wall system issues. During the year, we brought the Redrow provision of £184 million onto our balance sheet. As we announced in July, within the Barratt legacy portfolio, we've provided £109 million across three areas. Firstly, £76 million in relation to a development in our southern region, which related to a specific build typology we don't think is repeated anywhere else in the group. We've also seen £17 million of incremental costs at an existing remediation project in London. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:18:27Other than that, the underlying position was relatively stable, with a net £16 million movement of costs, which was offset elsewhere in the income statement by supply chain recovery. Moving on to look at the provision for concrete frame issues, we carry a provision of £187 million at the end of June. During the year, no new buildings came into scope in the Barratt portfolio. As we updated in July, we identified concrete frame issues similar to those identified on legacy Barratt developments at up to four Redrow developments, and we booked £105 million to the opening balance sheet provision for these issues. Based on the reviews we've carried out to date, we don't expect any further buildings to come into scope for these frame-related issues going forward. Onto the balance sheet, and here's our usual balance sheet breakout. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:19:17In the appendices, we've included a slide which reflects the impact of the consolidation of Redrow at fair value and also the movements from underlying trading. Two points to highlight here. First of all, the ongoing organic investment in land. As well as bringing Redrow's land into the balance sheet, we invested an incremental £181 million across FY2025. The significant increase in land creditors, so an additional £167 million added over and above Redrow's consolidation. Land creditors remain below the target range of 20% to 25%, but moved up to 15.9% this year, and we're looking to ensure that we add land on deferred terms to take us into that 20% to 25% range. Part exchange has increased by £39 million, which is a reflection of its importance as a selling tool in a tough market. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:20:08More than two-thirds of the 549 homes in our portfolio had already been sold by the 29th of June, and as you know, we keep tight control of part exchange stock. Here's the cash flow bridge for Barratt Redrow from reported operating profit on the left to the net cash outflow on the right, and really just a couple of things to point out from this slide. Firstly, a step up in tax payments was the prime driver of the £101 million outflow on interest and tax, and as I've already noted, building safety spend totaled £101 million. Our operating cash inflow was £50 million, and we brought Redrow's cash onto the balance sheet and also made some further investment into additional timber frame facilities at our Oregon factory in Scotland. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:20:54With dividends paid and the share buyback of £50 million, the net cash outflow for the year was £96 million. Just to update on capital allocation and reiterating our unchanged capital allocation priorities here. Clearly, our enhanced scale and balance sheet strength, with net cash of £772 million and committed lending facilities of £700 million, put us in a very strong financial position looking forward. We're focused on investing in our business to drive our future growth. David detailed our sales outlet profile, and we're focused on delivering land to accelerate development using our three brands. We remain committed to innovation and development, and we'll continue to invest in opportunities like the timber frame facilities and also our sustainability initiatives. Finally, we have a clear approach on shareholder returns, including our ordinary dividend at two times cover and the ongoing share buyback program of at least £100 million per annum. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:21:55Turning now to guidance, most of these points have been covered, but just to highlight, we expect our adjusted administrative costs to be around £400 million. This reflects the additional period of Redrow's overhead base, which will impact FY26, underlying cost inflation, and the benefit of incremental synergies of approximately £30 million. We're anticipating total synergies of £45 million, with the balance of £15 million crystallized in cost of sales. A finance charge of approximately £50 million, which is dominated by non-cash charges in relation to land creditors and legacy property provisions, as well as modest cash interest income on our reducing cash balance. In relation to land, we expect to operate at broadly replacement levels and spend between £800 million and £900 million on land and land creditors in FY26. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:22:46On building safety spend, we estimate spend will be around £250 million for FY26, and within this, I'm assuming that around half of our building safety fund costs will be paid during the year. That's around £70 million. Looking at net cash at the end of June 2026, we expect to be between £400 million and £500 million. To summarize, we believe we've delivered a solid financial performance in FY25 in what was a tough market. Adjusted profit before tax was delivered slightly ahead of expectations for the year, and notwithstanding the tough market backdrop, our balance sheet remains strong. We've delivered cost synergies ahead of schedule, whilst also making good progress on revenue synergies and the wider integration program. Our land bank and strong balance sheet give us a great platform to grow the business. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:23:36We've put in place both clear capital allocation plans with an updated dividend policy alongside the annual £100 million buyback program. With that, I'll hand back to David. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:23:58Thanks very much, Mike. Now just turning to look at the market. Whilst I've covered earlier that the current market clearly has its challenges, we need to bear in mind that the fundamentals of our industry remain very strong. Housing is clearly a top priority for government, and the demand for home ownership remains steadfast. When consumer confidence returns, the policy environment becomes clearer, and the planning reforms kick in, we can expect to see a strong uptick in planning approvals, outlet growth, and opportunities to increase sales and volumes through our three leading brands. We remain confident that Barratt Redrow is the best place to navigate the market at all points of the cycle. Fundamental to Barratt Redrow are our three high-quality differentiated brands, and we have the skills and experience to deploy them effectively. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:25:17These brands allow us to operate in a variety of locations and local markets with the optimal divisional infrastructure to match. Our customer focus is clearly demonstrated and recognized by our numerous third-party credentials. We have demonstrated that we are a reliable partner, allowing us to be flexible and innovative. Our reorganized divisional structure and brand portfolio positions us well for growth over the medium term. Finally, we remain financially strong with a solid balance sheet, a robust net cash position, and cost synergies, which will increasingly drive higher profit margins. In summary, we remain confident in the medium-term guidance that we gave in February. Outlet growth, on which we have good visibility, will allow us to reach our outlets goal, which will flow through to 22,000 total home completions. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:26:29Our progress on cost synergies has enabled us to deliver on profit expectations, and we will continue to benefit the business financially as we move forward. Savings through synergies, as well as greater efficiency on our fixed cost base, will help us to drive our operating margin back to 15%. We will be increasing our use of land creditors, which will aid our return on capital employed, recovering back to 20%. Also helping us to improve return on capital employed will be the effective multi-branding of developments using our three high-quality and differentiated brands. Finally, as we've touched on, we remain financially robust, and that gives us confidence in our growth aspirations and also providing stable shareholder returns. Thank you very much, and Mike and I will be happy to take questions, which John is going to host. Thank you. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:27:48Thank you, David. We're going to open up for Q&A. You'll find microphones in the sides there. If you could use those, please, and you have to press and hold. Could I ask the usual gig? Could you please give your name and your organization as well? We'll start in the front row with Will. If you could, please. Will JonesEquity Analyst - Construction & Building Materials at Rothschild & Co Redburn00:28:13Thanks, Will Jones at Redburn Atlantic. Try three, please, if I can. The first, just referencing, I think in the statement you talked about additional risk, given the obvious and understandable around the budget in November. I think the need for a normal autumn. Could you just expand on what a normal autumn might look like? Perhaps just remind us of roughly the full year sales rate you're assuming. Second one was actually back to building safety, two parts to it. To what extent is there still risk around the building count with respect to inactive buildings maybe coming into scope? Perhaps you can expand on the other side, the recovery process. I think you talked about some steady progress there, but what's the potential for that over time? The last was maybe just around build costs. Will JonesEquity Analyst - Construction & Building Materials at Rothschild & Co Redburn00:29:03I think you've reiterated your guidance for the current year and you've got good visibility, but just wondering how you think things might shape up for the conversations that start to take place at the end of the year, start of 2026 at suppliers. A subdued market for you guys, will it be, I guess, subdued for them in terms of what they end up achieving? Thanks. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:29:23Will, first of all, good morning, Will. Good to see you in front of the room. If Mike will pick up in terms of building safety and also on build costs. If I just touch in terms of the budget, I think really kind of two points to make. One is we're pleased with what we've seen through July and August. That's the first thing. We've obviously provided that information in terms of reservations through July and August. I think it's understandable that we would flag that speculation relating to the budget can affect customer sentiment. We recognize that can be both positive and negative. What we've got to do is concentrate on trading our business, making sure that we're putting attractive offers in front of our customers. We feel that we're doing that effectively given the market conditions. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:30:24In terms of rates of sale, we would normally see some tick up as we move into the autumn. We've clearly provided rates of sale through July and August. I think the tick up in the autumn or the tick up in the spring has probably been less substantial than it used to be. Primarily, I think because we've just seen strong trading through, say, January, February, or strong trading through July and August, which we haven't necessarily seen previously. Overall, I think we said earlier in the year that somewhere around about 0.6 is the kind of rate of sale that we're looking at as a group. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:31:04If I pick up building safety first. First of all, on the portfolio that's provided, I think we've got increasingly good visibility on costs and progress there. About 90% of that portfolio has now been through some kind of tender process on costing or we're actually actively remediating it. I think the visibility we've got on that is really good. On inactive buildings, they have been through a process, albeit largely desktop in terms of documentation around the status of risk assessments, the build typology, the external wall systems, and so on. There's been an element of process there already, and that's why we don't believe that there's work to do and they're not in the active bucket. If you look at the flow through of buildings from that sort of inactive group into the provision over time, actually, it's very, very low. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:31:55In the second half of the year, literally just a couple of buildings moved across. As we move through time, we are increasingly confident of the position. The problem with it is you can't say that nothing will come out, as we get into buildings and time passes, but I think our visibility and confidence is increasing. On the recovery process, we're engaged in a number of conversations. Obviously, we can't talk too much about them for commercial reasons. I think we are engaged in that process. We recovered £60 million from the supply chain during the year, and we're actively engaged on a program to do that as we go forward. Moving on to build costs then. I think we're still comfortable with the 1% to 2% guidance range for the year from everything that we've seen. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:32:44As we said previously, a little bit more pressure on labor and the subcontractor side than on materials. I think some of that's now the flow through of the national insurance increases and the other labor cost increases coming through. It's the early stage trades, it's the groundworkers and so on that we're seeing a little bit more pressure on. We obviously also have the benefit of the cost synergies through our procurement program. We've had really good engagement with the supply chain on that. We're able to give very good forward visibility of the growth of the business, which is helpful. Overall, we're comfortable at 1% to 2% for this year. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:33:25Angus Lee from the front row. Aynsley LamminEquity Research Analyst - Building at Investec00:33:30Thanks. Morning. Angus Lee, Land Manager from Investec. Just two from me, please. One, if you could just provide a bit more color on incentives and pricing and what you're doing going into the autumn selling season in relation to that. Secondly, just on the planning, obviously slow to come through at the local level. Could you just remind us of the timeline of what happens from here, when you expect that to actually start to impact positively at the local level, when the legislation comes in, etc. Thanks. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:33:56Yeah. Angus Lee, hi. Good morning. Sure. First of all, in terms of incentives, the short answer is no real change in relation to incentives or incentive levels. I think when you look at our incentives, I won't run through them all, but if I just highlight two or three of those incentives. For example, for first-time buyers, we will offer a deposit match. If the first-time buyer has a 5% deposit, we will effectively match that deposit. It allows the first-time buyer to get onto a 90% one-to-one value, and that is an attractive proposition. Secondly, we have for a period of time accelerated post-COVID run a key worker discount. Primarily aimed at blue light workers, but a broader range has been brought in of key workers. I don't think animals are in that range, but we can expand it. That is a really attractive proposition. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:35:05We're typically offering a 5% discount subject to our ceiling. It probably blends at about 3.5%, 4%. The third offer is part exchange. Part exchange is probably our most expensive offer. We don't look to make profit on the part exchange offer, but it is a very attractive offer for consumers. If you're a second or a third-time buyer, then clearly taking all of the pain out of the move process is attractive. I think we tend to see that when the second-hand market, the existing home market, is a bit slower, part exchange becomes much, much more attractive. We're still seeing overall incentive levels, as we've set out, sort of 6% plus in terms of overall incentive levels, and quite a bit of that is driven by part exchange. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:36:02In terms of planning and infrastructure, we've said very consistently that the government coming in in July 2024 have really tried to take a transformational approach to planning. We have to remember that if you go back to March, April 2024, we were going backwards very, very rapidly from a planning point of view. I think the government have set out what I see as being a very bold and ambitious agenda in terms of planning, not just for residential development, but for commercial development, for infrastructure, and so on. Most of that is contained within the planning and infrastructure bill. I think it has taken a bit longer than we would have thought back in July, August 2024. Our understanding of the timelines presently is it's going through the review within the House of Lords. We'd expect that, perhaps November, December, it will come into legislation. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:37:03All local authorities will need to comply with the requirements of the planning and infrastructure bill. We should start to see that taking effect during 2026. Chris MillingtonEquity Analyst at Deutsche Numis00:37:16Chris Millington, Deutsche Numis. First one, I just wanted to kind of gauge your steel behind the outlet opening profile. Obviously, we had a delay last time. They're still obviously subject to third parties moving in line. Just how front or back end loaded in those periods do those outlets come through? That's just the first one. Second one is looking more at the longer term shape of the balance sheet. There's obviously quite a lot of commands on your cash over the next few years. Where would you start getting uncomfortable with regard to adjusted leverage? It does look like the net cash balance is probably going to be eliminated in the next couple of years. The last one, I thought a really helpful slide on the land bank margin. Really good to help us build it up. Chris MillingtonEquity Analyst at Deutsche Numis00:38:05Perhaps you can give us some sort of guidance to the evolution of that. Maybe something like, when do the sub 15% gross margin categories get eliminated by or something to that effect? Thank you. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:38:17Thanks very much, Chris. If I pick up on outlets and then Mike will pick up in terms of the sort of shape of the balance sheet and cash and land bank margin. I think in terms of outlets, we recognize that we, you know, we had a revision of guidance for outlets for FY2026, which we updated the market with that in July. I mean, I think our confidence regarding outlet delivery is twofold. One, we're putting it up on a slide. We've broken it down in detail and I'm presenting the slide. I think that demonstrates a strong level of confidence. We wouldn't normally give that level of detail. I think the second point I would say is that this is unusual. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:39:05I mean, I've been here 16 years and I think at any point over the last 16 years, if we had put up an outlet profile, we would have had much less with detailed consent or much less with planning submitted. That's just a byproduct of two things. One is that since we've gone back into the land market post 2022, we have acquired sites that can be a single, dual, or triple branded. That gives us good outlet delivery. Secondly, through the combination with Redrow, we've identified that 45 sites can be delivered. Obviously, we see that there are more than 45 potential. We take a reasonably conservative view and say we can deliver 45. That's also entirely in our control. Redrow are already on those sites, or Barratt are already on those sites. We're effectively either doing a plot substitution or we're doing a replan. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:40:13Yeah, we have a high level of confidence regarding delivery. As I touched on a moment ago, I think everyone in the industry is very positive about the government's approach in relation to planning. I mean, why would you not be? I think it has been more protracted than anyone would have expected because we're now 14 months later and we still don't have the legislation. We are where we are. The legislation will come and it should be effective from the beginning of 2026. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:40:52If I just pick up on the balance sheet first then, the first point to make is we'll start from a really strong place. £770 million of cash at the end of last year. We flagged in February that there would be a couple of years of investment in WIP and infrastructure to get the new outlets open and get us up to the 500 outlet target in a few years' time. We do expect to be in that phase. We expect to use that net cash over the next couple of years. Then we start to generate cash at the end of the plan as those outlets come into production and we sort of stabilize outlet numbers. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:41:25When you step back from it, the shape of the balance sheet over the last three or four years has probably been the outlier in a sense with the level of net cash that we've been holding. If you look over a longer period of time, we'd normally have targeted a very small level of net cash at year ends. That's probably where we'll end up getting back to, Chris. I think we're starting from a very strong place. We've got a good line of sight to those investments and work in progress and infrastructure to get the new outlets open. We've said many times that the strength of the balance sheet is a real priority for us and the board as we go forward. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:41:59On the land bank margin, it's difficult to predict exactly when those sites will roll off, but average site lengths are sort of three and a half years. Over the next two or three years, you'll see those lower site margins roll off. We've given the medium-term target of getting to the hurdle rate of gross margin of 23% and then 24% when the procurement synergies have kicked in. You'd expect to see that evolution continue over the next few years. 90 basis points up in the year this year with the land that we've added. We're carrying on adding land at hurdle rates that will blend up over time. It will take a few years to get there, but we're confident that that's the direction of travel. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:42:41Ami, just up now. Ami GallaDirector at Citi00:42:46Thanks, Ami Gullah from Citi. A couple of questions for me. One was on the gross margin in the land bank. Can I clarify, is the synergies on top of that, the procurement synergies associated with the gross margin, will that be on top of that or is that included in the land bank gross margin that we see? The second question was really on the WIP investments linked to outlets. You've talked about this previously, but can you remind us how should we think about that investment profile over the medium term? The last one was on the ASP in the land bank. That's also marginally higher, and I presume that's mix as well. Can you give us some color as to how is that, how is the shape of that mix adjustment over the next three years? Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:43:29Sounds like three for me. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:43:31I guess so. Yeah. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:43:33Gross margin in the land bank does include procurement synergies, so that's fairly straightforward. On work in progress, we're guiding this year that we'll have £200 million to £250 million of incremental WIP investment as we go through this year. That's investing in outlet openings that we'll see coming through both at the end of this year and into FY2027. We're not guiding for 2027, but we've been at that level of £200 million to £250 million for the last couple of years. On ASPs in the land bank, it is largely reflective of mix. In the land bank now, we're reporting Redrow as well, which operates at a slightly higher ASP than Barratt and David Wilson did previously. We're not seeing any particular sales price inflation at the moment. Our sort of like-for-like measure is broadly flat on selling prices. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:44:25The increase in ASPs that you're seeing is coming through the mix of sites rather than inflation. Ami GallaDirector at Citi00:44:31Thank you. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:44:34Clyde. Clyde LewisDeputy Head - Research at Peel Hunt00:44:40Thank you, Clyde Lewis at Peel Hunt, if I may as well. Firstly, on the desire to grow the preferred terms around the land buying, how easy do you think that's going to be? Do you think that's going to limit your choice in any way in terms of what you can buy? The second one was around the sort of bulk sales mix. In terms of the volume guidance this year, what sort of contribution are you expecting to see from bulk sales? The third one probably was going back to your comment, David, about being at the company for 16 years. Pretty much in every one of those years, you will have seen some sort of demand incentive from the government, whether it's stamp duty holidays or specific first-time buyer help. Clyde LewisDeputy Head - Research at Peel Hunt00:45:30Do you think this government actually understands that it's probably going to need some of that to try and get the overall housing market back to where it wants to be, despite all the extra money they've put into the affordable housing sector? David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:45:43Yeah. Okay, Clyde. Thank you. I think if I just pick up on the deferred terms and Mike will pick up in terms of multi-unit bulk sales and then we'll just talk about, I'll talk about the demand side. On deferred terms, I mean, I think that it obviously depends on the position of the landowner. I would say as a generalization, we are buying sites that are larger than average and the ability to secure deferred terms is greater. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:46:20I don't see anything that will change that because we see that when we're bidding maybe on a site that might be 150 to 200 plots, there can be a huge amount of interest in those sites. Whereas if we're looking at sites that are maybe 750 plots and above, there's just a limited number of buyers. Probably ourselves, Vistry, maybe a couple of the other majors might be in that market. I think there is an ability to structure deals, which is, you know, it's got to work for both sides, but securing deferred terms for us has always been important and we're just going to place a little bit more emphasis on it going forward. That's the kind of deferred term. Here on the demand side, and you've seen everything unfold in terms of the way that the market's evolved. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:47:15All of the 16 years I've been here, apart from the last two years, there has been a government-backed program in the market. Since 2009, without interruption, the programs have changed in their nature. As you know, in the early days, the house builders either participated by providing 50% of the shared equity loan or the house builders paid to access the scheme. With Help to Buy, the house builders were not asked to pay to access the scheme. We said, Barratt Redrow, and I know many other house builders said that we would happily pay to access a scheme. We see that when you look at affordability in areas such as London or London in the Southeast, affordability for first-time buyers is at record levels of challenge. We've not seen the kind of metrics on affordability previously. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:48:17Therefore, you can see that particularly in London, though, as you know, London for us is a relatively small part, 5% to 7% of our completions in London. The reality is that affordability challenges in London are acute. You can see that coming through in terms of the numbers. Our message to government has been the house builders are happy to contribute towards a scheme. It should be targeted at first-time buyers and there should be particular focus on areas of acute affordability. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:48:51On multi-unit sales, I think on the affordable side, we are seeing slightly more appetite from the registered providers to do additionality. That was probably backed off a little bit over the last 12 or 18 months. We're seeing good levels of grant funding come through into some of those deals that we're doing. I think they'll definitely be a feature for us this year. On PRS, as you know, we sort of focus on two or three key relationships on PRS, the most significant of which is Lloyd's Living. We've talked about the framework we've got in place with them, what they do, about 1,000 units a year over time. In general, as we grow the business to 22,000 homes per year, we think PRS will be about 2,000 of that 22,000. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:49:40For this year, we'd probably expect multi-unit sales and PRS to be just over 1,000 units in the completion mix again. We're still engaged in good conversations with the PRS providers. I think that there are still deals there at pricing that we're comfortable to do the deal. It will just be part of our mix going forward, I think. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:50:04Charlie, if we just swing across. Charlie CampbellMD - Equity Research at Stifel Financial Corp00:50:11Hi, Charlie Campbell, it's default. Just a couple of questions, please. Firstly, on mortgages, some changes in stress tests and loan to income. Just wondered if that's had any impact yet and whether we should expect that to have some impact going forward. Secondly, on Section 106 and HAs, affordable housing, has that appetite returned back to normal after the hiatus, or do we need to wait for things like other prospectus to come out for the affordable homes program? Thank you. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:50:45Hi Charlie, okay, if I pick up both of them. First of all, I think that everyone is conscious of the fact that there was very substantial tightening of the mortgage lending rules post the financial crisis. I think we recognize that there are some concerns about a rapid relaxation of those rules. We would welcome the relaxation that has taken place, and we think that there's scope for further relaxation, particularly around multiples of joint income multiples. I think it's very difficult to disaggregate that from exactly what is the impact, but clearly it is a positive impact in terms of allowing more lending to take place in the market. There has been quite a lot of documentation published around the way in which it improves affordability. That has to be a positive. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:51:52In terms of the Section 106, at a headline level post the announcement by government, I would say at June 25, we found the closure of Section 106 agreements in aggregate to be much easier than at June 24. I'm not saying it was easy, but it was much easier. Beyond that, it is an assessment on an HA by HA basis. Where housing associations have got challenges regarding cladding and cladding remediation, the government has done something to alleviate that by allowing the housing associations to access the Building Safety Fund. Also, where housing associations have got particular challenges around the remediation of existing housing stock, i.e., it needs to be brought up to standard under AWAP's law, the reality is that housing associations have got some cash and funding challenges. It is very housing association specific. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:52:59The industry is definitely flagging that it is not a resolved issue for government. There is a consultation in terms of the effect with the equalization of rentals, but that consultation is not closed. The equalization of rentals is another very important thing for the HAs in terms of the financial impact it has on the HAs. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:53:30Alison. Allison SunVP - Equity Research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch00:53:36Morning. Alison from Bank of America. Three questions from my side. The first one on the ASP for next year. I don't know what your expectation is overall. Do you think it's going to still be positive, stable, or is there still a lot of uncertainties there given the budget impact? Number one. Number two is on the PRS because we also saw the news that the government might impose some landlord tax or the national insurance on the investors. Do you see it's going to be a negative impact for the future investment demand for the PRS? Thirdly, is on this future home standard, which I understand we still haven't got the full details yet. I heard there are some builders saying if there's a mandatory requirement on the solar panel installation, there could potentially be a negative or the downside risk to the earnings for that particular builder. Allison SunVP - Equity Research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch00:54:33I wonder if you heard anything on the regulation and what's the progress for the Barratt Redrow portfolio. Thank you. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:54:43Yeah, certainly. We can take the ASP one. If I just pick up on PRS initially, I think this just falls into a category of the sort of budget speculation. Clearly, we don't know whether there is any intention to put national insurance on rental income. We just have to wait and see. I would think that if you're an institutional investor, then you're going to want to look at that fairly carefully, I would assume. We'll find out in November about directionally where that is going to go. In terms of the Future Homes Standard, I chair the Future Homes Hub. I'm very close to the Future Homes Standard and what's happening with the Future Homes Standard. The first thing is that the Future Homes Standard has been delayed. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:55:47It depends on at what point you're measuring, but the Future Homes Standard is probably 12 months to 18 months behind where it was originally anticipated to be. That is giving all participants in the industry more time to adjust. When the standard comes into effect, we expect the standard to be published prior to Christmas. There will be a transition plan, and that transition plan will run through 2026, 2027, 2028. The transition plan will be published. Thirdly, there is a sub-consultation about the numbers, the amount of solar panels that will be required on properties. Certainly from the Future Homes Hub point of view, we've just effectively said that there has to be a balance to that. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:56:45We shouldn't be in a situation that we're mandating very large quantities of solar panels because the standards can be achieved in different ways, not simply through the provision of solar panels. When the standard is published in December, we'll see the outcome for that. I would emphasize it will be over quite a long transition period. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:57:10On ASP, so on pricing generally, we said that using our like-for-like measure last year, pricing was at 1.4%. That's the sort of underlying pricing position. Year to date, that's been flat. Clearly, the pricing position has been more challenging in recent months. Looking forward into FY2026, we're not expecting any benefit from sales price inflation in the numbers. There will be a small increase in ASPs just coming through the mix effect. We'll be blending in Redrow, and that'll be slightly offset by a higher proportion of affordable housing in the year. I'd expect it to be very slightly ahead year on year. I don't think there'll be significant movements in the ASPs. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:57:55Alistair. Alastair StewartConstruction & Property Analyst at Progressive Equity Research Limited00:57:59Yeah, Alistair Stewart from Progressive Equity Research. A bit of a niche series of questions, all based in Scotland. No vested interest there. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:58:12We're both well equipped. Alastair StewartConstruction & Property Analyst at Progressive Equity Research Limited00:58:15Yeah, just a bit of color on Scotland. First of all, you did a couple of deals with Springfield. Any further organic opportunities? No effort at Barden. Also, the Scottish government seemed to have changed tack quite a lot on especially build to rent, but just generally seemed to be a bit more pragmatic, let's say. Any color on that? I suppose it's a question for you, David. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:58:51Yeah, I feel well qualified to answer. Look, we have a big business in Scotland, so we're based in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen, and we've had a big business in Scotland over a long period of time. I think that the Springfield deal that you touched on is reflecting two things. One is we have a very positive view of the market in Scotland. It is a market that operates under different regulations and different policy from England. For example, Scotland never had a government support program, not in the same way. Policies in Scotland have probably been a little more slanted towards affordable housing generally. We see it as being a positive environment. Therefore, we acquired the sites from Springfield, and they've obviously gone through a restructure of their activities to be more focused in terms of the north of Scotland. We're positive about that opportunity. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:00:00Again, I would say that the rent controls in Scotland adversely impacted the buy-to-rent market. The institutional investor, I think, was less enthusiastic. That position seems to be altering, and therefore, we should see the opportunity for more private rental, particularly for Edinburgh. I think Edinburgh is a very, very strong market or very strong potential in terms of private rental. The other area, which Mike maybe just touched on, is just on building safety, because again, I think that... Do you want to just touch on building safety? Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:00:39Yeah, I mean, I guess there's been an open conversation for a while in terms of where the standards for remediation would end up compared to the standard in England and Wales. I think that has moved during this year, it's moved towards the England and Wales position, which, you know, clearly for us is positive because that's the basis that we've approached building safety on in Scotland, it's still not concluded. I think it's closer to conclusion and in a more positive sort of state. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:01:08Thanks, Marcus. Marcus ColeEquity Research: European Building & Construction, Director at UBS Group01:01:16Hi, Marcus Cove from UBS. Just one question on timber frame. Obviously, you all went up to the factory earlier this year. I'm just thinking about how that's progressing, any learnings you have there, and how do you think about more about vertical integration on the back of those learnings? David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:01:33Yeah, we're very positive about timber frame. If you just go back to Scotland very briefly, when I came into the business, we were almost entirely brick and block in Scotland, and we're now almost entirely timber frame. So 95%+ in terms of what we're doing in Scotland is timber frame. We would only really be on higher apartments where we would move away from that. I think that the use of timber frame is going to become more and more prevalent in England. You can see that through the majors, that most people have either got agreed sourcing arrangements or they have their own factories. That's the reality. It's very much the direction of travel. We are very positive about it. The new factory in Derby is progressing well, and we see volumes rising. Ultimately, we see capacity between the two factories at up to 9,000 frames. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:02:32I think the opportunity goes beyond that in terms of being able to do more and more within the factories, so having closed panels, being able to put services into the panels, whether it's windows, doors, plumbing, etc. There's a lot of stuff that can be done within the factory. We see that what we have in Scotland and what we have in Derby is very much a platform for us to grow from over the next few years. In terms of vertical integration, I would say our starting position is that we would prefer not to vertically integrate. You'll find that many of the products that we buy, we are a relatively small part of the manufacturer's business. What we don't really want to be doing is running a business where, because of the economics of the business, we're having to provide a lot of product to other companies. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:03:31We want to be able to, like with timber frame, bring something into our portfolio where it can provide exclusively to Barratt Redrow. Therefore, when you look at the sort of volumes that are involved in certain production areas, that just wouldn't be possible. You wouldn't be able to run the sort of economies on our volumes alone. I think we're very, very selective about what we would vertically integrate on. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:00Where we see an opportunity, like our acquisition of Oregon, or for example, we run our own in-house wardrobe factory, we're certainly happy to further integrate those types of businesses. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:19Any more questions? Hope we exhausted everyone. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:25Thank you, everyone. Oh, one more. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:28Yeah, of course. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc01:04:29Chris. Chris MillingtonEquity Analyst at Deutsche Numis01:04:31Sorry, Chris, my name's not Dodge. It's just about what your thinking is about the proportion of affordable going forward. Do you think it can keep pace with the private growth within the business on volumes, or is there an assumption it will lag slightly because of the funding issues we've seen historically? Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:48I think if you look at it at a policy level, then I think you would expect the proportion of affordable to increase slightly going forward on the basis that for greenfield sites under the planning and infrastructure bill, there will be a higher assumption in terms of affordable, for example. I think you would just say that the general trend would be an upward trend on affordable. The funding question is, you know, we've touched on that. That's a kind of separate question. The funding challenge is real. The government obviously announced a huge funding program over a 10-year period, but short term, the funding challenge is real. The final point, and you know, this has been well documented in London, is that 35% or 40% or 50% of nothing isn't benefiting anyone. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:05:52I think we've consistently seen this over 20 or 30 years, is that as there is an attempt to take more value from the land, the landowners have an opportunity to say, actually, we won't participate, or sites get bogged down in viability arguments. That clearly is what's playing out in London presently. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:06:23Great. Thank you, everyone, for coming along. If there are any follow-up questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with myself. Thank you and we'll close proceedings. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:06:33Thank you very much. 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PresentationSkip to Participants John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:00:00Great. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being with us this morning for the Barratt Redrow FY25 full year results meeting. Just a couple of points of housekeeping. There is no fire alarm expected. If there is an alarm, follow Mike through that door because he'll be the first off, or through this door with myself. We're going to start with David in a moment. David's going to do a first intro, then pass over to Mike, then return to David, and then we'll open up for Q&A. With that, I'll hand over to David. Thanks, David. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:00:36Thanks, John, and your comparing role. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the first full year Barratt Redrow presentation. As John said, Mike and I are going to take you through our FY25 performance and current trading, as well as updates on sales outlets and also building safety. We'll conclude by looking at the market and the underlying fundamentals and why Barratt Redrow is the best place to perform across the cycle. First of all, I'd like to just take you through some of our key messages for today. In FY25, the market clearly remained challenging. Affordability was a constraint for many, and consumer confidence remained low, with political and economic uncertainty persisting. Despite this, the business has produced a very resilient performance, both operationally and financially, alongside completing the majority of the Redrow integration whilst delivering cost synergies well ahead of target. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:01:59The business remains financially robust, underpinned by our strong balance sheet. Now, through our acquisition of Redrow, we have three distinct brands that position us well for future growth. Looking in a little more detail at the operational highlights from last year, bringing the Redrow brand into the business was, of course, a particular highlight, allowing us to reach most of the market as well as capitalize on synergy opportunities. We received CMA clearance in October 2024 and, as mentioned, have already completed the bulk of the integration. This allows us to concentrate on maximizing the benefits of the combination and driving the total business forward. In the year, we remained active in the land market, enhancing our land position through strong approval levels, utilizing our numerous land channels. We delivered 16,500 homes, which is a significant achievement in what is a challenging market. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:03:23I would also like to take a moment to highlight some of our externally accredited achievements over the past year. Our repeated success in the HBF ratings and the NHBC Pride in the Job Awards are a testament to the dedication of our teams across the business, as well as the quality of the training and the customer-first culture we maintain across the group. This quality is also reflected in our Trustpilot scores given by our customers, which award all three brands with the highest rating of excellent. Mike will cover the financials in much more detail, but just to pull out a few highlights. Whilst our completions came in modestly below guidance, our adjusted profit before tax and PPA was in line with market expectations. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:04:26This reflected our rapid progress on cost synergy delivery, with £69 million confirmed in the year and £20 million crystallized in FY25, double our previous forecast. Our return on capital employed, excluding PPA, improved to 10.7% from 9.5%. We finished the year with a strong net cash position, supporting our growth and capital allocation plans. Now, looking at reservations, our growing portfolio of PRS partners helped to increase our overall reservation rate to 0.64. Additionally, some improvement in mortgage competition and availability provided a boost to our net private reservation rate, excluding PRS and other multi-unit sales. However, the improvement in the rate was offset by the reduced number of sales outlets and our opening order book. Turning now to completions, our total completions were down 8% compared to the aggregated figure for FY24. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:05:45This was due to a reduction in affordable completions, reflecting the nature and timing of these types of deals. However, we were pleased that our underlying private completions in the year were up around 3.5%. Our average selling prices saw price inflation of around 1%, with customers remaining very sensitive to both increases in headline prices and reductions in incentive levels. Other increases in underlying private ESP were largely due to increased delivery of larger homes outside of London. For more detail on reservation rates, completions, and ESPs, please see the information in the appendices. Our land bank supports our medium-term growth ambitions. Our multiple land pipelines allow us to source high-quality land throughout the cycle. While planning remains a slow process, we are very optimistic about the reforms and the positive changes we will see once the legislation is passed. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:07:03Gladman remains an important part of our business and will also benefit from the planning reforms. Being the partner of choice continues to benefit us in the land market as well. In the year, we announced the MAID partnership alongside Homes England and Lloyd's Banking Group, and also the West London partnership with Places for London, giving us access to further high-quality land opportunities. Moving on to outlets, the proposed planning reforms, as I've said, are extremely positive. However, they have taken longer to come into law than we expected. Therefore, as announced in our July trading update, we expect outlet numbers in FY26 to be largely flat. From FY27, we will start to see organic outlet growth, plus the benefit of our revenue synergy outlets. As seen on this graph, the vast majority of our FY27 outlets are already open or have detailed planning consent. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:08:19In FY28, there is still a relatively low proportion of forecast outlets that rely on future planning approvals. This provides us with excellent visibility over the next few years and gives us confidence in our growth forecasts. On current trading, in July and August, we saw our net private reservation rate, excluding PRS, increase slightly compared to the same period in FY25. However, we recognize that the market remains subdued, and after speculation about stamp duty, some customers are going to wait to see the impact of the budget in late November. Meanwhile, the lack of PRS reservations in the period simply reflects the timing of deals. Our year-to-date completions are marginally ahead of last year's, and our forward-sold position is in line. We are very pleased with the solid start to the financial year. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:09:30I'm now going to hand over to Mike, who will take you through our FY24 performance and financials. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:09:40Thanks, David. Morning, everyone. As David said, I'll take you through our FY25 performance and also spend a few minutes this morning on building safety. This slide shows FY25 performance against the reported position for FY24, which obviously excludes any impact of the Redrow acquisition. I'll touch on the P&L metrics shortly, but you can see here our total home completions of 16,565 homes and strong closing net cash position of £773 million after the payment of £249 million of dividends, £50 million spent on the share buyback, and just over £100 million spent on building safety remediation. If I move on now to a more meaningful comparison of performance as Barratt Redrow. As we did at the half year, we're focusing on the FY25 performance, stripping out the impact of deal purchase price allocation adjustments, which I'll touch on later. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:10:40These are non-cash accounting adjustments, which largely fall away from FY26 onwards. We think this is the best view of underlying trading in the business during the year. In the comparative for FY24, we're including Redrow here from the 24th of August 2023, but without any adjustment for accounting policies. We've put a more detailed slide in the appendices, if anyone has the appetite, which shows the reconciliation of all of these amounts to ensure you've got full transparency. Several points to highlight. First of all, total home completions, as David said, were down 7.8% as a result of lower outlet numbers during the year. Despite the lower volume, adjusted gross profit was broadly flat at £970.3 million, and gross margin improved by 30 basis points to 17.4%, which mainly reflected modest sales price inflation and the positive mix effect of more recently acquired land coming into production. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:11:38Adjusted operating profit was up 2.9% at £595.4 million, with margin up 50 basis points at 10.7%, reflecting the benefit of cost synergy delivery during the year. Adjusted profit before tax was £591.6 million, slightly ahead of guidance in July, and adjusted EPS was £30.80, which delivers a full year dividend up 8.6% to £17.60. Overall, we're pleased with the performance the combined group delivered in the year, despite the reduced total home completions, and particularly positive to see both growth and operating margins moving in the right direction. This slide updates on the accounting fair value adjustments that have been finalized since our provisional position at the half year, and four changes to draw out here. First of all, the uplift on land and work in progress is now £120.4 million. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:12:33That's up from £93 million at the half year, and that reflects the final valuation of sites in the opening balance sheet. Secondly, as I mentioned back in February, the recognition threshold for building safety liabilities is lower than normal for Redrow because we were required to bring contingent liabilities onto the balance sheet by the accounting rules. As we detailed in the July trading statement, we've increased Redrow's building safety provisions to take into account concrete frame issues in London, and this has increased this adjustment to the £144.5 million shown here. The final changes relate to the tax effect of the fair value adjustments, resulting in a £94 million adjustment to deferred tax. Goodwill recognized on the Redrow transaction is therefore £321.9 million, and that's up from the provisional estimate of £259 million. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:13:26Most of these fair value impacts have actually already unwound in FY25 with a reduction of £103.3 million in adjusted profit before tax. We're expecting a further £20 million charge in FY26 before this becomes immaterial to future years. Moving on to land, and this is the updated position on embedded gross margin in the land bank. Pleasingly, the land bank margin continues to improve, up 90 basis points this half year to 19.2% at the end of June. With little net inflation impact, roughly a third of the improvement came from the utilization of land in the half, and the remaining two-thirds from the new sites that we've added to the land bank. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:14:09As you know, we remain focused on improving this position over the medium term to our current gross margin hurdle rate of 23% by optimizing price, managing build cost inflation effectively, and bringing new land into production. Moving on to look at adjusted operating margin in FY25, and from last year's Barratt-only operating margin, we saw a reduction of 120 basis points from reduced volume. That was almost all offset by improved pricing across the year. As we've said previously, build cost inflation was broadly flat in FY25. Looking at our same site, same house type measure of inflation, which covers around a third of our volume, like-for-like sales price inflation was around 1.4% in the year. Last year, we saw a step up in completed development costs, but these have normalized this year, resulting in a positive margin benefit of 80 basis points. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:15:06The impact of other mix effects, including Redrow coming into the group, contributed 70 basis points, together with a further 30 basis points from the cost synergies we realized during the year. Our adjusted operating margin before the impact of fair value PPA adjustments was therefore 10.7%. You can see the impact of those PPA adjustments, which take margin to 9% flat on the Barratt-only margin from last year. Just to update on cost synergies, we're making really good progress on realizing the cost synergies target of at least £100 million, with £20 million included in the income statement in FY25. With nine office closures confirmed, six were completed by year-end, and three are in the final stages of closing at the end of June, with £23 million of savings confirmed. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:15:57The head office rationalization is also underway and will complete shortly, with £21 million confirmed at the 29th of June. On procurement, we're making good progress in aligning pricing and terms across key materials categories, with £25 million confirmed at the 29th of June. As we said, our operational leadership was aligned and effective from the 1st of July 2025, and the IT integration is in progress, with the migration of six remaining divisions expected to complete in FY26. Having crystallized £20 million of cost synergies in FY25, we're well on track to deliver an incremental £45 million in FY26. On revenue synergies, just to give you the latest numbers to date, we've now submitted 25 planning applications at the end of August, and we've already received planning permission on nine of those sites. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:16:50We expect to submit the remaining applications during the course of FY26, and we're very much on track to see the first incremental outlets ready to open at the start of FY27. I'd like to spend a few minutes just updating on building safety. As you know, our approach from the start of this issue has been to focus on the safety of the buildings we built and the people who live in them. We've been very engaged with government, and we were the first house builder to create a unit dedicated to remediation, and we commit significant time and resources to support it in delivering our program. We apply a rigorous process in assessing buildings within the scope of our obligations. That includes using reputable fire engineers and seeking peer reviews of all fire risk assessments undertaken on our buildings. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:17:39We're also making some progress with recoveries from the supply chain, where we have a robust case to pursue them for substandard workmanship or design. Looking at our building safety provisions, we currently have £886 million on the balance sheet relating to fire and external wall system issues. During the year, we brought the Redrow provision of £184 million onto our balance sheet. As we announced in July, within the Barratt legacy portfolio, we've provided £109 million across three areas. Firstly, £76 million in relation to a development in our southern region, which related to a specific build typology we don't think is repeated anywhere else in the group. We've also seen £17 million of incremental costs at an existing remediation project in London. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:18:27Other than that, the underlying position was relatively stable, with a net £16 million movement of costs, which was offset elsewhere in the income statement by supply chain recovery. Moving on to look at the provision for concrete frame issues, we carry a provision of £187 million at the end of June. During the year, no new buildings came into scope in the Barratt portfolio. As we updated in July, we identified concrete frame issues similar to those identified on legacy Barratt developments at up to four Redrow developments, and we booked £105 million to the opening balance sheet provision for these issues. Based on the reviews we've carried out to date, we don't expect any further buildings to come into scope for these frame-related issues going forward. Onto the balance sheet, and here's our usual balance sheet breakout. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:19:17In the appendices, we've included a slide which reflects the impact of the consolidation of Redrow at fair value and also the movements from underlying trading. Two points to highlight here. First of all, the ongoing organic investment in land. As well as bringing Redrow's land into the balance sheet, we invested an incremental £181 million across FY2025. The significant increase in land creditors, so an additional £167 million added over and above Redrow's consolidation. Land creditors remain below the target range of 20% to 25%, but moved up to 15.9% this year, and we're looking to ensure that we add land on deferred terms to take us into that 20% to 25% range. Part exchange has increased by £39 million, which is a reflection of its importance as a selling tool in a tough market. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:20:08More than two-thirds of the 549 homes in our portfolio had already been sold by the 29th of June, and as you know, we keep tight control of part exchange stock. Here's the cash flow bridge for Barratt Redrow from reported operating profit on the left to the net cash outflow on the right, and really just a couple of things to point out from this slide. Firstly, a step up in tax payments was the prime driver of the £101 million outflow on interest and tax, and as I've already noted, building safety spend totaled £101 million. Our operating cash inflow was £50 million, and we brought Redrow's cash onto the balance sheet and also made some further investment into additional timber frame facilities at our Oregon factory in Scotland. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:20:54With dividends paid and the share buyback of £50 million, the net cash outflow for the year was £96 million. Just to update on capital allocation and reiterating our unchanged capital allocation priorities here. Clearly, our enhanced scale and balance sheet strength, with net cash of £772 million and committed lending facilities of £700 million, put us in a very strong financial position looking forward. We're focused on investing in our business to drive our future growth. David detailed our sales outlet profile, and we're focused on delivering land to accelerate development using our three brands. We remain committed to innovation and development, and we'll continue to invest in opportunities like the timber frame facilities and also our sustainability initiatives. Finally, we have a clear approach on shareholder returns, including our ordinary dividend at two times cover and the ongoing share buyback program of at least £100 million per annum. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:21:55Turning now to guidance, most of these points have been covered, but just to highlight, we expect our adjusted administrative costs to be around £400 million. This reflects the additional period of Redrow's overhead base, which will impact FY26, underlying cost inflation, and the benefit of incremental synergies of approximately £30 million. We're anticipating total synergies of £45 million, with the balance of £15 million crystallized in cost of sales. A finance charge of approximately £50 million, which is dominated by non-cash charges in relation to land creditors and legacy property provisions, as well as modest cash interest income on our reducing cash balance. In relation to land, we expect to operate at broadly replacement levels and spend between £800 million and £900 million on land and land creditors in FY26. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:22:46On building safety spend, we estimate spend will be around £250 million for FY26, and within this, I'm assuming that around half of our building safety fund costs will be paid during the year. That's around £70 million. Looking at net cash at the end of June 2026, we expect to be between £400 million and £500 million. To summarize, we believe we've delivered a solid financial performance in FY25 in what was a tough market. Adjusted profit before tax was delivered slightly ahead of expectations for the year, and notwithstanding the tough market backdrop, our balance sheet remains strong. We've delivered cost synergies ahead of schedule, whilst also making good progress on revenue synergies and the wider integration program. Our land bank and strong balance sheet give us a great platform to grow the business. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:23:36We've put in place both clear capital allocation plans with an updated dividend policy alongside the annual £100 million buyback program. With that, I'll hand back to David. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:23:58Thanks very much, Mike. Now just turning to look at the market. Whilst I've covered earlier that the current market clearly has its challenges, we need to bear in mind that the fundamentals of our industry remain very strong. Housing is clearly a top priority for government, and the demand for home ownership remains steadfast. When consumer confidence returns, the policy environment becomes clearer, and the planning reforms kick in, we can expect to see a strong uptick in planning approvals, outlet growth, and opportunities to increase sales and volumes through our three leading brands. We remain confident that Barratt Redrow is the best place to navigate the market at all points of the cycle. Fundamental to Barratt Redrow are our three high-quality differentiated brands, and we have the skills and experience to deploy them effectively. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:25:17These brands allow us to operate in a variety of locations and local markets with the optimal divisional infrastructure to match. Our customer focus is clearly demonstrated and recognized by our numerous third-party credentials. We have demonstrated that we are a reliable partner, allowing us to be flexible and innovative. Our reorganized divisional structure and brand portfolio positions us well for growth over the medium term. Finally, we remain financially strong with a solid balance sheet, a robust net cash position, and cost synergies, which will increasingly drive higher profit margins. In summary, we remain confident in the medium-term guidance that we gave in February. Outlet growth, on which we have good visibility, will allow us to reach our outlets goal, which will flow through to 22,000 total home completions. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:26:29Our progress on cost synergies has enabled us to deliver on profit expectations, and we will continue to benefit the business financially as we move forward. Savings through synergies, as well as greater efficiency on our fixed cost base, will help us to drive our operating margin back to 15%. We will be increasing our use of land creditors, which will aid our return on capital employed, recovering back to 20%. Also helping us to improve return on capital employed will be the effective multi-branding of developments using our three high-quality and differentiated brands. Finally, as we've touched on, we remain financially robust, and that gives us confidence in our growth aspirations and also providing stable shareholder returns. Thank you very much, and Mike and I will be happy to take questions, which John is going to host. Thank you. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:27:48Thank you, David. We're going to open up for Q&A. You'll find microphones in the sides there. If you could use those, please, and you have to press and hold. Could I ask the usual gig? Could you please give your name and your organization as well? We'll start in the front row with Will. If you could, please. Will JonesEquity Analyst - Construction & Building Materials at Rothschild & Co Redburn00:28:13Thanks, Will Jones at Redburn Atlantic. Try three, please, if I can. The first, just referencing, I think in the statement you talked about additional risk, given the obvious and understandable around the budget in November. I think the need for a normal autumn. Could you just expand on what a normal autumn might look like? Perhaps just remind us of roughly the full year sales rate you're assuming. Second one was actually back to building safety, two parts to it. To what extent is there still risk around the building count with respect to inactive buildings maybe coming into scope? Perhaps you can expand on the other side, the recovery process. I think you talked about some steady progress there, but what's the potential for that over time? The last was maybe just around build costs. Will JonesEquity Analyst - Construction & Building Materials at Rothschild & Co Redburn00:29:03I think you've reiterated your guidance for the current year and you've got good visibility, but just wondering how you think things might shape up for the conversations that start to take place at the end of the year, start of 2026 at suppliers. A subdued market for you guys, will it be, I guess, subdued for them in terms of what they end up achieving? Thanks. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:29:23Will, first of all, good morning, Will. Good to see you in front of the room. If Mike will pick up in terms of building safety and also on build costs. If I just touch in terms of the budget, I think really kind of two points to make. One is we're pleased with what we've seen through July and August. That's the first thing. We've obviously provided that information in terms of reservations through July and August. I think it's understandable that we would flag that speculation relating to the budget can affect customer sentiment. We recognize that can be both positive and negative. What we've got to do is concentrate on trading our business, making sure that we're putting attractive offers in front of our customers. We feel that we're doing that effectively given the market conditions. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:30:24In terms of rates of sale, we would normally see some tick up as we move into the autumn. We've clearly provided rates of sale through July and August. I think the tick up in the autumn or the tick up in the spring has probably been less substantial than it used to be. Primarily, I think because we've just seen strong trading through, say, January, February, or strong trading through July and August, which we haven't necessarily seen previously. Overall, I think we said earlier in the year that somewhere around about 0.6 is the kind of rate of sale that we're looking at as a group. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:31:04If I pick up building safety first. First of all, on the portfolio that's provided, I think we've got increasingly good visibility on costs and progress there. About 90% of that portfolio has now been through some kind of tender process on costing or we're actually actively remediating it. I think the visibility we've got on that is really good. On inactive buildings, they have been through a process, albeit largely desktop in terms of documentation around the status of risk assessments, the build typology, the external wall systems, and so on. There's been an element of process there already, and that's why we don't believe that there's work to do and they're not in the active bucket. If you look at the flow through of buildings from that sort of inactive group into the provision over time, actually, it's very, very low. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:31:55In the second half of the year, literally just a couple of buildings moved across. As we move through time, we are increasingly confident of the position. The problem with it is you can't say that nothing will come out, as we get into buildings and time passes, but I think our visibility and confidence is increasing. On the recovery process, we're engaged in a number of conversations. Obviously, we can't talk too much about them for commercial reasons. I think we are engaged in that process. We recovered £60 million from the supply chain during the year, and we're actively engaged on a program to do that as we go forward. Moving on to build costs then. I think we're still comfortable with the 1% to 2% guidance range for the year from everything that we've seen. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:32:44As we said previously, a little bit more pressure on labor and the subcontractor side than on materials. I think some of that's now the flow through of the national insurance increases and the other labor cost increases coming through. It's the early stage trades, it's the groundworkers and so on that we're seeing a little bit more pressure on. We obviously also have the benefit of the cost synergies through our procurement program. We've had really good engagement with the supply chain on that. We're able to give very good forward visibility of the growth of the business, which is helpful. Overall, we're comfortable at 1% to 2% for this year. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:33:25Angus Lee from the front row. Aynsley LamminEquity Research Analyst - Building at Investec00:33:30Thanks. Morning. Angus Lee, Land Manager from Investec. Just two from me, please. One, if you could just provide a bit more color on incentives and pricing and what you're doing going into the autumn selling season in relation to that. Secondly, just on the planning, obviously slow to come through at the local level. Could you just remind us of the timeline of what happens from here, when you expect that to actually start to impact positively at the local level, when the legislation comes in, etc. Thanks. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:33:56Yeah. Angus Lee, hi. Good morning. Sure. First of all, in terms of incentives, the short answer is no real change in relation to incentives or incentive levels. I think when you look at our incentives, I won't run through them all, but if I just highlight two or three of those incentives. For example, for first-time buyers, we will offer a deposit match. If the first-time buyer has a 5% deposit, we will effectively match that deposit. It allows the first-time buyer to get onto a 90% one-to-one value, and that is an attractive proposition. Secondly, we have for a period of time accelerated post-COVID run a key worker discount. Primarily aimed at blue light workers, but a broader range has been brought in of key workers. I don't think animals are in that range, but we can expand it. That is a really attractive proposition. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:35:05We're typically offering a 5% discount subject to our ceiling. It probably blends at about 3.5%, 4%. The third offer is part exchange. Part exchange is probably our most expensive offer. We don't look to make profit on the part exchange offer, but it is a very attractive offer for consumers. If you're a second or a third-time buyer, then clearly taking all of the pain out of the move process is attractive. I think we tend to see that when the second-hand market, the existing home market, is a bit slower, part exchange becomes much, much more attractive. We're still seeing overall incentive levels, as we've set out, sort of 6% plus in terms of overall incentive levels, and quite a bit of that is driven by part exchange. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:36:02In terms of planning and infrastructure, we've said very consistently that the government coming in in July 2024 have really tried to take a transformational approach to planning. We have to remember that if you go back to March, April 2024, we were going backwards very, very rapidly from a planning point of view. I think the government have set out what I see as being a very bold and ambitious agenda in terms of planning, not just for residential development, but for commercial development, for infrastructure, and so on. Most of that is contained within the planning and infrastructure bill. I think it has taken a bit longer than we would have thought back in July, August 2024. Our understanding of the timelines presently is it's going through the review within the House of Lords. We'd expect that, perhaps November, December, it will come into legislation. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:37:03All local authorities will need to comply with the requirements of the planning and infrastructure bill. We should start to see that taking effect during 2026. Chris MillingtonEquity Analyst at Deutsche Numis00:37:16Chris Millington, Deutsche Numis. First one, I just wanted to kind of gauge your steel behind the outlet opening profile. Obviously, we had a delay last time. They're still obviously subject to third parties moving in line. Just how front or back end loaded in those periods do those outlets come through? That's just the first one. Second one is looking more at the longer term shape of the balance sheet. There's obviously quite a lot of commands on your cash over the next few years. Where would you start getting uncomfortable with regard to adjusted leverage? It does look like the net cash balance is probably going to be eliminated in the next couple of years. The last one, I thought a really helpful slide on the land bank margin. Really good to help us build it up. Chris MillingtonEquity Analyst at Deutsche Numis00:38:05Perhaps you can give us some sort of guidance to the evolution of that. Maybe something like, when do the sub 15% gross margin categories get eliminated by or something to that effect? Thank you. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:38:17Thanks very much, Chris. If I pick up on outlets and then Mike will pick up in terms of the sort of shape of the balance sheet and cash and land bank margin. I think in terms of outlets, we recognize that we, you know, we had a revision of guidance for outlets for FY2026, which we updated the market with that in July. I mean, I think our confidence regarding outlet delivery is twofold. One, we're putting it up on a slide. We've broken it down in detail and I'm presenting the slide. I think that demonstrates a strong level of confidence. We wouldn't normally give that level of detail. I think the second point I would say is that this is unusual. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:39:05I mean, I've been here 16 years and I think at any point over the last 16 years, if we had put up an outlet profile, we would have had much less with detailed consent or much less with planning submitted. That's just a byproduct of two things. One is that since we've gone back into the land market post 2022, we have acquired sites that can be a single, dual, or triple branded. That gives us good outlet delivery. Secondly, through the combination with Redrow, we've identified that 45 sites can be delivered. Obviously, we see that there are more than 45 potential. We take a reasonably conservative view and say we can deliver 45. That's also entirely in our control. Redrow are already on those sites, or Barratt are already on those sites. We're effectively either doing a plot substitution or we're doing a replan. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:40:13Yeah, we have a high level of confidence regarding delivery. As I touched on a moment ago, I think everyone in the industry is very positive about the government's approach in relation to planning. I mean, why would you not be? I think it has been more protracted than anyone would have expected because we're now 14 months later and we still don't have the legislation. We are where we are. The legislation will come and it should be effective from the beginning of 2026. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:40:52If I just pick up on the balance sheet first then, the first point to make is we'll start from a really strong place. £770 million of cash at the end of last year. We flagged in February that there would be a couple of years of investment in WIP and infrastructure to get the new outlets open and get us up to the 500 outlet target in a few years' time. We do expect to be in that phase. We expect to use that net cash over the next couple of years. Then we start to generate cash at the end of the plan as those outlets come into production and we sort of stabilize outlet numbers. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:41:25When you step back from it, the shape of the balance sheet over the last three or four years has probably been the outlier in a sense with the level of net cash that we've been holding. If you look over a longer period of time, we'd normally have targeted a very small level of net cash at year ends. That's probably where we'll end up getting back to, Chris. I think we're starting from a very strong place. We've got a good line of sight to those investments and work in progress and infrastructure to get the new outlets open. We've said many times that the strength of the balance sheet is a real priority for us and the board as we go forward. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:41:59On the land bank margin, it's difficult to predict exactly when those sites will roll off, but average site lengths are sort of three and a half years. Over the next two or three years, you'll see those lower site margins roll off. We've given the medium-term target of getting to the hurdle rate of gross margin of 23% and then 24% when the procurement synergies have kicked in. You'd expect to see that evolution continue over the next few years. 90 basis points up in the year this year with the land that we've added. We're carrying on adding land at hurdle rates that will blend up over time. It will take a few years to get there, but we're confident that that's the direction of travel. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:42:41Ami, just up now. Ami GallaDirector at Citi00:42:46Thanks, Ami Gullah from Citi. A couple of questions for me. One was on the gross margin in the land bank. Can I clarify, is the synergies on top of that, the procurement synergies associated with the gross margin, will that be on top of that or is that included in the land bank gross margin that we see? The second question was really on the WIP investments linked to outlets. You've talked about this previously, but can you remind us how should we think about that investment profile over the medium term? The last one was on the ASP in the land bank. That's also marginally higher, and I presume that's mix as well. Can you give us some color as to how is that, how is the shape of that mix adjustment over the next three years? Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:43:29Sounds like three for me. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:43:31I guess so. Yeah. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:43:33Gross margin in the land bank does include procurement synergies, so that's fairly straightforward. On work in progress, we're guiding this year that we'll have £200 million to £250 million of incremental WIP investment as we go through this year. That's investing in outlet openings that we'll see coming through both at the end of this year and into FY2027. We're not guiding for 2027, but we've been at that level of £200 million to £250 million for the last couple of years. On ASPs in the land bank, it is largely reflective of mix. In the land bank now, we're reporting Redrow as well, which operates at a slightly higher ASP than Barratt and David Wilson did previously. We're not seeing any particular sales price inflation at the moment. Our sort of like-for-like measure is broadly flat on selling prices. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:44:25The increase in ASPs that you're seeing is coming through the mix of sites rather than inflation. Ami GallaDirector at Citi00:44:31Thank you. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:44:34Clyde. Clyde LewisDeputy Head - Research at Peel Hunt00:44:40Thank you, Clyde Lewis at Peel Hunt, if I may as well. Firstly, on the desire to grow the preferred terms around the land buying, how easy do you think that's going to be? Do you think that's going to limit your choice in any way in terms of what you can buy? The second one was around the sort of bulk sales mix. In terms of the volume guidance this year, what sort of contribution are you expecting to see from bulk sales? The third one probably was going back to your comment, David, about being at the company for 16 years. Pretty much in every one of those years, you will have seen some sort of demand incentive from the government, whether it's stamp duty holidays or specific first-time buyer help. Clyde LewisDeputy Head - Research at Peel Hunt00:45:30Do you think this government actually understands that it's probably going to need some of that to try and get the overall housing market back to where it wants to be, despite all the extra money they've put into the affordable housing sector? David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:45:43Yeah. Okay, Clyde. Thank you. I think if I just pick up on the deferred terms and Mike will pick up in terms of multi-unit bulk sales and then we'll just talk about, I'll talk about the demand side. On deferred terms, I mean, I think that it obviously depends on the position of the landowner. I would say as a generalization, we are buying sites that are larger than average and the ability to secure deferred terms is greater. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:46:20I don't see anything that will change that because we see that when we're bidding maybe on a site that might be 150 to 200 plots, there can be a huge amount of interest in those sites. Whereas if we're looking at sites that are maybe 750 plots and above, there's just a limited number of buyers. Probably ourselves, Vistry, maybe a couple of the other majors might be in that market. I think there is an ability to structure deals, which is, you know, it's got to work for both sides, but securing deferred terms for us has always been important and we're just going to place a little bit more emphasis on it going forward. That's the kind of deferred term. Here on the demand side, and you've seen everything unfold in terms of the way that the market's evolved. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:47:15All of the 16 years I've been here, apart from the last two years, there has been a government-backed program in the market. Since 2009, without interruption, the programs have changed in their nature. As you know, in the early days, the house builders either participated by providing 50% of the shared equity loan or the house builders paid to access the scheme. With Help to Buy, the house builders were not asked to pay to access the scheme. We said, Barratt Redrow, and I know many other house builders said that we would happily pay to access a scheme. We see that when you look at affordability in areas such as London or London in the Southeast, affordability for first-time buyers is at record levels of challenge. We've not seen the kind of metrics on affordability previously. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:48:17Therefore, you can see that particularly in London, though, as you know, London for us is a relatively small part, 5% to 7% of our completions in London. The reality is that affordability challenges in London are acute. You can see that coming through in terms of the numbers. Our message to government has been the house builders are happy to contribute towards a scheme. It should be targeted at first-time buyers and there should be particular focus on areas of acute affordability. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:48:51On multi-unit sales, I think on the affordable side, we are seeing slightly more appetite from the registered providers to do additionality. That was probably backed off a little bit over the last 12 or 18 months. We're seeing good levels of grant funding come through into some of those deals that we're doing. I think they'll definitely be a feature for us this year. On PRS, as you know, we sort of focus on two or three key relationships on PRS, the most significant of which is Lloyd's Living. We've talked about the framework we've got in place with them, what they do, about 1,000 units a year over time. In general, as we grow the business to 22,000 homes per year, we think PRS will be about 2,000 of that 22,000. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:49:40For this year, we'd probably expect multi-unit sales and PRS to be just over 1,000 units in the completion mix again. We're still engaged in good conversations with the PRS providers. I think that there are still deals there at pricing that we're comfortable to do the deal. It will just be part of our mix going forward, I think. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:50:04Charlie, if we just swing across. Charlie CampbellMD - Equity Research at Stifel Financial Corp00:50:11Hi, Charlie Campbell, it's default. Just a couple of questions, please. Firstly, on mortgages, some changes in stress tests and loan to income. Just wondered if that's had any impact yet and whether we should expect that to have some impact going forward. Secondly, on Section 106 and HAs, affordable housing, has that appetite returned back to normal after the hiatus, or do we need to wait for things like other prospectus to come out for the affordable homes program? Thank you. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:50:45Hi Charlie, okay, if I pick up both of them. First of all, I think that everyone is conscious of the fact that there was very substantial tightening of the mortgage lending rules post the financial crisis. I think we recognize that there are some concerns about a rapid relaxation of those rules. We would welcome the relaxation that has taken place, and we think that there's scope for further relaxation, particularly around multiples of joint income multiples. I think it's very difficult to disaggregate that from exactly what is the impact, but clearly it is a positive impact in terms of allowing more lending to take place in the market. There has been quite a lot of documentation published around the way in which it improves affordability. That has to be a positive. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:51:52In terms of the Section 106, at a headline level post the announcement by government, I would say at June 25, we found the closure of Section 106 agreements in aggregate to be much easier than at June 24. I'm not saying it was easy, but it was much easier. Beyond that, it is an assessment on an HA by HA basis. Where housing associations have got challenges regarding cladding and cladding remediation, the government has done something to alleviate that by allowing the housing associations to access the Building Safety Fund. Also, where housing associations have got particular challenges around the remediation of existing housing stock, i.e., it needs to be brought up to standard under AWAP's law, the reality is that housing associations have got some cash and funding challenges. It is very housing association specific. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:52:59The industry is definitely flagging that it is not a resolved issue for government. There is a consultation in terms of the effect with the equalization of rentals, but that consultation is not closed. The equalization of rentals is another very important thing for the HAs in terms of the financial impact it has on the HAs. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:53:30Alison. Allison SunVP - Equity Research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch00:53:36Morning. Alison from Bank of America. Three questions from my side. The first one on the ASP for next year. I don't know what your expectation is overall. Do you think it's going to still be positive, stable, or is there still a lot of uncertainties there given the budget impact? Number one. Number two is on the PRS because we also saw the news that the government might impose some landlord tax or the national insurance on the investors. Do you see it's going to be a negative impact for the future investment demand for the PRS? Thirdly, is on this future home standard, which I understand we still haven't got the full details yet. I heard there are some builders saying if there's a mandatory requirement on the solar panel installation, there could potentially be a negative or the downside risk to the earnings for that particular builder. Allison SunVP - Equity Research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch00:54:33I wonder if you heard anything on the regulation and what's the progress for the Barratt Redrow portfolio. Thank you. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:54:43Yeah, certainly. We can take the ASP one. If I just pick up on PRS initially, I think this just falls into a category of the sort of budget speculation. Clearly, we don't know whether there is any intention to put national insurance on rental income. We just have to wait and see. I would think that if you're an institutional investor, then you're going to want to look at that fairly carefully, I would assume. We'll find out in November about directionally where that is going to go. In terms of the Future Homes Standard, I chair the Future Homes Hub. I'm very close to the Future Homes Standard and what's happening with the Future Homes Standard. The first thing is that the Future Homes Standard has been delayed. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:55:47It depends on at what point you're measuring, but the Future Homes Standard is probably 12 months to 18 months behind where it was originally anticipated to be. That is giving all participants in the industry more time to adjust. When the standard comes into effect, we expect the standard to be published prior to Christmas. There will be a transition plan, and that transition plan will run through 2026, 2027, 2028. The transition plan will be published. Thirdly, there is a sub-consultation about the numbers, the amount of solar panels that will be required on properties. Certainly from the Future Homes Hub point of view, we've just effectively said that there has to be a balance to that. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:56:45We shouldn't be in a situation that we're mandating very large quantities of solar panels because the standards can be achieved in different ways, not simply through the provision of solar panels. When the standard is published in December, we'll see the outcome for that. I would emphasize it will be over quite a long transition period. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:57:10On ASP, so on pricing generally, we said that using our like-for-like measure last year, pricing was at 1.4%. That's the sort of underlying pricing position. Year to date, that's been flat. Clearly, the pricing position has been more challenging in recent months. Looking forward into FY2026, we're not expecting any benefit from sales price inflation in the numbers. There will be a small increase in ASPs just coming through the mix effect. We'll be blending in Redrow, and that'll be slightly offset by a higher proportion of affordable housing in the year. I'd expect it to be very slightly ahead year on year. I don't think there'll be significant movements in the ASPs. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc00:57:55Alistair. Alastair StewartConstruction & Property Analyst at Progressive Equity Research Limited00:57:59Yeah, Alistair Stewart from Progressive Equity Research. A bit of a niche series of questions, all based in Scotland. No vested interest there. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:58:12We're both well equipped. Alastair StewartConstruction & Property Analyst at Progressive Equity Research Limited00:58:15Yeah, just a bit of color on Scotland. First of all, you did a couple of deals with Springfield. Any further organic opportunities? No effort at Barden. Also, the Scottish government seemed to have changed tack quite a lot on especially build to rent, but just generally seemed to be a bit more pragmatic, let's say. Any color on that? I suppose it's a question for you, David. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow00:58:51Yeah, I feel well qualified to answer. Look, we have a big business in Scotland, so we're based in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen, and we've had a big business in Scotland over a long period of time. I think that the Springfield deal that you touched on is reflecting two things. One is we have a very positive view of the market in Scotland. It is a market that operates under different regulations and different policy from England. For example, Scotland never had a government support program, not in the same way. Policies in Scotland have probably been a little more slanted towards affordable housing generally. We see it as being a positive environment. Therefore, we acquired the sites from Springfield, and they've obviously gone through a restructure of their activities to be more focused in terms of the north of Scotland. We're positive about that opportunity. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:00:00Again, I would say that the rent controls in Scotland adversely impacted the buy-to-rent market. The institutional investor, I think, was less enthusiastic. That position seems to be altering, and therefore, we should see the opportunity for more private rental, particularly for Edinburgh. I think Edinburgh is a very, very strong market or very strong potential in terms of private rental. The other area, which Mike maybe just touched on, is just on building safety, because again, I think that... Do you want to just touch on building safety? Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:00:39Yeah, I mean, I guess there's been an open conversation for a while in terms of where the standards for remediation would end up compared to the standard in England and Wales. I think that has moved during this year, it's moved towards the England and Wales position, which, you know, clearly for us is positive because that's the basis that we've approached building safety on in Scotland, it's still not concluded. I think it's closer to conclusion and in a more positive sort of state. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:01:08Thanks, Marcus. Marcus ColeEquity Research: European Building & Construction, Director at UBS Group01:01:16Hi, Marcus Cove from UBS. Just one question on timber frame. Obviously, you all went up to the factory earlier this year. I'm just thinking about how that's progressing, any learnings you have there, and how do you think about more about vertical integration on the back of those learnings? David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:01:33Yeah, we're very positive about timber frame. If you just go back to Scotland very briefly, when I came into the business, we were almost entirely brick and block in Scotland, and we're now almost entirely timber frame. So 95%+ in terms of what we're doing in Scotland is timber frame. We would only really be on higher apartments where we would move away from that. I think that the use of timber frame is going to become more and more prevalent in England. You can see that through the majors, that most people have either got agreed sourcing arrangements or they have their own factories. That's the reality. It's very much the direction of travel. We are very positive about it. The new factory in Derby is progressing well, and we see volumes rising. Ultimately, we see capacity between the two factories at up to 9,000 frames. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:02:32I think the opportunity goes beyond that in terms of being able to do more and more within the factories, so having closed panels, being able to put services into the panels, whether it's windows, doors, plumbing, etc. There's a lot of stuff that can be done within the factory. We see that what we have in Scotland and what we have in Derby is very much a platform for us to grow from over the next few years. In terms of vertical integration, I would say our starting position is that we would prefer not to vertically integrate. You'll find that many of the products that we buy, we are a relatively small part of the manufacturer's business. What we don't really want to be doing is running a business where, because of the economics of the business, we're having to provide a lot of product to other companies. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:03:31We want to be able to, like with timber frame, bring something into our portfolio where it can provide exclusively to Barratt Redrow. Therefore, when you look at the sort of volumes that are involved in certain production areas, that just wouldn't be possible. You wouldn't be able to run the sort of economies on our volumes alone. I think we're very, very selective about what we would vertically integrate on. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:00Where we see an opportunity, like our acquisition of Oregon, or for example, we run our own in-house wardrobe factory, we're certainly happy to further integrate those types of businesses. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:19Any more questions? Hope we exhausted everyone. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:25Thank you, everyone. Oh, one more. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:28Yeah, of course. John MessengerGroup Investor Relations Director at Barratt Redrow plc01:04:29Chris. Chris MillingtonEquity Analyst at Deutsche Numis01:04:31Sorry, Chris, my name's not Dodge. It's just about what your thinking is about the proportion of affordable going forward. Do you think it can keep pace with the private growth within the business on volumes, or is there an assumption it will lag slightly because of the funding issues we've seen historically? Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:04:48I think if you look at it at a policy level, then I think you would expect the proportion of affordable to increase slightly going forward on the basis that for greenfield sites under the planning and infrastructure bill, there will be a higher assumption in terms of affordable, for example. I think you would just say that the general trend would be an upward trend on affordable. The funding question is, you know, we've touched on that. That's a kind of separate question. The funding challenge is real. The government obviously announced a huge funding program over a 10-year period, but short term, the funding challenge is real. The final point, and you know, this has been well documented in London, is that 35% or 40% or 50% of nothing isn't benefiting anyone. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:05:52I think we've consistently seen this over 20 or 30 years, is that as there is an attempt to take more value from the land, the landowners have an opportunity to say, actually, we won't participate, or sites get bogged down in viability arguments. That clearly is what's playing out in London presently. David ThomasGroup CEO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:06:23Great. Thank you, everyone, for coming along. If there are any follow-up questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with myself. Thank you and we'll close proceedings. Mike ScottCFO & Executive Director at Barratt Redrow01:06:33Thank you very much. Thanks.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesJohn MessengerGroup Investor Relations DirectorDavid ThomasGroup CEO & Executive DirectorMike ScottCFO & Executive DirectorAnalystsWill JonesEquity Analyst - Construction & Building Materials at Rothschild & Co RedburnAynsley LamminEquity Research Analyst - Building at InvestecChris MillingtonEquity Analyst at Deutsche NumisAmi GallaDirector at CitiClyde LewisDeputy Head - Research at Peel HuntCharlie CampbellMD - Equity Research at Stifel Financial CorpAllison SunVP - Equity Research at Bank of America Merrill LynchAlastair StewartConstruction & Property Analyst at Progressive Equity Research LimitedMarcus ColeEquity Research: European Building & Construction, Director at UBS GroupPowered by