Toby Courtauld
CEO & Director
Amazingly, we’re a bit early. We could start, Rich? Yes. Okay. Well, in which case, welcome, everybody. Thank you very much for joining us for our interim results presentation. It’s great to see you all, and we really appreciate the time that you give us. So thank you for coming along.
Now, first of all, I’m going to start by summarizing some of the key messages that we’ll be giving you over the next 30 or so minutes. And essentially, we have carried on where we left off at the year-end, successfully executing on our growth strategy. You’ll hear about our strong operational performance so far this year, delivering some excellent leasing, well ahead of target and leading us to reiterate our rental value growth guidance. We’ve made further accretive acquisitions and significant sales ahead of book value, and our developers have created more premium spaces, timed to deliver into a market that is starved of such quality, meaning that we are well set to deliver both strong income and value growth.
So to help us tell this story, we have a full agenda as ever for you this morning. I’ll start with a reminder of how we’re delivering on our very clear strategy before giving you an update on our market opportunity. I’ll then run through our successful 6 months
