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Ian Brown: Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for our results webcast. We're delighted to have you with us. Before we begin, a quick note to say that today's session is being recorded, and a replay will be available on our website shortly after the event. Turning to the agenda. We'll start with a brief introduction from our Chairman, Aubrey Adams. He'll then hand over to Colin Godfrey, our CEO, who will provide an overview of the period before passing to Frankie Whitehead, our CFO, for the financial and operational review. We'll conclude with a live Q&A. [Operator Instructions] And with that, I'll hand over to Aubrey.
Aubrey Adams: Good morning, and welcome to our full year results presentation. I'm pleased to be opening today with a strong set of results, reflecting a year of significant strategic progress and excellent delivery across the business. We have continued to execute our strategy with discipline, strengthen the platform for future growth and the business enters the year ahead with a real sense of momentum. Before handing over to Colin and the management team to take you through the detail, I would like to take a moment on a more personal note. This presentation marks my final results as Chairman, as I will be retiring from the Board after 9 very rewarding years. It has been a privilege to serve alongside such a high-quality Board, and I would like to thank my fellow directors, past and present, for their insight, challenge and support. I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to the manager and the wider team for their professionalism, commitment and consistent delivery throughout my tenure. Finally, I would like to thank our shareholders for their continued support and engagement. I leave the business in the strongest position it has ever been with a clear strategy of high-quality portfolio and a management team well placed to continue creating long-term value for shareholders. And it's very pleasing that the company's success has been reflected in its elevation to the FTSE 100, which becomes effective on Monday. With that, I will hand over to Colin to take you through the results in more detail.
Colin Godfrey: Thanks, Aubrey. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us. We entered 2026 with real momentum, improving occupier demand, the successful integration of recent acquisitions and powerful structural trends across logistics and data centers, all of which plays to the strength of our portfolio and our strategy. And it means that we start this year exceptionally well placed to deliver against our 3 growth drivers and our ambitions to grow adjusted earnings by 50% by 2030. This is a business set up for multiyear compounding growth built on capability, discipline and consistent delivery. Throughout 2025, we delivered strong strategic momentum across our growth drivers. We continue to capture record rental reversion, expanded our logistics development platform and advanced our data center pipeline, including launching our power-first model and progressing as planned with the delivery of our first data center project at Manor Farm, Heathrow. We also fully integrated UKCM, generating very attractive returns and further enhanced our urban exposure with the addition of the Blackstone portfolio. At the same time, we executed a significant disposal program to recycle capital and increase returns. This is embedding highly visible multiyear growth and translating into financial performance. Despite significant capital recycling, we grew net rental income by 10.6%, increased adjusted EPS by 4.1% and delivered 4.4% dividend growth. The financial results demonstrate that the strategy is working. And as a result, we enter 2026 with momentum, visibility and confidence. As shown at the top here, our strategy builds on over a decade of consistent value creation and the evolution of the business has been deliberate and cumulative. Since our IPO in 2013, we've sought to create the most compelling supply chain-focused real estate business in Europe. In 2019, we added the U.K.'s largest logistics development platform with the acquisition of db Symmetry, enabling us to create high-quality buildings and compelling returns. And in 2023, we made our first urban logistics acquisition with Junction 6, Birmingham and subsequently further strengthened our offering through the acquisition of UKCM in 2024 and the portfolio of assets from Blackstone last year. And following 5 years of work in 2025, we launched our power-first data center strategy. The combination of the largest logistics investment portfolio and the largest logistics development platform means that we are the largest logistics real estate business operating in the U.K. This gives us many advantages, including deep market knowledge, strong relationships, a lower cost of capital and increased share liquidity. Each phase has broadened our capability and helped to enhance our performance as the data below shows. Over the past 10 years, we've grown contracted rent from GBP 100 million to GBP 361 million and at the same time, reduced our EPRA cost ratio by 220 basis points as detailed bottom left. That combination continued income growth underpinned by an efficient cost base has delivered strong and sustained total shareholder returns as seen bottom right. Looking forward, we're primed to deliver, and we're entering 2026 with growing momentum in each of our 3 growth drivers. Now I'll come back to this later. But first, I'll hand over to Frankie to cover our financial and operational review. Frankie?
Frankie Whitehead: Thank you, and good morning, everyone. As Colin said, 2025 has been another strategically important year for the company, and we've delivered excellent progress across our 3 growth drivers. Our active approach to managing the portfolio has resulted in strong operational performance. And with 2 milestone events during the year, the launch of our data center strategy and the acquisition of the GBP 1 billion logistics portfolio from Blackstone. We expect momentum from these events to accelerate our financial performance into 2026 and beyond. So starting with the headlines. We've delivered strong like-for-like rental growth this year of 4.2%. This has supported an increase in our adjusted EPS of 4.1% to 8.38p per share. And the dividend is up by 4.4% to 8p per share. We have deployed capital into a range of attractive opportunities, which along with valuation uplifts, increased our portfolio value by over 20% this year to GBP 7.9 billion. Our EPRA NTA increased to 187.8p with income growth and ERV growth leading to valuation gains and once again generated attractive returns through our development activity. Now turning to look at income and earnings growth in more detail. Our earnings growth drivers are clear, and these underpin our ambition to deliver adjusted earnings growth of 50% by the end of 2030. Firstly, net rental income has increased by 10.6%, driven by a full year's contribution from the UKCM logistics assets, a 10-week contribution from the Blackstone portfolio and strong like-for-like rental income growth, net of our disposal activity. Income from development management agreements or DMAs, was GBP 15.5 million and in line with expectation. We guide to DMA income reverting to our GBP 3 million to GBP 5 million run rate for the financial year 2026. Secondly, our disciplined cost management has further improved our EPRA cost ratio to 12.4%, one of the most efficient platforms in the sector. This reflects the advantages of our externally managed structure and our commitment to cost efficiency as we scale. We continue to exclude the additional element of DMA income from adjusted earnings to maintain comparability year-on-year. Adjusted EPS growth, excluding net additional DMA income, was 4.1%. And with the dividend growing by 4.4% to 8p, our payout ratio is consistent with the prior year at 95%. Looking at the top right chart, you can see the significant embedded rental potential of 37% between current passing rents and the estimated rental values across the portfolio. This provides us with great near-term visibility over the future growth in net rental income, and we'll be coming back to this later in the presentation. Let me now turn to capital allocation and our robust balance sheet. As already noted, the portfolio increased in value to GBP 7.9 billion. Looking at our allocation of capital on the top right, you see that during the year, we deployed development CapEx in line with our guidance of GBP 231 million into logistics development and GBP 209 million into our first 2 data center schemes. In addition, our logistics acquisitions totaled over GBP 1 billion, the majority of which was the portfolio acquired from Blackstone. This portfolio will deliver a 6% running yield in 2026 and is immediately accretive to adjusted earnings. And we've made excellent progress on capital recycling, shown here on the bottom right, with GBP 416 million of assets sold or exchanged to sell in the year, which means we are now 80% through the disposal program of the UKCM nonstrategic assets. These capital movements and the increase in net debt, which part financed the transaction with Blackstone, resulted in a year-end loan-to-value of 33.2%. And with the GBP 62 million of disposals that were exchanged and have now subsequently completed post the year-end, our pro forma LTV reduces to 32.7%. Drawing this all together and including the equity consideration issued in the year, our EPRA NTA increased to GBP 5.1 billion or 187.8p per share, up 1.2%. We have again delivered compelling underlying total accounting returns. Starting on the left-hand side with our 4.7% earnings yield. We added 1.9% and 2.6% to returns from our investment and development portfolios, respectively. And with capital value performance across the whole portfolio at 2.4% over the year, we delivered an underlying total accounting return of 8.5%. We have separated 3 nonrecurring items here from underlying performance, which span the nonstrategic asset performance, an impairment against our land option portfolio, which I covered at the half year and the technical NTA dilution arising from the shares issued as part consideration for the Blackstone portfolio. This results in the reported total accounting return of 5.5%. And it's worth stating here that we have yet to feel the full financial impact of the Blackstone portfolio of assets and to a larger degree, our live data center projects. And so we're expecting a larger contribution from these components to total returns as we move forward. A component of this performance shown along the bottom was our portfolio ERV growth of 4% over the year, which is attractive in the context of underlying inflation. Our portfolio equivalent yield has remained stable at 5.7%. Moving on now to our asset management performance. Colin highlighted this as our first key growth driver, and we've delivered another year of strong progress. Our asset management team has added GBP 10.5 million of contracted rent through rent reviews and other lease events. Open market rent reviews and hybrid reviews performed particularly strongly, averaging a 36% and 21% increase in passing rent, respectively, all aiding our improved EPRA like-for-like rental growth of 4.2%. And as the bottom left-hand chart highlights, we will see a greater proportion of the portfolio subject to review in 2026 and 2027. And this will deliver an acceleration in the rental income capture over the next few years. And finally, moving on to the right-hand side. Our portfolio vacancy has reduced slightly to 5.6%, reflecting the net effect of our portfolio activity and as expected, the greater level of rotation within the urban assets. Before I move on to our development activity, I want to briefly highlight an important component of the Blackstone transaction, which is the innovative 3-year reversionary bridge. There is a lot of detail on this slide, but essentially, the portfolio acquired came with GBP 20 million of cash, acting as a bridge between the passing rent at acquisition and the market-based ERVs across the portfolio. The release of this reversionary bridge will be recognized within adjusted earnings over the next 3 financial years on a reducing annual basis so that it tapers in line with the actual capture of market level rents as set out at the bottom of this slide. This earnings contribution should be viewed as a baseline for performance from the portfolio with upside available through rent review outperformance or an improvement in portfolio occupancy. Our development platform is our second key growth driver and continues to deliver strong returns for us. During the year, we commenced construction on 1.4 million square feet of space, which has the potential to deliver over GBP 13 million in headline rent. We secured 0.4 million square feet of development lettings this year, adding nearly GBP 4 million to contracted rent at a yield on cost right at the top end of our 6% to 8% target range. Finally, it's fair to say 2025 was a year of macroeconomic uncertainty. This continued to weigh on the pace of occupier decision-making. But as Colin will outline in a moment, occupier confidence is improving, and we ended the year with 1.8 million square feet under construction, representing GBP 19.6 million of potential rent, of which 53% was pre-let. The importance of sustainability to our business is clear, and it continues to play a vital role in driving performance and returns. We provide what clients want, highly modern buildings that are powered by clean energy, are energy efficient and have the power resilience to accommodate future automation. Excluding the portfolio of assets acquired in the year, our EPC rating improved to 86% at B or above. And with the portfolio from Blackstone included, this remains stable versus 2024 at 79%. These new assets present an opportunity for improvement where targeted investment can deliver both sustainability benefits and meaningful value enhancement. Our rooftop solar program increased capacity by 4.5 megawatts in the year to a total of 29 megawatts. And we also continue to invest in natural capital and community programs. This year surpassing 62,000 young people positively impacted through our social value initiatives. All these sustainability actions support long-term occupier demand, reduce obsolescence risk and drive resilience across our estates. Turning to our balance sheet. This remains a real strength and provides flexibility as we invest for growth. During the year, we completed several important pieces of financing. We refinanced and upsized our GBP 400 million revolving credit facility. We issued a new GBP 300 million 7-year public bond at a 4.75% interest rate. And we agreed an acquisition facility to part finance the Blackstone transaction. At the year-end, as set out along the bottom of this slide, we had very strong financing metrics, along with a well-staggered maturity profile and access to a diverse pool of debt capital. These metrics supported our Moody's upgrade to A3 stable in the year. And we've shown on the right how our capitalized interest is evolving, reflecting the higher level of capital investment in live development projects, which is around 2.5x greater than this time last year. Interest capitalized against our logistics developments remains modest due to our capital-light land option model and relatively short construction periods. An addition in the year is the interest capitalized against our data center developments, reflecting earlier land drawdowns, greater infrastructure investment and longer construction periods. However, it's important to note that this cost of finance is fully captured within our underlying appraisal return targets. So looking at some forward guidance. Our development CapEx guidance for 2026 remains unchanged. We expect to maintain our GBP 200 million to GBP 250 million run rate for logistics development and GBP 100 million to GBP 200 million into data center development this year. And we expect to achieve returns in line with previous guidance at between 7% and 8% for logistics currently and 9% to 11% across our 2 data center projects. As we highlighted at the point of the Blackstone transaction, we expect disposals to run at an elevated level this year of between GBP 400 million to GBP 500 million to finance our accretive development activity as well as targeting an LTV at the lower end of the 30% to 35% range. This is all part of our disciplined approach to capital allocation, which ensures we remain optimally positioned for the next phase of growth. This discipline, combined with our access to the multiple funding levers set out across the top of the slide, gives us the appropriate financial flexibility to identify and pursue opportunities as and when they arise, enabling us to invest strategically and proactively for growth. And so drawing all of this together, 2025 has been a year of disciplined delivery and strong financial performance. We're entering 2026 in a great position with a strong balance sheet, multiple funding levers and a clear line of sight across our 3 growth drivers. Our considered approach to managing risk, combined with the scale of the opportunities ahead, underpin our potential to grow adjusted earnings by 50% by the end of 2030. And with that, I will hand you back to Colin.
Colin Godfrey: Thank you, Frankie. Turning now to our strategy. The platform that we've built strengthened again this year is now positioned for the next phase of growth. It's diversified, insight-driven, operationally sophisticated and capital efficient. And crucially, it's aligned to the structural demand drivers underpinning logistics and data centers. So we're entering 2026 with the right assets, the right people and the right opportunities. And to drive value in this market environment, our strategy has a simple objective: convert structural demand into superior shareholder returns through a focus on high-quality assets, a direct and active management approach and an insight-driven development model. This strategic focus has created 3 clear and powerful drivers in our business. Firstly, capturing record rental reversion, which requires no or limited capital and delivers high certainty returns. Secondly, developing new logistics assets at a 6% to 8% yield on cost, supported by long-dated capital-efficient and flexible land options. And thirdly, developing pre-let data centers targeting a 9% to 11% yield on cost, enabled by our innovative power-first model. These drivers give us resilient growing income, combined with opportunity for substantial capital growth. Let's start by looking at the U.K. logistics market, where demand is strengthening. Take-up increased in 2025 to 25.6 million square feet, up 22% year-on-year and the best level since the pandemic. Demand is broad-based across e-commerce, retail, manufacturing, defense and 3PLs. Lettings are typically still taking extended periods of time to close, which was accentuated in 2025 by elevated macro uncertainty. But importantly, occupier confidence is improving, and this is feeding through into activity with nearly 10 million square feet under offer heading into 2026. Turning to supply. 20.9 million square feet was delivered in 2025. Vacancy ended the year at 7.1% with new space remaining broadly stable and the secondhand component increasing to nearly half of the total. Occupiers are rotating into higher quality modern buildings, exactly where our portfolio is positioned. And looking ahead, supply is tightening. Space under construction is down 28% year-on-year with speculative development almost 50% lower, pointing to fewer completions in 2026. And against that backdrop, rents continue to grow ahead of inflation with market ERVs up 3.9%. Investment capital markets volumes also increased, aiding price discovery with nearly GBP 9 billion of transactions, noting that the prime yield has held firm at 5.25% since 2022. Turning back to our business. Our portfolio has been curated to maximize our opportunities. We now have a broader range of unit sizes with greater urban penetration and more assets benefiting from open market rent reviews, improving pricing power in a rising market. This is all underpinned by long-dated big box income from a modern portfolio let to some of the world's most recognized companies, as you'll see here on the right. It's exactly the right mix heading into 2026. Our first major growth driver is continuing to capture our in-built rental reversion. And this is an exceptionally attractive and growing opportunity. Through rental reversion and vacancy, we have the opportunity to increase rental income by over GBP 100 million, of which 73% can be delivered within the next 3 years. Delivering this increase requires minimal capital, and our team has a strong track record of meeting or exceeding ERVs. This is high certainty, high-quality income growth and is firmly within our control. Frankie updated you on the excellent progress made in investment sales to support our recycling program. This included GBP 299 million of UKCM nonstrategic assets sold since May 2024 and a further GBP 62 million with contracts exchanged, leaving GBP 86 million in 2 assets, representing around 1% of portfolio value to be sold within the next few months. And one of these is now under offer. So in aggregate, these sales are ahead of the effective cost of acquisition. This is disciplined capital recycling, selling noncore assets and reinvesting into high-returning logistics and data center opportunities. But the primary reason for acquiring UKCM was to capture a high-quality urban logistics portfolio with significant in-built reversion. And we've made great strides in capturing this, having increased contracted rent by 18% since acquisition, supported by strong rent reviews, lease regears and new lettings. And this blueprint for success is mirrored in the Blackstone portfolio transaction, which completed late last year, where we have acquired a high-quality urban logistics portfolio at below replacement cost. These assets are now fully integrated into our platform, and we're already making excellent progress with our asset management initiatives, letting up vacancy and capturing significant rental reversion as demonstrated by the examples shown here on the right-hand side of the slide. Our second growth driver is logistics development. This platform is capable of delivering more than GBP 300 million of additional rental income, nearly doubling today's passing rent. It's capital efficient, supported by long-dated land options and can be flexed according to market conditions and our strategic objectives. As Frankie mentioned, some lettings that we expected to close in Q4 2025 slipped into this year, such that 2026 development activity is primed for delivery with nearly GBP 15 million of rent close to being secured. We have nearly GBP 9 million of pre-let rental income in solicitors' hands, over GBP 5 million of rental income in advanced negotiations, strong occupier engagement across the pipeline, including a 55% increase in pre-let inquiries and yields on costs tracking at the upper end of the 6% to 8% range. Our development platform is, therefore, a significant driver of multiyear income and value growth. And our third and most exciting growth driver is data centers. Demand for data center capacity is strong and is expected to grow significantly, noting that colocators dominate the London market. The constraint to supply in this market is power. There isn't enough in the right locations deliverable within the right time frames. Our power-first model solves that constraint, enabling faster delivery, lower risk and materially higher returns. In the 12 months since we announced our data center strategy, we've created an exciting pipeline of opportunities with more than 230 megawatts of power across our first 2 sites and the potential for GBP 58 million of annual rent, targeting an attractive 9% to 11% yield on cost. At Manor Farm, our first DC project, momentum continues to build. We're in advanced negotiations on a pre-let with an occupier, have agreed a contractor and are primed to make swift progress. We're expecting a planning decision imminently with the planning expect indicating a determination on or before the 17th of March 2026, keeping us on track to begin construction as planned. And we have also made good progress at our second data center site, where we expect a planning decision this year. These are just the first of a series of projects in a pipeline of potential opportunities of over 1 gigawatt. When you bring the 3 growth drivers together, the scale of the opportunity ahead of us becomes clear. We can more than double our rental income to over GBP 800 million across the medium and longer term. We show here the contribution from our 3 growth drivers: rental reversion in gold, development in blue and data centers in red. Today's GBP 337 million of passing rent on the left bridges to GBP 361 million of contracted rent through the burn-off of rent-free periods and signed agreements for lease. You can then see how the growth drivers generate a near-term opportunity to increase passing rent to GBP 425 million driven by reversion and development. A medium-term opportunity to increase this to GBP 562 million, reflecting further reversion and development potential plus a very meaningful additional upside from our first 2 data center projects. And finally, there is the significant long-term opportunity within our extensive logistics land portfolio, taking rent to well above GBP 800 million. Key here is that much of this value is already baked into our business. And as you can see at the bottom, none of this includes future rental growth or additional asset management upside. And crucially, it excludes any benefit from our 1 gigawatt pipeline of further data center opportunities. Now this is why we are so confident in delivering sustained earnings growth and compelling returns for shareholders. So to conclude, we have a resilient and high-quality income stream, an attractive and growing dividend and clear line of sight to material earnings growth with an ambition to grow adjusted earnings by 50% by 2030. We have a strong balance sheet, a proven model and powerful multiyear drivers. And critically, the business is primed for delivery in 2026, particularly through the early stages of our data center program. It's a compelling combination, resilient income, strong and compounding growth and the potential for exceptional returns from data centers in the years ahead. Thank you for listening. And with that, I'll hand you over to Ian, who is coordinating Q&A.
Ian Brown: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the live part of our results presentation this morning, where we are opening up the call to your questions. And I'm joined this morning by -- in addition to Colin and Frankie, Henry Stratton, our Head of Research, to the right of me. And to my left, Charlie Withers, our Head of Director of Development. And I'm being supported on the phones by Sergey, who will coordinate calls. [Operator Instructions] So, I'll hand over to you to open up the lines for questions.
Operator: Our first question comes from John Vuong from Kempen.
John Vuong: On data centers, so it's considered critical national infrastructure, which means that obtaining planning approval shouldn't be a major hurdle. Just trying to understand the Manor Farm progress. Could you provide a bit more color on what has happened and how this impacts your expected time line? And do you see any risk coming from the first expansion plans?
Colin Godfrey: Thanks for the question, Jonathan (sic) [ John ]. Catch the last part of that. But I think you're looking for a bit of color on the progress we've made at Manor Farm. So we submitted planning earlier last year. The planning application proceeded to the inspector, where there was a hearing. That process took place and the planning application was called in by the Secretary of State for determination by the government, which we see as a positive move. The inspector's report has been submitted to the Secretary of State. And the Secretary of State has indicated that a decision should be expected by the 17th of March. So we're not far from that date. We should be hearing very soon. We remain positive in terms of the expectation for the outcome from that decision.
Ian Brown: And if I just add to that as well, John, I think the key point as well is that we very much remain within the parameters of the original timetable that we outlined to the market back in -- I think it was January of 2025.
John Vuong: And just given the risk... [Technical Difficulty]
Ian Brown: Sorry, John. I wouldn't get a word, I'm afraid it's a terrible line.
Operator: With this, we'll move now to the next question from Tom Musson from Berenberg.
Thomas Musson: Just a question on your target to grow earnings by 50% by 2030. Since you announced that initial target, you've obviously acquired the Blackstone portfolio, which is accretive as you've described. Given the visibility you've got elsewhere on the like-for-like growth plus the confidence you have in delivering on new development, including data centers, isn't that 50% growth target now just very conservative? And could it, in fact, be materially higher?
Colin Godfrey: Thanks very much for the question. Frankie, do you want to touch on that? I mean we can do a tag team.
Frankie Whitehead: Yes. Look, I think we've got lots of embedded growth as we set out this morning, pointing to our 3 growth drivers there, Tom, the rental reversion that's going to be the biggest contributor to the growth over time, logistics development and data center development. Look, it's a medium-term target. We're certainly on track to deliver that. I think as we perhaps get closer to that 2030 date, we may look to revise the guidance. But as we sit here today, very confident in terms of the delivery, but we're still maintaining the 50% earnings growth by 2030.
Colin Godfrey: And just to add to that, I think if you think about the context of the Blackstone acquisition and the increase in our urban component to our portfolio and how we've performed on the UKCM acquisitions. We've delivered an 18% income growth in as many months on UKCM. We believe that the Blackstone portfolio has similar attributes in terms of asset management potential. And so we believe that, that has the potential to perform very strongly for the business in the medium term, underpinning Frankie's reassurance in terms of our expectations for that tail growth.
Thomas Musson: Okay. That's clear. And maybe just a second one on Manor Farm. Assuming that you do get a positive planning decision there, how will you expect to phase the capital profits? I see you're talking to accounting for some of those in '26. Just to get an indication of how that phases.
Frankie Whitehead: I think if you assume that the planning is delivered this year along with the pre-letting, I think a substantial part of that capital profit would come off of the back of those 2 events. So obviously, there's a bit that comes through during the course of construction, and there will be a bit at the back end once the project is fully derisked. But a substantial part as we sit here today, would be expected in the current financial year off the back of those 2 milestone events, the planning and the pre-letting delivery.
Operator: Our next question is from Suraj Goyal from Green Street.
Suraj Goyal: Just a couple of questions from me. Firstly, does the ERV growth of 4% for the full year versus the 2.3% at the first half suggest a slowdown in rent growth or any concerns in certain locations? And a follow-on from that, what do you see in terms of sort of net absorption of industrial space across the U.K. and your portfolio more broadly? I know you touched on it a bit during the presentation. And then the second question, could you share some color on how the integration of the Blackstone portfolio is going? And 4 months on, there are parts of the portfolio that are perhaps more challenging or asset management intensive.
Colin Godfrey: Okay. Well, I think we take that in reverse order, and then I'll deal with the first -- the last question and then hand over to Henry Stratton. The integration has gone very well. It's still very early days. We are really pleased with the quality of the portfolio that we've acquired from Blackstone. Obviously, this early stage has been about reaching out to our clients, engaging with them, understanding what they're looking for in terms of occupational interest, whether or not we can improve the opportunity for them. And just really talk to them about how happy they are in their space. And in acting -- really, we're putting together business plans, which we started actually prior to the acquisition and starting to engage with customers in acting those business plans. Some of that will include refurbishments, et cetera, as well. So early days, but going very, very well and very, very similarly to UKCM acquisition of that portfolio, as I alluded to earlier. Henry, do you want to...
Henry Stratton: Yes. So picking up on the net absorption number, first of all, that was GBP 11 million for the U.K. across 2025. And we've actually now seen 3 half years of incremental improvement in that net absorption figure. So we're seeing positive momentum there in terms of what's happening in the market. It was GBP 10 million the year before, but lighter in the second half of that. So we're seeing that improvement. What we would say is that we're seeing a lot of rotation at the moment from occupiers into higher quality, more modern new space. And as they consolidate and rotate, they're also giving up some of those older buildings. So the vacancy number in the U.K., it's secondhand stock now, which is pushing that higher and it's high-quality new space of the type that we own and develop that occupiers are moving into. And then just in terms of the rental growth outlook, you're right, 1.5% rental growth in the second half of this year at a market level. But again, we see a lot of dynamics in the market that are encouraging on that front. So first of all, on demand, we're seeing growth in the economy. We're seeing retail sales increase, online penetration improve. We're seeing occupier confidence build, but we're also importantly seeing occupiers making more use of their networks. And as I said, that's driving the 25 million square foot of take-up that we saw last year, which is a significant improvement. So encouraging trends as we head into 2026.
Colin Godfrey: Yes. And I think just to add to that, our ERV growth of 4%, very much in line with MSCI at 3.9%. And I think the tone that we're seeing in terms of conversations with occupiers is increasingly positive, alluding to what Henry said in terms of their desire to make investment in newer high-quality space. So we don't -- we certainly don't see there's any significant trend there in terms of the level of rental growth, and we expect 2026 to be a strong year moving forward.
Operator: The next question is from Neil Green from JPMorgan.
Neil Green: Two quick questions from me, please. The first one, just on the Blackstone reversion bridge, just to check, if you beat those ERVs, is that all upside for yourselves? Or is there any kind of type of clawback on that, please? And secondly, you've shown a couple of times how your cost ratio has come down over recent years. And looking at the situation today and hearing your comments on the call, it feels like there's a lot of opportunity to go for. Are there any or do you envisage any resourcing pinch points at this point, please? That's all.
Frankie Whitehead: On the first point, there's no clawback arrangement. So all of that upside would be to the benefit of Big Box and Big Box shareholders.
Colin Godfrey: Yes. And on the cost ratio point, Neil, we have resourced into the UKCM transaction and subsequently and into the face of the Blackstone transaction. So we are fully staffed. But noting, of course, that those costs are cost to the manager and not to the company. So you can rest assured that we are making sure we've absolutely got all of the right people on the ground, high-caliber people that are engaging, and we're getting some really good results as a consequence of that very, very active approach that we're taking to those assets.
Operator: The next question is from Paul May from Barclays.
Paul May: Just a couple from me. The like-for-like rental growth and the expectation of reviews and revisions -- reversions, sorry, coming up. It looks like like-for-like rental growth could accelerate over the next few years up to sort of 8%, 7% and then back down to sort of 4% from 28%. Is that a fair assumption in terms of how that will flow through? And then second question, can you just remind everyone on your capitalized interest policy? It looks to have doubled or more than doubled year-on-year, now about 7% of recurring income. Just wondered what is the rate that you use? And what is the policy on what is capitalized? Is that on any of the land or land options that you have, for example?
Colin Godfrey: Okay. Thanks for the question, Paul. So the first thing is to remind everyone, we have a 28% reversion in the business. That's held firm. So the rate of capture has been broadly in line with the rate at which the market rents have continued to grow. As for looking forward in terms of like-for-like, I mean, Henry might make a comment on this, but we do expect -- I mean obviously, off the back of the current rates, we do expect the potential for that to improve. But we're certainly not guiding 7% to 8%, Paul, for the near term. We think that a range in the sort of 4%, 5% in the current market. I mean obviously, we'll have to keep an eye on how that progresses. We are seeing improved sentiment occupationally. Henry, do you want to make any comment on that?
Henry Stratton: Well, I think just to add on the market side, we're still seeing that rental growth building the reversion side of it. So it's a positive picture there, which obviously the business is then aligned to capture that reversion over time.
Colin Godfrey: Frankie?
Frankie Whitehead: Yes. So on capitalized interest, obviously, the new feature is the data center investment that we made during the course of the year. The level of capital invested in development activity is about 2.5x greater than this point last year and hence, why that number has grown during the course of the last 12 months. The policy is we capitalize from the point of land drawdown. So nothing pre that. So we're not capitalizing interest on the land option component. Obviously, for the data center, the capital intensity is going to be slightly higher. We're drawing down land earlier. We're investing into infrastructure earlier and the construction cycles are slightly longer on that. So that's where we are.
Paul May: So just to follow up on that, what's the rate that you use on capitalized interest? Is it the actual cost of debt? Is it marginal? Is it your average?
Frankie Whitehead: So on logistics, we are borrowing from a general pool. So it's the blended cost of debt, the actual blended cost of debt on that. For data centers, we're thinking about that from a sort of project finance perspective. So it's the actual cost of finance that is going into that project at the moment. So we're borrowing under the RCF currently for the first -- the early phases of those 2 projects. So it's the cost of borrowing under the RCF for the data center component.
Paul May: And sorry, just a quick one on the like-for-likes. I mean the 7% to 8% you get to from looking at the reversion that you highlight and the portion of the rent that is being pushed through in terms of the rent reviews, is there then a risk that you're not -- are you saying you're not going to capture the full reversion on those reviews? Is that why it's more 4% to 5% than 7% to 8% for the next couple of years? Or is it just a timing factor?
Colin Godfrey: No. I think this -- look, we're not giving any specific guidance on any particular period, Paul. But we are confident in the earnings bridge over the medium term. 2026 is expected to have a higher level of rent reviews. I think it's 32%. And you'll see on Slide number -- Ian's got it there.
Ian Brown: Slide 22.
Colin Godfrey: We've set out the levels of rent that is capable of being captured in that period. What we're not saying is that we're definitely going to capture each of those amounts in each of those periods. So it could ebb and flow a little bit over the course of those years, but we are pretty confident in capturing that over that period of time more generally.
Ian Brown: And to put that into context, we reviewed about 21% of the portfolio over the course of 2025. So 32% up for review over the course of 2026 with that GBP 27 million of rental reversion that we think is potentially capturable within the period.
Colin Godfrey: So it could be 7% to 8%, but if we capture all of that, to your point.
Operator: Our next question is from Max Nimmo from Deutsche Bank.
Maxwell Nimmo: I had one question on like-for-like rental growth, but I think you've kind of answered it there. Maybe just on the second data center, I know it's early days, but is there anything you can kind of tell us on that front roughly in terms of timing and your thinking on that one?
Colin Godfrey: Charlie, is that something you'd like to?
Charlie Withers: Yes, yes. We are -- it's a plot we acquired last year, which we are running on the planning process at the moment, which we're looking to achieve consent during the course of this year. Discussions are going well, and we will look to bring that forward again in a similar fashion to Manor Farm with a pre-let backed construction program.
Operator: [Operator Instructions] The next question is from Jonathan Kownator from Goldman Sachs.
Jonathan Kownator: Actually, just a follow-up to Max's question. Any discussion already on the site with potential occupiers? And also, can you help us understand how you're thinking about bringing forward the rest of the DC pipeline? Any progress there? And would you consider, again, any joint venture partners, things like that?
Colin Godfrey: Sorry, John, is that the occupier question? Was that relating to the second site?
Jonathan Kownator: Yes, correct. I don't think you touched upon that, maybe it's a bit early.
Colin Godfrey: Charlie, would you like to?
Charlie Withers: We are quite early in the process there, but we have had initial engagement with a number of parties. So it's encouraging.
Colin Godfrey: Ian, would you like to?
Jonathan Kownator: And is it hyperscaler as well? Or what type of occupiers are you targeting for that?
Charlie Withers: Similar operators to the people we're engaging with at Manor Farm.
Ian Brown: And just with regards to the pipeline, I mean it's very analogous to what we're doing on the logistics development pipeline where we are taking the sort of the gigawatt potential and working each of those schemes through and securing the necessary steps to turn those into what we would call kind of credible delivery state. So again, we'll update the market in due course as we continue to progress that. But as Colin mentioned in the presentation, there's a lot there for us to go for.
Colin Godfrey: And it's -- all of these sites are following our power-first strategy. where we're looking to control and deliver a significant amount of power that would be attractive to major DC operators. All of these sites are within the key locations within the U.K. and focus primarily on the London availability zone.
Jonathan Kownator: And maybe just one follow-up to that then. How are you finding bringing on that power? Obviously, you have secured agreements, but is bringing on the power effectively upon your schedule? Or are you finding still having secured the principle that it's not that easy to convert into hard infrastructure?
Colin Godfrey: Yes. So the point here, John, is really the way we go about what we're doing. And this is something that we've been working on for 5 years, the power team, progressing the power delivery. It's -- I think one needs to think about it from the context of the fact that we are not a typical consumer of power. We're working collaboratively with a JV partner power generators. And so we are, if you like, partly in control of the process and the delivery time lines, which gives us a much stronger conviction in terms of the ability to deliver that power when we need it. So we're not at the whim of the power industry and if you like, sitting in the queue, as is ordinarily the case for most property developers who would acquire a site, then look to achieve planning and power subsequently, hence, hitting the buffers with potentially in the context of [ slow ] by way of example, up to a 10-year wait. So we're not doing that. We are taking a very, very different approach, which we believe is very innovative and it's something that isn't capable of being replicated in the near term because it's taken us several years to where we've got to in that journey.
Operator: Thank you. It seems there are currently no further questions over the phone. With this, I'd like to hand the call back over to you for any webcast questions. Over to you, Ian.
Ian Brown: Great. Look, I think we'll turn to the webcast. So thanks for submitting your questions through that as well. So starting from the top, a question from John Vuong at Kempen. He asks, what's the size of development starts that you're expecting for 2026, given that you're seeing high inquiries? Second point to that, on the lettings in solicitors' hands and in advanced negotiations, how much of it is new post budget and how much is more from delayed decision-making? And how have you seen occupier demand progress at the start of the year?
Colin Godfrey: Okay. Charlie, I don't know if you've got all of those...
Charlie Withers: I missed the middle one. I got...
Colin Godfrey: We'll brief you. So development starts '26, is the first question.
Charlie Withers: Development starts 2026. I think we've guided previously that our CapEx for this year is somewhere between GBP 200 million and GBP 250 million, which is in line with previous years. Square footage will vary depending on the customers that we're talking to. So -- but our CapEx guidance is in line with previous years. In terms of occupier demand, which I think was your final question, we are seeing increased levels of occupier demand across both the standing stock portfolio with those buildings that we've got recently completed or currently under construction and a substantially increased level of pre-let build-to-suit inquiries compared to 12 months ago. So we're encouraged by the level of occupier demand and the prospects for increased lettings and development this year.
Colin Godfrey: And that's really reflective of what we're seeing in the market more generally that Henry alluded to earlier. And I think the other question, the mid-question was of the amount in solicitors' hands and in advanced negotiations. The question was about how much of that has been delayed essentially in terms of decision-making, Charlie?
Charlie Withers: Well, the square footage that we have in solicitors' hands is 0.9 million square feet, GBP 8.9 million of rent. That -- all of that we were expecting or hoping would slip into last year. But as with build-to-suits, it's -- they're more challenging to get over the line than deals on standing stock, and those have slipped. So I hope that answers that question.
Colin Godfrey: And I think Henry has touched on this a little bit later. We have seen in recent times, occupiers, we've sort of used the expression sitting on their hands. There has been reticence from C-suite to make really significant investment. And some of these buildings, as Henry alluded to, if you're coming out of a secondhand building to a very large significant facility and you are investing in automation, that is a long-term, very significant investment you're making in the business. And companies have been holding back as a consequence of geopolitical risk, some of the economic shocks that they've seen. But we are now starting to see more positive sentiment with occupiers planning for these major decisions. That's the mood music coming through. That's what we're now seeing on the ground in terms of the letting activity. And that's why we're pretty confident in terms of the outlook for the market moving forward. Next question?
Ian Brown: Just checking. I think that might be it. I think we might have exhausted our questions, Colin.
Colin Godfrey: Okay. Well, it remains then for me to thank everyone for joining. I'm very thankful for you taking the time to join us. The Chairman mentioned our entry to the FTSE 100 at the start of the presentation. And I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of our stakeholders, advisers, everyone that's helped us along the journey of the last 12.5 years to reach this milestone, which we're very proud of, and we're really thankful for your support over that time and also for my colleagues that have worked tirelessly alongside me over that period. So thanks to everyone. I hope you have a great day, and we look forward to catching up with you soon. Thank you. Bye-bye.