Sonja Horn: Good morning all, and welcome to Entra's second quarter presentation here in Oslo. On the front page here you can see our building in Schweigaards gate 16, where we, in the quarter, signed a 12-year lease contract for the entire building with Coop. Let's move on to some highlights. Rental income of NOK 781 million in the quarter. That is 2.4% down from last quarter, or 1.4% up from same quarter last year. Net income from property management of NOK 320 million this quarter, which is down NOK 37 million compared to last quarter, due to lower rental incomes and higher operating and financial costs. Net value changes came in with a negative of NOK 1.2 billion this quarter, mainly driven by the negative value changes on our investment properties of NOK 1.1 billion. Leaving us with a loss before tax of NOK 855 million in the quarter. Sorry, that's loss after tax. The NRV per share this quarter stands at NOK 163.3, and cash earnings per share of NOK 3.54 for the first half of this year. It's been a strong quarter in respect of letting, with a positive net letting of NOK 131 million in the quarter. We have started up one refurbishment project in Oslo and one in Bergen. If you look at operations, as I already said, it's been a very strong quarter in respect of letting. I'm pleased to see that we are benefiting from the work and efforts put down through 2025, where we also strengthened our letting and marketing capabilities to meet a slightly tougher letting market. We signed new and renewed leases for NOK 185 million in the quarter. Out of this, as much as NOK 175 million is new contracts, which will feed into our rental income bridge going forward. Contracts with a rental income of NOK 43 million have been terminated in the quarter. Out of this, approximately one third has already been resigned as part of the Coop contract. Approximately one third of the tenants in the terminations have chosen to resign with Entra. If we take a look at the largest contracts signed in the quarter, you can see that Verkstedveien 1, we have signed Multiconsult for 16,400 sq m, and in Schweigaards gate 16, the Coop contract for 15,500 sq m, in addition to OPAK and DeepOcean in also two of our buildings at Skøyen. At our cluster in Skøyen, we have had, over the past year, 29,000 sq m of terminations due to public tenants choosing to move to less expensive locations. I'm very pleased to see that we have now been able to turn that around when we have signed more than 24,000 sq m in the first half in the Skøyen portfolio. Good momentum for us there. If we take a look at our average lease duration, it stands currently at 6.1 years. Our share of public tenants is currently slightly down at 48%, following the two large contracts signed with Coop and Multiconsult. Our occupancy is down from 94.3 to 93.3 in the quarter. As I have commented on in previous quarters, we expect to see more fluctuations in our occupancy rate going forward. This is explained by the three factors that we have completed projects feeding into the management portfolio with different occupancy ratios. It also depends on the timing for when we start projects on vacated space. Thirdly, it depends on how the upcoming expiries, which already have been reflected in our rental income bridge, are relet. The increase in the vacancy this quarter is related to the portfolio in Sandvika in Bergen following the negative net letting we had in the second half of 2024. In particular, there are two assets here where we are working on a product development and the profitability, which has now then been included in the vacancy. We do expect to see some further near-term pressure on occupancy before stabilization. Driven by the upcoming expiries, not yet relet or ready for projects and project timing at the moment. This is, however, reflected in our rental income bridge. The two large contracts signed this quarter contributes in securing in occupancy in the longer term, with effects mainly from 2028 and onwards. As mentioned, we've started two refurbishment projects in the quarter. First one here in Verkstedveien 1. This is a building which we, in 2024, signed a large lease contract with Yara, We were at that point planning to start a refurbishment project for Yara. One year later, in 2025, we chose to terminate that contract with Yara, as we got the opportunity to prolong with them in their existing headquarter building for a new 10-year period with no CapEx requirements. Since that, we've been working on reletting this building, and pleased now to see that we have reached an occupancy ratio of 90%, having signed both the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund and Multiconsult in this building. This means that we now are preparing to start this refurbishment. The remaining CapEx here is around NOK 365 million, leaving us with an expected yield on cost for this building of 5.6%. The project will be completed in two phases, where the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund will move in during the second quarter of 2027 and Multiconsult in the first quarter of 2028. Moving on to the second refurbishment project, which is in Bergen, in Kaigaten 9. This building is located right next to the central bus terminal and train station in Bergen. It's also the neighboring building to our ongoing project in Nonnesetergaten 4. You can actually see Nonnesetergaten 4 as the white building in the back of this picture. This is the building where the Norwegian tax authorities have been temporarily sitting while they've been waiting for the project in Nonnesetergaten 4. Now we have let 24% of the space in this building and have started the refurbishment here. The remaining project cost here is NOK 243 million, leaving us with a yield on cost on this project of 5.8%, with an expected completion here in Q1 2028. If you take a look at our list of ongoing development projects, it has now been expanded with these two refurbishment projects. The list totals now 101,000 sq m, including our JV project in Kristian Krohgs gate. Let me start by saying that all these projects are progressing according to plan at cost and on time. Limited changes since our last reporting. We can see that Drammensveien 134, the occupancy is up to 80% following the lease contract, which was signed with OPAK. The total group remaining CapEx on this list of projects is around NOK 700 million. In addition to this, you have the redevelopment in Kristian Krohgs gate 2, which here is accounted for on 100% basis. Also, this project is progressing according to plan. Very pleased to see that it's been very well accepted in the market since we launched it. A lot of interest for this product. The remaining CapEx on Entra's share here is approximately NOK 600 million. Few words on the Norwegian economy. The Norwegian economy remains resilient and is well positioned through its strong public finances, supported also by the sovereign wealth fund. Economic activity is supported by private consumption, following now several years of real wage growth, as well as public sector demand. The growth estimates for this year have been revised slightly down after a soft first quarter, held back by temporary effects. If you look at the top right here, you can see that the employment growth has remained positive for Entra over for Norway over time. It's also expected to remain positive going forward. In Oslo, the employment growth has, however, been more or less flat over the recent years and not provided the same support to office demand. If you look at inflation, it is now expected to remain above the Central Bank's targets for a longer period. The inflation is driven by domestic cost growth and also renewed imported price pressure following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The Norwegian Central Bank raised the key policy rate in May with 25 basis points to 4.25%. In their June report, the Central Bank further signaled that one more increase is likely this year, as you can see from the bottom right graph. The June CPI came in just this morning, and it came in at actually 2.7%, which was 50 basis points below the Norges Bank's estimates. Statistics Norway have said that they've had some data trouble this morning. It should be more or less in line with what they expect to verify later. The core inflation has not been published yet. If we move on to the letting markets and dive into what we see from the market data there. First of all, Arealstatistikk data, which came out earlier this week, shows that the letting volumes signed in the second quarter were more or less in line with historical Q2 levels. We also see that the upcoming expiry volumes for 2027 and 2028 should continue to provide a good basis for letting activity also going forward. According to Entra's consensus report, which you can see from the top right, the vacancy for the overall Oslo market is now expected to increase towards 7.8% for the overall Oslo market throughout this year, before it gradually trends downwards. This is up with some 30 basis points compared to the consensus report last quarter. The majority of this vacancy is in the segment of smaller space and also related to more secondary locations or in older building stocks, not meeting the current tenant requirements. The limited new build volumes, together with continued demand for centrally located high-quality buildings and CPI indexation, continue to provide support for further rental growth. Our consensus report estimates around 12% market rental growth from 2026 to 2028. If you take our take on the market, we clearly see now that where and how to locate the office has become a much more strategic decision for tenants. Seeing that they're looking for central locations, high-quality offices, to a much larger extent, as it also is a key enabler for productivity, talent attraction, and culture. At the same time, we clearly see that tenants are cost-conscious in the market environment with a high level of uncertainty. In many cases, this flight to quality and also more urban qualities, is then combined with less space to keep the costs down. We are experiencing, with more strategic decisions from our tenants, that the processes take a lot more time, continue to take time. As examples, with both Coop and Multiconsult, we have been working for more than one year before finally closing those deals. We're also seeing that our city center locations and also the two projects which we brought to market earlier this year, have been launched with a lot of interest. Seeing that our products are located below the CBD segments, there is a good room also there to take out the market rental growth in that segment. The picture is more differentiated in the fringes and in the secondary markets, depending on the local supply and demand balance in each market. Competition remains pretty strong in the segment for smaller tenants below 1,500 sq m, where we typically also meet the sublease markets. While the larger tenants have limited options to choose from, particularly in the city center. A few words also on the transaction markets. Transaction activity slowed in the first half of 2026, as investor sentiment turned more cautious, driven primarily by the interest rates hike and also the increased uncertainty with the elevated geopolitical tensions. Transaction volumes for the commercial real estate market in the first half came in around NOK 34 billion. According to our consensus report now, expectations are that we will see a total volume around NOK 80 billion for the full year, which is more or less in line with what we've seen the last couple of years. The bulk of the Transactions closed in the first half have been within the retail segment, residential portfolios and logistics. 27% is related to offices, and this is mainly then the Anton B. Nilsen portfolio. The current prime yield levels, around 4.5%, has been supported by equity funded investor demand, which still can meet their return requirements at these yield levels, supported also by outlooks for CPI and rental growth. There has been limited transaction evidence within the prime office segment during the first half. However, we know that a couple of the transactions which closed in the second quarter also confirm the prime yield levels of 4.5%. From our consensus report, we can see that expectations are that prime yield now will increase somewhat from around the 4.5%-4.8% throughout the year in response to higher interest rates before reverting to a more gradual downward trajectory. Going forward, we expect that the prime and central office segment will screen increasingly more attractive to the broader investment market due to the favorable supply demand dynamics and also with this a healthy rental growth outlook. In respect of the financing markets, they remain available and open, also with favorable credit margins at the moment.
With that, Ole, the word is yours.
Ole Anton Gulsvik: Thank you. Thank you, Sonja. In Q2, our financial performance was lower compared to previous quarters. Rent income came in at NOK 781 million, down from NOK 800 million in the first quarter. We had net negative impact from project of -NOK 8 million, as we have vacated a few properties for refurbishments during the quarter, as Sonja mentioned earlier. In addition, we had -NOK 10 million in like-for-like growth due to reduced occupancy, mostly related to the negative net letting we reported in the second half of 2024 and Q1 2025. This is primarily in the Sandvika and the Bergen portfolios. Compared to the second quarter last year, the average rolling rent per square meter is up 4.1%, mostly due to CPI growth and finalized projects. The net income from property management came in at NOK 320 million, down from NOK 357 million in Q1 due to a combination of lower rental income, which I've already gone through, slightly higher OpEx, as well as increased financing cost. Profit before tax came in at -NOK 1.0 billion, including net value adjustments of -NOK 1.2 billion related to both our investment properties, JVs, and hedges. I will come back with more detail on this number later on. I have already gone through the rental income part, but I will give you some more flavors on the other P&L items. OpEx came in at NOK 72 million, or 9.2% of rental income, which is somewhat above historical levels. This is primarily due to higher vacancy costs as well as letting related costs. We also had the small one-off of NOK 2 million in the quarter. Looking at the first half as a total, the OpEx is 8.9% of rental income, which is more close to the historical levels. Admin costs are relatively stable at NOK 52 million and in line with expectation. The negative result from share of profit from JVs is due to an impairment of the investment in OSU, which impacts NOK 128 million. OSU is a residential development company in Bjørvika, CBD, Oslo East. The value adjustments is mostly related to lower expected growth in resi prices as well as higher return requirements. Net realized financials came in at NOK 346 million, up NOK 20 million from last quarter. This is due to higher borrowing cost of NOK 15 million, mostly related to higher interest rates, as well as a one-off of NOK 5 million. Value changes in our investment properties are negative with NOK 1.1 billion. I will come back with more data on this later on. We had negative value changes in our financial instruments of NOK 84 million. This is caused by a combination of slightly lower long and medium term market interest rates, as well as shorter remaining duration or maturity of the interest rate hedge portfolio. The payable tax is also slightly higher than normal. This is due to a reassessment of tax for one redevelopment project from previous years, which we couldn't offset against current tax laws carried forward. This gave a negative net profit of -NOK 855 million. Moving over to our rental income development. Looking forward, the model indicates that rental income in Q3 will be NOK 781 million, which is NOK 5 million lower compared to the bridge we presented in the first quarter. For 2026 as a whole, the total rental income in the bridge is down NOK 15 million compared to the bridge we presented in the first quarter due to an updated assessment of the portfolio. This graph is not the guidance, it just highlights the rental income based on reported events in existing contracts. As mentioned in previous quarters, we believe there is upside to this bridge going forward. Firstly, we aim to let out existing vacant space, which has a rental income potential of NOK 229 million per year. We also have market rent reversal potential of NOK 82 million. Lastly, we currently have a few larger properties vacated in preparation for or already in project, which should support growth going forward. However, most of this is after the end of this bridge period. As an example, the strong net letting we had in the second quarter with both Coop and Multiconsult contracts will be phased in during 2028. Moving over to the property value, which is down NOK 1 billion to NOK 62.3 billion in the quarter. The value changes are negative with NOK 1.1 billion, a value decrease of 1.8%. The negative value impact is predominantly due to increased rate of return requirements driven by higher interest rate levels. This is partly offset by increased CPI revisions as well as positive letting effects. We see that return requirements increase more in the fringe areas while central located properties, which looks like being more resilient to interest rate increase. The value deviation between the prices is now limited at 0.5% in the second quarter. CapEx came in at NOK 256 million in the quarter, which has also come down over the last few years. We will continue to have a conservative and disciplined investment strategy going forward and prioritize defensive CapEx to secure occupancy and realize market uplifts. The management portfolio net yield has increased in the quarter to 5.26%, up from 5.13% in Q1. It's up 32 basis points from 4.94% over the last 12 months. Fully let at market rent, there is solid upside with a portfolio yield at 5.83%. On the right-hand side, you can see that the net asset value per share is down from NOK 170 in Q1 to NOK 163 in Q2. NOK 6 of this reduction is related to the value adjustment in our investment properties, and NOK 1 is related to impairment in our JVs. In addition to this, we paid out also approximately one NOK per share in dividend. This was then partly offset by a positive impact of nearly two NOK from our cash earnings in the quarter. Moving to our debt metrics. The ICR was stable at 2.16, measured over the last 12 months, but down isolated in the quarter to 2.05, predominantly due to higher interest costs. The leverage ratio increased from 47.6 to 48.6, mainly due to the negative value adjustments in our properties. Going forward, we will continue to have a conservative approach when it comes to both leverage and interest risk to secure and improve our investment-grade rating. We have created a solid financial platform with an average time to maturity for total debt of 4.0 years in the second quarter. We had an active financing quarter also. We reopened a fixed bond at 5.5 years maturity and issued NOK 200 million, which we swapped to NIBOR +112 basis points. We also issued new six-year floating and fixed bonds under our new green bond framework, totaling slightly over NOK 1 billion, and the spreads here were 120 basis points. The debt capital market remain open for Entra at attractive levels, but we have seen some volatility in the spreads following the Iran conflict. As you can see in the graph to the right, we have undrawn bank credit line of NOK 7.6 billion committed until 2028 and 2030. We did reduce our bank lines with NOK 1.2 billion during the quarter to improve funding costs. But with the financing activity in the second quarter, we still have ample available liquidity the next 24 months. On the left-hand side, you can see that now nearly 72% of our debt is green, and we have the capacity to issue more green debt with our existing environmental-friendly property portfolio. Lastly, moving to the cost of debt development. The all-in net financial cost is up to 4.50%, while the interest rate on our interest-bearing debt is up to 4.16% in the quarter. The forward curve have shifted up during the first half of the year, although it's down slightly from peak levels. Our interest rate forecast is based on the forward curve from July 3rd. Assuming this level, our cost of debt will increase in 2026, as you can see in this graph. This includes our existing interest hedges totaling 67% of our debt portfolio, which partly offset the effect of higher interest rates. Sonja.
Sonja Horn: Thank you. Okay, a few closing remarks before we go to Q&A. First of all, operationally, this was a strong quarter for us. We delivered net letting of a solid NOK 131 million, which is the highest we've seen since back in 2020. The letting also feeds our pipeline of refurbishment projects, where we started two projects. Rental income of NOK 781 is up 1.4% year-on-year. We have a solid financial platform, and during the quarter, we also updated our green financing framework in line with the EU Taxonomy, expanding our future access to green financing. We continue to take a conservative approach both to leverage and interest rate risk. Profitability remains our key priority for 2026, both from increasing occupancy from capturing the reversion potential and also from our ongoing projects, supported by selective accretive developments, asset rotation, and also a disciplined approach to capital allocation. Our portfolio is well positioned to meet the future demand trends we are seeing and the long-term fundamentals of our letting market remains supportive. We continue to focus on delivering operationally and the letting activity which we have seen through the first half will provide profitable growth going forward. I think that concludes the presentation for now, then I believe we have some questions. Isabel?
Isabel Vindenes: Thank you, Sonja and Ole. We will move on to the Q&A session. The first question is on the pipeline for letting. Given two large contract signings, how do you see your pipeline developing now?
Sonja Horn: Well, for the third quarter, we are actually quite optimistic. We have a good leads pipeline coming out of this quarter. Several offers out. We are, in addition, also very focused on building our leads pipeline into the fourth quarter. If you look at the fourth quarter, the outcome there will, to a large extent, depend also on a couple of large renegotiations, with lease expiry in 2028 and 2029, which we expect also to conclude somewhere between the fourth quarter and the first quarter next year. All in all, optimistic about the third quarter from what we see right now.
Isabel Vindenes: You have started two new redevelopment projects targeting yield on cost in the range 5.6%-5.8%, while your all-in funding cost is now around 4.5%, and portfolio yields have moved out to 5.3%. Why is this still an attractive use of capital? What minimum spread over funding costs do you require before approving new development projects?
Sonja Horn: Well, we have, of course, a mix of projects in the project pipeline. Some are more value preserving. Seeing that we have tenants moving out and assets which have been vacated, we put in the CapEx required to defend the cash flow and make the products competitive. The two projects we started this quarter are more in that bucket. We would, of course, like to see better yields on costs. That's the way it is right now. If you look at the allocation to more new project development, I think Kristian Krohgs gate is a more example of how we think there, where we choose to start a new development. Seeing there that the yield on cost on that project is 5.7% versus what currently is prime yield of 4.5%. It's an asset which should be valued around prime when it's completed. You have a good spread there, and that kind of reflects the variance in the projects we work on. We sit tight on the cash, but we still need to put some money into more defensive bucket of CapEx.
Isabel Vindenes: Next question is on valuations. Value changes were minus NOK 1.1 billion this quarter and minus NOK 200 million in Q1. What gives you confidence that today's valuation reset fully reflects current market clearing levels? What are your expectations to value adjustments going forward?
Ole Anton Gulsvik: I think we need to split maybe that answer in two. You have the external factors, and then you have the internal factors. Future value movements will be influenced by interest rates development and market yield expectations. The net yield in our portfolio is expanded with 32 basis points over the last year, which basically partly absorbed some of these effects. In the same period, we also have increased vacancy, which basically means that we can provide some upside if we manage to increase occupancy going forward. Please also note that fully let that market rent, our portfolio yield is now 5.83%. When it comes to the more internal factors, our portfolio is centrally located at transportation hubs in Oslo and Bergen. As we commented earlier, the yield expansion is mostly related to fringe area and a lesser degree centrally here in Oslo. We have quite a stable operation. Occupancy remains quite high, and as Sonja mentioned earlier, the tenant demand is quite solid still. As mentioned earlier, our contracts are more or less 100% CPI linked, which also creates some kind of offsetting factor on this. In a sum, property values will remain sensitive to interest rates development, but the portfolio has certain characteristics that should help mitigate the impact of higher yield expectations going forward.
Isabel Vindenes: Thank you. EPRA LTV increased to 53.1% following the valuation decline. If property yields were to soften another 20 to 30 basis points from here, would protecting the balance sheet take priority over maintaining the current dividend policy? Should investors now assume a structurally lower capital distribution until leverage is back below your target range?
Ole Anton Gulsvik: We already gave some flavor on this, and there are offsetting factors as mentioned earlier. According to our capital allocation framework, we target to distribute a minimum 30% of cash earnings and at the same time ensure that we have investment-grade rating. Any changes to capital allocation will be handled through normal board processes going forward.
Isabel Vindenes: Okay, thank you. There are no further questions. We'll conclude the Q&A session for today.
Sonja Horn: Okay. Thank you all for joining us today, and I think it just remains to say have a great summer, and we have to finish with a big one, two, three RO. RO. Bye