ACCENTRO Real Estate AG
Investor in Residential Real Estate and
Germany's Leading Housing Privatisation Company
January 2021
ACCENTRO AT A GLANCE
Diversified business model focusing on housing privatisation
What we
do?
Sources
of
income
Current portfolio
Privatisations and Investment Properties
- Investing in residential real estate in attractive German metro regions with focus on Berlin
- Active asset management and capex measures
- Privatisation of single units to individual investors and homeowners
- Block sales of properties to institutional investors
- Realizing of new building potential by investment properties
- Revenues from property letting
- Revenues from property sales (single unit sales, block sales)
- 2,407 residential and commercial units (as of 30 Sept. 2020) (1)
- Real estate value of EUR 530.7m mostly accounted at cost (as of 30 Sept. 2020)(1)
Services & Ventures
- Sales services to third parties, such as developers and real estate companies
- Backstop provisions for developers in course of single unit sales
- Joint ventures (ACCENTRO typically holds a minority equity stake) with developers and real estate companies to market and sell properties on single unit basis and as block sales
- Revenues from services
- Revenues from equity investments
- Exclusive sales cooperations with renowned partners like:
Notes: (1) Including buildings for own use and investment properties
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BUSINESS MODEL (1)
ACCENTRO is Germany's leading housing privatisation company
- ACCENTRO is Germany's leading housing privatisation company with a strong track record and focus on individual sales to retail investors
- Sold >15,000 units (>EUR 1.4bn transaction value) since 2009
- Consistently high EBIT of >EUR 30m p.a. since 2016 with an average gross sales margin of around 30%
- Resilient margin deriving from combination of wholesale/retail difference and capex upgrade
- Well filled privatisation pipeline with >2,000 units and EUR 460m book value (at cost, as of 30 Sept 20)
- Inventory properties with significant revenue potential of around EUR 700m over next years
- Historically focused on Berlin, ACCENTRO launched expansion to growth markets in South & East Germany, Rhine-Ruhr & Rhine-Main metro regions
- Wide product range (from affordable to upscale housing) reaching a broad customer base through a strong marketing platform
- Well established service business providing property sales and backstop services for real estate investors and property developers
- Structural growth of German residential real estate market being basis for ACCENTRO's sustainable success
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BUSINESS MODEL (2)
Diversification towards property management and service business
- Besides keeping its market leadership in housing privatisation, ACCENTRO is developing into a residential investor, landlord and service provider
- Planning further expansion of the real estate portfolio and leveraging the value through dedicated property management
- With last year's acquisition of ~3,500 units the portfolio already more than doubled to ~5,000 units
- A growing portfolio will not only increase rental income but also provide ACCENTRO with even more flexibility doing block or individual sales
- Besides maintaining its strong footprint in Berlin, the company will continue to grow its portfolio in attractive metro regions in Germany
- The recent acquisition of DIM Holding AG ("Deutsche Immobilien Management"), one of Germany's leading property managers with EUR 2.8bn AuM, has significantly strengthened ACCENTRO's property management
- Ongoing expansion of the service business by leveraging the existing service offer to real estate companies through the growing customer base and sophisticated property management of DIM
The diversification of the business model, in terms of content and region, will further improve the risk return profile of ACCENTRO
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OUTLOOK
Structural growth market
▪ | The short supply and scarcity in the housing sector is reflected in growing demand for residential real estate | ||
Market | ▪ | Significant housing shortage and structural demand is causing rising rent and price levels in the target markets | |
environment | |||
▪ | The low homeownership rate of 45% in Germany, among the lowest in Europe, offers a significant revenue potential | ||
for ACCENTRO given the EUR c.30bn private transaction market | |||
▪ Strong privatisation business in Q4/2020 (condo sales reaching record level, 280 units sold to institutional investors) | |||
Outlook | ▪ | Outlook for FY 2020: slight increase in revenues, EBIT at previous year level | |
▪ | Inventory properties with significant revenue potential of around EUR 700m over next years | ||
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KEY FIGURES
Development of a profitable portfolio of high-quality assets
Key Figures
FY 2016 | FY 2017 | FY 2018 | FY 2019 | |
Privatisation Portfolio | ||||
Units | 2,422 | 2,885 | 2,181 | 2,296(1) |
Real estate value (€m, at cost) | 216.1 | 302.2 | 343.9 | 474.6(1) |
Apartments sold(2) (units) | 976 | 992 | 940(3) | 830 |
Apartments sourced(2) (units) | 1,470 | 1,289 | 866 | 812 |
Gross margin of sales | 45.1% | 33.6% | 27.6% | 30.0% |
Key Financials | ||||
Revenues (€m) | 125.1 | 147.3 | 163.2(3) | 143.3 |
Annual rental income, (€m) | 7.9 | 8.7 | 8.5 | 10.6(1) |
EBIT (€m) | 33.9 | 36.4 | 32.9 | 39.8 |
Interest coverage ratio(4) | 3.8 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 5.4 |
LTV(5) | 33.1% | 32.8% | 38.8% | 43.1% |
Berlin
Leipzig
(1) Including Investment properties and Owner-occupied properties (2) Transactions closed in corresponding year (3) Excluding 675 units & €42.4m from deconsolidation of project Gehrensee (4) Adj. EBITDA/ net interest expenses (5) Net financial debt/ adj. total asset value
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PRIVATISATION PORTFOLIO
Diversified privatisation portfolio of intrinsic value
Inventories portfolio as of 30 September 2020 | |||||||
Location | Book value/purchase | Units | sqm | Exp. selling prices | |||
price (in mEUR) | (EUR/sqm)(1) | ||||||
Berlin | 342.6 | 1,263 | 92,000 | 4,930 | |||
Bavaria (Bayreuth, Garmisch- | 69.2 | 448 | 27,749 | 3,307 | |||
Partenkirchen, etc.) | |||||||
Berlin | |||||||
Leipzig and Greater Leipzig | 16.6 | 197 | 12,868 | 1,677 | |||
NRW (Cologne, Dusseldorf, | 16.6 | 113 | 6,698 | 3,238 | |||
Ratingen, etc.) | |||||||
Others (Hamburg, Hanover, | 15.2 | 106 | 6,938 | 2,860 | |||
Potsdam, Rostock, etc.) | |||||||
Total | 460.2 | 2,127 | 146,253 | 4,160 |
Leipzig
(1) Expected selling prices excl. sales, marketing and construction costs
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FINANCING - FUNDING STRUCTURE
Increasing maturity and flexibility at limited costs
Funding strategy
- Corporate bond over EUR 250m with a coupon of 3.625% successfully placed in Q1 2020 and full replacement of the EUR 100m Bond 2018/2021
- Balanced mix of secured and unsecured financing and manageable financing risk due to low LTV
Financial liabilities | Nominal volume | Average interest | Average loan |
(EUR '000) | rate (%) | maturity (years) | |
Loan debt | 212,509 | 2.02 | 2.70 |
Real estate portfolio | |||
Bond | 250,000 | 3.625 | 2.62 |
(2020/2023) | |||
Sum total | 457,164 | 2.89 | 2.66 |
Funding structure as of 30 September 2020
EUR 212m
EUR 250m
Loan debt real estate portfolio | unsecured bond | |
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Back-up
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FINANCIALS - INCOME STATEMENT - 2019 and 9M 2020
Income statement shows high profitability of business model
Income statement (in EUR '000) | 2018 | 2019 | in % | 9M 2019 | 9M 2020 | in % | Sources of Income |
Revenues from sales of inventory property | 151,589 | 129,503 | -14.6% | 63,840 | 55,695 | -12.8% | Revenue from property |
sales | |||||||
Expenses for sales of inventory property | -118,770 | -99,661 | -16.1% | -49,654 | -45,699 | -8.0% | |
Capital gains from inventory property | 32,820 | 29,841 | -8.1% | 14,186 | 9,996 | -29.5% | Net income from property |
Net rental income | 6,130 | 6,518 | 6.3% | 5,021 | 3,867 | -23.0% | |
letting | |||||||
Net service income | 2,282 | 2,363 | 3.6% | 1,571 | 623 | -60.3% | Net income from services |
Net income from companies accounted for | 2 | 1,244 | 62,111% | 1,258 | 0 | - | Return from equity |
using the equity method | investments | ||||||
Other operating income | 1,663 | 1,207 | -27.4% | 710 | 449 | -36.8% | |
Gain or loss on fair value adjustments of | 0 | 11,399 | - | 11,399 | 2,010 | - | Reclassification |
investment properties | Investment Properties | ||||||
Interim result | 42.896 | 52,572 | 22.6% | 34,145 | 16,945 | -50.4% | |
Total payroll and benefit costs | -4,613 | -5,835 | 26.5% | -4,031 | -6,091 | 51.1% | |
Depreciation and amortisation of | |||||||
intangible assets and property, plant and | -349 | -731 | 109.5% | -537 | -618 | 15.1% | |
equipment | |||||||
Impairment of accounts receivable | -205 | -123 | -40.2% | 0 | -124 | - |
Other operating expenses | -5,131 | -6,079 | 18.5% | -3,619 | -4,516 | 24.8% | |||
EBIT | 32,598 | 39,804 | 22.1% | 25,958 | 5,596 | -78.4% | |||
Return from other equity | |||||||||
Other income from investments | 36 | 36 | 0.0% | 27 | 26 | 0.0% | investments | ||
Net interest income | -8,924 | -7,353 | -17.6% | -6,776 | -13,638 | - | |||
EBT | 23,710 | 32,488 | 37.0% | 19,209 | -8,016 | - | |||
Income taxes | -5,675 | -6,189 | 9.1% | -6,029 | -3,796 | 37.0% | |||
Consolidated income | 18,035 | 26,299 | 45.8% | 13,180 | -11,812 | - | |||
Total gross margin (revenues basis) in % | 25.4% | 27.9% | 9.7% | 28.3% | 22.2% | - | |||
Gross margin from sales (cost basis) in % | 27.6% | 29.9% | 8.4% | 28.6% | 21.9% | - | |||
Net income margin | 11.2% | 18.4% | 63.7% | 18.0% | -18.1% | - | |||
Earnings per share | 0.56 | 0.81 | 43.7% | 0.41 | -0.37 | - | |||
Notes
- 9M 2020 results extraordinarily burdened by EUR 6.5m one-off effects mainly related to bond issue and change of management board
- Operating interim result of EUR 16.9m is a little bit lower as in the comparable period due to temporarily lower sales margins
- Gross margin from sales fell to 21.9% due to higher share of sales via cooperation partners and higher one-time marketing costs
- Increase of total payroll and benefit costs is driven by staff growth and change of the management board
- Increase of net interest expenses include one-off effects from the repayment of the old bond in the amount of EUR 4.1m
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FINANCIALS - BALANCE SHEET - FY 2019 and 9M 2020
Financial position with large hidden reserves
Financial position (in EUR '000) | FY 2019 | 9M 2020 | in % |
Goodwill | 17,776 | 17,776 | 0.0% |
Owner occupied properties and buildings | 24,083 | 24,171 | 0.4% |
Investment Property | 34,452 | 46,526 | 35.0% |
Non-current trade receivables and other receivables and | 24,029 | 28,004 | 16.5% |
other assets | |||
Other non-current assets | 2,168 | 2,972 | 37.1% |
Total non-current assets | 102,508 | 119,449 | 16.5% |
Inventory properties | 416,573 | 460,158 | 10,5% |
Accounts receivable and other assets | 37,510 | 108,274 | 188.7% |
Cash and cash equivalents | 24,167 | 36,450 | 50.8% |
Total current assets | 478,250 | 604,882 | 26.5% |
Total assets | 580,757 | 724,331 | 24.7% |
Subscribed capital | 32,438 | 32,438 | 0.0% |
Additional paid-in capital | 78,684 | 79,606 | 1.2% |
Retained earnings | 107,561 | 95,602 | -11.1% |
Attributable to non-controlling companies | 2,128 | 2,482 | 16.7% |
Total equity | 220,811 | 210,128 | -4.8% |
Financial liabilities and bond | 213,709 | 338,177 | 58.2% |
Other non-current liabilities | 2,210 | 5,050 | 128.5% |
Total non-current liabilities | 215,919 | 343,227 | 59.0% |
Financial liabilities and bond | 103,931 | 126,109 | 21.3% |
Other short-term payables | 40,097 | 44,866 | 11.9% |
Total current liabilities | 144,028 | 170,975 | 18.7% |
Total current and non-current liabilities | 359,947 | 514,202 | 42.9% |
Total assets | 580,757 | 724,331 | 24.7% |
LTV | 43.1% | 51.3% | - |
Equity ratio | 38.0% | 29.0% | - |
Notes
- Successful placement of EUR 250m bond in Q1 2020 to accelerate the ongoing growth
- Real estate assets in inventories further increased by continuous growth
- Property valuation by external appraisers confirms hidden reserves of EUR 124m in the inventory portfolio as of 30 September 2020
- Increase of other current assets by a loan granted in the amount of EUR 55m for cash management reasons
- Increase of the LTV ratio due successful placement of EUR 250m bond and replacement of the EUR 100m old bond
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ACCENTRO SHARE
Shareholders and share price performance
Key share information | Share price performance compared to German indexes | |||||
Listing | Frankfurt am Main | |||||
Segment | Prime Standard | |||||
WKN | A0KFKB | |||||
ISIN | DE000A0KFKB3 | |||||
Shares outstanding | 32,437,934 | |||||
Market capitalisation (as of 31.12.2020) | EUR 288.7m | |||||
Share Price (as of 31.12.2020) | EUR 8.90 | |||||
Shareholder structure | ||||||
Freefloat 12.1%
ADLER Real Estate AG 4.8%
Brookline Real Estate S.à.r.l. 83.1% | (Souce: XETRA) |
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MAJOR SHAREHOLDER
Brookline Real Estate is fully committed to ACCENTRO's path of growth
About ACCENTRO's major shareholder
▪ Brookline Real Estate S.à.r.l. ("Brookline Real Estate") is a Luxembourg- |
based holding company controlled by Brookline Capital LP, and externally |
advised by Vestigo Capital Advisors LLP ("Vestigo Capital"). |
▪ Vestigo Capital is an FCA regulated investment firm headquartered in |
London, UK, which provides advice to funds and other investment |
vehicles with cumulative AUM in excess of USD 350m. |
Structure
Investment Advisor
Vestigo Capital
Brookline Capital LP
▪ Vestigo Capital is led by Natig Ganiyev, a private equity investor, whose |
current portfolio primarily includes investments in real estate, renewable |
energy, and hospitality sectors. |
▪ Natig Ganiyev serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of ACCENTRO |
Real Estate AG and is a member of the Board of Directors of Malta |
Montenegro Wind Power JV Limited. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard |
Business School. |
▪ Brookline Capital LP is established to invest in real estate companies and |
assets, with a primarily focus on Germany. Its main holding is ACCENTRO |
Real Estate AG, which is the central piece of its investment strategy to |
pursue compelling opportunities in the property market. |
Brookline Real Estate
▪ 83% of shares
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ACCENTRO SHARE
Research Coverage
Analyst | Institution | Recommendation | Target | Date |
Dr Adam Jakubowski | SMC-Research | Buy | 15.00 EUR | 13.01.2021 |
Philipp Kaiser | Warburg Research | Buy | 14.75 EUR | 08.01.2021 |
Mariya Lazarova, Robel Tesfeom | FMR Frankfurt Main Research AG | Buy | 12.50 EUR | 05.01.2021 |
Klaus Soer, Jannik Lucas | Quirin Privatbank | Buy | 12.55 EUR | 27.11.2020 |
Bérénice Lacroix | Kepler Cheuvreux | Hold | 10.00 EUR | 01.06.2020 |
Manuel Martin | ODDO BHF | Hold | 8.00 EUR | 03.04.2020 |
Andre Remke | Baader Helvea Equity Research | Buy | 10.00 EUR | 18.12.2019 |
Average | 11.83 EUR |
Selected Recommendations
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DISCLAIMER
This document is not a securities prospectus, and the information contained therein does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, securities of ACCENTRO in the Federal Republic of Germany or in any other country, specifically not if such an offer or solicitation is prohibited or not approved.
This document was prepared exclusively by ACCENTRO Real Estate AG "ACCENTRO") solely for informational purposes and has not been independently verified and no representation or warranty, express or
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