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Growthpoint fiscal 2026, funds from operations, or FFO, rose slightly to AUD 23.5 cents per security. Distributions AUD 18.4 cps were up 1% year on year, a 78% payout. Management expects FFO to land between AUD 22.6 cents-AUD 23.5 cents in fiscal 2027 and distributions to stay flat.

Growthpoint Properties Australia was born out of the debt-stricken Orchard Industrial Property Fund following the global financial crisis. Starting as a pure-play industrial property trust, Growthpoint quickly expanded into the office sector. Today, roughly two-thirds of the property book is office, and one-third industrial. Growthpoint’s offices are mostly A-grade buildings located outside the central business districts. While some sites have locked in long leases with government or reputable tenants, we believe their city fringe locations are a major drawback. As office tenants seek more premium, better-located buildings, we expect Growthpoint’s office occupancy to remain below the prepandemic average of 97% midcycle. Lease incentives offered to tenants are likely to persist at a higher level compared with the historical average.

Growthpoint Properties Australia was born out of the debt-stricken Orchard Industrial Property Fund following the global financial crisis. Starting as a pure-play industrial property trust, Growthpoint quickly expanded into the office sector. Today, roughly two-thirds of the property book is office, and one-third industrial. Growthpoint’s offices are mostly A-grade buildings located outside the central business districts. While some sites have locked in long leases with government or reputable tenants, we believe their city fringe locations are a major drawback. As office tenants seek more premium, better-located buildings, we expect Growthpoint’s office occupancy to remain below the prepandemic average of 97% midcycle. Lease incentives offered to tenants are likely to persist at a higher level compared with the historical average.

Growthpoint said it's on track for a record year of office leasing, with executed and agreed leases of over 60,000 square meters for the fiscal year to date. Office occupancy improved to 95%, from 94% in December 2025 and 92% in June 2025.

Growthpoint increased funds from operations by 3% year on year to AUD 12.2 cents per security in the first half. With solid leasing activity in the half, management updated the FFO guidance range to AUD 23.0-AUD 23.6 cps, which is a 1% lift in the lower bound.

Growthpoint Properties Australia was born out of the debt-stricken Orchard Industrial Property Fund following the global financial crisis. Starting as a pure-play industrial property trust, Growthpoint quickly expanded into the office sector. Today, roughly two-thirds of the property book is office, and one-third industrial. Growthpoint’s offices are mostly A-grade buildings located outside the central business districts. While some sites have locked in long leases with government or reputable tenants, we believe their city fringe locations are a major drawback. As office tenants seek more premium, better-located buildings, we expect Growthpoint’s office occupancy to remain below the prepandemic average of 97% midcycle. Lease incentives offered to tenants are likely to persist at a higher level compared with the historical average.

Since we initiated coverage in September 2025, Growthpoint Properties Australia's security price has fallen by over 5%. Growthpoint is now trading 20% below its net tangible assets of AUD 3.09 per security as of June 30, 2025.

We initiate coverage on Growthpoint Properties Australia, a diversified REIT with two-thirds of its portfolio in office and the rest industrial. Growthpoint's offices are mostly located on city fringes.

Growthpoint Properties Australia was born out of the debt-stricken Orchard Industrial Property Fund following the global financial crisis. Starting as a pure-play industrial property trust, Growthpoint quickly expanded into the office sector. Today, roughly two-thirds of the property book is office, and one-third industrial. Growthpoint’s offices are mostly A-grade buildings located outside the central business districts. While some sites have locked in long leases with government or reputable tenants, we believe their city fringe locations are a major drawback. As office tenants seek more premium, better-located buildings, we expect Growthpoint’s office occupancy to remain below the prepandemic average of 97% midcycle. Lease incentives offered to tenants are likely to persist at a higher level compared with the historical average.

As foreshadowed in our research report published on June 24, 2024, we cease coverage on Growthpoint Properties Australia. We provide analyst research and ratings on more than 1,600 companies globally and periodically adjust our coverage according to client demand, investor interest, and staffing.

We will discontinue analyst coverage of no-moat Growthpoint on or about July 15. Accordingly, we have placed Growthpoint under review. We provide analyst research and ratings on over 1,500 companies globally and periodically adjust our coverage according to investor interest and staffing.

Growthpoint Properties Australia generates about two thirds of its rental income from office property and one third from industrial property. Its market capitalization is small, a fraction the size of heavyweights Dexus and GPT. The REIT's property portfolio is mainly composed of smaller assets in secondary locations, but long leases and a combination of luck and savvy investment decisions allowed it to sidestep major impacts from the pandemic. About 20% of the office portfolio is located in Melbourne's central business district fringe or suburbs. The group’s major recent office development project, Botanicca 3, is in Melbourne’s Richmond and was completed in early 2020, initially with no tenants. The building was predominantly leased over the course of 2021 via agreements with major tenant Bunnings. Queensland and New South Wales each make up about one fourth of the portfolio each, mostly fringe or non-CBD locations such as Sydney’s Parramatta. While planners want to decentralize Sydney, it remains to be seen how successful this will be. About half of Growthpoint’s industrial portfolio is composed of four distribution centers leased to Woolworths. Growthpoint paid to develop one of these sites, but Woolworths guaranteed a return of 6.75% on the development costs. In return, Growthpoint agreed to an early surrender of Woolworth’s lease on another site at Broadmeadows. This was a savvy move as it allowed Growthpoint to lock Woolworths in, and sell the vacant Broadmeadows site at a time when demand for industrial property remained solid. Woolworths has a significant lease expiry in fiscal 2026. However, Growthpoint management noted that Woolworths typically takes four to five years to plan a large move, and there was no evidence of such a move yet. We think this is reasonable, and our base case is that Woolworths renews.

Growthpoint Properties Australia generates about two thirds of its rental income from office property and one third from industrial property. Its market capitalization is small, a fraction the size of heavyweights Dexus and GPT. The REIT's property portfolio is mainly composed of smaller assets in secondary locations, but long leases and a combination of luck and savvy investment decisions allowed it to sidestep major impacts from the pandemic. About 20% of the office portfolio is located in Melbourne's central business district fringe or suburbs. The group’s major recent office development project, Botanicca 3, is in Melbourne’s Richmond and was completed in early 2020, initially with no tenants. The building was predominantly leased over the course of 2021 via agreements with major tenant Bunnings. Queensland and New South Wales each make up about one fourth of the portfolio each, mostly fringe or non-CBD locations such as Sydney’s Parramatta. While planners want to decentralize Sydney, it remains to be seen how successful this will be. About half of Growthpoint’s industrial portfolio is composed of four distribution centers leased to Woolworths. Growthpoint paid to develop one of these sites, but Woolworths guaranteed a return of 6.75% on the development costs. In return, Growthpoint agreed to an early surrender of Woolworth’s lease on another site at Broadmeadows. This was a savvy move as it allowed Growthpoint to lock Woolworths in, and sell the vacant Broadmeadows site at a time when demand for industrial property remained solid. Woolworths has a significant lease expiry in fiscal 2026. However, Growthpoint management noted that Woolworths typically takes four to five years to plan a large move, and there was no evidence of such a move yet. We think this is reasonable, and our base case is that Woolworths renews.

Growthpoint’s property portfolio is performing robustly in the near term. But as existing fixed-rate debt expires, rising debt costs are weighing on Growthpoint’s earnings, probably until 2027 when most hedges will have expired. Growthpoint’s cost of debt was 4.7% for the first half of fiscal 2024, still below our estimated long-term cost of debt of 6.5%. Gearing of 40.5% is high. An interest cover of 2.9 times doesn’t impress, but it is comfortably above the 1.6 times covenant minimum. However, significantly higher debt costs and a decrease in property income could see Growthpoint flirting with covenants.

The federal government’s migration review was released on Dec. 11 and it suggests high population growth remains the status quo. The review tinkers with various visa rules, but contains no major reduction in migrant numbers, suggesting high migration will persist, relative to precoronavirus levels and versus other developed countries.

Growthpoint Properties Australia generates about two thirds of its rental income from office property and one third from industrial property. Its market capitalization is small, a fraction the size of heavyweights Dexus and GPT. The REIT's property portfolio is mainly composed of smaller assets in secondary locations, but long leases and a combination of luck and savvy investment decisions allowed it to sidestep major impacts from the pandemic. About 20% of the office portfolio is located in Melbourne's central business district fringe or suburbs. The group’s major recent office development project, Botanicca 3, is in Melbourne’s Richmond and was completed in early 2020, initially with no tenants. The building was predominantly leased over the course of 2021 via agreements with major tenant Bunnings. Queensland and New South Wales each make up about one fourth of the portfolio each, mostly fringe or non-CBD locations such as Sydney’s Parramatta and Olympic Park. While planners want to decentralize Sydney, it remains to be seen how successful this will be. About half of Growthpoint’s industrial portfolio is composed of four distribution centers leased to Woolworths. Growthpoint paid to develop one of these sites, but Woolworths guaranteed a return of 6.75% on the development costs. In return, Growthpoint agreed to an early surrender of Woolworth’s lease on another site at Broadmeadows. This was a savvy move as it allowed Growthpoint to sell the vacant Broadmeadows site at a time when demand for industrial property remained solid. Woolworths has a significant lease expiry in fiscal 2026. However, Growthpoint management noted that Woolworths typically takes four to five years to plan a large move, and there was no evidence of such a move yet. We think this is reasonable, and our base case is that Woolworths renews.

Our Growthpoint note, published Aug. 18, 2023, showed old forecasts from April 2023 that weren’t updated for fiscal 2023 results. This note corrects that error, and we’ve also amended some midcycle forecasts.

Growthpoint Properties Australia generates about two thirds of its rental income from office property and one third from industrial property. Its market capitalization is small, a fraction the size of heavyweights Dexus and GPT. The REIT's property portfolio is mainly composed of smaller assets in secondary locations, but long leases and a combination of luck and savvy investment decisions allowed it to sidestep major impacts from the pandemic. About 20% of the office portfolio is located in Melbourne's central business district fringe or suburbs. The group’s major recent office development project, Botanicca 3, is in Melbourne’s Richmond and was completed in early 2020, initially with no tenants. The building was predominantly leased over the course of 2021 via agreements with major tenant Bunnings. Queensland and New South Wales each make up about one fourth of the portfolio each, mostly fringe or non-CBD locations such as Sydney’s Parramatta and Olympic Park. While planners want to decentralize Sydney, it remains to be seen how successful this will be. About half of Growthpoint’s industrial portfolio is composed of four distribution centers leased to Woolworths. Growthpoint paid to develop one of these sites, but Woolworths guaranteed a return of 6.75% on the development costs. In return, Growthpoint agreed to an early surrender of Woolworth’s lease on another site at Broadmeadows. This was a savvy move as it allowed Growthpoint to sell the vacant Broadmeadows site at a time when demand for industrial property remained solid. Woolworths has a significant lease expiry in fiscal 2026. However, Growthpoint management noted that Woolworths typically takes four to five years to plan a large move, and there was no evidence of such a move yet. We think this is reasonable, and our base case is that Woolworths renews.

No-moat Growthpoint Properties Australia’s fiscal 2023 result exceeded our expectations, though it was helped by income being pulled forward from future periods. Fiscal 2023 included one-off revenue from a large tenant ending a lease early, with almost two years of remaining rent paid out and recognized in fiscal 2023 but a corresponding vacancy in fiscal 2024 that needs to be filled. Funds from operations was AUD 26.8 cents per security (3% below fiscal 2022), and distributions totaled AUD 21.4 cps (up 3% on fiscal 2022). Guidance for fiscal 2024 is for FFO of AUD 22.5-AUD 23.1 cps and distributions totaling AUD 19.3 cps.

Growthpoint Properties Australia generates about two thirds of its rental income from office property and one third from industrial property. Its market capitalisation is small, a fraction the size of heavyweights Dexus and GPT. The REIT's property portfolio is mainly composed of smaller assets in secondary locations, but long leases and a combination of luck and savvy investment decisions allowed it to sidestep major impacts from the pandemic. About 20% of the office portfolio is located in Melbourne's central business district fringe or suburbs. The group’s major recent office development project, Botanicca 3, is in Melbourne’s Richmond and was completed in early 2020, initially with no tenants. The building was predominantly leased over the course of 2021 via agreements with major tenant Bunnings. Queensland and New South Wales each make up about one fourth of the portfolio each, mostly fringe or non-CBD locations such as Sydney’s Parramatta and Olympic Park. While planners want to decentralise Sydney, it remains to be seen how successful this will be. About half of Growthpoint’s industrial portfolio is composed of four distribution centres leased to Woolworths. Growthpoint paid to develop one of these sites, but Woolworths guaranteed a return of 6.75% on the development costs. In return, Growthpoint agreed to an early surrender of Woolworth’s lease on another site at Broadmeadows. This was a savvy move as it allowed Growthpoint to sell the vacant Broadmeadows site at a time when demand for industrial property remained solid. Woolworths has a significant lease expiry in fiscal 2026. However, Growthpoint management noted that Woolworths typically takes four to five years to plan a large move, and there was no evidence of such a move yet. We think this is reasonable, and our base case is that Woolworths renews.