Belvoir Group beats forecasts as buoyant house sales drive revenues higher
House sales income rose by 12% and financial services by 13%
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Belvoir Group PLC operates a nationwide property franchise group with 487 offices across seven brands specialising in residential lettings, property management, residential sales and property-related financial services. With its central office in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the group manages 75,000 properties and reported record revenues of £33.7m in 2022 marking Belvoir's 26th year of unbroken profit growth.
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House sales income rose by 12% and financial services by 13%
Belvoir has seen a profits uplift of 100% from its two acquired financial services businesses
All staff will have salary sacrifices reimbursed, furlough money will be repaid and the missed 2019 dividend reinstated
Franchisees across all of the group's networks have embraced the strategy, seeing the acquisition of a local business as a means of significant growth with many of them doubling the size of their business overnight
Following the share sale, Mike Goddard will be left with 203,683 Belvoir ordinary shares, representing 0.6% of Belvoir's issued share capital
The group's lettings business scarcely missed a beat during the first half of 2020 with network lettings revenue comparable with 2019, despite the impact of the coronavirus
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Since mid-May, the group said there has also been a surge of activity due to pent-up demand
Under the agreement, Belvoir said the vast majority of the building society's estate agency and lettings activity will transfer over to the company
The overall April performance for the group was significantly stronger than had been anticipated.
A range of possible downside outcomes for the rest of the calendar year and 2021 have been modelled
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The lettings agency said profits in 2019 will be 'comfortably ahead' of expectations after revenues surged ahead
Lovelles is being acquired for £2mln in cash, with the acquisition to be earnings accretive in 2020
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A new eight-year agreement with Dacres, a 20-office estate agency in Yorkshire, could see Belvoir increase its current four advisers in the area to 10 over the next two years
Founder and former chairman Mike Goddard currently owns 12.6% of the total in issue
Revenues in the period were boosted by a significant increase in takings from the group's financial services arm following several mortgage broker acquisitions
The broker initiated coverage of the lettings group on Wednesday with a target price of 190p, a 79% premium on the current value of the stock
“We have seen positive results both from our property franchise and our financial services networks, and are confident that the group is well positioned to take advantage of the opportunities arising from a more challenging market”