Savills plc (SVLPF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

SA Transcripts 161.81K Followers Follow Savills plc ( SVLPF ) Q2 2026 Earnings Call August 13, 2026 4:00 AM EDT Company Participants Simon James Shaw - Group Chief Executive, Member of Group Executive Board & Executive Director Nick Sanderson - Group CFO, Member of Group Executive Board & Director Conference Call Participants Christopher Millington - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division Zachary Gauge - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division James Fletcher - Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, Research Division Susie Bell Presentation Simon James Shaw Group Chief Executive, Member of Group Executive Board & Executive Director Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Margaret Street, and thank you for joining us this morning despite the hot central line for some people. My name is Simon Shaw, CEO; and I'm joined by Nick Sanderson, our Group Chief Financial Officer. And today, I'm actually delighted to be reporting on a very strong first half for Savills, and also to really recognize the fact that we're at an inflection point, a genuine inflection point for this business, having completed the Eastdil Secured Savills transaction 2 weeks ago. So we'll probably spend a bit of time on both of those today. Let's change the slides. The format for today is pretty standard. I'll take you through the highlights of our performance during the first half. Nick will take you through the financial details. And I also want to spend a little time looking at the context for our performance, which you'll see in a moment, which is very important. I'll then remind you of the strategy which we talked about back in about March and together with some of the steps we've taken both in business development stand-alone Savills, but also with Eastdil Secured Savills. And then we'll try and do a bit of crystal ball gazing for 2026 as a whole. So let's crack