Shriram Properties Limited (SHRIRAMPPS.NS) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
November 12, 2025
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Operator
operatorLadies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Q2 and H1 FY '26 Earnings Conference Call hosted by Shriram Properties Limited. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Murali, Chairman and Managing Director from Shriram Properties. Thank you, and over to you, sir.
Murali Malayappan
executiveThank you. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. We are pleased to share that Q2 has been yet another encouraging quarter for Shriram Properties with strong operational performance and sequential growth across key metrics. Despite temporary headwinds on the financial side due to regulatory transitions in Bangalore, our fundamentals remain robust, and we are confident of delivering a strong second half and achieving our full year goals. During the quarter, we achieved sales volumes of about 1.1 million square feet, up 39% quarter-on-quarter, valued at INR 685 crores, a growth of 58% sequentially. Cumulatively, for the first half sales stood at about 2 million square feet was INR 1,126 crores, reflecting a 19% year-on-year increase. In terms of business development, FY '26 has been a productive year so far. We added 5 new projects with an aggregate development potential of 2.3 million square feet and a GDP of INR 2,350 crores. We are also at advanced stages of finalizing additional projects with over 6 million square feet of potential in the second half, providing healthy visibility for growth ahead. Looking forward with multiple launches lined up and regulatory issues behind us, we expect a strong rebound in H2, driven by project completions and revenue recognition. Our priorities remain on accelerating execution, driving cash flow generation and unlocking value from our growth portfolio. With that, let me now hand it over to Mr. Ravindra Pandey, CFO, to take you through the financial details.
Ravindra Pandey
executiveThank you, sir. Good evening, everyone. My name is Ravindra Pandey. I'm the CFO of the Shriram Properties. Thank you for taking time to join us today as we present the performance highlights for Q3 FY '26. We have uploaded the presentation on the website of the company and the stock exchanges, and I hope you all have access to it. Over the next 2 minutes, I will walk you through the operational and financial performance of the company for the quarter gone by and our strategic priorities and growth road map for H2 FY '26. I'll be referring to the slides of the presentation what we have uploaded. I'm referring to the Slide #2. So before we move to the performance section, a quick overview of Shriram Properties, especially for those who have joined the call for the first time. We have leadership and trust with against across Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Pune. Our delivery record stands at 48 completed projects and over 29 million delivered backed by consistent execution standards. Customer trust continues to be our core strength, over 31,000 happy customers with nearly 1/4 of our sales driven by referrals. Financially, we remain developer in the sector with a debt equity of 0.3x and CS A- positive rating, reaffirming our governance and financial prudence. In essence, Shriram Properties is a credible mid-market and mid-premium residential bank built on legacy driven by performance and trusted by thousands. Moving to the Slide #4 of the presentation. Q2 FY '26 was one of the challenging quarters as the regional industry witnessed once in a lifetime event involving division of BMP, the old municipal corporation effective 2nd of September 2025. This transition nearly prized real estate success in approvals, completion certificates and issue of parks that are mandatory for unit registration ahead of handover and recognition. The single biggest factor shaped the performance of our regional players, making the quarter as one of the most difficult quarters in recent times. Viewed in this context, SCL's performance is satisfactory. We delivered strong operational KPIs, robust Y-o-Y growth in financial performance, but our absolute numbers were muted, thus assessing margins and profitability for the quarter. With stabilizing the normalcy returning from end of October. Outlook for us looks robust. Group corporations have started functioning. Approvals have started moving. OCC files started getting cleared. ECAA issues resumed. Many of our pending OCs have also started flowing out. In view of the above, we expect a stronger hand, higher revenue recognition, a stronger pipeline of launches, better operating leverage, and we remain confident of reporting last ground in FY '23. Slide #5 deferred by us in Q2. Over 650 units 5 projects with aggregating revenue income potential of INR 420 crores got deferred. We expect the units to be handed over to the customers over time during the second half as the OCA here on. Slide #7 is our KPI snapshot. Let me now attempt to highlight our operational and financial performance in detail. Q2 had a very strong quarter operationally. We achieved 1.14 million square feet of sales volume, which is 39% higher on Q-o-Q basis and 10% higher on Y-o-Y basis. This reflects the excellent response to our recent launches. Sales value stood at INR 685 crores, registering a 55% Q-o-Q increase and 21% year-on-year growth. This demonstrates both healthy absorption and firm pricing in our micro markets. Collections improved to INR 388 crores, growing 15% Q-o-Q and 7% Y-o-Y. This is satisfactory considering delay in OCC and registrations. We handed over 764 units in Q2, up 3% Q-o-Q and up 3% Y-o-Y. Nearly 56% of these handovers were in JV projects, which strengthened execution momentum, although had limited impact on the top line. Overall, Q2 reflected strong operational resilience and customer confidence even in a disrupted regulatory environment. Looking at the first half of the year, H1 sales volume was 1.96 million square feet, up 13% year-on-year, showing sustained market traction. Also, it reflects 40% of our annual sales target. H1 sales value reached INR 1,126 crores, which is a solid 19% Y-o-Y growth, driven by strong launch performance and consistent absorption. H1 collections were at INR 725 crores, growing 6% Y-o-Y. H1 hand stood at 1,504 units, representing 34% Y-o-Y increase. With slowing now and issuance resuming post October, we expect significantly higher handovers and robust revenue recognition in -- despite regulatory disruptions, we delivered a satisfactory financial performance. Revenue stood at INR 229 crores, reflecting 8% Y-o-Y increase. Gross profit at INR 61 crores, growing 34% Y-o-Y with gross margins remaining healthy and consistent at over 30% EBITDA for the quarter was INR 23 crores despite higher overhead absorption due to deferred revenue recognition. And finally, PAT for the quarter was INR 9 crores, a meaningful improvement over last year when we had reported loss. I want to highlight that these Y-o-Y growth numbers reflect the lower base of the previous year. Our absolute revenues and absolute for the quarter remain modest full -- had the increase and CAT processed on time, our Q2 top line and profitability would have been significantly higher. But since these are only deferment of revenue, we remain confident of delivering target on a full year basis. Overall, the operational engine has remained strong. Margins are stable and the financial performance reflects resilience in the respective quarter. Slide #9. This slide contains a summary of our discussion in slides. Slide #10, business development highlights. On the BD side, we have added high-quality projects in our pipeline during H1 FY '26, having potential to develop 2.3 million square feet with a GDV of INR 2,350 crores. Of this, 3 projects have been concluded during October '25 alone and highlight the momentum buildup on the back of aggressive efforts taken during this year. Across all 5 additions, the common thread is clear, effective location, capital efficiency structure, high velocity micro market and strong margin potential. But what is even more potential is what lies ahead. We are on track to add another 5, 6 new projects with over 6 million square feet of development potential over the next few months. We have visibility on these new additions as these projects are already in advanced stage of diligence closure and documentation. Apart from this, our funnel with 20-plus million square feet under active evaluation across Bangalore, Chennai and Pune. We are therefore confident of moving ahead with our targeted pipeline addition over next 12 to 18 months. Slide #11, project pipeline and business development. This slide highlights the status of our current project pipeline, both ongoing and upcoming projects. The upcoming projects alone represent a GDP of over INR 11,400 crores. This ownership well diversified between owned JDA, JV and. We are clearly on track to nearly doubling our upcoming pipeline within the next 18 to 24 months, maintaining capital discipline while deepening our presence in high velocity micro market. Slide #12 launch highlights. We launched 3 projects during the first half and all have delivered solid traction. Code Superstar launched in May with a projected area of 0.89 million square feet and 0.44 million square feet opened in Phase 1. We have already sold 48%. Codan at Electronic City in Bangalore launched in July, 0.5 million square feet launched and we have achieved an impressive 80% sell-through reflecting a strong demand in this corridor. Efield Phase 2 in Kolkata launched in September. Out of 0.28 million square feet leased, we have already sold 43%, showing healthy momentum in the Kolkata region as well. Across markets, the response has been robust. We are that launch sentiment and demand remain very strong. Slide #13 [indiscernible] launch. Looking ahead, we have a high confidence launch lineup of 2.7 million square feet with GDV of nearly INR 2,200 crores across Bangalore, Chennai and Tak. All these launches are well, micro market validated and backed by strong launch momentum. This position us a very strong H2 in terms of sales and collection. Slide #14, this slide highlights our handover and income outlook. We have a very strong and highly visible set of projects ready for handover during H2. With [indiscernible] and starting, we will be handling over nearly 2,800 units during 2.5-plus million started with over INR 1,000 crores of revenue recognition potential. We remain confident of reaching our handover target of 3,000 to 3,500 units for the full year. This is one of the most robust recognition pipeline we have had in the recent years. In summary, the pipeline is ready, execution engine is aligned and H2 is positioned for a robust growth. Slide #15, project completion outlook. This slide shows the status of projects which are ready -- getting ready for the delivery during the year. Slide #16. This is the glimpse of awards we received during the year. Slide #18, financial highlights. Let me now shift gears to highlight our financial performance and outlook. We already discussed these points in our earlier slides. To recap, Q2 was impacted by the GDA transition and resultant deferred handover and deferred revenue recognition across multiple completed projects. Our Y-o-Y growth trend has been strong due to lower base of last year, but absolute revenue and earnings were muted, reflecting deferred revenue recognition. This is slowly temping, and we are confident of recouping last during H2 FY '22. The good news is that the situation is already normalizing. OCs have now been received in all but one project and issuance process has begun. With project completions on track and the regulatory environment is stabilizing, we have a strong revenue recognition outlook for H2 and deferred income from H1. Slide #19, financial highlight. Let me summarize the financials. Q2 operating revenues have grown 49% Y-o-Y to INR 20.5 crores, while total revenues has grown 48% Y-o-Y to INR 229 crores. The strong growth trends reflect lower base of last year when we suffered an initial Production of Bangalore last year. Q2 EBITDA remained healthy at INR 23.3 crores, up 73% and our interest charges has dropped by 19% Y-o-Y to INR 22 crores. Consequently, we recorded net profit of INR 8.6 crores against negative net profit last year. The muted quarterly earnings is solely on account of reduced revenue as our gross margins have remained. However, on a half year basis, our performance is satisfactory. H1 operating revenue grew 32% Y-o-Y to INR 475 crores and total revenue grew 34%. H1 gross profit is INR 143 crores, up 53% Y-o-Y. Gross margin is stable at 32%, reflecting a strong underlying project profitability. Other expenses were slightly higher because of brand building efforts and nonrecurring onetime settlement cost associated with Ashiana in Kolkata as well as new launches during the first half. H1 EBITDA is around INR 70 crores, broadly in line with last year. The temporary softness in absolute profit is entirely due to deferred revenue recognition from Finance costs lower by 18% Y-o-Y. H1 PAT stood at INR 29 crores compared to INR 17 crores in last year H1. With projects now reaching [indiscernible] overseas, we expect significantly stronger revenue and profit momentum in H2 as the deferred income will start. Slide #20. This slide summarizes our discussion in previous slides. Slide #21, consolidated cash flows. On cash flow, we have maintained strong discipline through a disruptive quarter. Operating inflows improved year-on-year with INR 264 crores collected in Q2 and INR 485 crores in H1 despite the delays in initiation. As handover picks up in H2, this number will strengthen further. Construction and launch spending continued as planned, and we still delivered a positive operating cash flow of INR 52 crores in Q2. We also generated INR 99 crores of net free cash flows in Q2 even after investing INR 68 crores into new projects. For H1, we have invested INR 143 crores into new acquisitions, fully aligned with our pipeline expansion strategy. Our closing cash balances stand at INR 286 crores, giving us ample liquidity to support ongoing construction and capture opportunities as the market stab. Overall, cash flow remains healthy, well managed and positioned to accelerate as milestone collections strength. Slide #22, debt profile. Our balance sheet continues to remain very strong. Net debt stands at INR 407 crores, and our net debt to equity is 0.29x, well within our comfort range and healthier than last year. Our cost of debt has distinctly reduced to 11.1%. We continue to enjoy A- positive outlook rating from CRISIL, reaffirming our credit strength. Overall, we have a robust balance sheet, ample funding capacity and the strength to support our growth pipeline confidently. Slide #24, business outlook. With the new GBA organization stabilizing and approvals growing, we see a robust outlook for H2. A strong launch pipeline lined up already and on track for execution as well as likely robust handover momentum with process progressing already, we see significant revenue recognition line during H2. 2,500-plus units are getting ready for handover with revenue recognition potential of over INR 1,000 crores. A significant part of this will materialize in H2, thus improving our outlook for the full year. Overall, we remain confident of delivery on our FY '26 target. Also, as development efforts on our sales and growing momentum gives us confidence on targeted pipeline addition. This in turn should enable us to sustain growth momentum in the coming years. Slide #25 is the guidance given for FY '26, and we remain confident of achieving the same. Slide #26, mission 154. Our mission for delivering significant value for our shareholders by FY '28 remains fully intact. As of September '25, we have 9.8 million square feet of India pending revenue recognition and it represents a potential revenue of over INR 5,000-plus crores over the next 3 years. This should provide significant boost earnings and move us towards the mission target comfortably. Meanwhile, on the supply side, to deliver the mission, we need about 30 million, 35 million square feet over the next 3 years -- we already have 2.4 million square feet today, and we are adding another 15 million to 20 million square feet over the next 12 to 18 months. So our growth engine is fully aligned. Our supply is secured, and we are firmly on track to deliver Mission 154. To summarize before I end the presentation, despite the temporary regulatory disruptions in Bangalore, we have maintained strong momentum in sales, collection and project execution. With the GA transition stabilizing and issues largely behind us, we are entering year 2 on a very solid footing. Our launch pipeline is strong. Our balance sheet is healthy and demand across key markets remains robust. We are confident of delivering a strong rebound in 2 and stay firmly to our FY -- thank you all for your continued support. I now hand over the call back to the operator. Myself, along with CEO and CFD will be to answer all your questions.
Operator
operator[Operator Instructions] Thank you. First question comes from the line of Diwakar from Prudent Equity.
Unknown Analyst
analystFirst question on the contingent liability pertaining to the Kolkata project. What is the total amount?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveINR 25 crores, this is Gopal. So the contingent liability on the books is INR 259 crores. Substantial part of it is already provided for.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. And sir, what is the -- what are the provision we are making per quarter basis on this project?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveHistorically, it used to be around INR 5 crores per quarter. Since we are almost at the end of the provision, we are -- during this quarter, Q2 FY '26, we have provided INR 1.7 -- on a half yearly basis, we have provided INR 3.2 crores as compared to INR 16 crores for the previous year. INR 16 crores... We are at the end of the process. And we also believe we should have a resolution on the ongoing discussions soon. And therefore, we see this whole provision disappearing in the coming quarters, hopefully, during this year itself.
Unknown Analyst
analystYes. So sir, this is this case is pending in High Court, right? High Court of Bar?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveYes, correct.
Unknown Analyst
analystSo when will be the next hearing of the same?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveYou will hear from us very soon on this.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. Okay. And sir, one more question. Basically, we are tracking your company from last 3, 4 years. So I remember in I think '23, '24, we used to give guidance of PAT margin around that would be around INR 100 crore PAT. But it's been 3, 4 years and we have not touched INR 80 crores, INR 85 crores. So how do you plan to reach INR 100 crore PAT or INR 1,000 crores INR 100 crores, 10% PAT margin?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveSo as you are aware, we are working towards similar margins and I don't know how we reach INR 100 crores on the past turnover, but I'm happy to take this question separately. But on an overall basis over the last few years, we have been in the mid-20s EBITDA margin, which is what we have consistently guided the market. And we've always said that we'll be in the 9% to 11% at the PBT level. And FY '25, PAT margin was about 8%, INR 77 crores on overall revenue recognition of about INR 816 crores. So we are on the path. You would -- in this year, hopefully, we will reach INR 1,000-odd crores of revenue that we talked about. We should hopefully exceed that number this year as we guided at the beginning of the year. And that should actually translate into the margin -- profitability level that you envisaged or you alluded to in the call just now.
Unknown Analyst
analystYes. sir, but the revenue delay is kind of a normal. I think in Q4, it happened also that the booking, we were not able to book some the venue. And same thing happened this quarter. So why -- I know for real estate company, this is quite normal, the delay in OC. But for us, it is -- it happens in a very continuous fashion.
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveI mean Let me correct here. The facts are incorrect. Last year, Q1, we had this. Q4 was a bumper quarter as you may have -- if you are tracking it for 3, 4 years, you will be knowing that. Q2 last year was the introduction of new Tata and entire real estate sector in Bengaluru, Karnataka has suffered, we did as well. That's what Mr. Pande alluded to when we talked about the lower base of last year. And as you are perhaps aware, municipal corporation in Bangalore like in Mumbai has got divided into 5 pieces from effective 3rd of September. And there has been a complete stoppage or lack of progress in any front. And if you're tracking real sector and you could track the real estate players in Bangalore, you would see that they brigade everybody's revenue recognition, earnings and margins, if you see, all of them would have gone through the difficulty during Q2 because it's a macro environment. Like in any other sector, the sector also goes through quarter-to-quarter volatility. At the end, what matters is are we delivering consistently and are we progressing. If I -- if you look at over the last 3 to 4 years, our earnings have moved. As you would probably remember, when we -- if you say you're tracking from '22, we about INR 18 crores, INR 19 crores of moved up all the way to INR crores of profit and a margin of about 8% now and we are working towards stabilizing the margin of around 10% at the level...
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay, sir. Sir, I just would like to know in our inventory, there is around INR 2,600 crores. So can you just give me a split of finished what is the finished good and the work in progress in this...
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveSorry, can you repeat the question?
Unknown Analyst
analystIn inventory, we have around INR 2,600 crores. So what will be the finished inventory and what will be the work in progress in this?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveSo just to clarify, we have very insignificant part of finished goods inventory in our books the inventory in the balance sheet, what you see is all work in progress projects. Completed projects receiving OC, maybe the transient part would be there. As you can see from the slide here, the value of projects that have received or pending OC as of 30th September and those have come through is about INR 300 crores, as you can see in Slide #15, 4 rows. And those are inventories that you can say there is a value of inventory of finished goods, but these are all sold as well. Let me put this number in a different way. We have about -- out of 19 million, 20 million square feet ongoing, we have an unsold inventory of about 3 million square feet, 3-plus million square feet. And therefore, 85% of the inventory is sold. Therefore, all the work in progress you see in the balance sheet is all project progress against which you have customer advances in the left-hand side of the balance sheet. Practically speaking, companies [indiscernible].
Operator
operatorThe next question comes from the line of Nitin Jain from Fair Value Advisors.
Unknown Analyst
analystMy first question is regarding the BBMP restructuring that you mentioned. So what I wanted to know is that it must have been like the company must have known about it earlier, right? So I'm just surprised that there was no mention of it in the last call that this kind of restructuring is upcoming. So it's kind of surprise...
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveNo, it is not. Restructuring was known. The act was passed somewhere in May, June this year by the Karnataka assembly. Implementation time was not known to anyone. And even if it was known, it would have been impossible. It's not a manufacturing firm that we can prepone the dispatches. Even if it was known, there's a time line which is required for completing the project. What was not known, what was surprised to most players was that when the 3rd of September or 2nd of September, government decided that, that will be the effective date and they just kicked off the process. BPMP stopped taking decision, be it the plan approvals or be it the OCs and QA and Q -- the new organization took some time to stabilize. There was no officers not appointed as Mr. Panda alluded to in the speech. Offices are not appointed. Offices appointed, but they don't know their roles and responsibilities. They have appointed -- they are all senior bureaucrats by the way. These are the senior most commissioners and officers have been appointed as the commissioner there and across the entire chain, the organization gets divided. You just imagine like Mah Palika or Bangalore, government decides to implement a division into Mumbai, North, Southeast, West and all that, it takes time. This is a onetime transition which happens like we went through in RERA. It took more than a year to stabilize. Fortunately, here now from mid of October, we have seen officers taking charge and releasing papers. So this is an unexpected event. And looking back, one can say, yes, we should have planned for it. I don't think it is possible. to plan either an accelerated construction or accelerated paper exit or accelerated paperwork, both would be difficult. And in such a large historical transition, from their perspective, a couple of months of delay is not something that they would be worried about. And from our perspective, as a listed company, quarter-to-quarter, it makes a difference. But if you look at it in a fiscal year as a whole, I don't think it will make any significant difference to us as well as any other player in southern regional sector.
Unknown Analyst
analystSure. So just a follow-up to that. It's just -- because we've been following the company for some time, it's happening that the company is repeatedly finding itself in regulatory hurdles. Like last year, it was in Maharashtra, now Karnataka. So is it maybe somewhere we are falling short of planning? Or what exactly? Can you provide some color?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveNo, I think it's an incorrect impression just to be perfectly candid. And every company goes through in a new market, we took almost 6 months of time to overcome the regulatory, whatever is the issues which we had or learnings we had. It is true for any new market. If a pharmaceutical company goes to United States, they will take some time to learn. And that's the risk of entering into new market apart from customers accepting your brand. And in Bangalore or any market for that matter, in Bangalore, we've had -- in the last 4 years, we have had QA issues last year and BBMP transition into 5 different corporations this year. It happens. It happens in a business. We know how to run this business. And as long as we are able to overcome -- mitigate and overcome these challenges, these are the industry challenges, right? Even a stabilized service sector like software company will have a problem. Suddenly, U.S. decides to introduce a new law. If you're outside the business, yes, it's very easy to say we should have predicted it. If you're inside the business, you need to be able to manage the challenges and overcome and I'm sure we all experienced enough in the business in the sector, like we did in Pune, like we did in last year in Bangalore. I hope you appreciate that we did with all the challenges we had in Qatar, which was introduced as a new concept in Bangalore last year, QA was made mandatory. We still delivered 3,300 homes. So I think it is doable. Yes, there will always be some -- it is not for FMCG business that every quarter will run exactly as smooth as the previous month and previous quarter. That's the nature of business. But I assume like Shriram, all other players are seasoned enough to overcome these challenges. We assured, these are temporary aberrations in volumes and they get caught up in subsequent quarters like we did last year.
Unknown Analyst
analystThat's very helpful, sir. My next question is on the OCs. So you mentioned that the OCs were delayed and the collection growth was slow correspondingly. However, the handover growth was pretty good. So how do we reconcile the 2, like collection growth being slow, but handover was good?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveHandover growth is not that robust. It should have been much higher. These are the projects that we have got OCs and TA, they were all OCs were received, handovers were being given. Therefore, customer had to pay full money. Registration could not happen because of TA or other issues which we faced last year. Like, for example, Q4, 1,200 homes were handed over. At that time, we did say that we have some more units to catch up. That is what is going to feed us the handovers in Q1 and Q2 until the new projects get completed. That's exactly what is happening. collection in a much -- if you look at last year's project, if you are handing over, there are the overall collection is about 5% of the balance amount. When you launch new projects and when some of these handovers happen in large volume, that's when the collection growth can gain further momentum. If you look at the overall collections for the whole 6 months, and it is not a drop -- basically, I'm looking at INR 725 crores of collection, a 6% growth as compared to your overall handovers is about 1,500 units, 34%. That's -- I understand where you are coming from. And it's fundamentally it's a combination of 3 factors. One, the mix of units that you hand over because Bangalore suffered, majority of the handovers would have been in Kolkata. I can give you the breakup offline or maybe my colleagues can pull out the number. our unit volumes, each unit will have a balance value of INR 4 lakh because ticket size is about INR 45 lakhs. So the number of units and the collections might not necessarily man it's a basket of 3 markets and 3 different ticket sizes. But we remain confident that we will reach this number of whatever the collection number that we have set out for ourselves about INR 1,800 crores. I think we are on track. Two things will help us. One, the new launches that we are doing, the second half is more robust as always in [indiscernible]. Those new sales will bring new collections, and therefore, that will improve. Second is the spending pent-up handovers that we have, about INR 460 crores worth of stocks to be handed over to customers. Those will have anywhere between 5% to 10% depending on the legacy. In the past, we used to leave almost 10% for the handover momentum, handover stage. Off late in the last 2, 3 years, we have tightened it to, say, last 4%, 5% that is pending for handover. So a combination of all this will deliver the cash flow for us.
Unknown Analyst
analystSure, sure. And my last question, sir, is on the borrowings increase in this quarter. So I think it would be right to assume that these were lined up to make sure the launches happen on time?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveNo, these are nothing to do with launches, working capital launches. When we start constructing the new projects, that's when we start borrowing for construction finance. A couple of construction finance would have happened, but they would have drawn much smaller. These were primarily growth capital raised towards locking in new projects. As you know, we have locked 5 projects during the year so far, of which 3 were done in October. So we would have -- as part of those kind of acquisitions, we have to raise capital. And as we have said consistently maintained, we will keep an eye on the debt equity. And the capital -- the capital that is being raised will be more a short-term fuel for accelerated growth. As and when the new projects get completed and the capital -- our share of profit gets unlocked as a cash flow from operations. debt will be repaid. So on a net basis, we will remain under control, and these are therefore raised for growth funding.
Operator
operatorThe next question comes from the line of Vidhi Shah from CRK.
Unknown Analyst
analystSo can you please explain it to me? You said INR 450 crores is the deferred revenue. And out of the sold part, 6.2 MSF is pending revenue recognition. Is this INR 450 crores a part of this pending revenue recognition?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveYes, yes. This INR 460 crores, I'll take you to 2 slides as a reference point. Slide #6 talks about the projects that got -- that did not get OC during Q2 and have got the OC now. So those are INR 420 crores of worth of stocks, which are to be handed over to customers. If you look at the -- another slide, which is there, which talks about the full year, what are the projects that are scheduled for completion and handover, which is Slide #15. That tells you about INR 1,128 crores worth of stock, which has to be handed over to customer. Substantial part of that is sold. And therefore, that could be the potential revenue recognition during the second half on top of what we have done already. So therefore, we believe the second half will bring in a large part of capital required -- revenue recognition contribution. And therefore, we should be able to cross that INR 1,100 crores, INR 1,200 crores of revenue that we have always talked about. So we are on track because we already clocked nearly 40% of our annual number and the balance will come from the INR 1,128 crores, which includes whatever you have seen in the earlier [indiscernible]. So Slide #15 gives you the complete picture of OC received as we speak now as well as some of them are pending in Q3 and Q4. All put together, for the remainder of the year, that is the maximum revenue recognition that we should be able to do, and that will add up to whatever we have done up to Q2.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. [Technical Difficulty] Slide #28 INR 5,000 crores by FY '28. So out of this revenue recognition that is pending that is INR 1,100 crores, which will be recognized in H2, right?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveMight not be possible because if you get the OC during Q4, all of them may not be possible. A substantial part would be recognized.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. So can you give...
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveQ1 and Q2... Balance will spill over to Q1 and Q2 next year.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. So can you give me a rough estimate by year right, FY '26, '27, '28, how this INR 5,000 crores will flow in as part of your sales?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveThat's very difficult for me to explain on the last audience group. Maybe you can get in touch with one of us offline, we'll probably walk you through. But obviously, that modeling has been done by you, we can only broadly guide you. And my team members will -- Mr. Pande or Mr. Shrikant will be able to -- you can come through SGA. The will organize the conversation between us and you. Based on what inputs we can give, you should be able to appreciate how this INR 5,000 crores will flow back into the company.
Unknown Analyst
analystAll right. Sir, just one last question. So this INR 1,100 crores, you said INR 1,100 crores will be spread in the next 4 quarters, right, H2 of '26...
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveINR 1,100 crores will get spread mostly in second half, which is Q2, Q3 and Q4. Some part will spill over to Q1 next year. Q2 next year will be a very small number. So a substantial part of INR 1,100 crores that you see in Slide #16 will be recognized in second half of this financial year alone. Some part will get spill over to Q1 of next year. That's all I mentioned.
Operator
operatorThe next question comes from the line of Saumil Shah from Paras Investments.
Saumil Shah
analystSo my question is on this Hindustan Motor land, which we own in Kolkata. So what is the size of that land? And is it a freehold? I mean 100% belongs to us?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveYes, sir. It's over 310 acres of land, thereabouts. And 313 acres. And this is a freehold. We have been -- we have paid for it and purchased this land many years ago. So it is in our books for many years. It's a freehold completely purchased by -- it was purchased originally by a private equity player called Walton Street, who was a partner with us at the SPV. Then we merged the SPV into parent company. Therefore, it is owned by Shriram Properties Limited as a listed company owns this land. Out of which, some part we have developed already. We are going through some discussions with the government of West Bengal, which hopefully you'll hear from us soon. And left over, whatever is the land which is left over will still be developed by us or monetized by us. We've always had the strategy that we want to develop over 10 million square feet by ourselves. Rest all, we want to monetize. The strategy remains. It got put on hold because of the ongoing challenges with litigation with the government, which we believe we are at an advanced stage. Give us some time. You will hear from us soon. I'm not equipped to have these details spilt out at this point of time.
Saumil Shah
analystOkay. And if I may know, what could be the price per acre of this land?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveVery difficult to comment. You go through subregistr, it is anywhere between INR 3.5 crores, INR 4 crores to all the way to INR 6 crores. That's the public record available.
Saumil Shah
analyst5 crores to INR 6 crores -- so INR 1,500 crores for this landrocks?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveTo Shriram because out of the 3 15 acres, we have utilized about 40 for development. There are -- it's a large parcel. So there are a lot of water bodies that has to be maintained. So the developable area can be about -- apart from whatever we have used already for Shriram Grand One, Shriram Sunshine, all that, maybe we would have about 125 to 130 acres of developable area -- and out of which we are doing some settlement and to overcome this litigation that we are doing -- we are facing the litigation, which we took the government to the court for noncompete fee. We believe we are at the end of the process. Hopefully, you'll hear from us soon. And at that point of time, you will know the details of what is the leftover land for further development. But we believe a large value is residing there as a simple acreage value, which the market doesn't appreciate I'm glad that you asked the question because the market doesn't appreciate as of now.
Saumil Shah
analystYes, correct. And do we have to pay any dues for this?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveNo. It's a fully paid prehold land.
Saumil Shah
analystOkay. Okay. So as of now, if you want to calculate, we have 125 to 130 acres to be developed...
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveYes, sir.
Saumil Shah
analystOkay. Okay. And sir, my next question is, if I'm looking at our presentation, I think I'm a bit confused. So what could be our GDV for next 2.5, 3 years for our projects, I mean, for our own project and for other JV and JDA projects?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveJust looking at my colleague to give me GDV of the entire pipeline. Ongoing we have, but he's looking -- he'll give you.
Saumil Shah
analystJust I'm talking about maybe till FY '28. So what could be the total size?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveYes. Give me one second. So you can see Slide #11. The upcoming projects, GDV is about INR 11,470 crores -- nearly half of it is own INR 5,000 crores is our own upcoming. This is different from another slide, which talks about ongoing project value. This is GTV of upcoming projects, which is the...
Saumil Shah
analystI understood. I'm just talking about till FY '28. So whatever is going to be...
J. Gopalakrishnan
executivePart of this will be substantial launched before '28 because we don't have a land bank. We don't buy -- other than Kolkata, we don't have any land bank in the balance sheet. It's all raw material that we acquire. We acquire the land, put through the approvals and we launch it. So these lands that we have, a substantial part of it will get launched by FY '28.
Saumil Shah
analystOkay. Okay. So if I were to summarize, if I wanted to calculate your profits for next 2, 3 years, -- so I mean till FY '28. So can it be INR 550 crores to INR 600 crores, if I want to add for 3 years?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveCumulative.
Saumil Shah
analystYes, cumulative INR 550 crores to INR 600 crores for next 2.5 years.
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveCumulative would be possible, but not annual profit.
Saumil Shah
analystNo, no, of course, cumulative for next 2.5 years. that's possible, right?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveYes. Cumulative is possible.
Operator
operator[Operator Instructions] The next question comes from the line of Raj Mehta from Raj Mehta & Associates.
Unknown Analyst
analystSir, I wanted to know a few things related to how do you think the sector in Bengaluru is performing, the regulatory hurdles, which are all behind us. And since you told that from October onwards, you are seeing a good progress in getting overseas and getting regulating things are going on. I wanted to know how is the sector as a whole in Bengaluru specific is performing and whether we are facing any challenges with respect to construction or with respect to any demand? And do we -- or we are getting a good amount of response and we are able to increase or maintain the margin, which we supposed to have?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveYes, it's a good question. As I alluded to earlier, some interruptions will keep happening. Nice levels will also be there from U.S. recession, what is happening on the impact on software sector and therefore, demand, all that will be there. If I see the on-ground feel, right, there are certain things are economic times, some ground -- some feeling -- if I give you an on-ground reality check that we feel is going on in the market, market is doing very well. The demand situation is very strong. customer decision-making is faster. I think there is enough purchasing power in the system. Some of the sectors may go through some uncertainty or surprises from time to time. But overall, there is enough consumer demand available on the ground. It's also evident from the fact that not just us, if you look at the press release that I've been closely tracking all the regional player press releases. And if you have seen in our own Slide #12, we said D 1, which we launched 0.5 million square feet, almost 80% is sold in less than 3 months, right? July end, we launched. By September, we are almost done with 80%. So that's the level of pull which is there in the market. Therefore, market under current is very strong. That is point number one. You just need to be -- and this is true for most players. If you look at the launch track record of several of our peer group listed and unlisted, they all have been doing very well from a volume perspective. Number two, from a pricing perspective, I think they've gone on the days of 21% hike year-on-year, 16% growth in selling price does may not happen. Post COVID, we saw some big spike in selling price, which may not happen. We are in a very steady state mature pricing environment where you can very safely expect between 5% to 6%, 7% max 5% to 8% price hike on an annual basis, which will more than compensate. As you know, construction cost is about half of the pricing most of the time. So the 5% to 8% increase will cover more than the required inflationary pressure on the construction side. Therefore, we don't see a margin pressure. More importantly, margin will stabilize and may go up for some players like us as a consolidated company level margins has an upside because we are upgrading the portfolio. If you see pre-COVID, used to sell below INR 5,000 less than INR 5,000 per square feet for mid-market product. Today, our average portfolio realization for mid-market is around close to INR 7,000, INR 6,500, INR 7,000. So overall, portfolio upgrade as well as scale improvement should help in margin enhancement in players like us. But as a market as a whole, I think prices will be rising in a moderated or a meaningful way, not a substantial big spike. That's on the price front. Supply front, supply front will always -- it is unlike a manufacturing or a service sector, supply side pressure will come and go from time to time. It could be depending on the election pressures, regulatory pressures, bureaucracy issues. Those will keep happening, and that's the nature of business. And therefore -- and I think all mature -- all seasoned players, all the top 10 players are mature enough to manage the situation. So we, therefore, think supply side will not be an unusual stress at any point of time. But being a consolidated industry, industry consolidation is actually playing off. So there's no mindless supply here. So supply-driven price pressure will not -- is unlikely as we see it, but supplies will match what is going on in the market. And in certain pockets, which is some micro markets, supply alone can trigger new demand because they are emerging new micro markets. So overall, I think the demand supply side and the pricing side seems reasonably strong. Competitive pressures will always be there. But fortunately, it is a big part of the industry is fighting among 200, 300 players and with different objectives. I think the top 10 players now account for more than 55%, 56% of the organized market or the organized residential sector. And within that, again, if you look at the top 3, top 4 players will dominate majority of the mid-market or luxury. Each player has their own focus areas. The area that we have a clear dominance in mid-market and mid-premium segment. And we have about 4, 5 brand names, which keep competing with. So I think competitive pressures are more structured now, if I can very crudely say. So therefore, we don't think there's undercutting and margin pressure as a result of undercutting by each other. So industry is that way is more benefiting from the consolidation, which has been going on for the last 3, 4, 5 years since RA came in. That's about market dynamics. Where do we see? I think the residential sector will continue its journey for another couple of years. Mid-market should see a much more longer runway because the desire for owning home, desire for owning larger homes is more prominent post-COVID, this team came and the theme is still continuing. Therefore, I think mid-market perform reasonably well for next 3, 4 years. Having said that, it's not a linear curve. It will go through its own volatility. But on a year-to-year basis or a medium-term basis, if you see, we would have seen a reasonable growth in demand situation in this city. Lastly, Bangalore -- just to put this in context, why I say this reasonable growth over a long period this Bangalore used to -- people used to say Bangalore or already most of the publicly available research used to say Bangalore is about 45,000, 55,000 homes market, new homes between 45,000 and 50 depending on you take. Today, Bangalore is about -- Bangalore is in excess of 75,000, 80,000 square homes market. So it has grown and it is continuing to grow and it will continue to grow. And therefore, this will remain an interesting market for us.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. And sir, secondly, I also wanted to check, there are smaller players or regional players in Pune also, which had tied up where they have the big PE funds have invested in them and now they are chasing aggressive growth. So similar way, since we are into -- our portfolio is also towards upper middle class and towards premiumization, aren't we seeing any possibility where we can chase growth and bring certain bigger players so that we don't have to leverage our balance sheet and side-by-side be aggressive and not being conservative since the cycle will last for next 2 to 3 years. And when that cycle changes or the cycles get stagnant, at that moment, we become aggressive and it becomes a intent on our profitability, too. So isn't it possible or the management should think of bringing a better player in the company so that we can expand it aggressively? Or we are just thinking growing consistently and focusing more on a conservative basis?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveI would approach this differently. I think the market at least views a bigger player. We are not looking for a bigger player to come and drive what we need to do. in Pune, if you look at, several local players called us to figure out what we are trying to do because we have kind of painted the city in blue as they called it. We entered the market. Southern Pune is one of the difficult market to enter because the micro market that we went NBM area, which is called Hungary. The annual sales velocity for the last 4 years was only about 400 units a year, annual velocity of the micro market. We have sold more than 250 units in the last 4 months. one player. That's the dominance that we bring in. So I'm not sure whether you call this as a muted play. We see it as an aggressive entry. And within 6 months of entry, we have already signed another project in Hinjewadi, which is an emerging new hub, one of the corridors that you all will envy. And we are also signing -- we are in the process of signing up for another large project in the other side of the city, which is another happening area. So what we are trying to expand in right markets aggressively on our own because we believe we have the track record, we have the capability. Yes, there will always be some growth capital requirement as long as this is manageable. We cannot say we will not leverage the balance sheet as well will not grow, right? If we have to grow, we have to have capital, either bring the equity back from the investors, which we don't want to do at this point of time. Otherwise, the only other option is to lever the balance sheet to some extent, not mindlessly and ensure that the leverage gets more a bridge in terms of capital and then operating cash flow gets used to unwind this debt. So we believe based on very prudent, we have never grown beyond 0.3, 0.5 debt equity ever, and that will not be our comfort zone as well to cross that. And therefore, within the prudent norms of our debt equity, we should be able to raise growth capital and grow aggressively. We are not a passive player. So we believe we should be able to show the aggression and consolidate and take over -- or not take over, consolidate a smaller player in us either as a DM partner whose project we can execute instead of having ourselves a large player, which I think is -- may not be a right strategy for us.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. Great. And sir, the last question, the Bengaluru has always been a tech hub. And if you see the industry, how it is growing, the Hyderabad is becoming a new tech hub and people are shifting it from Bengaluru to Hyderabad. So is it -- as a company as a whole, are we looking -- since we already have the dominance in Bengaluru market, are we looking to go to Hyderabad or some other niche markets, just how you did in Pune? Similarly, are we able to think inside -- think internally that we should diversify from few cities to a larger cities and at least have a diversification and those problems should not be faced when there is a specific problem in a specific state. What are your thoughts? How do you want to grow going forward other than where we are already growing in Bangalore and Chennai?
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveSo one step at a stage, Chrome was not built in one day. So we will build this over time. Today, we have entered a new market called Pune, and it's a new market when a year ago, a lot of apprehensions were there on whether Pune will treat us well being a South Indian player, will we succeed? We -- I think we have had a good entry. and a presence -- strong presence will mean at least 4, 5 projects to be running on the ground. So let's try to assemble that first, and then we'll look for the next growth market. At this point, if you spread it too wide and too thin, and that can become a new concern for external stakeholders like yourself. And therefore, we would like to focus on generic growth coming from our core -- existing core markets like Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata, we have actually expanded because we now -- we have enough evidence for accelerating our growth process there. So we are actually launching one project today like that, like we are accelerating our activity in Kolkata. Apart from these 3, we will focus on Pune as our new growth engine. Once you stabilize Pune over the next year or so, then we'll think about whether it should be Hyderabad, whether it should be Mumbai, Mumbai MMR, all that we can think about it. There are opportunity -- enough opportunities for credible large brand with a proven track record, irrespective of which market you want to go. This is our belief. And therefore, we will go one step at a stage, and we'll try and penetrate newer markets as we gain strength in the recently entered market of Pune.
Unknown Analyst
analystOkay. And sir, one last thing I recommended last con call also, whether we are taking any steps towards building investor confidence by doing any road shows or we are attending any conferences so that people come to know about what we are able to do it.
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveWe have accelerated the efforts helped by our IR teams as well as external IR consultants. We're meeting -- we are now engaged with not only analysts but also several fund managers and family offices. Hopefully, this will result in some traction. As some of the people on the call said, they have been tracking us for 3 years, 4 years. They have not written research on it as yet. So like that, we need to work with this team like yourself and other people to enhance coverage, to enhance confidence in them and in the fund managers to make an entry. We took your suggestion very seriously. And over the last 2 quarters, both our CFOs and the IR team have been on the road after every results, trying to go and meet the large investors consistently along with -- apart from analysts. So I believe we should be able to break through in a reasonable time. I also request some of the analysts on this call to see they've been tracking -- some of them said they have been tracking for many years. Hopefully, they are now able to understand the company and hopefully, they'll start coverage, which will also go a long way in this institutionalization process.
Operator
operator[Operator Instructions] The next question comes from the line of Nitin Jain from Fair Value Advisors.
Unknown Analyst
analystSo my question is regarding Slide #15, if you can revisit that. Are we trying to say here that our H2 revenue potential could be approximately INR 1,100 crores? And I'm just trying to put it in context given that in H1, we have done INR 450 crores...
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveSubstantial part of INR 1,100 crores is the potential. It may not be, for example, substantial part of INR 1,100 crores is the potential that we have. If you look at the previous slide, it gives same data is given in project by project. There are some projects which are due for completion certificate at the OC in Kolkata as well as in Bangalore in Q4 and some in Q3. It may not be possible, depending on the timing of receipt, it may not be possible to consummate the entire revenue recognition in in Q3 or Q4 alone. And therefore, the entire revenue potential of INR 1,128 crores that you see on the column there is the potential that we would have A substantial part will come through in the second half. The rest will come through in Q1 as somebody else asked me the same question. I clarified the same way. Substantial part of this will be in second half and then or spillover will come in Q1 next year. This looks good if it materializes. We're working towards it. We are very confident it will.
Operator
operatorThe next question comes from the line of Vidhi Shah from CRK.
Unknown Analyst
analystJust last question. So in the last quarter that uploedNR250roNR 280 crores of PAT and INR 2,500 crores to INR 3,000 crores of revenue. I just wanted to confirm is this for FY '28 or cumulative for '26, '27 and '28...
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveThe numbers for FY '28...
Unknown Analyst
analystINR 2,500 crores to INR 300 crores for FY '28 alone. [Technical Difficulty]
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveYes. The numbers that you pointed out is our target -- our aspirational mission numbers for FY '28, not a cumulative number.
Operator
operator[Operator Instructions] As there are no further questions from the line of participants, I would now like to hand the conference over to the management for closing comments.
J. Gopalakrishnan
executiveThank you, everyone, for taking your time off and joining us to hear about our performance and our outlook. We look forward to your continued support. And as I said during the call, we look forward to receiving support -- research coverage support from some of the analysts. And we will also take our efforts towards reaching out institutional investors through the roadshows as suggested by some of you. Thank you for your inputs and suggestions and queries. We hope we answered all your queries. If there are anything pending, please connect with us directly or through SGA at any point of time. We are happy to clarify and provide additional inputs whatever we can to an external stakeholder. Thank you so much. Have a great evening.
Operator
operatorOn behalf of Shriram Properties Limited, that concludes this conference. Thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect your lines. Thank you.
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