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RNS Number : 9522O  Savills PLC  15 January 2026

15 January 2026

Savills plc

Year-end Trading Statement

Savills delivers good FY25 performance despite challenging markets

Savills plc ("Savills" or the "Group"), the global real estate advisor,
publishes the following trading statement in respect of the year ended 31
December 2025 (the "period").

The Group expects its performance for 2025 to exhibit solid year on year
growth at least in line with expectations, in particular reflecting an
improvement in transactional momentum during Q4.

2025 was characterised by a continuation of the market recovery seen in Q4
2024 into Q1 2025, followed by a pause in Q2, which continued into Q3. During
this period, both investors and occupiers digested the implications of, in
particular, the imposition of US tariffs, alongside other unforeseen
geopolitical and fiscal events. In the UK, the Group's largest market,
heightened uncertainty surrounding the delayed Autumn Budget had a similar
subduing effect, particularly on the prime residential market. Despite these
factors, we built strong transactional pipelines across all our markets,
ensuring we were well-positioned as clients' confidence and appetite to
complete transactions improved progressively through Q4, resulting in a strong
finish to the year for the Group.

Transactional

The Group's Transactional business, which provides capital and leasing
advisory services to commercial and residential owners and occupiers,
performed well despite the challenging market conditions.

In EMEA, Transactional revenues increased, reflecting a resilient performance
in the UK and particularly strong growth in the Middle East, where Savills
continues to strengthen its market position. Southern Europe, particularly
Spain, also continued to perform well through the year, and elsewhere we saw
the benefit of both marginally improved markets and our restructuring
initiatives, in particular in Germany. Our developing EMEA-based Real Estate
Investment Banking business, Savills Capital Advisors, also performed strongly
during the year, completing a number of significant financing transactions.

Until Q4, North America was the only global real estate capital market to show
substantial year-on-year market volume growth. Although currently Savills has
very low exposure to capital transactions in that market, our small New York
focused team had a record year completing some high profile assignments. The
majority of the North American business, which principally advises on occupier
leasing, exhibited similar characteristics to other global markets, with a
weaker middle of the year despite strengthening pipelines, followed by a
strong finish in Q4 with some very significant transactions closing.

In Asia Pacific, we have seen progressive improvement in many markets, with
Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and India growing year on year. In Mainland China
the market declined by more than 20% for the third consecutive year. In
response to this, we have taken further restructuring initiatives, and in the
year have seen the benefit to profitability of those initiatives undertaken in
the prior year. Elsewhere in the region, we significantly enhanced our
Australian business in the period with a change of leadership and a
revitalised capital transaction capability which, alongside new investments in
regional capital market leadership, will start to bear fruit in 2026.

Less Transactional

The Group's Less Transactional businesses, comprising Property and Facilities
Management, Consultancy and Investment Management, continued to perform well.

Property & Facilities Management performed in line with our expectations.
We undertook further restructuring and investment in systems, in particular in
Mainland China and Germany, which will help support future performance in
those markets. In December, we acquired an initial 70% interest in Alpina
Holdings Limited, a leading Mechanical and Electrical Engineering consultancy
in Singapore. This, together with our existing Property and Facilities
Management capabilities, enables Savills to provide a fully-integrated
Facilities Management service in that market.

Our portfolio of Consultancy services delivered a strong performance, with
Valuations, Rural Consultancy, Building Consultancy and Project Management all
making key contributions.

Savills Investment Management delivered stable revenues, with profitability
reflecting the benefit of restructuring initiatives outweighing the impact of
lower performance fees. Towards the end of the year, we saw market demand for
secure core income focused product start to improve and this, together with a
strong performance from our European asset management teams, resulted in c.
£2.3bn net new capital inflow during the year.

Other

The Group continued to review its cost base during the year and anticipates a
restructuring charge of up to £30m for 2025 as a result of the restructuring
initiatives referenced above.

The Group saw strong cash generation in the fourth quarter resulting in a net
cash position as at 31 December 2025 in line with the prior year, despite the
acquisition in Singapore and the effect of FX on translation.

Leadership update

In accordance with the plans previously announced, Mark Ridley retired at the
end of 2025 and Simon Shaw became Group Chief Executive in his place effective
1 January 2026. The Group anticipates that Nick Sanderson will join as Group
Chief Financial Officer in the early part of next month.

Outlook

Looking ahead, while market uncertainty is expected to remain elevated in
2026, the Board believes that strong pipelines and strengthening investor and
occupier sentiment will support recovery across our core transactional
markets. We expect our Less Transactional business to continue to deliver
steady and resilient growth.

The Group is focused on unlocking its full growth and profitability potential
by both prioritising key markets and strategic opportunities, while also
continuing to enhance operational efficiency across the business.

Savills will report its full year results for 2025 on 12 March 2026.

 

For further information, please contact:

 Savills plc                                020 7409 8934
 Simon Shaw, Group Chief Executive Officer
 Susie Bell, Investor Relations Director
 Teneo Communications                       020 7353 4200
 Nick de Bunsen
 Anthony Di Natale

 

 

Forward looking statements

Certain statements in this announcement are forward-looking statements
relating to the Group's operations, performance and financial position based
on current expectations of, and assumptions and forecasts made by,
management.  They are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other
factors which could cause actual results, performance or achievements of the
Group to differ materially from any outcomes or results expressed or implied
by such forward-looking statements.  The Group's principal risks are
described in the 2024 Savills plc Annual Report which can be viewed online at
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statements should therefore be construed in light of such risks, uncertainties
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or developments, except to the extent legally required. Nothing in this
Statement should be construed as a profit forecast.

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