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Notting Hill Housing Trust

Kate Davies Chief Executive Paul Phillips Finance Director Andrew Sugden Assistant Finance Director 21-25 July 2011

www.nottinghillhousing.org.uk

Table of Contents

1.

Introduction

2.

The Social Housing Update

3.

Overview of Notting Hill Housing

4.

Notting Hill Housing Group Financial Review

5.

Treasury Policies & Ratings

6.

Possible Issue and Security Summary Appendix A: Supporting Materials

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Introduction

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661 London Road, Hounslow Hammersmith street property Park Village East, Camden

Introduction

• Notting Hill Housing Trust (“NHHT”) is the parent of Notting Hill

Housing Group (“NHHG”)

• NHHT may, subject to market conditions, look to tap its outstanding

Aa3 rated 5.25% Secured Bonds due 2042 in the coming months

• The proceeds

will be used to fund the group’s development programme

• Last week the HCA announced grant support for NHHG’s affordable

home programme

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Social Housing Sector Update

• No losses to secured creditors
• Cuts to capital grant (from c. 50% of cost to c.25%)
• Opportunity to increase rents to 80% of market rent
• Housing Benefit caps
• Universal credit (not yet clear)
• Housing Benefit Direct will be altered
• HCA London moves to Mayor
• Sector regulation moves to HCA

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Overview of Notting Hill Housing Group

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St John Street – EC1 Colville Square – W11 Earls Court Mansions - SW5

Key Highlights: Notting Hill Housing Group

• High demand, high value housing
• Stable Aa3 credit rating - BCA of 8
• Strong management team and track record
• Committed development funding in place
• Significant capacity
• Flexibility to adapt to political change
• Varied portfolio, wide ranging skills and flexible board

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Progress Since Last Year

• Rationalised Board and Group Structure
• Integrated Presentation Housing Association
• Delivered development programme
• Implemented Altogether Better
• Cut operating costs
• Stabilised and increased returns from Temporary Housing
• Achieved Decent Homes Standard

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Notting Hill Housing Group Structure

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Notting Hill Housing Trust The Issuer (“NHHT”) Social Rented Homes Temporary Housing Supported Housing Notting Hill Student Lets Student accommodation Notting Hill Home Ownership Shared ownership Notting Hill Commercial Properties Investment vehicle Notting Hill Market Rent Open market rent

Registered Charity Incorporated as I&P Registered with the TSA

Number of managed homes by type

Summary of NHHG Housing Stock

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2010 - Acquisition of Presentation

5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Social Rented Shared Ownership Temporary Housing Leased Housing Market Rent Intermediate Rent Student Accommodation Supported Housing Leasehold in management

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NHHG Housing Stock (Locations)

Core NHHG Asset Base

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Top five locations of NHHG assets (67% of all stock) Average gross cost per social rented unit - £92,000

Borough Units Share of Total Hammersmith & Fulham 4,804 19% Kensington & Chelsea 4,275 17% Hounslow 2,817 11% Lambeth 2,686 11% Ealing 2,237 9%

NHHG Governance Structure

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Board Members Executive Management Team

Paul Hodgkinson (Chairman) Alex Phillips Sophie Warner Debra Yudolph Mohan Yogendran Barbara Matthews Annabelle Louvros Bukky Bird Kate Davies (Chief Executive) Paul Phillips (Finance) John Hughes (Development) Andy Belton (Operations) Alastair Clegg (Corporate Services) Kath King (Asset Management)

£1.8bn Affordable Housing Programme

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• NHHG has received an allocation for grant (subject to contract with the HCA)

The basis of the bid was on the following assumptions:

• 55% rented, 45% shared ownership
• Circa 80% of developments on owned or controlled sites
• Affordable Rents capped at a maximum of £230 per week
• Average rent is 65% of market (at 40% today)
• 50% of relets converted to higher Affordable Rents
• No sales of existing stock to support bid
• Overall target for NHHG development programme remains 1,200 homes p.a.

Geographical details of NHHG Allocation

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• HCA grant will support development at these sites

Recent Typical NHHG Development

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• St John Street, Islington (EC1)
• Completed May 2011
• 32 residential properties, 10 social

rent and 22 shared ownership

• Two commercial units
• Cost: £8.5m Grant: £3.2m
• Shared Ownership Statistics
• Average sales period: 2 weeks
• Average first tranche: 45%
• First tranche profit: £1m

NHHG Financial Review 4

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Lonsdale Road, Kensington, W11

• Operating surplus before interest of

£40.9m

• Group surplus of £9.8m
• Gearing (Loans/Housing at cost)

remains low at 37%

• Successful sales programme
• TSA reviewed NHHG finances in

2010 and retained ‘top’ finance rating

• Committed funding lines available
• f £264m (at 31 March 2011)

Financial Highlights

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Year Ending 31 March 2011 Historical 5-Year Performance

• Turnover up 77%
• Reserves up from £167m to £240m
• Housing assets valued at cost up

98%

• Homes under management up 49%

NHHG Key Financial Statistics

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Group highlights - five year summary 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 For the year ended 31 March Restated £m £m £m £m £m Statistics Surplus for the year as % of turnover 4% 4% 4% 10% 13% Surplus for the year as % of income from lettings 6% 5% 4% 15% 15% Operating Margin 16% 14% 12% 16% 19% Rent losses (void and bad debts as % of rent and service charges receivable) 2% 4% 4% 4% 5% Rent arrears (gross arrears as % of rent and service charges receivable) 12% 14% 10% 11% 10% Gearing (total loans as % housing properties at cost) 37% 38% 34% 27% 24% Interest cover (surplus before interest payable and depreciation and amortisation of housing properties as % of net interest payable) 203% 142% 156% 213% 221%

Treasury Policy and Ratings 5

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Viridian, 75 Battersea Park Road, Wandsworth, SW8

Summary of Debt and Liquidity Position

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NHHG Debt Maturity Profile

Summary of NHHG Debt Position at 31 March 2011

• Average life of drawn debt: 21 years
• Average cost of drawn debt: 4.18%
• Average drawn margin:

0.48%

• Total Borrowings:

£831m

• Undrawn facilities:

£264m

• Cash Balance:

£20m

• No cross default between NHHT and other Group companies

Loan Covenants

• NHHT Interest Cover Covenant set at 110% (202% at 31 March 2011)
• NHHT Gearing Covenant set at 65% (33% at 31 March 2011)

50 100 150 200 250 300 0-1 years 1-2 years 2-5 years 5-10 years 10-20 years 20-30 years 30-40 years £m

Summary of Treasury Position

Strong interest rate management is optimised with the use of derivatives Maintain prudent level of variable rate debt (greater flexibility for sales receipts) Circa 9,000 unencumbered properties remain in NHHT after bond tap

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Latest NHHG Debt Position (at 30 June 2011) NHHT Debt Mix Position (at 30 June 2011)

• Fixed

54%

• Floating

39%

• Inflation linked

7% Facilities (£m) Drawn (£m) Undrawn (£m) Group 1,093 921 172 NHHT Only 759 643 116

Possible Issue and Security Summary 6

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Colville Gardens, Kensington, W11

Summary of Possible Future Issue Terms

• Issuer

Notting Hill Housing Trust

• Deal size:

£[100-120]mm

• Format:

Tap issue of existing 5.25% 2042 issue

• Rating:

Aa3 “Stable Outlook”

• Security:

Secured on additional Social Housing Assets Fungible with existing issue security Secured investors rank senior to Social Housing Grant

• Asset Cover:

105% EUV-SH, 115% MV-ST

• Information Covenants:

Compliance certificates, accounts, meetings on request

• Use of Proceeds:

General Corporate purposes

• Regulatory Information:

Regulatory assessments publicly available

• Bookrunners:

Goldman Sachs and Santander GBM

• Security and Bond Trustees:

Prudential Trustee Company Limited

• Expected timing of issue:

Following completion of the roadshow (subject to market conditions)

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Summary of Bond Security

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Following the proposed tap

• 2,477 properties with

value as security for bondholders

• All secured properties

within London

• Social rent, keyworker

rent and supported housing units

• £642m - indicative

vacant possession value

• £355m – value as bond

security

Breakdown of Bond Security

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Number of Units Value for Bond Security Purposes Secured Amount EUV–SH 240 22.2 21.2 MV–T 2,237 332.9 289.5 Nil value 90 nil nil Total 2,567 355.1 310.7

Breakdown of security following the proposed tap

Number of Units Social Rented 2,347 Supported Housing 88 Keyworker Rented 42 Nil value 90 Total 2,567

Summary

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661 London Road, Hounslow, TW7

To Conclude, We have:

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• Implicit Government support provided by Social Housing

Grant and Housing Benefit

• A diverse prime property portfolio mainly within London
• Strong financial business with borrowing capacity to invest

in future high value housing development

• Conservative and well managed operation underlined by a

strong credit rating from Moody’s at Aa3 (Stable)

Disclaimer

For the purposes of the following disclaimer, references to this presentation shall mean these presentation slides and shall be deemed to include references to any related speeches made by or to be made by the management of Notting Hill Housing Trust (NHHT), any questions and answers in relation thereto and any other related verbal or written communications. This presentation may only be communicated or caused to be communicated in the United Kingdom to persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the “Order”) or high net worth entities who fall within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons being referred to as “relevant persons”). Any investment or investment activity to which this presentation relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged only with relevant persons. This presentation is being directed at you solely in your capacity as a relevant person (as defined above) for your information and may not be reproduced, redistributed or passed on to any other person or published, in whole or in part, for any purpose, without the prior written consent of NHHT. The information in this presentation is confidential and subject to change without notice, its accuracy is not guaranteed, and it may be incomplete and is condensed. This presentation will be superseded by the final version of the prospectus or offering document relating to the proposed transaction and where there is a discrepancy between the information in this presentation and in the final offering circular, that contained in the final offering circular takes precedence. These presentation slides may contain certain statements, statistics and projections that are or may be forward-looking. The accuracy and completeness of all such statements, is not warranted or guaranteed. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may occur in the future. Although NHHT believes that the expectations reflected in such statements are reasonable, no assurance, representation or warranty can be given that such expectations will prove to be correct. There are a number of factors which could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. This presentation does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of the Issuer. It is an advertisement and does not comprise a prospectus for the purposes of EU Directive 2003/71/EC and/or Part VI of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 of the United Kingdom or otherwise. The definitive terms of the securities described herein will be described in the final version of the prospectus. Investors should not subscribe for any securities referred to herein except on the basis of information contained in the final form of the offering circular. When available, the final offering circular will be made available to the public in accordance with EU Directive 2003/71/EC and/or Part VI of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

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