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Knowledge Realty Trust has informed the Exchange regarding Disclosure of material issue, providing the transcript of the Earnings Conference Call for the quarter ended 30th June, 2026, held on 28th July, 2026.
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Date: 30th July, 2026
To, To,
The Corporate Relations Department, The Corporate Relations Department,
The National Stock Exchange of India Department of Corporate Services,
Limited Exchange Plaza, 5th Floor, Plot BSE Limited,
No. C/1, G-Block, Bandra-Kurla Complex, 25th Floor, Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers, Dalal Street,
Bandra (East), Mumbai – 400051 Mumbai – 400001
Scrip Code: KRT Scrip Code: 544481 (“Units”),
977158, 977536 and 977888 (“Non-Convertible Debentures”)
and 731643 (“Commercial Papers”)
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Subject: Transcript of the Earnings Conference Call for the quarter ended 30th June, 2026 held on 28th
July, 2026.
In continuation to our intimation dated 28th July, 2026, regarding the link to access the audio recording of the
Earnings Conference Call held on Tuesday, 28th July, 2026 at 04:00 P.M. (IST) to discuss Knowledge Realty
Trust’s financial results for the quarter ended 30th June, 2026, please see enclosed the transcript of the aforesaid
Earnings Conference Call.
The transcript referred to above has been uploaded on our website at www.knowledgerealtytrust.com.
Kindly take the same on your records.
Thanking you,
For and on behalf of Knowledge Realty Trust, acting through its Manager,
Knowledge Realty Office Management Services Private Limited
Ashutosh Vaidya
Company Secretary & Compliance Officer
Membership No. A14242
KNOWLEDGE REALTY TRUST acting through its manager – Corp. Office: Salarpuria, Windsor #3, Registration No.: IN/REIT/24-25/0006
KNOWLEDGE REALTY OFFICE MANAGEMENT SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED 2nd Floor, Ulsoor Road, Sivan Chetty Telephone: +91 22 68684400
(Formerly known as Trinity Office Management Services Private Limited) Gardens, Bangalore- 560042, E-mail: info@knowledgerealtytrust.com
RO: One BKC, C-407, Plot No. C-66, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra Karnataka, India Website: www.knowledgerealtytrust.com
(E), Mumbai – 400051, Maharashtra, India
“Knowledge Realty Trust
Q1 FY27 Earnings Conference Call”
July 28, 2026
MANAGEMENT: MR. SHIRISH GODBOLE – CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
– KNOWLEDGE REALTY TRUST
MR. NEERAJ TOSHNIWAL – CHIEF FINANCIAL
OFFICER – KNOWLEDGE REALTY TRUST
MR. SENTHIL KUMAR – SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,
INVESTOR RELATIONS – KNOWLEDGE REALTY TRUST
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Knowledge Realty Trust
July 28, 2026
Moderator: Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to Knowledge Realty Trust Q1 FY27 Earnings
Conference Call. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen-only mode and there
will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need
assistance during the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on
your touchtone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded.
I now hand the conference over to Mr. Senthil Kumar, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations,
Knowledge Realty Trust. Thank you and over to you, Mr. Senthil.
Senthil Kumar: Thank you. Good evening to everyone joining us today. On behalf of the management team, I
would like to extend a warm welcome to all participants of Knowledge Realty Trust Q1 FY27
Earnings Call. Before we proceed, a couple of important disclosures. I would like to highlight
that the management may make certain comments that may constitute forward-looking
statements. Please be advised that our actual results may differ materially from these statements.
KRT does not guarantee these statements or results and is not obliged to update them at any
point of time. Joining me today on the call are Shirish Godbole, our CEO, and Neeraj Toshniwal,
our CFO. We will start off with brief remarks on the macro environment, our business and
financial performance, and then open the floor to questions. Over to you, Shirish.
Shirish Godbole: Thank you, Senthil, and a very warm welcome to everyone joining us for our Q1 FY27 earnings
call. We start the new financial year against a backdrop of continued global uncertainty.
However, India's office market has once again demonstrated its structural resilience, anchored
by GCC expansion and Grade A demand.
Office absorption reached 44 million square feet during the first half of calendar year '26, with
GCCs contributing 44% of the demand. Coming to KRT, we enter FY27 with strong operating
momentum. Revenue and NOI for the quarter grew 15% year-on-year to INR1,243 crores and
INR1,112 crores respectively.
We are also pleased to announce a distribution of INR1.7 per unit for the quarter, aggregating to
INR752 crores, a strong 5% growth from the previous quarter. Turning to our operating
performance, occupancy increased to 93%, up from 92% last quarter. This was driven both by
front office demand, which contributed over 50% of our gross leasing.
We completed new leasing of 0.7 million square feet and renewals of 0.7 million square feet as
well, taking total gross leasing for the quarter to 1.4 million square feet. We continue to pivot
our portfolio to annual escalations to create a compounding rental growth profile. During the
quarter, 93% of our leasing had annual escalations.
Our occupier-first strategy has resulted in client stickiness and multifold growth by our existing
clientele. We are happy to inform that 58% of our new leasing this quarter came from existing
tenant expansions. Interestingly, these tenants come from varied sectors: a leading
semiconductor firm, one of the largest lens makers, the largest travel tech firm, and a large Indian
bank. We have highlighted the details in our investor presentation.
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Knowledge Realty Trust
July 28, 2026
Given the ongoing market conversations around AI's impact on office demand, I would like to
highlight how KRT's portfolio is resilient. We have three strong levers: our GCC exposure,
where occupiers are increasingly taking on higher value, more complex work; our negligible
exposure to the traditional IT services model, which is where the disruption is perceived to be
the most; and our front office portfolio, which continues to perform strongly.
Our front office portfolio in Mumbai represents some of India's finest business addresses
occupied by global consulting firms, multinational corporates, as well as headquarters of major
Indian conglomerates. Our Mumbai occupancy reached 92%, up 3% from last quarter. This was
primarily driven by our Central Mumbai cluster, which reached 93% occupancy, up 14% since
March 2025.
Coming to our mark-to-market potential across the portfolio, it is a sizable 25%, and we continue
to realize this upside every quarter. For instance, this quarter, we realized an average spread of
35% on new leasing and 29% on renewals.
Early terminations in our portfolio presented further repricing opportunities over and above the
embedded mark-to-market profile. For instance, in Knowledge City in Hyderabad, we signed
44,000 square feet with a marquee global financial services occupier at INR122 a square foot,
where the in-place rent was INR80.
Likewise, in Exora in Bangalore, we signed 85,000 square feet with a large technology GCC at
INR93 per square foot, where the outgoing rent was INR59.
On the ground, our Life at KRT platform continued to bring our campuses to life through sports,
wellness, and cultural programs across the portfolio. It was a busy quarter with a corporate sports
league and International Yoga Day celebrations at Sattva Global City in Bangalore, an indoor
sports league at Kosmo One in Chennai, and a Pickle and Padel ball tournament in One World
Center in Mumbai. This continued investment in hospitality-led service and tenant experience
remains a deliberate driver of retention and, over time, pricing power.
As we look ahead, our embedded growth levers remain firmly in place, contracted growth from
escalations, embedded growth from occupancy ramp-up, delivery of under-construction assets,
and sizable mark-to-market potential.
We also remain active in evaluating third-party acquisition opportunities that are accretive and
aligned with our portfolio strategy. We continue to see grow
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