Home Invest Belgium : issues a green bond for € 40 million over 10 years

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Home Invest Belgium issues a green bond for € 40 million

over 10 years

Brussels, January 18, 2022 - Home Invest Belgium, the specialist in residential rental real estate, has completed its first green bond issue for an amount of

• 40 million. The bond has a 10-year maturity and a coupon of 1.85%. The bond was fully underwritten by AG Insurance.

Preben Bruggeman, CFO at Home Invest Belgium: "This first green bond issue is a new milestone in the financing activities of Home Invest Belgium. With this transaction, Home Invest Belgium emphasizes its sustainability ambitions as a long-terminvestor in residential rental real estate. The realization of a long-term(10 years) financing with one leading insurance company also underlines the company's solid credit profile."

Wim Vermeir, CIO at AG Insurance: "Investing in a sustainable way that safeguards the future of the next generations is an essential part of AG's strategy and core values. Our investment in this green bond from Home Invest Belgium fits perfectly within this framework. Moreover, sustainable real estate development is an important pillar within AG's investment policy."

Home Invest Belgium emphasizes its sustainability ambitions by setting up a Green Finance Framework

The bond was issued under the company's ongoing EMTN programme and a newly established Green Finance Framework.

The proceeds of the bond will only be used by Home Invest Belgium to finance or refinance activities that fit within Home Invest Belgium's ESG strategy and that meet the sustainability criteria set out in the Green Finance Framework, such as investments in sustainable buildings, sustainable renovations. and renewable energy.

ISS ESG also confirms in a Second Party Opinion that the Green Finance Framework and the proposed sustainability criteria are in accordance with the Green Bond Principles and the Green Loan Principles.

The Green Finance Framework and the Second Party Opinion can be consulted on the corporate website of Home Invest Belgium: https://corporate.homeinvest.be/publications/other-publications/green-finance-framework.

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Home Invest Belgium strengthens its long-term financing structure

This bond issue allows Home Invest Belgium to further optimize its long-term financing structure by further diversifying its financing sources and significantly increasing the average maturity of its debts.

Home Invest Belgium has a balanced financing structure with maturities of the financial debts spread until 2032. Home Invest Belgium has no maturities of bank debts or bonds in 2022.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Sven Janssens	Preben Bruggeman
Chief Executive Officer	Chief Financial Officer
Tel.: [phone]	Home Invest Belgium
E-Mail:	Woluwedal 46, bus 11B-
[e-mail]	1200 Brussel
www.homeinvestbelgium.be

About Home Invest Belgium

Home Invest Belgium is a Belgian public regulated real estate company (GVV/SIR) specialised in the acquisition, sale, development, letting and management of residential real estate. On 31 December 2021, Home Invest Belgium held a real estate portfolio worth more than €700 million in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Home Invest Belgium has been listed on Euronext Brussels [HOMI] since 1999. On 31 December 2021, the market capitalisation amounted to € 403 million.