OREANDA-NEWS. August 1, 2011. PIK Group (LSE: PIK), one of Russia's leading residential real estate developers, is pleased to publish today a trading update for the 6 months ended June 30, 2011 based upon management accounts.

Key highlights:

Cash collections from sale of apartments surged 63% to RUB 14.2 billion (1H10: RUB 8.7 billion) driven by higher volume and residential selling prices in the corresponding period;

Total gross cash collections for 1H11 showed continuing growth of the Group's operations and increased by 57% reaching RUB 23.3 billion (1H10: RUB 14.9 billion);

1H11 new sales contracts to customers showed 44% growth up to 229 thousand sq meters compared to the same period of 2010 upon continuing market growth & diversification of product offering (1H11: 19 new addresses were introduced onto sale) accompanied by increasing mortgage affordability at PIK's projects;

2Q11 sales funded by mortgages reached pre-crisis level at 25.3% as a result of PIK's initiative to introduce various mortgage partnership programs with Russian state-owned and private banks;

Cash collections from construction services were up by 49% at RUB 5.8 billion (1H10: RUB 3.9 billion);

FY2011 guidance on new sales contracts to customers of 520 000 square meters is reiterated together with total gross cash collections of RUB 50-55 billion (RUB 40-45 billion of which account for sales of apartments)

Cash collections summary

(in RUB MM)

1Q2010

2Q2010

1Q2011

2Q2011

1H2010

1H2011

Change, % (2Q11/2Q10)

Change, % (1H11/1H10)

TOTAL GROSS CASH

COLLECTIONS

4 441

10 456

8 072

15 261

14 897

23 333

45.6%

56.6%

including

offsets with suppliers

25

2 282

853

2 477

2 307

3 330

8.5%

44.3%

TOTAL NET CASH

collections

4 416

8 174

7 219

12 784

12 590

20 003

55.9%,

58.8%

including:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash collections from residential real estate sales activities

comprising:

2 946

5 740

5 293

8 889

8 686

14 182

54.8%

63.3%

- Cash collections

from retail real estate

sales

2 542

3 471

4 927

6 763

6 013

11 690

94.8%

94.4%

- Cash collections from wholesale real estate sales

403

2 269

366

2 126

2 672

2 492

-6.3%

-6.7%

Cash collections  from construction services activities and others

1 470

2 434

1 925

3 893

3 904

5 818

59.9%

49.0%