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• Company Overview & Strategic Positioning

  • Iii Seikatsu is a vertical SaaS company focused on real estate tech, providing DX support for real estate companies, with 80% of revenue from recurring subscriptions. It operates a multi-product strategy targeting different real estate customer segments (rental management, rental brokerage, sales brokerage) to meet diverse customer needs and enable overall business optimization.
  • The company combines vertical SaaS with BPaaS: SaaS generates inherent demand for BPaaS implementation and operation support, creating strong synergies. The company focuses on high-value data modernization, which cleans and prepares legacy customer data for migration to the company's cloud platform, helping customers overcome industry labor shortages that hinder DX adoption.
  • Competitive advantages: 100% SaaS-only (no on-premise), focused exclusively on the real estate vertical, multi-product overall optimization; strong security advantage built on structural separation, zero-trust architecture, cloud-native design, and 3 international security certifications, which has been validated by recent industry cyberattacks where on-premise customer data was lost while Iii Seikatsu-hosted data remained intact; in-house dedicated engineering, direct sales, consulting and customer success teams that support customers end-to-end from pre-sales to ongoing operations.
  • Regulatory tailwind: Upcoming 2027 new lease accounting standards require system updates, and Iii Seikatsu handles all system updates for its SaaS customers, creating growth tailwinds for SaaS adoption. Currently, 1,570 customer companies with over 4,800 locations use the company's SaaS.

• 3rd Quarter Financial Performance

  • Total 3rd quarter revenue: 2.338 billion yen, up 5.2% year-over-year. Gross profit: 1.359 billion yen, up 16.1% year-over-year. Operating profit: 104 million yen, turning to a net profit from a year-ago operating loss. Net income: 67 million yen. Cumulative EBITDA: 519 million yen, up 51.5% year-over-year, with 61.5% year-over-year growth on a quarterly basis. Operating cash flow reached 201 million yen, 2.5x larger than the year-ago period. ARPU is on a gradual upward trend driven by multi-product upselling.
  • Profitability improvement comes from cost efficiency gains: The company optimized outsourcing costs, leveraged AI coding tools (Gemini CLI, Claude Code) to improve engineering productivity, kept headcount nearly flat (focused on productivity improvement over headcount growth via AI, reduced mid-career hiring while continuing new graduate hiring), which lowered cost ratio and improved overall productivity and profitability. The equity ratio remains above 75%, maintaining a very healthy financial position, with sufficient cash to fund strategic growth investments.

• Recent Product & Partnership Updates

  • 3rd quarter new customer wins include Home Trade Center (a core Iida Group sales brokerage company with 42 national locations) and BRUNO Property Management (a 14-location Able franchisee in Okayama Prefecture).
  • New product launches: Released the new いい生活 Building Management Cloud for rental management companies, which centralizes management of third-party outsourced services (cleaning, inspections) and facility maintenance, covering all core rental management workflows. Launched a co-developed office tenant communication app with Sanfro ntier Real Estate, which is already live and being expanded to other office building management companies.
  • Product enhancements: Invested in enhancing digital marketing features for いい生活 Rental Cloud and いい生活 Sales Cloud; investing heavily in a large-scale version upgrade of いい生活 Sales Cloud. Started information linkage with JCOM for resident-facing services, expanding the company's ecosystem around real estate services. Multiple core regional real estate companies have launched property information distribution on いい生活 Square, increasing platform activity.

• Long-Term Product Vision

  • The company aims to become a platform that aggregates all real estate-related data. As customer count grows, the volume, transaction value and amount of data on the platform increases, raising platform value and expanding into adjacent real estate-related services, which further drives transaction-based revenue growth for いい生活 Square. The total addressable market (TAM) for real estate tech is 2.37 trillion yen, and the company targets becoming a leading player in the market, with a minimum obtainable revenue target of 6 billion yen that it aims to exceed.

• The company upwardly revised its full-year 2026 March fiscal year guidance: Full-year total revenue is guided to 3.2 billion yen (5.7% year-over-year increase), operating profit to 170 million yen (a ~200 million yen improvement from the prior year's loss), EBITDA to 733 million yen (up from 500 million yen in the prior year), ordinary profit to 176 million yen, and net income to 113 million yen.
  • The upward revision was driven by much higher than expected progress on profitability: ordinary profit already exceeded the full-year initial guidance at the end of the 3rd quarter, and 4th quarter revenue projections remain solid. The core growth drivers are strong existing customer upsell/cross-sell, rising ARPU, and stable net negative churn.
  • The full-year basic strategic direction remains unchanged: The company will continue supporting SaaS migration for enterprise-class customers and leading regional real estate companies, strengthening its multi-product lineup, growing transaction-based revenue for いい生活 Square, and enhancing data modernization support for customers migrating from on-premise systems.
  • The company will continue maintaining a balanced approach between strategic investment and free cash flow generation, continuing to invest in strategically important growth areas while ensuring sufficient cash flow, leveraging the company's healthy balance sheet.

1. Subscription Segment: 3rd quarter revenue reached 2.01068 billion yen, with a 6.2% year-over-year increase, accounting for 86.0% of total 3rd quarter revenue. Quarterly subscription revenue hit an all-time high, with steady ARPU growth to 147 thousand yen and a negative 0.06% revenue churn (net negative churn, meaning upsell/cross-sell revenue from existing customers outweighs revenue lost to churn, a very strong result for SaaS business). Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) is 2.782 billion yen. Paid subscription customers reached 1,575 legal entities, with 4,850 service locations.
2. Solution (BPaaS) Segment: 3rd quarter revenue was nearly flat year-over-year, accounting for 14.0% of total 3rd quarter revenue. The segment has stable underlying demand, with large revenue expected in the 4th quarter based on backlog, so full-year revenue is projected to increase.

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