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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>According to Beijing Daily, Beijing Lianjia has lowered commission rate for existing home transactions (EHT) in Beijing, from previous nominal rate of 2.7% to 2.0%, and will start to charge 1.0% each on both home sellers and buyers, instead of only from the buyer side.</li><li>In the prudent scenario, we estimate a 1.5/6.3% negative impact on Ke Holdings (Beike)’s group-level contribution profit (CP) in 2023/2024E.</li><li>However, we expect limited long-term impact on Beike’s earnings from the adjustment of commission rate, as: 1) current commission rate for EHT in Beijing could be lower than 2.7%; 2) Lianjia in cities other than Beijing may have limited room to cut rates given actual rates could be lower than 2%. Maintain BUY with SOTP-based TP unchanged at US$24.5.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

According to Beijing Daily, Beijing Lianjia has lowered commission rate for existing home transactions (EHT) in Beijing, from previous nominal rate of 2.7% to 2.0%, and will start to charge 1.0% each on both home sellers and buyers, instead of only from the buyer side.In the prudent scenario, we estimate a 1.5/6.3% negative impact on Ke Holdings (Beike)’s group-level contribution profit (CP) in 2023/2024E.However, we expect limited long-term impact on Beike’s earnings from the adjustment of commission rate, as: 1) current commission rate for EHT in Beijing could be lower than 2.7%; 2) Lianjia in cities other than Beijing may have limited room to cut rates given actual rates could be lower than 2%. Maintain BUY with SOTP-based TP unchanged at US$24.5.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

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