Exhibit 99.1

 

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Private & confidential

The Directors

Sage AR Funding 2026 No.3 DAC

The Sidings, 4th Floor

Grand Canal Quay

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DO2 E7K8

Ireland

 

Sage Rented Ltd

5th Floor Orion House

5 Upper St Martins Lane

London

WC2H 9EA

 

Wells Fargo Securities International Limited

33 King William Street

London

EC4R 9AT

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc

25 Cabot Square

Canary Wharf

London, E14 4AD

United Kingdom

 

 

Your ref      Sage AR9

 

   
9 September 2026  

 

 

Dear All

 

Engagement to perform agreed-upon procedures in relation to commercial mortgage loans proposed to be the subject of a securitisation

 

In accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 29 July 2026 (the “Engagement Letter”), we have performed certain agreed-upon procedures in relation to portfolios of UK social housing leases related to commercial mortgage loans referred to above proposed to be the subject of a securitisation (the “Securitisation”). This letter reports on our performance of those agreed-upon procedures (the “Data AUP Letter”). This Data AUP Letter is confidential and agreed disclosure restrictions apply.

 

This Data AUP Letter is addressed to the Directors of Sage AR Funding 2026 No.3 DAC (the “Issuer”), Sage Rented Ltd (the “Originator”), Wells Fargo Securities International Limited (an “Arranger”) and Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc (an “Arranger”) and collectively all addressees of this Data AUP Letter are referred to as the “Data AUP Letter Recipients”.

 

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  KPMG LLP
  Engagement to perform agreed-upon procedures in relation to commercial mortgage loans proposed to be the subject of a securitisation
9 September 2026

 

The procedures that we will perform are solely for the purpose of assisting you in determining the accuracy of data that you are preparing in connection with the Securitisation and so may not be suitable for any other purpose. We will not accept any responsibility to any other party to whom our Data AUP Letter is shown or into whose hands it may come.

 

Responsibilities of the Data AUP Letter Recipients

 

It is the responsibility of the Data AUP Letter Recipients to determine the sufficiency of these procedures agreed with them for their own purposes. Consequently, we make no representation regarding the sufficiency of the procedures described below either for the purposes for which this report has been requested or for any other purpose.

 

The Data AUP Letter Recipients have acknowledged that the agreed-upon procedures are appropriate for the purpose of the engagement. The Originator is responsible for the subject matter on which the agreed-upon procedures are performed.

 

Our Responsibilities

 

Our engagement was undertaken in accordance with International Standard on Related Services 4400 (Revised), Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. An agreed-upon procedures engagement involves our performing the procedures that have been agreed with the Data AUP Letter Recipients, and reporting the factual findings, which are the factual results of the agreed-upon procedures performed. We make no representation regarding the appropriateness of the agreed-upon procedures.

 

This agreed-upon procedures engagement is not an assurance engagement. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion or an assurance conclusion.

 

Had we performed additional procedures, other matters might have come to our attention that would have been reported.

 

Professional Ethics and Quality Control

 

We have complied with the ethical requirements in the ICAEW Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. For the purpose of this engagement, there are no independence requirements with which we are obliged to comply.

 

We apply International Standard on Quality Control (UK) 1 Quality Control for Firms that Perform Audits and Reviews of Financial Statements, and Other Assurance and Related Services Engagements. Accordingly, we maintain a comprehensive system of quality control including documented policies and procedures regarding compliance with ethical requirements and professional standards as well as applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

 

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  KPMG LLP
  Engagement to perform agreed-upon procedures in relation to commercial mortgage loans proposed to be the subject of a securitisation
9 September 2026

 

Procedures and Findings

 

The procedures performed were not intended to satisfy any criteria for due diligence published by any nationally recognised statistical rating organisation (“NRSRO”).

 

We have been provided with a data file entitled “Sage AR 9 – Datatape v3.xlsx” containing details relating to portfolios of UK social housing leases as at 31 March 2026 (the “Portfolio Date”) (the “Extraction File”) proposed to be the subject of a securitisation (the “Portfolio”). Not including any vacant units, a sample of 264 items was drawn at random from the Portfolio (the “Sample”). The number of items in the Sample was determined on the basis described in the scope of services (the “Scope of Services”) attached as Appendix A.

 

The procedures were performed on the Extraction File and the source documentation (the “Sources”) provided to us by the Originator. We have not verified or evaluated such Sources and therefore we express no opinion or any other form of assurance regarding the reliability, accuracy or adequacy of the Sources, or as to whether any of the Sources omit any material facts. Furthermore, we express no opinion or any other form of assurance regarding the reliability, accuracy or adequacy of the disclosures in the Extraction File, or any legal matters relating to the Portfolio or the physical existence of the leases.

 

The procedures performed did not address, without limitation:  (i) the conformity of the origination of the Portfolio to stated underwriting or credit extension guidelines, standards, criteria or other requirements, (ii) the value of any collateral securing the Portfolio, (iii) the compliance of the originator of the Portfolio with applicable laws and regulations, or (iv) any other factor or characteristic of the Portfolio that would be material to the likelihood that the issuer or the asset-backed security will pay interest and principal in accordance with applicable terms and conditions. 

 

Findings

 

There were no findings to report from the agreed-upon procedures.

 

Based on the instructions provided to us and the assumptions set out in the Scope of Services, it can be calculated that there is a 95% level of confidence that not more than 1% of the population contains such findings relating to the specified procedure.

 

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  KPMG LLP
  Engagement to perform agreed-upon procedures in relation to commercial mortgage loans proposed to be the subject of a securitisation
9 September 2026

 

General

 

This Data AUP Letter may only be relied upon in respect of the matters to which it refers and as of its date. In relying upon this Data AUP Letter, you agree (save as may otherwise have been expressly agreed in writing) that we have no responsibility to, and we will not, perform any work subsequent to the date of this Data AUP Letter nor to consider, monitor, communicate or report the impact of any events or circumstances which may occur or may come to light subsequent to the date of this Data AUP Letter.

 

This Data AUP Letter is not issued in accordance with the professional standards of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. We will provide separately an executed Form ABS Due Diligence-15E, Certification of Provider of Third-Party Due Diligence Services for Asset-Backed Securities (“Form ABS Due Diligence-15E”), using the form made available by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), to which this Data AUP Letter will be appended. The executed Form ABS Due Diligence-15E will be provided, without in any way or on any basis affecting or adding to or extending our duties and responsibilities to you or giving rise to any duty or responsibility being accepted or assumed by or imposed on KPMG to any party except you, to facilitate your compliance with SEC Release No. 34-72936, Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (the “SEC Release”), pursuant to which you are required to make publicly available the findings and conclusions of any third-party due diligence report obtained. This Data AUP Letter alone is not to be relied on in the United States and we accept no responsibility for any use that you may make of this Data AUP Letter alone in the United States.

 

The requirement to make publicly available findings and conclusions includes disclosure of the criteria against which loans were evaluated, and how the evaluated loans compared to those criteria, along with the basis for including any loans not meeting those criteria. This is accomplished by including such information, which will include this Data AUP Letter, in Form ABS-15G, Asset-Backed Securitizer Report Pursuant to Section 15G of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Form ABS 15G”), which is required to be furnished by the Issuer or underwriter to the SEC through the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (“EDGAR”) system.

 

The Issuer, sponsor or underwriter of an asset–backed securitisation is required to maintain a website (the “Rule 17g-5 website”) pursuant to paragraph (a)(3) of Rule 17g-5 of the US Code of Federal Regulations (17 CFR 240.17g-5). The SEC Release requires any NRSRO producing a credit rating to which “third party due diligence services” relate, to publish with its rating any executed Form ABS Due Diligence-15E containing information about the relevant security or money market instrument that the NRSRO receives or obtains through a Rule 17g-5 website. The agreed-upon procedures performed by KPMG on which this Data AUP Letter reports amount to “third party due diligence services” as defined in the SEC Release.

 

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  KPMG LLP
  Engagement to perform agreed-upon procedures in relation to commercial mortgage loans proposed to be the subject of a securitisation
9 September 2026

 

To facilitate a relevant NRSRO meeting this publication obligation, we are required to furnish any executed Form ABS Due Diligence-15E to any such NRSRO. As envisaged by the SEC Release, we will do so by providing the prescribed form to the Issuer, sponsor, or underwriter of the securitisation that maintains the Rule 17g-5 website, or to any NRSRO that requests it. In addition, the SEC Release requires that an NRSRO producing a credit rating publicly disclose each prescribed form that was posted to the Rule 17g-5 website. Such information may therefore be posted on the website of any relevant NRSRO.

 

Any such publicity shall take place, without in any way or on any basis affecting or adding to or extending our duties and responsibilities to you or giving rise to any duty or responsibility being accepted or assumed by or imposed on KPMG to any party except you, to facilitate your compliance with the SEC Release. Accordingly, any party (including rating agencies and investors) obtaining access to this Data AUP Letter as appended to the executed Form ABS Due Diligence-15E or separately is not authorised by KPMG to use or rely upon the Data AUP Letter, any such use or reliance shall take place at the relevant party’s own risk and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we will have no responsibility and will deny any liability to any such party.

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

KPMG LLP

 

Attached:

Appendix A     Scope of the Services

 

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  KPMG LLP
  Engagement to perform agreed-upon procedures in relation to commercial mortgage loans proposed to be the subject of a securitisation
9 September 2026

 

Appendix A: Scope of Services

 

This Appendix sets out the procedures that the Data AUP Letter Recipients have instructed us, and that we have agreed, to perform.

 

Provision of a data file

 

The Data AUP Letter Recipients have informed us that the Originator will provide a data file to us containing details of UK social housing leases proposed to be the subject of a securitisation (the “Portfolio”) as at a date to be determined by the Data AUP Letter Recipients (the “Portfolio Date”) (the “Extraction File”). We will draw a sample of items at random from the Extraction File (the “Sample”) and will notify the items selected to the Originator. The number of items in the Sample will be determined on the basis described under “Sampling” below.

 

The Originator will then provide a data file to us containing details relating to items in the Sample as at a date to be determined by the Data AUP Letter Recipients (the “Portfolio Date”) (the “Extraction File”).

 

The Originator will also provide source documentation to us that the Data AUP Letter Recipients wish us to use for the purposes of the agreed-upon procedures.

 

Sampling

 

Sampling is a process of examining less than the total number of items in a population in order to calculate a statistical interpretation about that population. Sampling techniques inherently assume that the sample is representative of the population as a whole. The Data AUP Letter Recipients have requested that we calculate the sample size based on the total number of items in the Portfolio using the following parameters:

 

Expected deviation rate: 0%

 

Tolerable deviation rate: 1%

 

Confidence level: 95%

 

on the basis that differences between the data attributes and their respective sources are hypergeometrically distributed. We make no representations regarding the use of, or assumptions underlying the sampling techniques.

 

Procedures

 

The procedures that the Data AUP Letter Recipients have instructed us, and that we have agreed, to perform in relation to the information contained in the Extraction File are set out in the table below.

 

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  KPMG LLP
  Engagement to perform agreed-upon procedures in relation to commercial mortgage loans proposed to be the subject of a securitisation
9 September 2026

 

No.

Data attribute in

the Extraction File

Procedure Source Tolerance
1 # Bedrooms For each item in the Sample check if the data attribute per the Extraction File matches the source. Tenancy Agreement None
2 Freehold / Leasehold For each item in the Sample check if the data attribute per the Extraction File matches the source.

Certificate of Title details provided by the Originator in an excel file entitled “List of 1,642 Properties for AR9 Portfolio (31725057.1)”

 

None
3 Annualised Rent (£)(2)

For each item in the Sample check if the data attribute per the Extraction File matches the source.

 

As instructed by the Originator, the weekly rental income (excluding service charge) per the source was multiplied by 365/7, ~ 52.14 rounded to 2dp.

 

As instructed by the Originator, where the tenancy started after April 2025 or just before April 2025 and was not occupied in March 2025, this was tested to the Tenancy Agreement.

 

Rent Increase Letter / Deed of Assignment / Tenancy Agreement None
4 Occupancy Status

For each item in the Sample, check if the data attribute per the Extraction File matches the source.

 

As instructed by the Originator, where a tenancy agreement is in place (within the fixed term) with a specified tenant at the cut off date, the property is deemed to be occupied.

 

Tenancy Agreement / Tenancy Conversion Letter / Rent Increase Letter None
5 Property Address, Town and Postcode

For each item in the Sample, check if the data attribute per the Extraction File matches the source.

 

As instructed by the Originator, where only the property or flat number together with the postcode in the Extraction File match the source, this has not been marked as a difference.

 

As instructed by the Originator, subsequent changes to the postcode by Royal Mail are not marked as a difference.

 

Tenancy Agreement

Differences attributable to spelling mistakes or contractions or two-letter typos are to be treated as matching the source

 

 

 

 

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  KPMG LLP
  Engagement to perform agreed-upon procedures in relation to commercial mortgage loans proposed to be the subject of a securitisation
9 September 2026

 

Notes in relation to the manner of reporting certain findings

 

1)Reporting the findings

 

Where within the Extraction File a data attribute for a particular lease is missing, this is to be reported as ‘missing data’ or ‘MD’.

 

Where a data attribute contained in the Extraction File for an individual lease does not match the source, this is to be reported as a ‘difference’ or ‘D’.

 

Where the Data AUP Letter Recipients have instructed us not to perform a procedure in relation to certain items within the Sample, this is to be reported as ‘not applicable’ or ‘N/A’.

 

Where a source document has not been provided, or the data attribute is missing from the source document, this is to be reported as ‘missing source’, ‘missing from source’ or ‘MS’.

 

2)Statistical interpretation

 

For the purposes of the statistical interpretation, the Data AUP Letter Recipients require us to present the statistical extrapolation for each procedure as follows:

 

(i)Calculation to be based on the total number of items in the Sample except where within the Extraction File a data attribute for a particular lease is missing in which event the calculation is to be based on the total number of items in the Sample after subtracting the number of items with missing data.

 

(ii)Calculation to be performed treating as errors both differences and missing sources.

 

Where a procedure specifies agreement to specific documentation, and the Originator has provided as part of the source documentation written evidence of amendments or additions to an original document or documents, the instruction of the Data AUP Letter Recipients to us is to conduct the relevant procedure on the basis of the information contained in the amendments or additions to the original documentation and not the information contained in the original documentation.

 

In reporting findings on the basis of the procedures to be undertaken, the Data AUP Letter Recipients have specified that results are to be reported as being in agreement if any difference found is below the tolerance level, if any, set out above.

 

 

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