November 11, 2022
Sekisui House, Ltd.

Received "Rainbow Certification" under the PRIDE Index 2022
On November 10, 2022, Sekisui House, Ltd. received a "Rainbow Certified"rating under the PRIDE Index 2022, which evaluates LGBTQ-related
initiatives.
The PRIDE Index was developed in 2016 by the voluntary organization workwith Pride as Japan's first index to evaluate LGBTQ and other sexual minority
initiatives in the workplace.
Workplaces are evaluated on: (1) Policy (call to action), (2) Representation(stakeholder community), (3) Inspiration (awareness-raising activities), (4) Development (humanresource systems and programs), and (5) Engagement/Empowerment (social contribution andexternal relations activities). Sekisui House has received the highest award, Gold, for five consecutiveyears.
The Rainbow Certification was established in 2021 as an addition to theexisting PRIDE Index to encourage companies that make a medium- tolong-term commitment to creating a workplace and society in which LGBTQ
people can work as their true selves. The three requirements forcertification are: a "Gold" rating, the highest rating in the PRIDE Index;
support as a company or organization for activities to realize LGBTQ+related legal systems in Japan; and that a vision has been created to work towards the resolution ofa specific social issue based on a common understanding between important stakeholders fromdifferent sectors, such as companies, governments, and NPOs, as well as their own organizations.
The Sekisui House Group endorses the Business for Marriage Equality and the Business Support forLGBT Equality in Japan, which are activities to realize LGBTQ+ related laws in Japan.
With our global vision to make home the happiest place in the world, the Sekisui House Group ispromoting reforms in work styles that enable all of its diverse human resources to play an active role,so that employees can also be happy, and we will continue to lead society in the promotion ofdiversity and inclusion.
Sekisui House Diversity & Inclusion homepage (Japanese):https://www.sekisuihouse.co.jp/diversity_inclusion/
PRIDE Index homepage (Japanese):https://workwithpride.jp/pride-i/*LGBTQ+ is a designation that adds a + to LGBTQ to ensure that no gender diversity is left out.

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Sekisui House Group's LGBTQ Initiatives:
 Project to promote LGBTQ friendly customer service
In May 2022, we implemented LGBTQ-friendly measures, such as removing the gender column
from application documents, etc., to ensure that customers can complete procedures and move in
without stress when searching for a room, and conducted training for about 1,800 agencies
affiliated with the Sekisui House Real Estate Group to ensure uniform awareness. In addition,
training was provided to approximately 1,800 Sekisui House Real Estate Group's partner agencies
to ensure uniform awareness.
 Ongoing implementation of human rights training (human relations training)Since 2014, The Sekisui House group have been conducting ongoing awareness-raising activities
through learning and discussion of LGBTQ issues as one of the themes in our human rights
training for all our employees.
 Distribution of Ally stickers
From September 2020, we created original stickers for those who identify
themselves as an ally and supporter of LGBTQ people.
 Established an LGBTQ hotline
In September 2019, we introduced a system that allows employees to register heterosexual defacto and same-sex partners into our system and established an in-house LGBTQ-specificconsultation service.

About Sekisui House
Founded in 1960, Sekisui House, Ltd. is one of world’s largest homebuilders and an international

diversified developer, with cumulative sales of over 2.5 million homes1. Based in Osaka, Sekisui House
has over 300 consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates2, over 29,000 employees3 and is listed on theTokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange.
Sekisui House aims to create homes and communities that improve with time and last for generations.
With “Love of Humanity” as its Corporate Philosophy, Sekisui House believes that homes should offercomfort, security and peace of mind for residents, while maintaining harmony with the environment
and its surroundings. Sekisui House has sustainability as a core corporate target and is now the global

leader in the construction of net-zero-energy houses with more than sixty-thousand4 of them built
since the product was launched in 2013. In 2009, Sekisui House expanded into several new
international markets and now operates in the United States, China, Singapore, Australia and theUnited Kingdom.
*1: 2,544,849 homes delivered (As of January 31, 2022)*2: 340 consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates (As of July 31, 2022)*3: 29,868 employees (As of July 31, 2022)*4: 69,163 net-zero-energy houses (As of March 31, 2022)

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