Empiric Student Property PLC

AGM Information • Jun 5, 2025

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Empiric Student Property plc

(“Empiric” or the “Company” or, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”)

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Empiric Student Property plc (ticker: ESP), the owner and operator of premium, studio-led student accommodation aligned to top-tier universities, announces that all resolutions proposed at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 4 June 2025 were voted on and duly passed by a poll by the Company's shareholders and the results of the poll, including proxy votes received, are set out below.

Resolutions 1 to 12 (inclusive) were proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 16 (inclusive) were proposed as special resolutions.

RESOLUTION	FOR*		AGAINST		WITHHELD VOTES**
	VOTES	% OF VOTES CAST*	VOTES	% OF VOTES CAST*
Ordinary Business
1. To receive the Company’s Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2024	488,698,942	99.99	29,096	0.01	359,326
1. To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2024	487,194,610	99.62	1,841,894	0.38	50,860
1. To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditors of the Company	433,361,017	88.61	55,699,493	11.39	26,854
1. To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors	485,773,500	99.33	3,291,459	0.67	22,405
1. To authorise the Directors to declare and pay all dividends as interim dividends	489,002,145	99.99	40,638	0.01	44,581
1. To re-elect Mark Pain as a Director of the Company	429,684,023	87.88	59,276,154	12.12	127,187
1. To elect Alice Avis as a Director of the Company	482,153,934	98.59	6,904,695	1.41	28,735
1. To re-elect Duncan Garrood as a Director of the Company	487,699,066	99.72	1,361,089	0.28	27,209
1. To re-elect Martin Ratchford as a Director of the Company	483,700,675	98.90	5,359,480	1.10	27,209
1. To re-elect Clair Preston-Beer as a Director of the Company	483,708,539	98.91	5,351,616	1.09	27,209
1. To re-elect Donald Grant as a Director of the Company	487,705,262	99.72	1,354,893	0.28	27,207
Special Business
1. To authorise the Directors to allot shares up to the limits set out in the Notice of meeting	448,520,256	91.71	40,529,449	8.29	37,659
1. Special Resolution – To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities for cash, without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders, up to the limits set out in the Notice of Meeting.	482,141,454	98.59	6,893,970	1.41	51,940
1. Special Resolution To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities for cash in connection with a specified investment, without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders, up to the limits set out in the Notice of Meeting.	459,923,307	94.04	29,143,643	5.96	20,414
1. Special Resolution To authorise the Company to make market purchases of own shares in the Company	488,800,148	99.96	175,812	0.04	111,404
1. Special resolution – That a general meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days’ notice	460,717,949	94.20	28,357,823	5.80	11,592

* Includes discretionary votes

** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.

As at the date of the meeting, there were 664,119,746 ordinary shares with voting rights in issue. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury.

In accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.2 R a copy of the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting, other than those constituting ordinary business, will be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

ENDS

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT:

Empiric Student Property plc	(via FTI Consulting below)
Duncan Garrood (Chief Executive Officer)
Donald Grant (Chief Financial & Sustainability Officer)
FTI Consulting (Communications Adviser)	020 3727 1000
Dido Laurimore Eve Kirmatzis	empiric@fticonsulting.com

The Company's LEI is 213800FPF38IBPRFPU87.

Further information on Empiric can be found on the Company's website at www.empiric.co.uk.

Notes:

Empiric Student Property plc is a leading provider and operator of modern, predominantly direct-let, premium student accommodation serving key UK universities. Investing in both operating and development assets, Empiric is a fully integrated operational student property business focused on premium studio-led accommodation managed through its Hello Student operating platform, that is attractive to affluent growing student segments.

The Company, an internally managed real estate investment trust ("REIT") incorporated in England and Wales, listed on the premium listing segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and was admitted to trading on the main market for listed securities of the London Stock Exchange in June 2014. The Company is classified as a commercial company listed under chapter 6 of the UK Listing rules and as such is not an alternative investment fund (“AIF”) for the purposes of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD”) and is not required to provide investors with a Key information Document (“KID”) in accordance with the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (“PRIIPs”) regulations.