FIRST PROPERTY GROUP PLC — Director's Dealing 2020

Mar 23, 2020

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RNS Number : 2182H

First Property Group PLC

23 March 2020

Date:	23 March 2020
On behalf of:	First Property Group plc ("First Property", "the Company" or the "Group")
Embargoed	Immediate release

First Property Group plc

Director's shareholding

First Property Group plc (AIM: FPO), the property fund manager and investor, was notified today that Mr Ben Habib, Group Chief Executive Officer, has purchased 100,000 ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares") at an average price of 23.85 pence per share into his Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP). Following this transaction, Ben Habib's beneficial interest in the Company has increased to 14,940,000 Ordinary Shares, representing 13.53 per cent. of the total issued share capital of the Company.

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For further information please contact:

First Property Group plc	Tel: +44 (20) 7340 0270
Ben Habib (Chief Executive Officer) George Digby (Group Finance Director) Jeremy Barkes (Director, Business Development)	www.fprop.com investor.relations@fprop.com
Arden Partners (NOMAD & Broker)	Tel: + 44 (20) 7614 5900
John Llewellyn-Lloyd (Director, Corporate Finance) Ben Cryer (Corporate Finance)
Newgate Communications (PR)	Tel:+ 44 (20) 3757 6880
Robin Tozer / Tom Carnegie / Isabelle Smurfit	firstproperty@newgatecomms.com

Notes to Investors and Editors:

First Property Group plc is an award-winning property fund manager and investor with operations in the United Kingdom and Central Europe. Its focus is on higher yielding commercial property with sustainable cash flows. The company is flexible and takes an active approach to asset management. Its earnings are derived from:

·    Fund management - via its FCA regulated and AIFMD approved subsidiary, First Property Asset Management Ltd (FPAM), which earns fees from investing for third parties in property. FPAM currently manages thirteen funds which are invested across the United Kingdom, Poland and Romania.

·      Group Properties - principal investments by the Group, to earn a return on its own capital, usually in partnership with third parties. Investments comprise nine wholly owned properties in Poland and Romania and non-controlling interests in ten of the thirteen funds managed by FPAM.

Listed on AIM the Company has offices in London, Warsaw and Bucharest. Around one third of the shares in the Company are owned by management and their families. Further information about the Company and its products can be found at: www.fprop.com.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them:

a)

Name

Ben Habib

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Executive Officer

b)

Is this an initial notification or an amendment to a prior notification?

Initial notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

First Property Group plc

b)

LEI

213800O4C71RSRQVHH77

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Ordinary Shares of 1p

GB0004109889

b)

Nature of the transaction

Purchase of Ordinary Shares

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
25.0p	50,000
22.7p	50,000

d)

Aggregated information (if any)

- Aggregated volume

- Price

100,000

23.85p

e)

Dates of transaction

19 March 2020

23 March 2020

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange

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