Share purchase by Associate & Director holding
First Property Group PLC
23 September 2026
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Date: |
23 September 2026 |
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On behalf of: |
First Property Group plc("First Property", the “Company" or the "Group") |
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Embargoed: |
Immediate Release |
First Property Group plc
Share purchase by Associate and Director shareholding
First Property Group plc(AIM: FPO), the property fund manager and investor, announces that its Associate, Fprop Phoenix Limited (“PHO”), in which the Group has a 23.78% shareholding, purchased, yesterday (22 September 2026), 250,000 ordinary shares in the Company (the “Ordinary Shares”) at a price of 14.00 pence per Ordinary Share.
Following this purchase PHO’s beneficial interest in the share capital of the Company is 550,000 Ordinary Shares, equivalent to approximately 0.37% of the Company's total voting rights.
As Ben Habib, the Group’s Chief Executive owns 72.71% of the issued shares of PHO this shareholding is deemed to be part of Ben Habib’s shareholding in the Company which now totals 25,368,595 Ordinary Shares, equivalent to approximately 17.16% of the Company's total voting rights.
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For further information please contact:
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First Property Group plc |
Tel: +44 (20) 7340 0270 |
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Ben Habib (Chief Executive Officer) Laura Howarth (Group Finance Director) Jeremy Barkes (Director, Business Development) Jill Aubrey (Director, Company Secretary) |
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Allenby Capital (Nominated Adviser & Broker) |
Tel: + 44 (20) 3328 5656 |
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Nick Naylor / Liz Kirchner (Corporate Finance) Amrit Nahal / Tony Quirke (Sales and Corporate Broking) |
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Notes to Investors and Editors:
First Property Group plc is a 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 ten 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. These investments currently comprise five directly held properties in Poland, and non-controlling interests in eight of the ten funds managed by FPAM.
Quoted on AIM, the Company has offices in London and Warsaw. Further information about the Company and its properties can be found at: www.fprop.com. To receive RNS alerts by email please subscribe here.
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them:
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Name |
Fprop Phoenix Limited | ||||||
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Reason for the notification | |||||||
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Position/status |
PCA of Ben Habib (Chief Executive of First Property Group plc) | ||||||
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Is this an initial notification or an amendment to a prior notification? |
Initial notification | ||||||
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||||
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Name |
First Property Group plc | ||||||
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LEI |
213800O4C71RSRQVHH77 | ||||||
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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 | |||||||
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a)
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Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code |
Ordinary Shares of 1 penny
GB0004109889 | ||||||
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Nature of the transaction |
Purchase of Ordinary Shares | ||||||
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Price(s) and volume(s)
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Aggregated information (if any)
- Aggregated volume
- Price |
250,000
14.00p | ||||||
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Date of transaction |
22 September 2026 | ||||||
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Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange | ||||||
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