Paragon Group Regulatory News (PAG)

The following amendment has been made to the 'Transaction in own shares' announcement released on 22 December 2016 at 17:33 under RNS No 6674S.

An additional transaction has been added to the 'Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions' as noted below as this was missing from the announcement on 22 December 2016.

All other details remain unchanged. The full amended text is shown below.

The Paragon Group of Companies PLC:

Transaction in own shares

The Paragon Group of Companies PLC (the "Company") announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of £1.00 each on the London Stock Exchange from UBS Limited ("UBS") as part of its buyback programme announced on 23 November 2016.

Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 16,872,629 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 278,979,465 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). This figure 278,979,465 represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the schedule below contains detailed information about the purchases made by UBS on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions