Transaction in Own Shares

31 Aug 2007 15:21

First Property Group PLC31 August 2007 Transaction in own shares First Property Group plc ("First Property" or the "Company") announces that it has today purchased 100,000 of its own ordinary shares at an average price of 19.0 pence per ordinary share. All of the purchased shares are to be held as treasury shares. Following the transfers into treasury made today, First Property has in issue (excluding the total of 725,000 ordinary shares held in treasury) 110,876,115 Ordinary Shares. The above figure of 110,876,115 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Enquiries: George DigbyFinance DirectorTel: 020 7731 2844 Chris HardieArden Partners plcTel: 020 7398 1639 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange