Issue of Equity

RNS Number : 3909T

Civitas Social Housing PLC

24 March 2021

 

24 March 2021

CIVITAS SOCIAL HOUSING PLC

(the "Company")

ISSUE OF SHARES FROM TREASURY

The Board of Civitas Social Housing PLC, the leading care-based social housing REIT, (the "Company") is pleased to announce that on 24 March 2021, it has sold from treasury 250,000 ordinary shares of £0.01 each for cash at a price of 109.8 pence per share and at a premium to the prevailing net asset value.

Following this transaction, the Company's issued share capital is 622,461,380 ordinary shares, comprising 621,896,380 ordinary shares in circulation and 565,000 ordinary shares held in treasury, which do not carry any voting rights. Accordingly, the total voting rights in the Company are 621,896,380. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the purposes of calculating whether or not they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

Civitas Investment Management Limited

Paul Bridge  Tel: [phone]

Andrew Dawber  Tel: [phone]

Panmure Gordon

Sapna Shah  Tel: [phone]

Tom Scrivens  Tel: [phone]

Liberum Capital Limited

Gillian Martin/Chris Clarke  Tel: [phone]

Buchanan

Helen Tarbet / Henry Wilson  Tel: [phone]

Hannah Ratcliff / George Beale  [e-mail]  

Notes:

Civitas Social Housing PLC ("Civitas" or the "Company") was created in 2016 by Civitas Investment Management Limited as the first dedicated London listed REIT, to raise long-term, sustainable, institutional capital to invest in care-based social homes across the UK. So far, the Company has completed more than 120 individual transactions to build the largest portfolio of its kind that has been independently valued on an IFRS basis at £901.1million. Civitas provides homes for 4,295 working age adults with long-term care needs, in 619 bespoke properties that are supported by 118 specialist care providers, 16 approved providers over 164 individual local authority areas.

LEI: 213800PGBG84J8GM6F95

 

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