Holding(s) in Company

Bovis Homes Group PLC
04 April 2006



Bovis Homes Group plc ('the Company')

DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST IN SHARES

The Company received notification, on 31 March 2006, in fulfilment of the
obligations imposed under section 198 of the Companies Act 1985 ('the Act'),
that following acquisitions on 29 March 2006, the Credit Suisse ('CS') companies
listed below (together the 'CS companies') held the following interests in the
issued share capital of the Company:

Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited ('CSSEL') 4,152,900 shares, CSSEL held
an interest in 1,735,000 of these shares under section 208(5) of the Act by
virtue of the right to redelivery of equivalent securities under stock lending
arrangements.

Credit Suisse International ('CSi') 3,108 shares.

The CS companies now hold a total interest of 4,156,006 shares being equivalent
to approximately 3.50% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Those Credit Suisse companies which are direct or indirect holding companies of
CSSEL and CSi are, under the terms of section 203 of the Act, each interested by
attribution in any shares in which CSSEL and CSi are interested.

Ends.






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