Exercise of Options, Awards, PDMR Shareholdings

Property Franchise Group PLC (The)

01 May 2026

 

1 May 2026

THE PROPERTY FRANCHISE GROUP PLC

("TPFG", the "Company" or the "Group")

Exercise of Options, Share Awards and PDMR Shareholdings

The Property Franchise Group Plc (LON:TPFG) the UK's largest multi-brand property franchisor  announces that options are being exercised by a PDMR in the Company, with shares being transferred to the PDMR from the Company's Employee Benefit Trust. These options vested and were exercised pursuant to the Company's Share Option Schemes issued in 2023 ("2023 Scheme") and recognise the full achievement of the targets set.

The executive who exercised options and to whom a share award has been made under the 2023 Scheme is as follows:

PDMR	Role	Number of options exercised	Exercise price per Share (Share Option Schemes)	Number of Ordinary Shares received pursuant to the exercise*	Total resultant holding in Company's  issued share capital	Total resultant percentage holding of issued share capital
Gareth Samples	Chief Executive Officer	109,107	1p	57,723	683,374	1.07%

* The options have been exercised on a net settlement basis, after deductions for exercise price, income tax and national insurance contributions.

PDMR Shareholdings

Further information is provided below in accordance with Article 19(3) of the UK Market Abuse Regulation No 596/2014:

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
Name	Gareth Samples
Reason for the notification
Position/status	Chief Executive Officer
Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
Name	The Property Franchise Group plc
LEI	2138008J5PTJ8C77I535
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.
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary shares of 1 penny each ISIN: GB00BH0WFH67
Nature of the transaction	(i)            Exercise of Options, with shares being delivered on a net settlement basis after giving effect to the exercise price of the options, tax and national insurance obligations
Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 1p Total of 109,107 options exercised. Net shares delivered to Gareth Samples 57,723 ordinary shares
Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	N/A - single transaction
Date of the transaction	1 May 2026
Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

 For further information, please contact:

The Property Franchise Group PLC   Gareth Samples, Chief Executive Officer Ben Dodds, Chief Financial Officer	01202 405 549 [e-mail]
Canaccord Genuity Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Max Hartley Harry Rees	020 7523 8000
Berenberg (Joint Broker) Harry Nicholas / Michael Burke / James Thompson	020 7496 3000
Alma Strategic Communications  Justine James Joe Pederzolli Kinvara Verdon	020 3405 0209 [e-mail]

About The Property Franchise Group PLC:

The Property Franchise Group PLC (AIM: TPFG) is the UK's largest multi-brand property franchisor, with a network of over 1,946 outlets delivering high quality services to residential clients, combined with an established Financial Services business.

The Company was founded in 1986 and has since strategically grown to a diverse portfolio of 18 brands operating throughout the UK, comprising longstanding high-street focused brands and two hybrid brands. The Property Franchise Group is also a member of two leading mortgage networks through its mortgage brokers, Brook Financial (MAB) and The Mortgage Genie (Primis).

TPFG's brands are: Belvoir, CJ Hole, Country Properties, Ellis & Co, EweMove, Fine & Country, Hunters, Lovelle, Martin & Co, Clarke & Partners, Mullucks, Newton Fallowell, Nicholas Humphreys, Northwood, Parkers, The Guild of Property Professionals and Whitegates.

Headquartered in Bournemouth, the Company was listed on AIM on the London Stock Exchange in 2013 and entered the AIM 100 in July 2024.

More information is available at www.propertyfranchise.co.uk

 

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