Director Shareholding

Quintain Estates & Development PLC
12 August 2004

12 August 2004









Quintain Estates and Development PLC ('Quintain')

Directors' Interests in Shares



On 12 August 2004 Rebecca Worthington, a director of Quintain, exercised share
options under the Quintain Estates and Development 1996 Executive Share Option
(No.2) Scheme over a total of 5,000 ordinary 25p shares in the company at an
option price of £1.553 per share.  She retained all 5,000 shares thereby
purchased.



Following this transaction her total shareholding in Quintain now stands at
33,482.









Name of contacts and telephone number for queries:



            Charlotte Eastwood, Company Secretary

            Susan Minocha, Assistant Company Secretary

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