Director Shareholding

Quintain Estates & Development PLC
17 March 2005



Quintain Estates and Development PLC


Purchase of Ordinary shares


The independent Trustee of the Quintain Estates and Development PLC Employee
Benefit Trust ('the Trustee') notified the Company on 16 March 2005 that it had,
on 16 March 2005, purchased 100,000 ordinary shares of 25p each in the Company
at the market price of £5.42 per share.


Following this transaction, the Trustee holds a total of 300,000 ordinary
shares.


These shares will be held in Treasury against the awards made to directors in
September 2003 under the Executive Directors' Performance Share Plan, of which
Adrian Wyatt and Nicholas Shattock are potential beneficiaries and are therefore
treated as having an interest.




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