Director Shareholding

Unite Group PLC
5 April 2002

THE UNITE GROUP PLC
5 APRIL 2002


The Unite Group plc ('Unite') or 'the Company'
Directors Dealing

The Company has today been informed that Nicholas Anthony Porter gifted 125,000
Unite ordinary 25p shares representing 0.16 per cent. of the issued share
capital of the Company to the Redshoes Charitable Trust on 4 April 2002.

As Mr Porter is a trustee of the Redshoes Charitable Trust he remains interested
in those shares.

Mr David Naish, a director of Unite, and Mrs Angela Ransome who is the wife of
David Ransome, a director of Unite, are also trustees of the Redshoes Charitable
Trust and accordingly, as trustees, are interested in those 125,000 Unite
ordinary shares.

Following the transfer the interests of those directors and their families in
ordinary share capital of the Company are set out below:

                           Note             Ordinary Shares of 25p each      Percentage of the issued share
                                                                                                    capital

N. A. Porter               (1)                               14,152,690                               18.93
D. P. Ransome              (2)                                  442,852                                0.59
D. F. Naish                (3)                                  446,926                                0.59


Notes

(1)   Mr Porter's interests includes his interest in 1,146,000 ordinary shares
held by the trustees of The Porter Family Discretionary Trust, the beneficiaries
of which are his two children; and (b) 253,140 ordinary shares held by the
trustees of the Jane Louise Discretionary Settlement Trust, the beneficiaries of
which are his two children.

(2)   Mr Ransome's interests include his interest in 1,000 ordinary shares held
by his wife, Angela Jane Ransome.  Anglea Jane Ransome is also a trustee of the
Jane Louise Discretionary Settlement Trust and, accordingly, Mr Ransome is
additionally interested in the 253,140 ordinary shares referred to in note 1
(b).


(3)   Mr Naish is (i) a trustee of The Porter Family Discretionary Trust and,
accordingly, is additionally interested as trustee in the 1,146,000 ordinary
shares referred to in note 1 (a); and (ii) is a trustee of the Jane Louise
Discretionary Settlement Trust and, accordingly, is additionally interested as
trustee in the 253,140 ordinary shares referred to in note 1 (b).

CONTACTS:

Richard Thompson
Director, Teather & Greenwood Limited           020 7426 9073

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