Director/PDMR Shareholding

Unite Group PLC
27 April 2006

THE UNITE GROUP PLC


27 APRIL 2006


The UNITE Group plc (the 'Company')


The Company was informed on 26 April 2006 of the sale, on that date, of 72,000
ordinary shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company (representing 0.058%
of its current issued share capital) by the trustees of the Jane Louise
Discretionary Settlement Trust, the beneficiaries of which include the children
of Mr Nicholas Porter, Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Such shares were
sold at a price of 418p per share.


Following the transaction referred to above, Mr Porter is interested in
12,072,367 shares in the Company, representing 9.85% of its current issued share
capital. Included in those interests are (a) 966,000 shares held by the trustees
of The Porter Family Discretionary Trust (the beneficiaries of which are Mr
Porter's children); (b) the 181,140 shares that continue to be held by the
trustees of the Jane Louise Discretionary Settlement Trust (the beneficiaries of
which, as stated above, include Mr Porter's children); and (c) 125,000 shares
held by the trustees of The Red Shoes Charitable Trust (one of whom is Heather
Porter, Mr Porter's wife).



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Andrew Reid
Company Secretary
The UNITE Group plc


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