Director Shareholding

Unite Group PLC
05 November 2004


THE UNITE GROUP PLC

5 NOVEMBER 2004


The UNITE Group plc (the 'Company')


The Company has today been informed that Mr Nicholas Porter, Chief Executive
Officer of the Company, gifted 50,000 ordinary shares of 25p each in the Company
(representing 0.045% of the issued share capital of the Company), to Uniaid
Foundation ('Uniaid') on 4 November 2004.


Mr Porter, who is a trustee of Uniaid (which is a registered charity), gifted
the shares with the purpose of enabling the charity to move towards the next
stage of its development. Uniaid was set up to help students overcome the
financial hurdles to higher education.


Following the transfer of the above referred to shares, Mr Porter will (as a
result of him being a trustee of Uniaid), remain interested in 13,374, 367
ordinary shares of 25p each in the Company, representing 12.02% of its issued
share capital.


Included in Mr Porter's interests are (i) 1,146,000 ordinary shares held by the
trustees of The Porter Family Discretionary Trust, the beneficiaries of which
are Mr Porter's two children; (ii) 253,140 ordinary shares held by the trustees
of the Jane Louise Discretionary Trust, the beneficiaries of which are again Mr
Porter's two children; and (iii) 125,000 ordinary shares held by the trustees of
the Red Shoes Charitable Trust, one of whom is Mr Porter.


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