Annual Financial Report

19 December 2017

McCarthy & Stone plc (the Company)

Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting

Further to the Company's announcement on 14 November 2017 of its annual financial results to 31 August 2017, the Annual Report has today been sent to shareholders together with the Notice of the 2018 Annual General Meeting, which will be held at the offices of Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4AG at 10.00am on Wednesday 24 January 2018.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1R copies of the Annual Report, the Notice of Annual General Meeting of the Company and the Form of Proxy have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The Annual Report and the Notice of Meeting will also be available to download from the Company's website at www.mccarthyandstonegroup.co.uk and hard copies can be requested from the registered office, Fourth Floor, 100 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH8 8AQ.

For further information please contact:

Patrick Hole

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

Telephone: 01202 508040

The appendix to this announcement (Appendix) is a supplement to Company's announcement on 14 November 2017 of its annual financial results to 31 August 2017 (the Results Announcement). It contains the information required to be communicated in unedited full text pursuant to DTR 6.3.5 that is in addition to the information communicated in the Results Announcement. The Appendix should be read together with the Results Announcement.

Appendix

The Directors confirm that, to the best of each person's knowledge:

· The financial statements, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole

· The Strategic Report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that they face

This responsibility statement was approved by the Board of Directors on 13 November 2017 and is signed on its behalf by:

Clive Fenton Rowan Baker

Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer

13 November 2017 13 November 2017

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