Director/PDMR Shareholding

8 March 2016

Countrywide plc

Notification of Transactions of Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Countrywide plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 8 March 2016 of the following acquisitions of 71,188 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a cost of £270,713.73 under the Countrywide Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"); an all-employee trust arrangement approved by HMRC.

The following Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (each a "PDMR") were allocated Ordinary Shares on 7 March 2016 under the Plan, by Capita IRG Trustees Limited (the "Trustee"):

Partnership Shares are those Ordinary Shares purchased on behalf of the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted from his salary, and Matching Shares are those awarded to the employee by the Company for nil consideration in respect of the Partnership Shares purchased.

The Partnership Shares were purchased and the Matching Shares were awarded at a price per share of 380.28 pence.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee. Partnership Shares can normally be sold at any time. Matching Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years after the award date.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of Directors/PDMRs in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding outstanding options and/or awards held under the Company's other employee share incentive plans) are as follows:

Gareth Williams (Company Secretary)

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100 New London RoadChelmsfordEssex CM2 0RGUnited Kingdom

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