Director/PDMR Shareholding

Great Portland Estates plc (GPE)

GPE Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP)

9 June 2011

As a result of achievement of the performance target relating to LTIP awards made on 6 June 2008, the Directors listed below received the following number of GPE ordinary shares of 12.5p each:

No. of Ordinary

shares of 12.5p each

Toby Courtauld, Chief Executive 71,188

Neil Thompson, Portfolio Director 45,624

Of these shares, the following were sold on 9 June 2011 at a price of 434.10p per share in order to meet the tax/NI liability:

No. of Ordinary

shares of 12.5p each

sold for tax/NI

purposes

Toby Courtauld, Chief Executive 37,018

Neil Thompson, Portfolio Director 23,725

The total number of GPE shares now held by each of these Directors and their total percentage holding following these transactions is as follows:

Total

No. of Ordinary percentage

shares of 12.5p each* holding

Toby Courtauld, Chief Executive 602,485 0.19

Neil Thompson, Portfolio Director 246,493 0.08

* Includes Partnership shares held in the Company's SIP

Contact:

Desna Martin, Company Secretary

020 7647 3000