12 June 2015

Hansteen Holdings PLC

("Hansteen" or the "Company")

Transaction in Own Shares

Hansteen (LSE: HSTN), the investor in UK and continental European real estate, announces that on 11 June 2015, the Company purchased 900,000 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 123.05 pence per share to be held in treasury. The shares were purchased to meet the Company's future obligations to participants under the Company's Performance Share Plan 2012 ("the Plan").

In addition, on 11 June 2015, the Company transferred from treasury to participants in the Plan 181,328 ordinary shares in the Company for nil consideration in order to satisfy the exercise of nil-cost call rights by participants under the Plan. 

Following the above purchase and transfer of treasury shares the Company now holds 1,546,341 ordinary shares in treasury and the total number of ordinary shares in the Company in issue excluding treasury shares is 684,186,786.

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