CAPITAL & COUNTIES PROPERTIES PLC - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

Notification of Major Interests in Shares

Capital & Counties Properties PLC
(Incorporated and registered in the United Kingdom and Wales with registration Number 07145041
and registered in South Africa as an external company with Registration Number 2010/003387/10)
JSE code: CCO
ISIN: GB00B62G9D36

CAPITAL & COUNTIES PROPERTIES PLC (the “Company”)

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

We have been advised that the total interests in the Ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the
Company held by Simon Property Group, Inc. are now as shown below:


i) Full name of Persons subject to the          Simon Property Group, Inc.
notification obligation

ii)Full name of shares holders (if different    Sovereign Real Estate Investments, LLC
from i)

iii) Date of Transaction                        23 October 2012
iv) Date issuer was notified                    23 October 2012
v) Threshold that was crossed                   Below 3%
vi) Situation previous to the triggering        Number of shares             38,892,074
transaction
                                                Number voting rights         38,892,074
vii) Resulting situation after the triggering   Number of voting rights      Below 3%
transaction
viii) Chain of controlled undertakings          Simon Property Group, L.P.
through which the voting rights and / or        The Retail Property Trust
the financial instruments are effectively       Sovereign Real Estate Investments, LLC
held, if applicable:
ix) Additional Information                      Notification using the total voting rights figure of
                                                753,127,803 (notified via RIS by Capital & Counties
                                                Properties PLC on 28 September 2012)
ix) Contact Name                                James M. Barkley, Esq.
                                                General Counsel, Simon Property Group, Inc.
x) Contact telephone number:                    +1 (317) 263 7083




Sara Goldsbrough
Assistant Company Secretary
020 3214 9153

24 October 2012
Sponsor:
Merrill Lynch South Africa (Pty) Limited

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