Notification of major interest 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 Capital & Counties Properties PLC has received a notification of interests in the Ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company as shown below: i) Full name of Persons subject to the BlackRock, Inc. notification obligation ii)Full name of shares holders (if different n/a from i) iii) Reason for Notification - An event changing the breakdown of voting rights. iv) Date of Transaction 28 September 2012 v) Date issuer was notified 1 October 2012 vi) Threshold that was crossed Holding has gone below 18% vii) Situation previous to the triggering Number of shares 123,228,412 transaction Number voting rights 123,228,412 viii) Resulting situation after the triggering Number of voting rights 124,571,328 transaction (indirect) % of voting rights 16.54% ix) Financial instruments with similar Type of financial CFD economic effect to Qualifying Financial instrument Instruments – Resulting situation after the Number of voting rights 8,596,803 triggering transaction instrument refers to % of voting rights 1.14% (Nominal) 1.14% (Delta) x) Total Number of voting rights 133,168,131 Percentage of voting 17.68% rights xi) Chain of controlled undertakings BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited – through which the voting rights and/or the 133,168,131 (17.68%) financial instruments are effectively held xii) Additional information BlackRock Regulatory Threshold Reporting Team xiii) Contact Name Andrew Manchester xiv) Contact telephone number: 020 7743 5773 Sara Goldsbrough Assistant Company Secretary 020 3214 9153 2 October 2012 Sponsor: Merrill Lynch South Africa (Pty) Limited Date: 02/10/2012 05:30:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.