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CAPITAL & REGIONAL PLC - Refinancing

Release Date: 04/01/2017 15:45
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Refinancing

CAPITAL & REGIONAL PLC
(Incorporated in the United Kingdom)
(UK company number 01399411)
LSE share code: CAL JSE share code: CRP
ISIN: GB0001741544
(“Capital & Regional” or “the Company”)

REFINANCING

Capital & Regional announces that it has today completed the refinancing of the debt on its five wholly-owned Mall properties by
entering into new debt facilities totalling £372.5 million, of which £362.5 million has been drawn. Three new facilities have been
entered into as follows:

    -    a £165 million 10 year loan with Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America with a one year extension
         option;

    -    a £107.5 million 7 year loan with Wells Fargo Bank International Unlimited Company; and

    -    a £100 million bank facility of 5 years with two one year extension options with The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. £90
         million of this facility has been drawn down with a further £10 million available to fund capex.

The £107.5 million facility is secured on The Mall, Luton, while the other two facilities are secured on the four assets at
Blackburn, Maidstone, Walthamstow and Wood Green. The weighted average maturity of the new facilities is 7.8 years, rising to
8.8 years if the extension options are assumed to be exercised. Interest on the new facilities has been fixed resulting in an overall
blended rate of 3.27%. This compares to an equivalent rate of 3.52% on the previous facility prior to refinancing and following
the sale of The Mall, Camberley.

The repayment of the existing £334.6 million debt, which was due to mature in May 2019, has triggered a redemption cost of £7.6
million on the fixed rate debt of £233.3 million. A further non-cash charge of £3.4 million will also be recognised from the write-
off of unamortised financing costs on the existing debt. This will result in a total charge of £11.0 million being recognised at the
2016 year end, which is equivalent to 1.6 pence per share.

Hugh Scott-Barrett, Chief Executive, commented: “This refinancing achieves the objectives we set out at the time of our half
year results announcement in August 2016. It provides the Group with the security of long term funding while also taking
advantage of the historic low level of current interest rates. It also diversifies the sources and maturities of our debt, and increases
the quantum to fund future capex efficiently at the asset level whilst maintaining significant flexibility for asset recycling.”

Capital & Regional were advised by Rothschild on the refinancing.

4 January 2017

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Notes to editors:
About Capital & Regional plc
Capital & Regional is a UK focused specialist property REIT with a strong track record of delivering value enhancing retail and
leisure asset management opportunities across a c. GBP 1 billion portfolio of in-town dominant community shopping centres.
Capital & Regional is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and has a secondary listing on the Johannesburg
Stock Exchange.

Capital & Regional owns six shopping centres in Blackburn, Hemel Hempstead, Luton, Maidstone, Walthamstow and Wood
Green. It also has a 20% joint venture interest in the Kingfisher Centre in Redditch and a 50% joint venture in the Buttermarket
Centre, Ipswich. Capital & Regional manages these assets, which comprise over 830 retail units and attract c. 1.6 million
shopping visits each week, through its in-house expert property and asset management platform.

For further information see www.capreg.com.

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