• AGM Proxy Votes
  03 July 2008
  At the fifty-first Annual General Meeting of Great Portland Estates plc held on Thursday 3 July 2008, the following levels of proxy appointments and associated voting instructions were received prior to the meeting.
• AGM Statement
  03 July 2008
  Richard Peskin, Chairman of Great Portland Estates plc, will make the following comments at today’s AGM, to be held at 50 Stratton Street, London, W1.
• Great Portland sells Regent Street block for £96.6 million
  16 June 2008
  Great Portland Estates plc (“GPE”) announces that The Great Victoria Partnership (No 2) (“GVP2”), its joint venture with Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society, has agreed, subject to Crown consent, to sell 208-222 Regent Street, W1 to a private purchaser for £96.6 million, broadly in line with the March 2008 book value. The proceeds will be used to repay GVP2’s non recourse loan of £35.4 million before distributing the balance to the joint venture’s partners.
• 2008 Preliminary announcement of results
  21 May 2008
  The Directors of Great Portland Estates plc, announce the results for the Group for the year ended 31 March 2008.
• Board change
  21 May 2008
  
• Great Portland Estates plc wins Property Company of the Year at the Property Awards 2008
  14 April 2008
  Nearly eighteen hundred people gathered at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane on 2 April 2008 for the thirteenth Property Awards, organised by Property Week to see Great Portland Estates win Property Company of the Year.
• Great Portland and BP Pension Fund form new 50:50 joint venture
  27 March 2008
  Great Portland Estates plc (“GPE”) and Ropemaker Properties Limited (“Ropemaker”), the property nominee of the BP Pension Fund, announce that they have formed the Great Ropemaker Partnership (“GRP”), a 50:50 joint venture to be managed by GPE.
• Great Capital Partnership (“GCP”) Financing
  25 March 2008
  GCP, the central London joint venture between Great Portland Estates plc (GPE) and Liberty International PLC announces that it has arranged a new £225 million credit facility to provide financial resources for asset repositioning and investment projects
• Great Capital Partnership in major West End property swap
  21 February 2008
  The Great Capital Partnership (“GCP”) announces that it has completed a swap transaction with The Crown Estate (“the Crown”) involving 580,000 sq ft in aggregate of property in central London which had a value as at 31 December 2007 of £357.6 million. GCP is a 50:50 central London joint venture between Great Portland Estates plc (“GPE”) and Liberty International subsidiary Capital & Counties Ltd (“C&C”) and is managed by GPE.
• Great Portland Estates concludes run of West End lettings
  15 February 2008
  Great Portland Estates plc (GPE) announces that The Great Wigmore Partnership (GWP), its 50:50 West End joint venture with Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), has concluded the final office lettings at 180 Great Portland Street, W1.

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