Barclays PlcLSE: BARC

IrishForm38.5BIRISHRESIDENTIALPROPERTIESREITPLC

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Summary by 6ix

Barclays Capital Securities Ltd, an exempt principal trader (a securities dealer exempt from some takeover rules) connected to Irish Residential Properties REIT plc, a party to an offer, disclosed under Irish takeover rules its positions and trades in the company's €0.10 ordinary shares on October 12, 2026. No details of the offer are given.

Key details

  • On October 12, 2026, Barclays Capital Securities Ltd sold 92,763 shares at prices between 1.2820 EUR and 1.2960 EUR per share and bought 114,758 shares at prices between 1.2820 EUR and 1.2920 EUR per share.
  • It also traded cash-settled swaps and CFDs (contracts for difference), contracts that track the share price without owning the shares, at prices from 1.2819 EUR to 1.2921 EUR per share. These opened, increased or decreased long and short positions, for example an increase in a short position over 29,083 shares at 1.2833 EUR.
  • After the dealings it owned or controlled 5,113,358 shares (0.98%) and held cash-settled derivatives over 212,427 shares (0.04%), for total interests of 5,325,785 shares (1.02%).
  • Its short positions, which gain if the share price falls, totalled 5,298,873 shares (1.01%). These were made up of 163,527 shares (0.03%) owned or controlled and 5,135,346 shares (0.98%) through cash-settled derivatives.
  • In the disclosure dated October 13, 2026, Barclays Capital Securities Ltd reported no indemnity or other dealing arrangements with any party to the offer. It also reported no agreements on voting rights tied to its derivatives.

6ix wrote this summary from the release below and checked it against the release.

FORM 38.5(b)

IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL

OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE

UNDER RULE 38.5(b) OF THE IRISH TAKEOVER

PANEL ACT, 1997, TAKEOVER RULES, 2022 BY A CONNECTED

EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITHOUT RECOGNISED

INTERMEDIARY STATUS, OR WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY

STATUS BUT NOT DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

1. KEY INFORMATION

(a) Name of exempt principal trader

BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD

(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:

IRISH RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES REIT PLC

(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected (Note 1)

IRISH RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES REIT PLC

(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken:

12 Oct 2026

(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?

NO

2. INTERESTS AND SHORT POSITIONS

Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (if any) (Note 2)

(Note 2)

Class of relevant security :

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

Interests

Short Positions

Number

(%)

Number

(%)

(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled:

5,113,358

0.98%

163,527

0.03%

(2) Cash-settled derivatives:

212,427

0.04%

5,135,346

0.98%

(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell: 

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

TOTAL:

5,325,785

1.02%

5,298,873

1.01%

3. DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER (Note 4)

(a) Purchases and sales

Class of relevant Security

Purchase/sale

Total number  of securities

Highest price per  unit paid/received

Lowest price per  unit paid/received

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

Sale

92,763

                   1.2960 EUR

                   1.2820 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

Purchase

114,758

                   1.2920 EUR

                   1.2820 EUR

(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions

Class of relevant security

Product description

Nature of dealing

Number of reference securities

Price per unit(Note 4)

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,272

1.2858 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

959

1.2834 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Opening Long

4,664

1.2845 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

139

1.2920 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

CFD

Increasing Short

15,372

1.2866 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

CFD

Increasing Short

1,325

1.2921 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

CFD

Decreasing Short

9,591

1.2819 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,214

1.2840 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

29,083

1.2833 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Increasing Long

8,582

1.2852 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

648

1.2858 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

631

1.2858 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Increasing Long

1,331

1.2852 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

18

1.2880 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

56

1.2820 EUR

€0.10 Ordinary Shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

3,600

1.2900 EUR

(c) Stock-settled derivative transactions  (including options)

(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Class of

Product description

Writing, purchasing,

Number of securities

Exercise price

Type

Expiry date

Option money

relevant security

selling,

to which option

per unit

paid/received per unit

varying etc.

relates (Note 7)

(ii) Exercising

Class of relevant security

Product description

Exercising/ exercised against

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

(d) Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)

Class of relevant security

Nature of Dealings

Details

Price per unit

(Note 7)

(if applicable) (Note 4)

4. OTHER INFORMATION

(a) Indemnity and other dealings arrangements

Details of any indemnity or option arrangement, or any agreement or understanding, formal or informal, relating to relevant securities

which may be an inducement to deal or refrain from dealing entered into by the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any

party to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:

NONE

(b) Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives

Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the person disclosing and any other person relating to the

voting rights of any relevant securities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the voting rights or future acquisition or 

disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should be stated.

NONE

(c) Attachments

Is a Supplemental Form 8 attached?

NO

Date of disclosure:

13 Oct 2026

Contact name:

Large Holdings Regulatory Operations

Telephone number:

020 3134 7213

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