Ex-OnTheMarket CEO Ian Springett bags £1.4m after selling shares in firm

Ian Springett

Ian Springett, the now former CEO of OnTheMarket (OTM), who was sacked from his position in March 2020, has earned almost £1.4m out of his shares in the property portal.

Onthemarket shares made their biggest one-day jump on record last Thursday after the UK property portal was acquired by American commercial property giant Costar in a £100m deal.

Springett cashed in after the London-listed stock rose by 53% on Thursday 19th October to 107.5p:

Class of relevant security

Purchase/sale

 

Number of securities

Price per unit

Ordinary 0.2p

Sale

1,300,205

107.5p

Springett was a divisive figure during his time at OTM; banning online agencies, which he described as “parasites”, from listing on the property portal and setting-up the ‘one other portal only’ rule which faced legal action.

OTM declined to comment.

 

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2 Comments

  1. jeremy1960

    Was always his plan, stick around for a few years being paid well, promising lots, delivering little then taking a huge pay off.

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  2. Mary Whitehouse

    I thought he would have hung on until they hit the £4 / share he mentioned on the roadshow

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