Purplebricks has applied to the London Stock Exchange for 7m new ordinary shares to be listed.

The application for the block listing was made on Friday and it is expected that admission will become effective on Wednesday this week.

The announcement says that the shares will be issued “from time to time” in order to satisfy the requirement to allot shares under Purplebricks’ employee share option plan, its licensees share option plan, and its management incentive scheme.