{"id":78,"date":"2007-03-04T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T22:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/takeoversmergers\/countrywide-agrees-to-1bn-buyout\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T22:08:41","slug":"countrywide-agrees-to-1bn-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/03\/04\/countrywide-agrees-to-1bn-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Countrywide agrees to \u00c2\u00a31bn buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mwprices.ft.com\/custom\/ft2-com\/html-quotechartnews.asp?FTSite=FTCOM&#038;q=CWD&#038;searchtype&#038;expanded=&#038;countrycode=uk&#038;s2=uk&#038;symb=CWD&#038;company=NEW\"><font color=\"#003399\">Countrywide<\/font><\/a><\/strong>, the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest estate agency, on Friday night said it had agreed to be bought by Apollo, the US private equity company, in a deal worth \u00c2\u00a31.01bn.<\/p>\n<p>Countrywide\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s board recommended the offer, which was worth 590p a share by the close of trading on Friday. The bid included 510p in cash and 80p per share of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mwprices.ft.com\/custom\/ft2-com\/html-quotechartnews.asp?FTSite=FTCOM&#038;q=RMV&#038;searchtype&#038;expanded=&#038;countrycode=uk&#038;s2=uk&#038;symb=RMV&#038;company=NEW\"><font color=\"#003399\">Rightmove<\/font><\/a><\/strong>, the property website in which Countrywide owns a 21.5 per cent stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countrywide, the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest estate agency, on Friday night said it had agreed to be bought by Apollo, the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-takeoversmergers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}