(Sharecast News) - Vistry Group was in the red on Wednesday afternoon, after a share purchase worth almost £2.8m was linked to its chief executive officer.

The FTSE 250 housebuilder said Baker Estates Limited bought 500,000 shares on Tuesday, in a single transaction on the London Stock Exchange.

It paid 557.07p for each share, valuing the purchase at £2,785,330.06.

Baker Estates is a residential developer of which Vistry CEO Greg Fitzgerald is a director, who also owns between 25% and 50% of its share capital according to Companies House filings.

At 1419 BST, shares in Vistry Group were down 1.95% at 553.5p.

Reporting by Josh White at Sharecast.com.

Top Director Buys

Vistry Group (VTY)

Director name: Fitzgerald,Greg

Amount purchased: 500,000 @ 557.07p

Value: £2,785,330.06

Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd (singapore Reg) (JAR)

Director name: Hsu,David

Amount purchased: 20,000 @ $49.31

Value: $986,200.03

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Director name: Sutardja,Sehat

Amount purchased: 348,179 @ 112.83p

Value: £392,850.35

Asos (ASC)

Director name: Lindemann,Jørgen

Amount purchased: 48,000 @ 549.41p

Value: £263,716.80

Residential Secure Income (RESI)

Director name: Gray,Robert Blackburn

Amount purchased: 55,167 @ 90.63p

Value: £49,997.85

Tesco (TSCO)

Director name: Bodson,Bertrand

Amount purchased: 12,191 @ 205.06p

Value: £24,999.47

Fuller Smith & Turner (FSTA)

Director name: Turner,Michael J

Amount purchased: 4,400 @ 450.00p

Value: £19,800.00

Adm Energy (ADME)

Director name: Okhomina,Osamede

Amount purchased: 2,839,492 @ 0.53p

Value: £14,907.33

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Director name: Okhomina,Osamede

Amount purchased: 1,500,000 @ 0.68p

Value: £10,234.50

Lifesafe Holdings (LIFS)

Director name: Peter Clive Berger,Dominic

Amount purchased: 25,750 @ 38.50p

Value: £9,913.75

Cloudcoco Group (CLCO)

Director name: Duckworth,Simon D'Olier

Amount purchased: 1,100,000 @ 0.89p

Value: £9,790.00

B.p. Marsh & Partners (BPM)

Director name: Topping ,Daniel

Amount purchased: 824 @ 300.00p

Value: £2,472.00

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Director name: Gilbertson,Sean

Amount purchased: 2 @ 1,432.00p

Value: £28.64

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Director name: Murray,Steve

Amount sold: 47,960 @ 265.53p

Value: £127,349.38

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Director name: Druker,Ofer

Amount sold: 36,850 @ $3.53

Value: $107,265.19

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Director name: Druker,Ofer

Amount sold: 15,924 @ $3.47

Value: $45,564.67

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Amount sold: 16,260 @ $3.37

Value: $45,185.29

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Amount sold: 7,580 @ $3.41

Value: $21,314.26