{"id":6124,"date":"2025-06-20T08:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2025-06-20T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:46:52","slug":"rob-perrins-steps-up-as-executive-chair-in-berkeley-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/rob-perrins-steps-up-as-executive-chair-in-berkeley-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Perrins steps up as executive chair in Berkeley shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Perrins is set to become executive chair of Berkeley Group as part of a leadership reshuffle.<\/p>\n

The move will see current chair Michael Dobson step down after the firm\u2019s AGM in September, handing over to Perrins who has served as chief executive since 2009.<\/p>\n

Dobson\u2019s departure caps a pivotal three-year stint, during which he oversaw the launch of Berkeley\u2019s 10-year \u201cBerkeley 2035\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n

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Berkeley\u2019s long-serving CFO Richard Stearn will step up as chief executive following Perrins\u2019 transition, with a new finance chief expected to be promoted from within the ranks.<\/p>\n

The board said the appointment of Perrins as executive chair offers \u201ccontinuity in leadership\u201d at a time of increasing complexity in the regulatory and political landscape.<\/p>\n

This morning the London house builder also said it had shrugged off market volatility to deliver a \u00a3529m pre-tax profit last year, down 5% on the prior year.<\/p>\n

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Its operating margin improved from 19.5% to 20.1% as it delivered 4,300 homes during the year.<\/p>\n

The firm said it had locked in over 75% of forecast sales for new year ahead.<\/p>\n

Perrins said” “Berkeley is determined to play a full part in helping Government meet its growth ambitions and has been greatly encouraged by the tone set by the brownfield-led housing agenda.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

“Converting this into delivery is challenging particularly as it comes after a period of extreme cost inflation and complex regulatory change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“W<\/span>e continue to work with both the MHCLG and the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) to resolve the ongoing process issues encountered at Gateway 2 which, if left unresolved, would lower industry-wide delivery over the medium-term.”<\/p>\n

He added: “We have a clear plan for the next 10 years and are ready to invest \u00a35bn of capital into new sites and our new BTR platform, which will deliver at least 4,000 additional homes over this period.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Berkeley ended the year with net cash of \u00a3337m, down from \u00a3532m after heavy investment and shareholder returns.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/xtF5PmG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rob Perrins is set to become executive chair of Berkeley Group as part of a leadership reshuffle. The move will see current chair Michael Dobson step down after the firm\u2019s AGM in September, handing over to Perrins who has served as chief executive since 2009. Dobson\u2019s departure caps a pivotal three-year stint, during which he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-6124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}