The Berkeley Group Holdings plc is a British property developer and house-builder based in Cobham, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The firm was founded in 1976 by Tony Pidgley and Jim Farrer as Berkeley Homes after departing Crest Homes. Initially focused on the home counties, it floated on the Unlisted Securities Market in 1984 and expanded geographically to the west, the south midlands, and East Anglia throughout that decade. Throughout the early 1990s, Berkley Group completed numerous acquisitions and created several joint ventures with other businesses; it also started to focus on major urban regeneration sites in big cities around this time. During 2003, Tony Pidgley's son and one-time director of Berkeley Group, Tony Kelly Pidgley, reportedly intended to take ownership of Berkeley Group via several external backers. The firm was negatively impacted by the Great Recession, opting to reduce its home construction rate for several years. Wikipedia