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Berkeley Group’s results for year ending April 2005
Pre-tax profit	£202.9m	–11.7%
Turnover	£1.07bn	–15.9%
Order book	£948m	0.3%
Land holdings	27,278 plots	2.3%
Earnings per share	121p	–7.2%
Operating margins, excluding land sales	18.6	1.1%
Payment to shareholders – first £604m made in December 2004; £2 a share to be paid in December 2006 and December 2008