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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports April Home Orders

May 2, 2001 at 4:58 PM EDT

ATLANTA, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH); (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month ended April 30, 2001.

                                  New Orders (units)
                           For the Month Ended April 30,
                      2001             2000         % Change
    Southeast          368              250           47.2%
    Southwest          490              329           48.9%
    Central             97               76           27.6%
    Mid-Atlantic       132              147          -10.2%
    Total            1,087              802           35.5%

         Beazer Homes USA, Inc., based in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the

country's ten largest single-family homebuilders with operations in Arizona,

California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina,

Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Beazer Homes

also provides mortgage origination, title and insurance services to its

homebuyers.

SOURCE Beazer Homes USA, Inc.

CONTACT: David S. Weiss, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Beazer Homes USA, Inc., 404-250-3420, or dweiss@beazer.com /