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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports August Home Orders

September 5, 2001 at 4:19 PM EDT

ATLANTA, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the one-month and two-month periods ended August 31, 2001.

                        New Orders (units)         New Orders (units)
                     Month Ended August 31,    Two Months Ended August 31,

                      2001  2000  Change          2001   2000  Change
    Southeast          315   239   31.8%           587    466  26.0%
    West               335   250   34.0%           642    485  32.4%
    Central             92    43  114.0%           202    116  74.1%
    Mid-Atlantic       116   122   -4.9%           236    215   9.8%
    Total              858   654   31.2%         1,667  1,282  30.0%

New orders for the West region include 17 units for both the one and two- month periods ended August 31, 2001 from Sanford Homes of Colorado. Beazer acquired Sanford Homes effective August 1, 2001.

Beazer Homes USA, Inc., based in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the country's ten largest single-family homebuilders with operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, 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., +1-404-250-3420, or dweiss@beazer.com /