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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports December Home Orders

January 6, 2003 at 8:41 AM EST

ATLANTA, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month and quarter ended December 31, 2002.

                                                 New Orders (Units)
                                         For the Month Ended December 31,
                                                                     %
                                            2002       2001       Change
    Southeast                                282        307        -8.1%
    West                                     227        299       -24.1%
    Central                                   53         89       -40.4%
    Mid-Atlantic                             160        128        25.0%
    Midwest                                   91          0          n/a
    Total                                    813        823        -1.2%

                                                  New Orders (Units)
                                         For the Quarter Ended December 31,
                                                                      %
                                             2002        2001       Change
    Southeast                               1,015         953        6.5%
    West                                      939         973       -3.5%
    Central                                   232         232        0.0%
    Mid-Atlantic                              452         352       28.4%
    Midwest                                   503           0         n/a
    Total                                   3,141       2,510       25.1%

New orders for the month and quarter ended December 31, 2002, include orders from Crossmann Communities, Inc., which Beazer acquired effective April 17, 2002. On a pro forma basis, new orders for the month and quarter ended December 31, 2001, including Crossmann's orders would have been 972 and 3,288 respectively.

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, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Beazer Homes also provides mortgage origination and title services to its homebuyers. SOURCE Beazer Homes USA, Inc.

/CONTACT: David S. Weiss, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Beazer Homes USA, Inc., +1-404-250-3420, or dweiss@beazer.com /