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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports Home Orders for The Month and Quarter Ended September 30, 2001

October 3, 2001 at 9:05 AM EDT

ATLANTA, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH); (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month and quarter ended September 30, 2001.

                          New Orders (units)           New Orders (units)
                         For the Month Ended       For the Three Months Ended
                            September 30,               September 30,
                        2001       2000 % Change    2001      2000  % Change
    Southeast            269        194   38.7%      856       660    29.7%
    West                 225        368  -38.9%      867       853     1.6%
    Central               83         50   66.0%      285       166    71.7%
    Mid-Atlantic          96        100   -4.0%      332       315     5.4%
    Total                673        712   -5.5%    2,340     1,994    17.4%

New orders for the West region include 5 and 22 units for the one and three-month periods ended September 30, 2001, respectively, 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 /