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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports Home Orders for the Month and Quarter Ended December 31, 2001

January 3, 2002 at 4:28 PM EST
ATLANTA, Jan 3, 2002 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month and quarter ended December 31, 2001.

                           New Orders (units)         New Orders (units)
                             For the Month          For the Three Months
                           Ended December 31,         Ended December 31,
                        2001       2000   Change    2001      2000    Change
    Southeast            307        186   65.1%      953       637    49.6%
    West                 301        265   13.6%      975       704    38.5%
    Central               89         50   78.0%      232       144    61.1%
    Mid-Atlantic         128         91   40.7%      352       313    12.5%
    Total                825        592   39.4%    2,512     1,798    39.7%
New orders for the West region include 20 and 60 units for the one and three-month periods ended December 31, 2001, respectively, from Sanford Homes of Colorado. Beazer acquired Sanford Homes effective August 1, 2001.

New orders for the one-month periods ended December 31, 2001 and 2000 include 32 and 0 units, respectively, for affordable housing developments being built through governmental programs. New orders for the three-month periods ended December 31, 2001 and 2000 include 110 and 19 units, respectively, being built through such programs.

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 Bezer Homes USA, Inc., +1-404-250-3420, or dweiss@beazer.com