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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports Home Orders for the Quarter and Year Ended September 30, 2003

October 6, 2003 at 4:16 PM EDT

ATLANTA, Oct 6, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) ( www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the quarter and year ended September 30, 2003.

                                                  New Orders (Units)
                                         For the Quarter Ended September 30,
                                                                       %
                                            2003        2002       Change
    Southeast                                1,298       1,185         9.5%
    West                                     1,452       1,175        23.6%
    Central                                    268         327       -18.0%
    Mid-Atlantic                               273         263         3.8%
    Midwest                                    571         781       -26.9%
    Total                                    3,862       3,731         3.5%


                                                   New Orders (Units)
                                           For the Year Ended September 30,
                                                                      %
                                              2003        2002      Change
    Southeast                                  5,614       4,623      21.4%
    West                                       5,142       4,669      10.1%
    Central                                    1,128       1,244      -9.3%
    Mid-Atlantic                               1,655       1,365      21.2%
    Midwest                                    2,777       1,709      62.5%
    Total                                     16,316      13,610      19.9%

New orders for the year ended September 30, 2003, include orders from Crossmann Communities, Inc., which Beazer acquired effective April 17, 2002. On a pro forma basis, new orders for the year ended September 30, 2002, including Crossmann's orders would have been 15,963.

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, Delaware, 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.

Leslie H. Kratcoski, Director, Investor Relations of Beazer
Homes USA, Inc., +1-770-829-3700, or lkratcos@beazer.com
http://www.beazer.com