Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports Home Orders for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2003
ATLANTA, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the quarter ended March 31, 2003.
New Orders (Units) For the Quarter Ended March 31, % 2003 2002 Change Southeast 1,628 1,098 48.3% West 1,277 1,273 0.3% Central 296 358 -17.3% Mid-Atlantic 496 413 20.1% Midwest 882 0 n/a Total 4,579 3,142 45.7%
New orders for the quarter ended March 31, 2003, include orders from Crossmann Communities, Inc., which Beazer acquired effective April 17, 2002. On a pro forma basis, new orders for the quarter ended March 31, 2002, including Crossmann's orders would have been 4,717.
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. /CONTACT: David S. Weiss, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Beazer Homes USA, Inc., +1-404-250-3420, or dweiss@beazer.com / /Web site: http://www.beazer.com / (BZH)