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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports Home Orders for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2003

April 3, 2003 at 4:16 PM EST

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 /
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