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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports July Home Orders

August 5, 2002 at 9:02 AM EDT
ATLANTA, Aug 5, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month ended July 31, 2002.

                          New Orders (units) for the Month Ended July 31,

                          Beazer  Crossmann   Total     Beazer    %
                           2002      2002      2002      2001   Change

    Southeast               289      107        396       272   45.6%
    West                    364      ---        364       307   18.6%
    Central                 128      ---        128       110   16.4%
    Mid-Atlantic             93      ---         93       120  -22.5%
    Midwest                 ---      282        282       ---     n/a
    Total                   874      389      1,263       809   56.1%

New orders for the month ended July 31, 2002, include orders from Crossmann Communities, Inc., which Beazer acquired effective April 2002. On a pro forma basis, new orders for the month ended July 31, 2001, including Crossmann's orders would have been 1,244.

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, 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 and Chief Financial
                  Officer of Beazer Homes USA, Inc., +1-404-250-3420, or dweiss@beazer.com