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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports November Home Orders

December 4, 2001 at 4:18 PM EST
ATLANTA, Dec 4, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com) today released preliminary unit net orders for the one-month and two-month periods ended November 30, 2001.

                              New Orders (units)       New Orders (units)
                                   Month                   Two Months
                             Ended November 30,         Ended November 30,
                           2001    2000   Change       2001   2000  Change
    Southeast               293     206    42.2%        646    451   43.2%
    West                    350     214    63.6%        674    439   53.5%
    Central                  86      45    91.1%        143     94   52.1%
    Mid-Atlantic            103      97     6.2%        224    222    0.9%
    Total                   832     562    48.0%      1,687  1,206   39.9%
New orders for the West region include 18 and 40 units for the one and two-month periods ended November 30, 2001, respectively, from Sanford Homes of Colorado. Beazer acquired Sanford Homes effective August 1, 2001.

New orders for the one-month periods ended November 30, 2001 and 2000 both include no units for affordable housing developments being built through governmental programs. New orders for the two-month periods ended November 30, 2001 and 2000 include 78 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 Beazer Homes USA, Inc.,
                  +1-404-250-3420, or dweiss@beazer.com