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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports October Home Orders

November 5, 2001 at 8:44 AM EST

ATLANTA, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month ended October 31, 2001.

                                           New Orders (units)
                                      For the Month Ended October 31,
                                      2001        2000      % Change
    Southeast                          353         245        44.1%
    West                               324         225        44.0%
    Central                             57          49        16.3%
    Mid-Atlantic                       121         125        -3.2%
    Total                              855         644        32.8%

New orders for the West region for the month ended October 31, 2001 include 22 units from Sanford Homes of Colorado. Beazer acquired Sanford Homes effective August 1, 2001.

New orders for the month ended October 31, 2001 and 2000 include 78 and 19 units, respectively, for affordable housing developments being built through governmental programs. We had 340 and 28 new orders in fiscal 2001 and 2000, respectively, related to such government programs, representing 3% and 1% of total new orders for each year, respectively.

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 /