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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports October Home Orders

November 4, 2002 at 4:29 PM EST

ATLANTA, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month ended October 31, 2002.

                                                   New Orders (Units)
                                             For the Month Ended October 31,
                                                                        %
                                                2002       2001       Change
    Southeast                                    353        353        0.0%
    West                                         372        324       14.8%
    Central                                       91         57       59.6%
    Mid-Atlantic                                 198        121       63.6%
    Midwest                                      206          0         n/a
    Total                                      1,220        855       42.7%

New orders for the month ended October 31, 2002, include orders from Crossmann Communities, Inc., which Beazer acquired effective April 17, 2002. On a pro forma basis, new orders for the month ended October 31, 2001, including Crossmann's orders would have been 1,174.

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.

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/CONTACT: David S. Weiss, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Beazer Homes USA, Inc., +1-404-250-3420, or dweiss@beazer.com /