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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports Record September Home Orders

October 3, 2000 at 4:14 PM EDT

ATLANTA, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH); (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month and quarter ended September 30, 2000.

                         New Orders (units)              New Orders (units)
                       For the Month Ended          For the Three Months Ended
                         September 30,                     September 30,

                       2000      1999  % Change     2000      1999   % Change
    Southeast           194       149   30.2%        660       606     8.9%
    Southwest           368       198   85.9%        853       646    32.0%
    Central              50        51   -2.0%        166       130    27.7%
    Mid-Atlantic        100       105   -4.8%        315       312     1.0%
    Total               712       503   41.6%      1,994     1,694    17.7%

Beazer Homes USA, Inc., based in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the country's ten largest single-family homebuilders with operations in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. SOURCE Beazer Homes USA, Inc.

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