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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports September Home Orders

October 3, 2002 at 8:04 AM EDT
ATLANTA, Oct 3, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month and the quarter ended September 30, 2002.

                       New Orders (Units) for the Month Ended September 30,

                       Beazer    Crossmann     Total      Beazer      %
                        2002       2002        2002        2001     Change
    Southeast            262         90         352         269      30.9%
    West                 397        ---         397         225      76.4%
    Central               81        ---          81          83      -2.4%
    Mid-Atlantic          68        ---          68          96     -29.2%
    Midwest              ---        178         178         ---        n/a
    Total                808        268       1,076         673      59.9%


                      New Orders (Units) for the Quarter Ended September 30,

                       Beazer    Crossmann     Total      Beazer        %
                        2002       2002        2002        2001      Change
    Southeast            861        324       1,185         856      38.4%
    West               1,175        ---       1,175         867      35.5%
    Central              327        ---         327         285      14.7%
    Mid-Atlantic         263        ---         263         332     -20.8%
    Midwest              ---        781         781         ---        n/a
    Total              2,626      1,105       3,731       2,340      59.4%
New orders for the month and quarter ended September 30, 2002, include orders from Crossmann Communities, Inc., which Beazer acquired effective April 17, 2002. On a pro forma basis, new orders for the month and quarter ended September 30, 2001, including Crossmann's orders would have been 901 and 3,286 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, 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 

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