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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Reports Record Home Orders for the Month And Quarter Ended December 31, 2000

January 3, 2001 at 4:11 PM EST

ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) (www.beazer.com ) today released preliminary unit net orders for the month and quarter ended December 31, 2000.

                           New Orders (units)         New Orders (units)
                          For the Month Ended     For the Three Months Ended
                              December 31,               December 31,
                                            %                           %
                         2000       1999  Change     2000      1999  Change
    Southeast            186        176    5.7%      637       538    18.4%
    Southwest            265        181   46.4%      704       620    13.5%
    Central               50         30   66.7%      144        87    65.5%
    Mid-Atlantic          91         61   49.2%      313       260    20.4%
    Total                592        448   32.1%    1,798     1,505    19.5%

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 /