TOUSA Declares Cash Dividend


HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Aug. 24, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Technical Olympic USA, Inc. (NYSE:TOA) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.015 per share on the Company's outstanding common stock. The cash dividend will be payable on September 16, 2005, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 6, 2005.

Technical Olympic USA, Inc. ("TOUSA") is a leading homebuilder in the United States, operating in 16 metropolitan markets located in four major geographic regions: Florida, the Mid-Atlantic, Texas, and the West. TOUSA designs, builds, and markets high-quality detached single-family residences, town homes, and condominiums to a diverse group of homebuyers, such as "first-time" homebuyers, "move-up" homebuyers, homebuyers who are relocating to a new city or state, buyers of second or vacation homes, active-adult homebuyers, and homebuyers with grown children who want a smaller home ("empty-nesters"). It also provides financial services to its homebuyers and to others through its subsidiaries, Preferred Home Mortgage Company and Universal Land Title, Inc. For more information on TOUSA, please visit our website at www.tousa.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements. The Company wishes to caution readers that certain important factors may have affected and could in the future affect the Company's actual results and could cause the Company's actual results for subsequent periods to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement made by or on behalf of the Company. This press release is qualified in its entirety by cautionary statements and risk factor disclosure contained in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the Company's report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, filed with the Commission on March 11, 2005.

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