RED BANK, N.J., July 11, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:HOV) (the “Company”) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, K. Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (“K. Hovnanian”), plans to issue an aggregate principal amount of up to $840,000,000 of senior secured notes with maturities in 2022 and 2024 (collectively, the “Notes”) in a private placement (the “Notes Offering”). The Notes will be guaranteed by the Company and substantially all of its subsidiaries. The Notes and the guarantees thereof will be secured by liens on substantially all the assets of K. Hovnanian and the guarantors, subject to permitted liens and certain exceptions. The liens securing the Notes will rank junior to the liens securing K. Hovnanian’s $75.0 million senior secured term loan facility and any other future secured obligations that are senior in priority with respect to the assets securing the Notes.

K. Hovnanian intends to use the net proceeds from the Notes Offering to fund its previously announced offers and related consent solicitations (the “Tender Offers”) to purchase for cash any and all of its $75 million outstanding 10.000% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2018 (the “2018 Notes”), $145 million outstanding 9.125% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2020 (the “2020 9.125% Notes”) and $577 million outstanding 7.250% Senior Secured First Lien Notes due 2020 (the “2020 7.25% Notes”, and, together with the 2018 Notes and the 2020 9.125% Notes, the “Existing Secured Notes”), and/or to fund the redemption of all Existing Secured Notes that have not been accepted and paid for in the Tender Offers and to satisfy and discharge our obligations under the related indentures and to pay related fees and expenses.

The Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The Notes may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. persons, except to “qualified institutional buyers” in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A and to certain persons in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S. You are hereby notified that sellers of the Notes may be relying on the exemption from the provisions of Section 5 of the Securities Act provided by Rule 144A. This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy Notes in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or sale would be unlawful. This announcement does not constitute an offer to purchase or the solicitation of an offer to sell the Existing Secured Notes.