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Contact:
Marshall
Ames
Investor
Relations
Lennar
Corporation
(305)
485-2092
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LENNAR
INCREASES ITS UNSECURED REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY FROM $2.2 BILLION TO $2.7
BILLION
MIAMI,
July 24, 2006 -- Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN and LEN.B),
one of
the nation's largest homebuilders, announced that the Company has entered into
a
new unsecured revolving credit facility that provides the Company with $2.7
billion of financing. The credit facility also provides the Company with access
to an additional $500 million of financing through an accordion feature, subject
to additional commitments, for a maximum aggregate availability under the
facility of $3.2 billion. The credit facility will replace the Company’s
existing $2.2 billion credit facility and will mature in July 2011.
JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A. is the Joint Lead Arranger and Administrative Agent, Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas is the Joint Lead Arranger and Syndication Agent
and
Bank of America, N.A., Barclays Bank PLC, Calyon New York Branch, The Royal
Bank
of Scotland and Wachovia Bank, National Association are Documentation Agents.
A
total of 46 lenders participate in the facility.
Bruce
Gross, Lennar's Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, said, “We appreciate
the continued commitment from our long-term banking partners and we welcome
the
nine new banks that have joined the group. Our strategic growth plan begins
and
ends with a strong balance sheet as Lennar remains a balance sheet-first focused
company. This increase in capital provides continued liquidity for the Company’s
current working capital needs and future growth opportunities.”
(more)
Lennar
Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality
homes for all generations. The Company builds affordable, move-up and retirement
homes primarily under the Lennar and U.S. Home brand names. Lennar's Financial
Services Division provides primarily mortgage financing, title insurance and
closing services for both buyers of the Company's homes and others. Previous
press releases and further information about the Company may be obtained at
the
“Investor Relations” section of the Company's website,
http://www.lennar.com.
Some
of
the statements in this press release are “forward-looking statements,” as that
term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You
can
identify forward-looking statements by the fact that these statements do not
relate strictly to historical or current matters. Rather, forward-looking
statements relate to anticipated or expected events, activities, trends or
results. Because forward-looking statements relate to matters that have not
yet
occurred, these statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties.
Many factors could cause our actual activities or results to differ materially
from the activities and results anticipated in forward-looking statements.
These
factors include those described under the caption “Risk Factors Relating to Our
Business” in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended
November 30, 2005. We do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking
statements.
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