Meritage Homes Corporation Schedules First Quarter 2007 Earnings Call and Webcast

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Meritage Homes Corporation (NYSE:MTH), a leading U.S. homebuilder, plans to release first quarter 2007 earnings on April 25, 2007 after market close. A conference call has been scheduled to review and discuss these results on April 26, 2007, at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time (11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.)

The call will be webcast by Thomson/CCBN with an accompanying slideshow on the "Investor Relations" page of the Company's web site at http://www.meritagehomes.com. For telephone participants, the dial-in number is 800-901-5248 with a passcode of "Meritage". Participants are encouraged to dial in five minutes before the call begins.

The webcast will also be distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com, Thomson's individual investor portal powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson StreetEvents, a password-protected event management site at www.streetevents.com.

A replay of the call will be available after 2:00 p.m. EDT April 26, 2007, through midnight May 25, 2007, on the websites noted above, or by dialing 888-286-8010, and referencing passcode 54286061.

About Meritage Homes Corporation

Meritage Homes Corporation (NYSE:MTH) is a leader in the homebuilding industry. The Company is ranked by Builder magazine as the 13th largest homebuilder in the U.S. and was selected in 2006 for the fourth consecutive year to Forbes' "Platinum 400 - Best-Managed Big Companies in America." Meritage is in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index, ranks #615 on the 2006 Fortune 1000 list and has appeared on Fortune's "Fastest Growing Companies in America" list in six of the last eight years. Meritage operates in many of the dominant homebuilding markets of the southern and western United States, including six of the top 10 single-family housing markets in the country, and has reported 19 consecutive years of record revenue through 2006. For more information about the Company, visit www.meritagehomes.com. Meritage is a member of the Public Home Builders Council of America (www.phbca.org).

Source: Meritage Homes Corporation