Meritage Homes Postpones Analyst Meeting Due to Hazardous Weather Forecast for New York

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Meritage Homes Corporation (NYSE:MTH), a leading U.S. homebuilder, has postponed its Analyst Day meeting for investors and financial analysts that was scheduled to take place at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. The decision was made due to blizzard conditions forecasted for the city that day.

Management is investigating options for rescheduling the meeting. Analysts or investors interested in attending the live event should email investors@meritagehomes.com to register.

About Meritage

Meritage Homes is the eighth-largest public homebuilder in the United States, based on homes closed in 2016. Meritage Homes builds and sells single-family homes for first-time, move-up, luxury and active adult buyers across the Western, Southern and Southeastern United States. Meritage Homes builds in markets including Sacramento, San Francisco Bay area, southern coastal and Inland Empire markets in California; Houston, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Austin and San Antonio, Texas; Phoenix/Scottsdale, Green Valley and Tucson, Arizona; Denver and Fort Collins, Colorado; Orlando, Tampa and south Florida; Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina; Greenville-Spartanburg and York County, South Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and Atlanta, Georgia.

Meritage Homes has designed and built over 100,000 homes in its 31-year history, and has a reputation for its distinctive style, quality construction, and positive customer experience. Meritage Homes is the industry leader in energy-efficient homebuilding and has received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence Award every year since 2013 for innovation and industry leadership in energy efficient homebuilding.

For more information, visit www.meritagehomes.com.

Contact:
Brent Anderson, VP Investor Relations
(972) 580-6360
investors@meritagehomes.com

Released March 13, 2017