Meritage Homes Corporation Schedules Third Quarter 2007 Earnings Call and Webcast

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

Meritage Homes Corporation (NYSE:MTH) plans to release third quarter 2007 earnings on Thursday, October 25, 2007, after market close. A conference call has been scheduled to review and discuss these results on October 26, 2007, at 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time (10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.) The call will be webcast by Thomson/CCBN and distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network, with an accompanying slideshow accessible on the "Investor Relations" page of the Meritage Homes website, http://www.meritagehomes.com. An archived version of the presentation and accompanying slides will be available on this site for 30 days following the presentation. For telephone participants, the dial-in number is 866-356-4123 with a passcode of "Meritage." Participants are encouraged to dial in five minutes before the call begins. A replay of the call will be available after 2:00 p.m. EDT October 26, 2007, through midnight November 25, 2007, on the websites noted above, or by dialing 888-286-8010, and referencing passcode 59398218.

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 12th 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 #580 on the 2007 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 historically dominant homebuilding markets of the southern and western United States, including six of the top 10 single-family housing markets in the country for 2006, 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