UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  October 27, 2008

 

HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

110 West Front Street
P.O. Box 500
Red Bank, New Jersey 07701

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

(732) 747-7800

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since
Last Report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o            Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

o            Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 

Item 8.01.               Other Events.

 

On October 27, 2008, Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (“Hovnanian”) issued a press release announcing that K. Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hovnanian (“K. Hovnanian”), has commenced a private offer to exchange senior notes listed therein in a private placement for new 18.0% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 to be issued by K. Hovnanian, to be guaranteed by Hovnanian and substantially all of its subsidiaries and to be secured on a third-priority lien basis by substantially all the assets owned by Hovnanian and the guarantors to the extent such assets secure obligations under Hovnanian’s Revolving Credit Agreement, second-priority secured notes and certain other permitted indebtedness.  A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The exchange offer is being made within the United States only to “qualified institutional buyers” pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and outside the United States to non-U.S. investors.  The new secured notes to be offered have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.  The information contained in this report does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy senior notes or new secured notes subject to the exchange offer in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or sale would be unlawful.

 

Item 9.01.               Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit 99.1            Press Release issued October 27, 2008.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

	HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES, INC.
	(Registrant)
	By:	/s/	J. Larry Sorsby
		Name:	J. Larry Sorsby
		Title:	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
		and Treasurer

 

 

Date: October 27, 2008

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit Number		Exhibit
Exhibit 99.1		Press Release issued October 27, 2008.

 

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