Company: HOVVB
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-003579
Chunk: 1

Company: HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 1
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 you.     
 Mailed proxy cards must be received no later than March 26, 2025 to be counted for 
 the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.                                           | Additional Information                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 for Shareholders of Class B                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 Common Stock Held in                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 Nominee Name:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 Shares of Class B Common Stock held in nominee name will be                                                                                                                                                                                  
 entitled to ten votes per share only if the beneficial owner voting instruction card and the nominee proxy card relating to such shares are properly completed, mailed and received not less than three nor more than 20 business days prior 
 to March 27, 2025.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

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| HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES, INC. 
 NOTICE of                   
 ANNUAL MEETING              
 of SHAREHOLDERS             |

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Hovnanian
Enterprises, Inc. will be held on Thursday, March 27, 2025, at the
offices of Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP, 1450 Brickell
Avenue, 23rd Floor, Miami, FL 33131 at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time FOR THE FOLLOWING MATTERS:

| 01                                                                                                                        
 The election of the directors named herein of the Company for the ensuing year, to serve until the next Annual Meeting of 
 Shareholders of the Company, and until their respective successors may be elected and qualified;                          |     |                                                                                                                                                               02 
 The ratification of the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, to examine the financial statements of the Company 
                                                                                                                                              for the year ending 
                                                                                                                                                October 31, 2025; |
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| 03                                                                                                                        |     |                                                                                                                                                               04 |
| The approval of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers in a non-binding, advisory vote; and           |     |                                                      The transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting and any adjournment thereof. |

The Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR each of the nominees listed in proposal 1 and FOR proposals 2 and 3. 9 Only shareholders of record at the close of business on January 28, 2025 are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Accompanying this Notice is a