Company: HOVVB
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-003579
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Company: HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form: DEF 14A
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 proxy statement, proxy card(s) and the Company’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2024. To ensure your shares are voted, you may vote your shares over the Internet, by telephone or by requesting a paper proxy card to complete, sign and return by mail. 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. These voting procedures are described on pages 6 and 7 and on the proxy card. All shareholders are urged to attend the meeting in person or by proxy. Shareholders who do not expect to attend the meeting are requested to complete, sign and date the enclosed proxy card and return it promptly, or, if applicable, to register their vote via the Internet or by telephone according to the instructions on pages 6 and 7 and on the proxy card. By order of the Board of Directors, ELIZABETH D. TICE Secretary February 7, 2025 10

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|      | If you are a shareholder of record and you plan to attend the Annual Meeting of Shareholders, please mark the appropriate box on your proxy card or, if                                                                                          
 applicable, so indicate when designating a proxy via the Internet or by telephone. If your shares are held by a bank, broker or other intermediary and you plan to attend, please send written notice to our principal executive offices at      
 Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., 90 Matawan Road, Fifth Floor, Matawan, New Jersey 07747, Attention: Elizabeth D. Tice, Secretary, and enclose evidence of your ownership (such as a letter from the bank, broker or other intermediary confirming   
 your ownership or a bank or brokerage firm account statement). The names of all those planning to attend will be placed on an admission list held at the registration desk at the entrance to the meeting. In order to be admitted to the Annual 
 Meeting of Shareholders, you will need a form of personal identification (such as a driver’s license) along with your Notice, proxy card or proof of Common Stock ownership. If your shares are held beneficially in the name of a bank, broker  
 or other holder of record and you wish to be admitted to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders, you must present proof of