Standard Pacific Corp. Announces Upsizing and Pricing of $300 Million Senior Notes Due 2021

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard Pacific Corp. (NYSE: SPF) today announced the pricing of its previously announced public offering of senior notes and the increase in the amount of the offering to $300 million aggregate principal amount of notes.  Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC acted as joint book-running managers for the notes offering. 

The notes will pay interest semi-annually in arrears at a rate of 6.25% per year and will mature on December 15, 2021, unless earlier repurchased.  The notes will be guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by the Company's subsidiaries that guarantee the Company's outstanding notes. 

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the notes offering for general corporate purposes, including land acquisition and development, home construction, and other related purposes. 

The closing of the notes offering is expected to occur on August 6, 2013, subject to customary closing conditions.

The Company has an effective registration statement (including a prospectus) on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and has filed a prospectus supplement with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates.  Before you invest, you should read the prospectus supplement, the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents that the Company has filed and will file with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and the offering.  You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC web site at www.sec.gov.  Alternatively, copies of the prospectus supplement and related base prospectus related to this offering may be obtained from Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (tel: 800-831-9146).

This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor shall there be any sale of such securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About Standard Pacific

Standard Pacific Homes (NYSE: SPF) has been building homes and neighborhoods since its founding in Southern California in 1965.  We currently offer new homes in major metropolitan areas in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.

This news release contains forward-looking statements.  These statements include but are not limited to statements regarding the expected closing of the offering and the intended use of the net proceeds from the offering.  Forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations or beliefs regarding future events or circumstances, and you should not place undue reliance on these statements.  Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors many of which are out of the Company's control and difficult to forecast that may cause actual results to differ materially from those that may be described or implied.  The Company cannot be certain that the offering will be completed on the terms discussed above, or at all.  For a discussion of certain other risks, uncertainties and other factors affecting the statements contained in this news release, see the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.  Except as required by law, the Company assumes no, and hereby expressly disclaims any, obligation to update any of the foregoing or any other forward-looking statements.  The Company nonetheless reserves the right to make such updates from time to time by press release, periodic report or other method of public disclosure without the need for specific reference to this news release.  No such update shall be deemed to indicate that other statements not addressed by such update remain correct or create an obligationto provide any other updates.

SOURCE Standard Pacific Corp.