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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

x    QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended February 29, 2004

Commission File Number: 1-11749

Lennar Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

700 Northwest 107th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33172

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (305) 559-4000

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    YES  x    NO  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    YES  x    NO  ¨

Common shares outstanding as of March 31, 2004:

Part I. Financial Information

Item 1. Financial Statements

Lennar Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

See accompanying notes to consolidated condensed financial statements.

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Lennar Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Condensed Statements of Earnings

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

See accompanying notes to consolidated condensed financial statements.

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Lennar Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Condensed Statements of Cash Flows

(Unaudited)

(In thousands)

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Lennar Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Condensed Statements of Cash Flows — Continued

(Unaudited)

(In thousands)

See accompanying notes to consolidated condensed financial statements.

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Lennar Corporation and Subsidiaries

Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements

(Unaudited)

(1) Basis of Presentation

The accompanying consolidated condensed financial statements include the accounts of Lennar Corporation and all subsidiaries, partnerships and other entities (the “Company”) in which the Company has a controlling interest and variable interest entities created after January 31, 2003 in which the Company is deemed the primary beneficiary (see Note 12). The Company’s investments in unconsolidated partnerships in which a significant, but less than controlling, interest is held and variable interest entities created after January 31, 2003 in which the Company is not deemed to be the primary beneficiary, are accounted for by the equity method. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for complete financial statements. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the November 30, 2003 audited financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year then ended. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) necessary for the fair presentation of the accompanying consolidated condensed financial statements have been made.

The Company historically has experienced, and expects to continue to experience, variability in quarterly results. The consolidated condensed statement of earnings for the three months ended February 29, 2004 is not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

In December 2003, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a two-for-one stock split in the form of a 100% stock dividend of Class A and Class B common stock payable to stockholders of record on January 6, 2004. The additional shares were distributed on January 20, 2004. All share and per share amounts (except par value) have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the stock split. There was no net effect on total stockholders’ equity as a result of the stock split.

Certain prior year amounts in the consolidated condensed financial statements have been reclassified to conform with the 2004 presentation. These reclassifications had no impact on reported net earnings. In particular, homebuilding results reflect reclassifications that have been made to interest expense (now included in cost of homes sold and cost of land sold), equity in earnings from unconsolidated partnerships and management fees and other income, net.

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(2) Operating and Reporting Segments

The Company has two operating and reporting segments: Homebuilding and Financial Services. The Company’s reportable segments are strategic business units that offer different products and services. Segment amounts include all elimination adjustments made in consolidation.

Homebuilding

Homebuilding operations primarily include the sale and construction of single-family attached and detached homes, as well as the purchase, development and sale of residential land directly and through the Company’s unconsolidated partnerships.

Financial Services

The Financial Services Division provides mortgage financing, title insurance, closing services and insurance agency services for both buyers of the Company’s homes and others. It sells the loans it originates in the secondary mortgage market. The Financial Services Division also provides high-speed Internet access, cable television and alarm installation and monitoring services to residents of the Company’s communities and others.

Financial information relating to the Company’s reportable segments is as follows (unaudited):

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(3) Investment in Unconsolidated Partnerships

In November 2003, the Company and LNR Property Corporation (“LNR”) each contributed its 50% interests in certain of its jointly-owned unconsolidated partnerships that had significant assets to a new limited liability company named LandSource Communities Development LLC (“LandSource”), in exchange for 50% interests in LandSource. In addition, in July 2003, the Company and LNR formed, and obtained 50% interests in, NWHL Investment, LLC (“NWHL”), which agreed to purchase, and in January 2004 completed the purchase of, The Newhall Land and Farming Company (“Newhall”) for a total of approximately $1 billion. Newhall’s primary business is developing two master-planned communities in Los Angeles County, California.

LandSource was formed as a vehicle to obtain financing based on the value of the combined assets of the joint venture entities that the Company and LNR contributed to LandSource. The Company and LNR used LandSource’s financing capacity, together with the financing value of Newhall’s assets, to obtain improved financing for part of the purchase price of Newhall and for working capital to be used by the LandSource subsidiaries and Newhall. The Company and LNR may merge the joint venture entity that acquired Newhall with LandSource, and the Company and LNR may use LandSource for future joint ventures.

The Company and LNR each contributed approximately $200 million to NWHL, and LandSource and NWHL jointly obtained $600 million of bank financing, of which $400 million was used in connection with the acquisition of Newhall (the remainder of the acquisition price was paid with proceeds of a sale of income-producing properties from Newhall to LNR for $217 million at the closing of the transaction). The Company agreed to purchase 687 homesites and obtained options to purchase 623 homesites from Newhall. The Company is not obligated with regard to the borrowings by LandSource and NWHL, except that the Company and LNR have made limited maintenance guarantees and have committed to complete any property development commitments in the event LandSource and NWHL default. The combined assets and liabilities of LandSource and NWHL at February 29, 2004 were $1.3 billion and $722.5 million, respectively. The Company’s combined investment in LandSource and NWHL was $285.2 million at February 29, 2004.

(4) Earnings Per Share

Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net earnings attributable to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted earnings per share reflects the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock or resulted in the issuance of common stock that then shared in the earnings of the Company. Basic and diluted earnings per share were calculated as follows (unaudited):

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(4) Earnings Per Share, Continued

Basic and diluted earnings per share amounts and weighted average shares outstanding have been adjusted to reflect the effect of the Company’s January 2004 two-for-one stock split.

In 2001, the Company issued zero-coupon convertible senior subordinated notes due 2021. The indenture relating to the notes provides that the notes are convertible into the Company’s Class A common stock during limited periods after the market price of the Company’s Class A common stock exceeds 110% of the accreted conversion price at the rate of approximately 14.2 Class A common shares per $1,000 face amount of notes at maturity, which would total approximately 9.0 million shares (adjusted for the January 2004 two-for-one stock split). For this purpose, the “market price” is the average closing price of the Company’s Class A common stock over the last twenty trading days of a fiscal quarter.

Other events that would cause the notes to be convertible are: a) a call of the notes for redemption; b) the credit ratings assigned to the notes by any two of Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and Fitch Ratings are two rating levels below the initial rating; c) a distribution to all holders of the Company’s Class A common stock of options expiring within 60 days entitling the holders to purchase common stock for less than its quoted price; or d) a distribution to all holders of the Company’s Class A common stock of common stock, assets, debt, securities or rights to purchase securities with a per share value exceeding 15% of the closing price of the Class A common stock on the day preceding the declaration date for the distribution.

The calculation of diluted earnings per share included 9.0 million shares (adjusted for the January 2004 two-for-one stock split) for the three months ended February 29, 2004 because the average closing price of the Company’s Class A common stock over the last twenty trading days of the first quarter of 2004 exceeded 110% ($32.69 per share at February 29, 2004) of the accreted conversion price. These shares were not included in the calculation of diluted earnings per share for the three months ended February 28, 2003 because the contingencies discussed above were not met.

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(5) Financial Services

The assets and liabilities related to the Company’s financial services operations were as follows:

At February 29, 2004, the Financial Services Division had warehouse lines of credit totaling $655 million, which included a $50 million temporary increase that expired in March 2004, to fund its mortgage loan activities. Borrowings under the facilities were $449.8 million at February 29, 2004. The warehouse lines of credit mature in May 2004 ($250 million) and in October 2005 ($405 million), at which time the Division expects both facilities to be renewed. Additionally, the line of credit maturing in May 2004 includes an incremental $100 million commitment available at each fiscal quarter-end. The Division also had a $20 million revolving line of credit with a bank. Borrowings under the line of credit were $19.4 million at February 29, 2004.

(6) Cash

Cash as of February 29, 2004 and November 30, 2003 included $46.6 million and $68.7 million, respectively, of cash primarily held in escrow for approximately three days and $35.3 million and $45.2 million, respectively, of restricted deposits.

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(7) Debt

In May 2003, the Company amended and restated its senior secured credit facilities (the “Credit Facilities”) to provide the Company with up to $1.3 billion of financing. The Credit Facilities consist of a $712 million revolving credit facility maturing in May 2008, a $315 million 364-day revolving credit facility maturing in May 2004 and a $300 million term loan B maturing in December 2008. The Company may elect to convert borrowings under the 364-day revolving credit facility to a term loan, which would mature in May 2008. The Credit Facilities are collateralized by the stock of certain of the Company’s subsidiaries and are also guaranteed on a joint and several basis by substantially all of the Company’s subsidiaries, other than subsidiaries primarily engaged in mortgage and title reinsurance activities. At February 29, 2004, $295.0 million was outstanding under the term loan B and no amounts were outstanding under the revolving credit facilities. Interest rates are LIBOR-based and the margins are set by a pricing grid with thresholds that adjust based on changes in the Company’s leverage ratio and the Credit Facilities’ credit rating.

At February 29, 2004, the Company had letters of credit outstanding in the amount of $634.8 million. The majority of these letters of credit is posted with regulatory bodies to guarantee the Company’s performance of certain development and construction activities or is posted in lieu of cash deposits on option contracts. Of the Company’s total letters of credit, $347.4 million were collateralized against certain borrowings available under the Credit Facilities.

In March 2004, the Company issued $250 million of senior floating-rate notes due 2009 (“the Notes”) that are callable at par beginning in 2006. Proceeds from the offering, after underwriting discount and expenses, were approximately $249 million. The Company used the proceeds to partially prepay the term loan B portion of the Credit Facilities. Additionally, in March 2004, the Company repaid the remaining outstanding balance of the term loan B with cash from the Company’s working capital. Interest on the Notes will be at three-month LIBOR plus 0.75% and is payable quarterly, compared to the term loan B interest of three-month LIBOR plus 1.75%. The Notes are unsecured and unsubordinated. Substantially all of the Company’s subsidiaries, other than mortgage and title reinsurance subsidiaries, guarantee the Notes. However, the subsidiaries formed or acquired by the Company after October 9, 2001 are not guarantors unless and until their guarantees are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

In April 2004, the Company offered an additional $50 million of the Notes. Proceeds from the offering, after underwriting discount and expenses, will be approximately $49.7 million. The Company will add the proceeds to its working capital and will use them for general corporate purposes.

(8) Guarantees

Warranty and similar reserves for homes are established at an amount estimated to be adequate to cover potential costs for materials and labor with regard to warranty-type claims to be incurred subsequent to the delivery of a home. Reserves are determined based on historical data and trends with respect to similar product types and geographical areas. Warranty reserves are included in accounts payable and other liabilities in the consolidated condensed balance sheets. The following table sets forth the activity in the Company’s warranty reserve for the three months ended February 29, 2004 (unaudited):

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(8) Guarantees, Continued

In some instances, the Company and/or its partners have provided varying levels of guarantees on certain partnership debt. At February 29, 2004, the Company had recourse guarantees of $73.8 million and limited maintenance guarantees of $89.4 million of partnership debt. When the Company and/or its partners provide a guarantee, the partnership generally receives more favorable terms from its lenders than would otherwise be available to it. The limited maintenance guarantees only apply if a partnership defaults on its loan arrangements and the value of the collateral (generally land and improvements) is less than a specified percentage of the loan balance. If the Company is required to make a payment under a limited maintenance guarantee to bring the value of the collateral above the specified percentage of the loan balance, the payment would constitute a capital contribution or loan to the unconsolidated partnership and increase the Company’s share of any funds the unconsolidated partnership distributes. There were no assets held as collateral that, upon the occurrence of any triggering event or condition under a guarantee, the Company could obtain and liquidate to recover all or a portion of the amounts paid under a guarantee.

(9) Stockholders’ Equity

In December 2003, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a two-for-one stock split in the form of a 100% stock dividend of Class A and Class B common stock payable to stockholders of record on January 6, 2004. The additional shares were distributed on January 20, 2004. All share and per share amounts (except par value) have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the split. There was no net effect on total stockholders’ equity as a result of the stock split.

In June 2001, the Company’s Board of Directors increased the previously authorized stock repurchase program to permit future purchases of up to 20 million shares (adjusted for the January 2004 two-for-one stock split) of the Company’s outstanding Class A common stock. In December 2003, the Company granted approximately 2.4 million stock options (adjusted for the Company’s January 2004 two-for-one stock split) to employees under the Company’s 2003 Stock Option and Restricted Stock Plan and in January 2004, repurchased a similar amount of shares of its outstanding Class A common stock for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $109.6 million, or $45.64 per share (adjusted for the Company’s January 2004 two-for-one stock split). As of February 29, 2004, 17.6 million Class A common shares can be repurchased in the future under the program.

(10) Comprehensive Income

The Company has various interest rate swap agreements which effectively convert variable interest rates to fixed interest rates on approximately $300 million of outstanding debt related to its homebuilding operations. The swap agreements have been designated as cash flow hedges and, accordingly, are reflected at their fair value in the consolidated condensed balance sheets. The related loss is deferred, net of tax, in stockholders’ equity as accumulated other comprehensive loss.

Comprehensive income represents changes in stockholders’ equity from non-owner sources. For the three months ended February 29, 2004 and February 28, 2003, the change in the fair value of interest rate swaps was the only adjustment to the Company’s net earnings in deriving comprehensive income. Comprehensive income was $138.2 million and $102.3 million for the three months ended February 29, 2004 and February 28, 2003, respectively.

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(11) Stock-Based Compensation

The Company grants stock options to certain employees for fixed numbers of shares with, in each instance, an exercise price not less than the fair value of the shares at the date of the grant. The Company accounts for the stock option grants in accordance with Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees. No compensation expense is recognized because all stock options granted have exercise prices not less than the market value of the Company’s stock on the date of the grant. The Company also grants restricted stock, which is valued based on the market price of the common stock on the date of grant. Unearned compensation arising from the restricted stock grants is amortized to expense using the straight-line method over the period of the restrictions. Unearned restricted stock is shown as a reduction of stockholders’ equity in the consolidated condensed balance sheets.

The following table illustrates the effect on net earnings and earnings per share if the Company had applied the fair value recognition provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation as amended by SFAS No. 148, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation—Transition and Disclosure, to stock-based employee compensation (unaudited):

(12) Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities

In January 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Interpretation No. 46 (“FIN 46”), Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, as further clarified and amended by the FASB’s issuance of a revision to FIN 46 in December 2003, which requires the consolidation of entities in which an enterprise absorbs a majority of the entity’s expected losses, receives a majority of the entity’s expected residual returns, or both, as a result of ownership, contractual or other financial interests in the entity. Prior to the issuance of FIN 46, entities were generally consolidated by an enterprise when it had a controlling financial interest through ownership of a majority voting interest in the entity. FIN 46 applied immediately to variable interests created after January 31, 2003, and with respect to variable interests created before February 1, 2003, FIN 46 will apply in the Company’s second quarter ending May 31, 2004, as deferred by the FASB in December 2003. Although the Company does not believe the full adoption of FIN 46 will have a material impact on net earnings, the Company cannot make any definitive determination until it completes its evaluation.

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(12) Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, Continued

Partnerships

At February 29, 2004, the Company had investments in and advances to partnerships established to acquire and develop land for sale to the Company in connection with its homebuilding operations or for sale to third parties. The Company evaluated its partnership agreements entered into during the three months ended February 29, 2004 under FIN 46. No partnerships created during the three months ended February 29, 2004 were consolidated as the Company determined it was not the primary beneficiary, as defined under FIN 46. The Company is in the process of evaluating its unconsolidated partnerships created prior to February 1, 2003 that may be deemed variable interest entities under the provisions of FIN 46. At February 29, 2004, the Company’s recorded investment in unconsolidated partnerships was $636.9 million; however, the Company’s estimated maximum exposure to loss with regard to unconsolidated partnerships was its recorded investments in these partnerships in addition to the exposure under the guarantees discussed in Note 8.

Option contracts

The Company evaluated its option contracts for land entered into during the three months ended February 29, 2004 and determined it was the primary beneficiary of certain of these option contracts. Although the Company does not have legal title to the optioned land, under FIN 46, the Company, as the primary beneficiary, is required to consolidate the land under option at fair value (the exercise price). The effect of the consolidation of these option contracts was an increase of $79.3 million to consolidated inventory not owned with a corresponding increase to liabilities related to consolidated inventory not owned in the accompanying consolidated condensed balance sheet as of February 29, 2004. To reflect the fair value of the inventory consolidated under FIN 46, the Company reclassified $4.0 million of related option deposits from land under development to consolidated inventory not owned. The liabilities related to consolidated inventory not owned represent the difference between the exercise price of the optioned land and the Company’s deposits. The Company is in the process of evaluating its option contracts entered into prior to February 1, 2003 that may be deemed issued by variable interest entities under the provisions of FIN 46. At February 29, 2004, the Company had options with third parties with estimated aggregate exercise prices totaling $3 billion; however, the Company’s exposure to loss represents its non-refundable option deposits and/or letters of credit related to the options.

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(13) Recent Accounting Pronouncement

In March 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 105, Application of Accounting Principles to Loan Commitments. SAB No. 105 provides the SEC staff position regarding the application of accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America to loan commitments that relate to the origination of mortgage loans that will be held for resale. SAB No. 105 contains specific guidance on the inputs to a valuation-recognition model to measure loan commitments accounted for at fair value. Current accounting guidance requires the commitment to be recognized on the balance sheet at fair value from its inception through its expiration or funding. SAB No. 105 requires that fair-value measurement include only differences between the guaranteed interest rate in the loan commitment and a market interest rate, excluding any expected future cash flows related to the customer relationship or loan servicing. In addition, SAB No. 105 requires the disclosure of both the accounting policy for loan commitments including the methods and assumptions used to estimate the fair value of loan commitments and any associated hedging strategies. SAB No. 105 is effective for all loan commitments accounted for as derivatives and entered into subsequent to March 31, 2004. The Company is currently evaluating the impact SAB No. 105 will have on its consolidated financial statements.

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(14) Supplemental Financial Information

The Company’s obligations to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest under certain debt instruments are guaranteed on a joint and several basis by substantially all of the Company’s subsidiaries, other than subsidiaries primarily engaged in mortgage and title reinsurance activities. The guarantees are full and unconditional and the guarantor subsidiaries are 100% directly or indirectly owned by Lennar Corporation. The Company has determined that separate, full financial statements of the guarantors would not be material to investors and, accordingly, supplemental financial information for the guarantors is presented.

Consolidating Condensed Balance Sheet

February 29, 2004

(Unaudited)

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(14) Supplemental Financial Information, Continued

Consolidating Condensed Balance Sheet

November 30, 2003

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(14) Supplemental Financial Information, Continued

Consolidating Condensed Statement of Earnings

Three Months Ended February 29, 2004

(Unaudited)

Consolidating Condensed Statement of Earnings

Three Months Ended February 28, 2003

(Unaudited)

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(14) Supplemental Financial Information, Continued

Consolidating Condensed Statement of Cash Flows

Three Months Ended February 29, 2004

(Unaudited)