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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2004

OR

For the transition period from              to             

Commission File Number: 1-12378

NVR, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

7601 Lewinsville Road, Suite 300

McLean, Virginia 22102

(703) 761-2000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including

area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

(Not Applicable)

(Former name, former address, and former fiscal year if changed since last report)

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 checkmark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act of 1934).    Yes  x    No  ¨

As of October 25, 2004 there were 6,361,246 total shares of common stock outstanding.

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements

NVR, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands, except per share and share data)

(Continued)

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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NVR, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Continued)

(in thousands, except per share and share data)

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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NVR, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income

(in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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NVR, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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NVR, Inc.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(dollars in thousands except per share data)

1. Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited, condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of NVR, Inc. (“NVR” or the “Company”) and its subsidiaries and certain other entities in which the Company is deemed to be the primary beneficiary (see Note 2). Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and 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. Because the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, they should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s 2003 Annual Report on Form 10-K. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2004 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2004.

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.

For the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2004 and 2003, comprehensive income equaled net income; therefore, a separate statement of comprehensive income is not included in the accompanying financial statements. Certain prior year balances have been reclassified to conform with the current year presentation.

2. Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities

In December 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Revised Interpretation No. 46 (“FIN 46R”), Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, which was effective for NVR as of March 31, 2004. FIN 46R requires the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity to consolidate that entity. The primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity is the party that absorbs a majority of the variable interest 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. Expected losses are the expected negative variability in the fair value of an entity’s net assets exclusive of its variable interests, and expected residual returns are the expected positive variability in the fair value of an entity’s net assets, exclusive of variable interests. As discussed below, NVR has determined that it must evaluate the provisions of FIN 46R as it relates to NVR’s finished lot acquisition strategy.

NVR does not engage in the land development business. Instead, the Company typically acquires finished building lots at market prices from various development entities under fixed price purchase agreements. The purchase agreements require deposits that may be forfeited if NVR fails to perform under the agreement. The deposits required under the purchase agreements are in the form of cash or letters of credit in varying amounts, and typically range up to 10% of the aggregate purchase price of the finished lots. As of September 30, 2004, the Company controlled approximately 75,000 lots with deposits in cash and letters of credit totaling approximately $351,000 and $14,000, respectively.

This lot acquisition strategy reduces the financial requirements and risks associated with direct land ownership and land development. NVR may, at its option, choose for any reason and at any time not to perform under these purchase agreements by delivering notice of its intent not to acquire the finished lots

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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(dollars in thousands except per share data)

under contract. NVR’s sole legal obligation and economic loss for failure to perform under these purchase agreements is limited to the amount of the deposit pursuant to the liquidating damage provision contained within the purchase agreements. In other words, if NVR does not perform under a purchase agreement, NVR loses its deposit. NVR does not have any financial or specific performance guarantees, or completion obligations, under these purchase agreements. None of the creditors of any of the development entities with which NVR enters fixed price purchase agreements have recourse to the general credit of NVR. Except as described below, NVR also does not share in an allocation of either the profit earned or loss incurred by any of these entities with which NVR enters fixed price purchase agreements.

On a very limited basis, NVR also obtains finished lots using joint venture limited liability corporations (“LLC’s”). All LLC’s are structured such that NVR is a non-controlling limited partner and is at risk only for the amount invested. NVR is not a borrower, guarantor or obligor on any of the LLC’s debt. NVR enters into a standard fixed price purchase agreement to purchase lots from these LLC’s.

At September 30, 2004, NVR had an aggregate investment in twelve (12) separate LLC’s totaling approximately $13,600, which controlled approximately 1,000 lots. NVR recognizes its share of the earnings of the LLC’s as a reduction of the cost basis of the lots at the time that the lot and related home is settled with an external customer. During the nine-month period ended September 30, 2004, NVR reduced cost of sales by approximately $214, which represented NVR’s share of the earnings of the LLC’s.

Forward contracts, such as the fixed price purchase agreements utilized by NVR to acquire finished lot inventory, are deemed to be “variable interests” under FIN 46R. Therefore, the development entities with which NVR enters fixed price purchase agreements, including the LLC’s, are examined under FIN 46R for possible consolidation by NVR. NVR has developed a methodology to determine whether it or the owner of the applicable development entity is the primary beneficiary of a development entity. The methodology used to evaluate NVR’s primary beneficiary status requires substantial management judgment and estimation. These judgments and estimates involve assigning probabilities to various estimated cash flow possibilities relative to the development entity’s expected profits and losses and the cash flows associated with changes in the fair value of finished lots under contract. Because NVR does not have any contractual or ownership interests in the development entities with which it contracts to buy finished lots (other than the limited use of the LLC’s as discussed above), NVR does not have the ability to compel these development entities to provide financial or other data to assist NVR in the performance of the primary beneficiary evaluation. In many instances, these development entities provide little, if any, financial information. This lack of direct information from the development entities may result in NVR’s evaluation being conducted solely based on the aforementioned management judgments and estimates. Although management believes that its accounting policy is designed to properly assess NVR’s primary beneficiary status relative to its involvement with the development entities from which NVR acquires finished lots, changes to the probabilities and the cash flow possibilities used in NVR’s evaluation could produce widely different conclusions regarding NVR’s status or non-status as a development entity’s primary beneficiary.

The Company has evaluated all of its fixed price purchase agreements and LLC arrangements and has determined that it is the primary beneficiary of eighteen (18) of those development entities with which the agreements and arrangements are held. As a result, at September 30, 2004, NVR has consolidated such development entities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet. Where NVR deemed itself to be the primary beneficiary of a development entity created after December 31, 2003 and the development entity refused to provide financial statements, NVR utilized estimation techniques to perform the consolidation. The effect of the consolidation at September 30, 2004 was the inclusion on the balance sheet of $66,477 as Assets not owned, consolidated per FIN 46 with a corresponding inclusion of $43,453 as Liabilities related to inventory not owned, consolidated per FIN 46, after elimination of intercompany items. Inclusive in these totals were assets of $11,820 and liabilities of $8,385 estimated for two (2) development entities created after December 31, 2003 that did not provide financial statements.

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NVR, Inc.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(dollars in thousands except per share data)

Following are the consolidating schedules at September 30, 2004:

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NVR, Inc.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(dollars in thousands except per share data)

Under FIN 46R, an enterprise with an interest in a variable interest entity or potential variable interest entity created before December 31, 2003, is not required to apply FIN 46R to that entity if the enterprise, after making an “exhaustive effort”, is unable to obtain the information necessary to perform the accounting required to consolidate the variable interest entity for which it is determined to be the primary beneficiary. NVR has been unable to obtain the information necessary to perform the accounting required to consolidate twenty-one (21) separate development entities created before December 31, 2003 for which NVR determined it was the primary beneficiary. NVR has made, or has committed to make, aggregate deposits, totaling $21,430 to these twenty-one (21) separate development entities, with a total aggregate purchase price for the finished lots of approximately $151,000. The aggregate deposit made or committed to being made is NVR’s maximum exposure to loss. As noted above, because NVR does not have any contractual or ownership interests in the development entities with which it contracts to buy finished lots (other than the limited use of the LLC’s as discussed above), NVR does not have the ability to compel these development entities to provide financial or other data. Because NVR has no ownership rights in any of these twenty-one (21) development entities, the consolidation of such entities has no impact on NVR’s net income or earnings per share for the three or nine months ended September 30, 2004. Aggregate activity with respect to the twenty-one (21) development entities is included in the following table:

3. Stock-Based Compensation

At September 30, 2004, the Company had seven active stock-based employee compensation plans. As permitted under Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (“FAS”) No. 148, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation – Transition and Disclosure, an amendment of FASB Statement No. 123, NVR has elected to continue to follow the intrinsic value method in accounting for its stock-based employee compensation arrangements as defined by Accounting Principles Board Opinion (“APB”) No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, and related interpretations including Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 44, Accounting for Certain Transactions involving Stock Compensation, an interpretation of APB No. 25. The following table illustrates the effect on net income and earnings per share if the Company had applied the fair value recognition provisions of FAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation, to stock-based employee compensation.

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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(dollars in thousands except per share data)

4. Earnings per Share

The following weighted average shares and share equivalents are used to calculate basic and diluted earnings per share for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2004 and 2003:

Options issued under equity plans to purchase 54,500 and 78,667 shares of common stock during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2004, respectively, and 6,000 and 14,200 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2003, respectively, were outstanding but were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share because the effect would have been anti-dilutive.

5. Shareholders’ Equity

A summary of changes in shareholders’ equity is presented below:

Approximately 289,000 options to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock were exercised during the first nine months of 2004. The Company settles option exercises by issuing shares of treasury stock to option holders. Shares are relieved from the treasury account based on the weighted average cost basis of treasury shares acquired. The Company repurchased approximately 615,000 shares of its common stock at an aggregate purchase price of $275,715 during the nine months ended September 30, 2004.

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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(dollars in thousands except per share data)

6. Segment Disclosures

NVR operates in two business segments: homebuilding and mortgage banking. Corporate general and administrative expenses are fully allocated to the homebuilding and mortgage banking segments in the information presented below.

As of and for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2004

For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2004