WCI Announces Annual Shareholders' Meeting

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WCI Announces Annual Shareholders' Meeting

BONITA SPRINGS, FLORIDA, Apr. 20 -/E-Wire/Business Wire/-- WCI Communities, Inc. (NYSE:WCI), named America's Best Builder 2004 by the National Association of Home Builders and Builder Magazine, today announced plans for its annual shareholders' meeting. The meeting will be held Thursday, May 20, 2004 beginning at 10 A.M. EDT at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point, 5001 Coconut Point Road, Bonita Springs, Florida. The company expects to mail its annual report and proxy statement to shareholders the week of April 19, 2004. The company's annual report and proxy statement will also be available at www.wcicommunities.com by April 23, 2004. For questions regarding the meeting, please contact the company at (239) 498-8350.

Based in Bonita Springs, Florida, WCI has been creating amenity-rich, leisure-oriented master-planned communities for more than 50 years. WCI's award-winning communities offer primary, retirement, and second-home buyers traditional and tower home choices with prices from the mid-$100,000s to more than $10 million and currently feature more than 549 holes of golf and 1,000 boat slips as well as country club, tennis and recreational facilities. The company also derives income from its 30-office Prudential Florida WCI Realty division, its mortgage and title businesses, and its amenities division, which operates many of the clubhouses, golf courses, restaurants, and marinas within its 30 communities. The company currently owns and controls developable land of approximately 14,000 acres.

Certain information included herein and in other company reports, Security and Exchange Commission filings, statements and presentations is forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements about the company's anticipated operating results, financial resources, ability to acquire land, ability to sell homes and properties, ability to deliver homes from backlog, ability to secure materials and subcontractors. Such forward-looking information involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect actual results and cause them to differ materially from expectations expressed herein and in other company reports, filings, statements and presentations. These risks and uncertainties include WCI's ability to compete in the Florida real estate market; the availability and cost of land in desirable areas in Florida and elsewhere and the ability to expand successfully into those areas; WCI's ability to obtain necessary permits and approvals for the development of its lands; WCI's ability to raise debt and equity capital and grow its operations on a profitable basis; WCI's ability to pay principal and interest on its current and future debts; WCI's ability to sustain or increase historical revenues and profit margins; material increases in labor and material costs; increases in interest rates; the level of consumer confidence; adverse legislation or regulations; unanticipated litigation or legal proceedings; natural disasters; and the continuation and improvement of general economic conditions and business trends. If one or more of the assumptions underlying our forward-looking statements proves incorrect, then the company's actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this report. Therefore, we caution you not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. This statement is provided as permitted by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For more information about WCI and its residential communities, visit http://www.wcicommunities.com

WCI Communities, Inc.

WCI Communities, Inc., Bonita Springs

Investors:Steve Zenker, 239/498-8066 [REDACTED-EMAIL]

or Media:Ken Plonski, 239/498-8691 [REDACTED-EMAIL]

http://www.wcicommunities.com

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