Daiwa House Industry : Nov. 08, 2018 Notice of the Determination of Matters Pertaining to the Acquisition of Treasury Stock

News Release (Translation only)

November 8, 2018

Company:Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. (Code number: 1925,Representative: Contact:

First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange) Keiichi Yoshii, President and COO

Yuji Yamada, Senior Executive Officer General Manager, IR [e-mail]

Notice of the Determination of Matters Pertaining to the Acquisition of Treasury Stock (Acquisition of Treasury Stock Pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation under the Provisions of

Article 165 Par.2 of the Companies Act)

At a meeting held November 8, 2018, the Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. Board of Directors resolved to acquire treasury stock pursuant to the provisions of Article 156 of the Companies Act applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 165 Par.3 of the same act.

1. Reasons for the acquisition of treasury stock

This is mainly for allocation to exercising paid stock options.

2. Transaction details

(1) Type of shares to be acquired	Common shares of Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. stock
(2) Total number of shares to be acquired	2,300,000 shares (maximum) (Representing 0.35% of total shares outstanding (excluding treasury stock))
(3) Total acquisition price	10,005 million yen (maximum)
(4) Period of acquisition	November 9, 2018 - November 30, 2018
(5) Method of acquisition	Conducted via the Tokyo Stock Exchange off-auction own share repurchase (ToSTNeT-3) system.

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(Reference) Treasury stock as of October 31, 2018

Total shares outstanding (excluding treasury stock)	666,182,444 shares
Treasury stock	55,761 shares

(Note) The 511,500 shares in the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (E-Ship®) held by the Nomura Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. (Daiwa House Industry Employees Shareholders Association Trust Account) and the 112,968 shares in the Directors Stock Delivery Trust held by the Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (trust account) are not included in the above treasury stock number.

Disclaimer:

This English translation has been prepared for general reference purposes only. The Company shall not be responsible for any consequence resulting from the use of the English translation in place of the original Japanese text. In any legal matter, readers should refer to and rely upon the original Japanese text of the press release dated November 8, 2018.

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