Origen Financial Makes First Quarter Dividend Payment SOUTHFIELD, Mich., June 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Origen Financial, Inc. ("Origen") (NASDAQ:ORGN), a real estate investment trust that originates and services manufactured home loans, today announced that it will make a dividend payment for the first quarter of 2004. The dividend will be paid to holders of Origen's common stock of record on March 16, 2004. The aggregate amount of the dividend will be approximately $656,000, or $0.04 per share outstanding on the record date. Origen is an internally managed and internally advised company that has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust. Based in Southfield, Michigan, with significant operations in Ft. Worth, Texas, Origen is a national consumer manufactured home lender and servicer. It offers a complete line of home only products and land home conforming and non-conforming products. Origen also provides servicing for manufactured home only and land home loans. For more information about Origen, visit http://www.origenfinancial.com/ . DATASOURCE: Origen Financial, Inc. CONTACT: W. Anderson Geater of Origen Financial, Inc., +1-866-4-ORIGEN Web site: http://www.origenfinancial.com/

Copyright