American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. Board Declares Quarterly Common Stock and Series A and Series B Preferred Stock Dividends.

MELVILLE, N.Y. -- American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. (NYSE: AHM) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.12 per share on the Company's common stock, a quarterly cash dividend of $0.609375 per share on the Company's 9.75% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock and a quarterly cash dividend of $0.578125 per share on the Company's 9.25% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock.

The common stock dividend is payable on April 27, 2007, to shareholders of record as of April 9, 2007.

The Series A Preferred Stock dividend is payable on April 30, 2007, to shareholders of record as of April 9, 2007.

The Series B Preferred Stock dividend is payable on April 30, 2007 to shareholders of record as of April 9, 2007.

American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. is a mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on earning net interest income from self-originated loans and mortgage-backed securities, and, through its taxable subsidiaries, from originating and selling mortgage loans and servicing mortgage loans for institutional investors. Mortgages are originated through a network of loan production offices and mortgage brokers as well as purchased from correspondent lenders, and are serviced at the Company's Irving, Texas servicing center. For additional information, please visit the Company's website at www.americanhm.com.

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