Note 5 - Reduction of Inventory to Fair Value (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2014

Inventory Impairments And Land Option Cost Write Offs [Text Block] [Abstract]

Inventory Impairment [Table Text Block]

(Dollars in millions)	Three Months Ended July 31, 2014			Three Months Ended July 31, 2013
	Number of Communities	Dollar Amount of Impairment	Pre- Impairment Value(1)	Number of Communities	Dollar Amount of Impairment	Pre- Impairment Value(1)
Northeast	-	$-	$-	1	$0.1	$0.4
Mid-Atlantic	-	-	-	-	-	-
Midwest	1	0.1	0.5	-	-	-
Southeast	-	-	-	-	-	-
Southwest	-	-	-	-	-	-
West	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1	$0.1	$0.5	1	$0.1	$0.4

(Dollars in millions)	Nine Months Ended July 31, 2014			Nine Months Ended July 31, 2013
	Number of Communities	Dollar Amount of Impairment	Pre- Impairment Value(1)	Number of Communities	Dollar Amount of Impairment(2)	Pre- Impairment Value(1)
Northeast	1	$0.1	$0.2	3	$1.6	$5.6
Mid-Atlantic	-	-	-	1	-	0.1
Midwest	1	0.1	0.5	-	-	-
Southeast	-	-	-	1	-	0.4
Southwest	-	-	-	-	-	-
West	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	2	$0.2	$0.7	5	$1.6	$6.1

Write-Offs and Lots Walked Away From [Table Text Block]

	Three Months Ended July 31,
	2014		2013
(Dollars in millions)	Number of Walk-Away Lots	Dollar Amount of Write-Offs(1)	Number of Walk-Away Lots	Dollar Amount of Write-Offs(1)(2)
Northeast	-	$0.1	73	$0.2
Mid-Atlantic	276	0.1	-	-
Midwest	105	0.1	13	-
Southeast	472	0.2	113	0.1
Southwest	312	0.1	12	0.2
West	-	-	-	-
Total	1,165	$0.6	211	$0.5

	Nine Months Ended July 31,
	2014		2013
(Dollars in millions)	Number of Walk-Away Lots	Dollar Amount of Write-Offs(1)	Number of Walk-Away Lots	Dollar Amount of Write-Offs(1)(2)
Northeast	239	$0.6	373	$0.4
Mid-Atlantic	797	0.2	164	-
Midwest	508	0.2	13	-
Southeast	1,397	0.5	113	0.2
Southwest	654	0.2	246	1.3
West	-	-	-	-
Total	3,595	$1.7	909	$1.9