Represents the capacity of real estate property.

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- Definition

Area of a real estate property.

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- Definition

The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=114001798&loc=d3e33918-111571

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The number of real estate properties owned as of the balance sheet date.

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- Definition

The number of units in a real estate property owned as of the balance sheet date.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Business) (Details)	Mar. 31, 2020 ft² property item	Mar. 31, 2019 property
Line of Business
Number of units \| property		1,033
Residential and mixed-use properties
Line of Business
Number of Real Estate Properties	25
Number of units	2,892
Residential buildings
Line of Business
Number of units \| property		1,030
Commercial
Line of Business
Number of units \| property		3
Condominium
Line of Business
Number of units	19
Wholly owned properties
Line of Business
Number of Real Estate Properties	29
Wholly owned properties \| Residential buildings
Line of Business
Number of Real Estate Properties	21
Number of units	2,892
Wholly owned properties \| Mixed use residential, retail and office buildings
Line of Business
Number of Real Estate Properties	4
Wholly owned properties \| Commercial
Line of Business
Number of Real Estate Properties	3
Area of property (in square feet) \| ft²	108,043
Wholly owned properties \| Condominium
Line of Business
Number of Real Estate Properties	1
Number of units	19
Partially owned properties \| Residential and mixed-use properties
Line of Business
Number of Real Estate Properties	7
Number of units	688
Area of property (in square feet) \| ft²	12,500
Partially owned properties \| Residential and mixed-use properties \| Minimum
Line of Business
Ownership interest (as a percent)	40.00%
Partially owned properties \| Residential and mixed-use properties \| Maximum
Line of Business
Ownership interest (as a percent)	50.00%
Partially owned properties \| Car parking lot
Line of Business
Capacity of real estate property (in cars per lot)	50
Investment Properties
Line of Business
Number of units \| property	865
Investment Properties \| Minimum
Line of Business
Ownership interest (as a percent)	40.00%
Investment Properties \| Maximum
Line of Business
Ownership interest (as a percent)	50.00%
Investment Properties \| Residential buildings
Line of Business
Number of units \| property	862
Investment Properties \| Commercial
Line of Business
Number of units \| property	3
Investment Properties \| Partially owned properties \| Residential and mixed-use properties
Line of Business
Number of units \| property	688