Other Income - Net

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2014

Other Income and Expenses [Abstract]

Other Income - net

Other Income - Net

The table below provides, for the periods indicated, the components of other income - net (amounts in thousands):

	Three months ended January 31,
	2014		2013
Interest income	$	1,064	$	1,475
Income from ancillary businesses	1,613		1,278
Gibraltar	4,332		151
Management fee income	1,227		327
Retained customer deposits	888		678
Land sales, net	6,258		145
Other	1,159		572
Total other income - net	$	16,541	$	4,626

Included in "Land sales, net" is $2.9 million of previously deferred gains on the Company's initial sales of the properties to Trust II as further described in Note 3 - "Investments in and Advances to Unconsolidated Entities."

Income from ancillary businesses includes the activity of the Company’s non-core businesses which include its mortgage, title, landscaping, security monitoring, and golf course and country club operations. The table below provides, for the periods indicated, revenues and expenses for the Company’s non-core ancillary businesses (amounts in thousands):

	Three months ended January 31,
	2014		2013
Revenue	$	20,940	$	16,641
Expense	$	19,327	$	15,363