Inventory (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2015

Inventory at July 31, 2015 and October 31, 2014 consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):



	July 31, 2015		October 31, 2014
Land controlled for future communities	$	76,371	$	122,533
Land owned for future communities	2,344,705		2,355,874
Operating communities	4,569,802		4,011,914
	$	6,990,878	$	6,490,321

Temporarily Closed communities

Information regarding the classification, number, and carrying value of these temporarily closed communities, as of the dates indicated, is provided in the table below.



	July 31, 2015		October 31, 2014
Land owned for future communities:
Number of communities	18		16
Carrying value (in thousands)	$	142,936	$	122,015
Operating communities:
Number of communities	8		9
Carrying value (in thousands)	$	38,443	$	42,092

Inventory impairment charges and expensing of costs that it is believed not to be recoverable

The amounts we have provided for inventory impairment charges and the expensing of costs that we believed not to be recoverable, for the periods indicated, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):



	Nine months ended July 31,				Three months ended July 31,
	2015		2014		2015		2014
Land controlled for future communities	$	679	$	2,198	$	69	$	1,192
Land owned for future communities	12,600				11,900
Operating communities	18,000		7,700		6,000		4,800
	$	31,279	$	9,898	$	17,969	$	5,992

Interest incurred, capitalized and expensed

Interest incurred, capitalized, and expensed, for the periods indicated, was as follows (amounts in thousands):



	Nine months ended July 31,						Three months ended July 31,
	2015			2014			2015			2014
Interest capitalized, beginning of period	$	356,180		$	343,077		$	372,894		$	367,135
Interest incurred	117,896			123,267			37,438			40,638
Interest expensed to cost of revenues	(94,942		)	(91,766		)	(36,989		)	(37,181		)
Write-off against other income	(2,795		)	(1,876		)	(1,057		)	(836		)
Interest capitalized on investments in unconsolidated entities	(6,149		)	(7,098		)	(1,324		)	(2,341		)
Previously capitalized interest on investments in unconsolidated entities transferred to inventory	15,915			1,811			15,143			—
Interest capitalized, end of period	$	386,105		$	367,415		$	386,105		$	367,415