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Information on Operating Segments (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2015
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Revenue and income (loss) before income taxes and total assets
The table below summarizes revenue and income (loss) before income taxes for each of our segments for each of the fiscal years ended October 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013 (amounts in thousands):
 
Revenues
 
Income (loss) before income taxes
 
2015

2014

2013
 
2015
 
2014
 
2013
Traditional Home Building:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
North
$
702,175

 
$
662,734

 
$
485,052

 
$
59,172

 
$
56,983

 
$
32,648

Mid-Atlantic
845,328

 
817,306

 
652,855

 
69,093

 
78,971

 
79,801

South
892,303

 
836,498

 
641,331

 
152,991

 
113,584

 
67,934

West
665,282

 
517,925

 
369,697

 
106,365

 
78,802

 
42,731

California
750,036

 
795,802

 
354,673

 
139,133

 
157,561

 
68,570

   Traditional Home Building
3,855,124

 
3,630,265

 
2,503,608

 
526,754

 
485,901

 
291,684

City Living
316,124

 
281,337

 
170,691

 
124,290

 
104,580

 
53,345

Corporate and other

 

 

 
(115,482
)
 
(85,899
)
 
(77,332
)
Total
$
4,171,248

 
$
3,911,602

 
$
2,674,299

 
$
535,562

 
$
504,582

 
$
267,697

Total assets for each of our reportable and geographic segments at October 31, 2015 and 2014, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
 
2015
 
2014
Traditional Home Building:
 
 
 
North
$
1,061,777

 
$
1,053,787

Mid-Atlantic
1,225,988

 
1,267,563

South
1,196,650

 
1,165,600

West
949,566

 
755,849

California
2,243,309

 
1,920,315

   Traditional Home Building
6,677,290

 
6,163,114

City Living
873,013

 
834,949

Corporate and other
1,656,212

 
1,400,394

Total
$
9,206,515

 
$
8,398,457

schedule of inventory, by segment [Table Text Block]
Inventory for each of our segments, as of the dates indicated, is shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
 
Land controlled for future communities
 
Land owned for future communities
 
Operating communities
 
Total
Balances at October 31, 2015
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Traditional Home Building:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
North
$
12,858

 
$
146,063

 
$
865,553

 
$
1,024,474

Mid-Atlantic
33,196

 
194,058

 
956,749

 
1,184,003

South
4,861

 
205,562

 
806,513

 
1,016,936

West
8,417

 
198,689

 
726,256

 
933,362

California
14,386

 
899,675

 
1,149,112

 
2,063,173

Traditional Home Building
73,718

 
1,644,047

 
4,504,183

 
6,221,948

City Living
1,496

 
389,400

 
384,672

 
775,568

 
$
75,214

 
$
2,033,447

 
$
4,888,855

 
$
6,997,516

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balances at October 31, 2014
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Traditional Home Building:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
North
$
12,007

 
$
171,780

 
$
834,266

 
$
1,018,053

Mid-Atlantic
29,169

 
209,506

 
994,859

 
1,233,534

South
10,971

 
219,904

 
793,835

 
1,024,710

West
18,780

 
201,710

 
519,415

 
739,905

California
3,342

 
1,189,318

 
658,405

 
1,851,065

Traditional Home Building
74,269

 
1,992,218

 
3,800,780

 
5,867,267

City Living
48,264

 
363,656

 
211,134

 
623,054

 
$
122,533

 
$
2,355,874

 
$
4,011,914

 
$
6,490,321

Schedule of inventory impairments, by segment [Table Text Block]
The amounts we have provided for inventory impairment charges and the expensing of costs that we believed not to be recoverable for each our of geographic segments, for the years ended October 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
 
2015
 
2014
 
2013
Traditional Home Building:
 
 
 
 
 
North
$
15,033

 
$
9,148

 
$
1,762

Mid-Atlantic
19,488

 
9,069

 
522

South
720

 
2,285

 
2,400

West
420

 
169

 
365

California


 
7

 
(526
)
Traditional Home Building
35,661

 
20,678

 
4,523

City Living
48

 

 

 
$
35,709

 
$
20,678

 
$
4,523

Schedule of investments in unconsolidated entities, be segment [Table Text Block]
The net carrying value of our investments in unconsolidated entities and our equity in earnings from such investments, for each of our reportable and geographic segments, as of the dates indicated, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
 
 
Investments in unconsolidated entities
 
Equity in earning from
unconsolidated entities
 
 
At October 31,
 
Year ended October 31,
 
 
2015
 
2014
 
2015
 
2014
 
2013
Traditional Home Building:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mid-Atlantic
 
$
12,167

 
$
11,841

 


 
$
(8
)
 


South
 
97,041

 
98,362

 
$
11,074

 
2,621

 
$
184

West
 


 
1,841

 
447

 
(166
)
 
(183
)
California
 
128,338

 
57,732

 
5,089

 
302

 
3,584

Traditional Home Building
 
237,546

 
169,776

 
16,610

 
2,749

 
3,585

City Living
 
52,634

 
159,953

 
(1,158
)
 
(3,593
)
 
1,174

Corporate and other
 
122,680

 
117,349

 
5,667

 
41,985

 
9,633

Total
 
$
412,860

 
$
447,078

 
$
21,119

 
$
41,141

 
$
14,392