Variable Interest Entities (Details) $ in Thousands	Nov. 30, 2021 USD ($) joint_venture	Nov. 30, 2020 USD ($) joint_venture	Nov. 30, 2019 joint_venture
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Number of investments in unconsolidated joint ventures | joint_venture	6	5	5
Cash Deposits	$ 74,509	$ 54,634
Aggregate Purchase Price	1,859,851	1,418,429
Acquisition costs related to land option contracts and other similar contracts	38,100	31,100
Increase in inventories and accrued expenses and other liabilities	$ 26,500	$ 19,400
Unconsolidated VIEs
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Number of investments in unconsolidated joint ventures | joint_venture	1	1
Cash Deposits	$ 38,333	$ 20,962
Aggregate Purchase Price	1,093,669	910,495
Other land option contracts and other similar contracts
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Cash Deposits	36,176	33,672
Aggregate Purchase Price	$ 766,182	$ 507,934