BUSINESS COMBINATIONS, ACQUISITIONS, AND DECONSOLIDATIONS Citizens' Assumption Inputs (Details) (Real Estate Inventory, Citizens Homes, Inc.)	0 Months Ended
Apr. 10, 2014
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Fair Value Inputs, Profit Margin	20.00%pico_FairValueInputsProfitMargin
Weighted Average
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Average discount rate applied	15.00%

Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (bbb)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=36462937&loc=d3e19207-110258

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