Note 3 - Segment Reporting

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]

3. Segment Reporting

We operate two principal businesses: homebuilding and financial services.

Our homebuilding operations acquire and develop land and construct and sell single-family attached and detached homes. In accordance with the aggregation criteria defined in ASC Topic 280, Segment Reporting, our homebuilding operating segments have been grouped into three reportable segments: California; Southwest, consisting of our operating divisions in Arizona, Texas, Colorado and Nevada; and Southeast, consisting of our operating divisions in Florida and the Carolinas.

Our mortgage financing operation provides mortgage financing to many of our homebuyers in substantially all of the markets in which we operate, and sells substantially all of the loans it originates in the secondary mortgage market. Our title services operation provides title examinations for our homebuyers in Texas and Florida. Our mortgage financing and title services operations are included in our financial services reportable segment, which is separately reported in our condensed consolidated financial statements under "Financial Services."

Corporate is a non-operating segment that develops and implements strategic initiatives and supports our operating segments by centralizing key administrative functions such as accounting, finance and treasury, information technology, insurance and risk management, litigation, marketing and human resources. Corporate also provides the necessary administrative functions to support us as a publicly traded company. All of the expenses incurred by Corporate are allocated to each of our operating segments based on their respective percentage of revenues.

Segment financial information relating to the Company’s homebuilding operations was as follows:

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2015		2014
	(Dollars in thousands)
Homebuilding revenues:
California	$	185,621	$	219,479
Southwest		138,208		107,207
Southeast		146,449		133,513
Total homebuilding revenues	$	470,278	$	460,199
Homebuilding pretax income:
California	$	25,098	$	38,553
Southwest		11,797		10,058
Southeast		10,393		11,299
Total homebuilding pretax income	$	47,288	$	59,910

Segment financial information relating to the Company’s homebuilding assets was as follows:

	March 31,		December 31,
	2015		2014
	(Dollars in thousands)
Homebuilding assets:
California	$	1,607,808	$	1,542,584
Southwest		877,207		826,489
Southeast		1,138,482		1,060,343
Corporate		419,185		517,701
Total homebuilding assets	$	4,042,682	$	3,947,117