Investments in Unconsolidated Entities

3 Months Ended

Feb. 28, 2021

Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]

Homebuilding Unconsolidated Entities

The investments in Company's Homebuilding unconsolidated entities were as follows:



(In thousands)	February 28, 2021		November 30, 2020
Investments in unconsolidated entities (1) (2)	$	1,077,353	953,177
Underlying equity in unconsolidated entities' net assets (1)	1,395,393		1,269,701

(1)The basis difference was primarily as a result of the Company contributing its investment in three strategic joint ventures with a higher fair value than book value for an investment in the FivePoint entity and deferring equity in earnings on land sales to the Company.

(2)Included in the Company's recorded investments in Homebuilding unconsolidated entities is the Company's 40% ownership of FivePoint. As of February 28, 2021 and November 30, 2020, the carrying amount of the Company's investment was $390.3 million and $392.1 million, respectively.

The Company has an immaterial amount of recourse exposure to debt of the Homebuilding unconsolidated entities in which it has investments. While the Company sometimes guarantees debt of unconsolidated entities, in most instances the Company’s partners have also guaranteed that debt and are required to contribute their shares of any payments. In most instances the amount of guaranteed debt of an unconsolidated entity is less than the value of the collateral securing it.

During the three months ended February 28, 2021, the Company formed the Upward America Venture ("the Venture"). The Venture will acquire single family homes for rent in high growth markets across the United States. Subsequent to

February 28, 2021, the Venture raised equity to get to a total commitment of $1.25 billion led by institutional investors. Including leverage, the Venture will be positioned to acquire over $4.0 billion of new single family homes and townhomes from Lennar and potentially other homebuilders.

Multifamily Unconsolidated Entities

The unconsolidated entities in which the Multifamily segment has investments usually finance their activities with a combination of partner equity and debt financing. In connection with many of the bank loans to Multifamily unconsolidated entities, the Company (or entities related to them) has been required to give guarantees of completion and cost over-runs to the lenders and partners. Those completion guarantees may require that the guarantors complete the construction of the improvements for which the financing was obtained. Additionally, the Company guarantees the construction costs of the project as construction cost over-runs would be paid by the Company. Generally, these payments would increase the Company's investment in the entities and would increase its share of funds the entities distribute after the achievement of certain thresholds. As of both February 28, 2021 and November 30, 2020, the fair value of the completion guarantees was immaterial. As of February 28, 2021 and November 30, 2020, Multifamily segment's unconsolidated entities had non-recourse debt with completion guarantees of $660.0 million and $722.9 million, respectively.

In many instances, the Multifamily segment is appointed as the construction, development and property manager for its Multifamily unconsolidated entities and receives fees for performing this function. The Multifamily segment also provides general contractor services for construction of some of the rental properties owned by unconsolidated entities in which the Company has investments. The details of the activity was as follows:


	Three Months Ended
(In thousands)	February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020

General contractor services, net of deferrals	$	115,399	93,894
General contractor costs	110,453		90,181
Management fee income	14,871		13,823

The Multifamily segment includes Multifamily Venture Fund I ("LMV I") and Multifamily Venture Fund II LP ("LMV II"), which are long-term multifamily development investment vehicles involved in the development, construction and property management of class-A multifamily assets. Details of each as of and during the three months ended February 28, 2021 are included below:


	February 28, 2021
(In thousands)	LMV I		LMV II
Lennar's carrying value of investments	$	321,262	318,578
Equity commitments	2,204,016		1,257,700
Equity commitments called	2,140,646		1,105,170
Lennar's equity commitments	504,016		381,000
Lennar's equity commitments called	496,804		333,706
Lennar's remaining commitments	7,212		47,294
Distributions to Lennar during the three months ended February 28, 2021	4,393		—

Lennar Other Unconsolidated Entities

Lennar Other's unconsolidated entities includes fund investments the Company retained when it sold the Rialto assets and investment management platform, as well as strategic investments in technology companies, primarily managed by the Company's LENX subsidiary. These strategic investments include the Company's investment in Doma, formerly known as States Title, which was reclassified from the Financial Services segment.