Investments in Unconsolidated Entities

3 Months Ended

Feb. 28, 2022

Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]

Homebuilding Unconsolidated Entities

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



(In thousands)	February 28, 2022		November 30, 2021
Investments in unconsolidated entities (1) (2)	$	1,066,256	972,084
Underlying equity in unconsolidated entities' net assets (1)	1,405,719		1,301,719

(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, 2022 and November 30, 2021, the carrying amount of the Company's investment was $376.6 million and $381.6 million, respectively.

As of February 28, 2022 and November 30, 2021, the Homebuilding segment's unconsolidated entities had non-recourse debt with completion guarantees of $205.0 million and $241.0 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.

As of both February 28, 2022 and November 30, 2021, the fair values of the repayment guarantees, maintenance guarantees, and completion guarantees were not material. The Company believes that as of February 28, 2022, in the event it becomes legally obligated to perform under a guarantee of the obligation of a Homebuilding unconsolidated entity due to a triggering event under a guarantee, the collateral would be sufficient to repay at least a significant portion of the obligation or the Company and its partners would contribute additional capital into the venture. In certain instances, the Company has placed performance letters of credit and surety bonds with municipalities with regard to obligations of its joint ventures (see Note 7 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements).

In the first quarter of 2021, the Company formed the Upward America Venture ("Upward America"), and is managing and participating in Upward America. Upward America is an investment fund that acquires new single-family homes in high growth markets across the United States and rents them to people who will live in them. Upward America has raised equity commitments totaling $1.6 billion, including $350 million of equity commitments raised during the quarter ended February 28, 2022. The commitments are primarily from institutional investors, including $125 million committed by Lennar. Including leverage, Upward America 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. The details related to these are unchanged from the disclosure in the Company's Notes to the Financial Statements section in its Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2021. As of both February 28, 2022 and November 30, 2021, the fair value of the completion guarantees was immaterial. As of February 28, 2022 and November 30, 2021, Multifamily segment's unconsolidated entities had non-recourse debt with completion guarantees of $985.1 million and $855.2 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
	February 28,
(In thousands)	2022		2021

General contractor services, net of deferrals	$	117,263	115,399
General contractor costs	113,233		110,453
Management fee income	13,127		14,871

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, 2022 are included below:


	February 28, 2022
(In thousands)	LMV I		LMV II
Lennar's carrying value of investments	$	244,454	316,728
Equity commitments	2,204,016		1,257,700
Equity commitments called	2,150,135		1,204,235
Lennar's equity commitments	504,016		381,000
Lennar's equity commitments called	499,216		363,749
Lennar's remaining commitments	4,800		17,251
Distributions to Lennar during the three months ended February 28, 2022	8,732		3,735

During the first quarter of 2022, the Multifamily segment completed the initial closing of a new Lennar Multifamily Fund (the "Fund") for the development, construction and property management of Class A multifamily assets across high growth metropolitan areas in the United States. The Multifamily segment expects the Fund to have almost $1 billion in equity and Lennar's ownership percentage in the Fund is expected to be 4%. The Company currently has a $10.3 million investment in the Fund. Additional dollars will be committed as opportunities are identified by the Fund.

Other Unconsolidated Entities

Lennar Other's unconsolidated entities includes fund investments the Company retained when it sold the Rialto assets and investment management platform in 2018, as well as strategic investments in technology companies, primarily managed by the Company's LENX subsidiary.