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Capitalized Interest (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2019
Interest Costs Incurred [Abstract] |
Rollforward of capitalized interest | The following table summarizes the Company’s interest costs incurred, capitalized and expensed during the three and six months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31, |  | Six Months Ended March 31,
|  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
|  | (In millions)
Capitalized interest, beginning of period |  | $ | 168.8 |  |  | $ | 170.3 |  |  | $ | 162.7 |  |  | $ | 167.9 |
Interest incurred (1) |  | 35.0 |  |  | 31.8 |  |  | 66.7 |  |  | 62.8 |
Interest charged to cost of sales |  | (29.9 | ) |  | (32.0 | ) |  | (55.5 | ) |  | (60.6 | )
Capitalized interest, end of period |  | $ | 173.9 |  |  | $ | 170.1 |  |  | $ | 173.9 |  |  | $ | 170.1 |
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(1) | Interest incurred included interest on the Company's mortgage repurchase facility of $3.0 million and $6.3 million in the three and six months ended March 31, 2019, respectively, and $2.4 million and $4.5 million in the same periods of fiscal 2018. Also included in the amounts is interest incurred by Forestar of $1.5 million and $2.8 million in the three and six months ended March 31, 2019, respectively, and $1.3 million and $1.4 million in the same periods of fiscal 2018.

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