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Capitalized Interest (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Dec. 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 months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:
|  | Three Months Ended December 31,
|  | 2019 |  | 2018
|  | (In millions)
Capitalized interest, beginning of period |  | $ | 180.1 |  |  | $ | 162.7 |
Interest incurred (1) |  | 37.7 |  |  | 31.7 |
Interest charged to cost of sales |  | (25.7 | ) |  | (25.6 | )
Capitalized interest, end of period |  | $ | 192.1 |  |  | $ | 168.8 |
_______________ (1) Interest incurred included interest on the Company's mortgage repurchase facility of $4.7 million and $3.3 million in the three months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and Forestar interest of $8.7 million and $1.3 million, respectively.

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