Investments in Unconsolidated Entities

9 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2023

Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]

Homebuilding Unconsolidated Entities

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



(In thousands)	August 31, 2023		November 30, 2022
Investments in unconsolidated entities (1) (2)	$	1,157,021	1,173,164
Underlying equity in unconsolidated entities' net assets (1)	1,512,908		1,504,315

(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 FivePoint.

(2)Included in the Company's recorded investments in Homebuilding unconsolidated entities is the Company's 40% ownership of FivePoint. As of August 31, 2023 and November 30, 2022, the carrying amount of the Company's investment was $416.6 million and $382.9 million, respectively.

As of August 31, 2023 and November 30, 2022, the Homebuilding segment's unconsolidated entities had non-recourse debt with completion guarantees of $334.8 million and $333.6 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 August 31, 2023 and November 30, 2022, the fair values of the repayment guarantees, maintenance guarantees, and completion guarantees were not material. The Company believes that as of August 31, 2023, 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). The details related to these are unchanged from the disclosure in the Company's Notes to the Financial Statements section in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2022.

In 2021, the Company formed the Upward America Venture LP ("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. The commitments are primarily from institutional investors, including $125 million committed by Lennar. As of August 31, 2023 and November 30, 2022, the carrying amount of the Company's investment in Upward America was $16.8 million and $37.7 million, respectively.

Multifamily Unconsolidated Entities

The unconsolidated joint ventures 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 joint ventures, the Company (or entities related to it) have 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2022. As of both August 31, 2023 and November 30, 2022, the fair value of the completion guarantees was immaterial. As of August 31, 2023 and November 30, 2022, Multifamily segment's unconsolidated entities had non-recourse debt with completion guarantees of $1.4 billion and $1.0 billion, 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. Each Multifamily real estate investment trust has unilateral decision making rights related to development activities through its board of directors. 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 were as follows:


	Three Months Ended			Nine Months Ended
	August 31,			August 31,
(In thousands)	2023		2022	2023	2022

General contractor services, net of deferrals	$	120,510	123,550	374,283	366,419
General contractor costs	114,371		118,738	357,168	350,773
Land sales to joint ventures	—		62,218	—	209,979
Management fee income, net of deferrals	16,884		17,514	52,499	46,968

The Multifamily segment includes Multifamily Venture Fund I ("LMV I"), Multifamily Venture Fund II LP ("LMV II") and Canada Pension Plan Investments Fund (the "Fund"), which are long-term multifamily development investment vehicles involved in the development, construction and property management of class-A multifamily assets. The Multifamily segment has completed the initial closing of the Fund. The Multifamily segment expects the Fund to have almost $1.0 billion in equity and Lennar's ownership percentage in the Fund is 4%. As of August 31, 2023, the Company has a $30.6 million investment in the Fund. Additional dollars will be committed as opportunities are identified by the Fund.

Details of LMV I and LMV II as of and during the nine months ended August 31, 2023 are included below:


	August 31, 2023
(In thousands)	LMV I		LMV II
Lennar's carrying value of investments	$	200,707	277,265
Equity commitments	2,204,016		1,257,700
Equity commitments called	2,154,328		1,218,619
Lennar's equity commitments	504,016		381,000
Lennar's equity commitments called	500,381		368,170
Lennar's remaining commitments (1)	3,635		12,830
Distributions to Lennar during the nine months ended August 31, 2023	—		—

(1)While there are remaining commitments with LMV I, there are no plans for additional capital calls.

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 and investment funds. The Company's investment in the Rialto funds totaled $162.8 million and $185.1 million as of August 31, 2023 and November 30, 2022, respectively. In addition, the Company is entitled to a portion of the carried interest distributions by those funds. The Company also had strategic technology investments in unconsolidated entities and investment funds of $125.8 million and $131.5 million, as of August 31, 2023 and November 30, 2022, respectively.