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Inventory And Land Held For Sale (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Components of Inventory | Major components of inventory were as follows ($000’s omitted):
| March 31, 2013 |  | December 31, 2012
Homes under construction | $ | 1,150,459 |  |  | $ | 1,116,184 |
Land under development | 2,299,029 |  |  | 2,435,378 |
Raw land | 663,309 |  |  | 662,484 |
| $ | 4,112,797 |  |  | $ | 4,214,046 |
Capitalized interest rollforward | Information related to interest capitalized into inventory is as follows ($000’s omitted):
| Three Months Ended
| March 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012
Interest in inventory, beginning of period | $ | 331,880 |  |  | $ | 355,068 |
Interest capitalized | 42,656 |  |  | 51,323 |
Interest expensed | (53,677 | ) |  | (47,186 | )
Interest in inventory, end of period | $ | 320,859 |  |  | $ | 359,205 |
Interest incurred* | $ | 42,656 |  |  | $ | 51,323 |
* | Homebuilding interest incurred includes interest on senior debt and certain other financing arrangements.
Land Held for Sale | Land held for sale was as follows ($000’s omitted):
| March 31, 2013 |  | December 31, 2012
Land held for sale, gross | $ | 99,443 |  |  | $ | 135,201 |
Net realizable value reserves | (7,290 | ) |  | (44,097 | )
Land held for sale, net | $ | 92,153 |  |  | $ | 91,104 |

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