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Shareholders' Equity (Narrative) (Details) (USD $) Share data in Thousands, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Cash dividends declared (usd per share)	$ 0.08us-gaap_CommonStockDividendsPerShareDeclared	$ 0.05us-gaap_CommonStockDividendsPerShareDeclared
Dividends	$ 29,449,000us-gaap_Dividends	$ 19,087,000us-gaap_Dividends
Payments for repurchase of common stock	107,955,000us-gaap_PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock	50,105,000us-gaap_PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock
Share repurchase plan
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Stock repurchases (shares)	4,600us-gaap_StockRepurchasedDuringPeriodShares / us-gaap_ShareRepurchaseProgramAxis = phm_SharerepurchaseplanMember
Payments for repurchase of common stock	99,600,000us-gaap_PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock / us-gaap_ShareRepurchaseProgramAxis = phm_SharerepurchaseplanMember
Remaining value of stock repurchase programs authorization	638,800,000us-gaap_StockRepurchaseProgramRemainingAuthorizedRepurchaseAmount1 / us-gaap_ShareRepurchaseProgramAxis = phm_SharerepurchaseplanMember
Shares withheld to pay taxes
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Payments for repurchase of common stock	$ 8,300,000us-gaap_PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock / us-gaap_ShareRepurchaseProgramAxis = phm_ShareswithheldtopaytaxesMember	$ 5,500,000us-gaap_PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock / us-gaap_ShareRepurchaseProgramAxis = phm_ShareswithheldtopaytaxesMember

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