Consolidation of a Real Estate Development Company - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Period, in days, of the financial reporting lag	90 days
Funding by Partnership to Consolidated Real Estate VIE	$ 375,800,000
Amount of funding received by Urbplan during the period	6,700,000
Customer advances received	$ 29,200,000	$ 91,500,000
IGP-M Plus
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Margin interest rate (as a percent)	12.00%
Additional margin interest rate (as a percent)	16.90%
Minimum
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Customer receivables accrued interest rate (as a percent)	9.00%
Minimum \| CDI Plus
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Margin interest rate (as a percent)	4.00%
Minimum \| IPCA Plus
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Margin interest rate (as a percent)	8.80%
Additional margin interest rate (as a percent)	13.40%
Maximum
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Customer receivables accrued interest rate (as a percent)	12.00%
Maximum \| CDI Plus
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Additional margin interest rate (as a percent)	16.20%
Maximum \| IPCA Plus
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Margin interest rate (as a percent)	15.00%
Additional margin interest rate (as a percent)	19.60%
Urbplan
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Maximum additional capital investment fund	$ 25,000,000
Estimated fair value percentage of outstanding principal amounts of loans (as a percent)	55.00%
Outstanding commitments for land development services (less than)	$ 10,000,000
Partnership
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Amount of liabilities related to claims filed by customers and other litigation proceedings	70,000,000
Partnership contractual obligation	128,300,000
Senior Carlyle professionals
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Amount of capital funding in year of consolidation	$ 247,500,000

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The number of days lag in which the Partnership reports the financial information for the consolidated real estate VIE.

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