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Capitalized Interest (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Interest Costs Incurred [Abstract] |
Summary of Interest Costs Incurred, Capitalized, Expensed and Charged to Cost of Sales | NVR’s interest costs incurred, capitalized, expensed and charged to cost of sales during the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 was as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31, |
|  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |
Interest capitalized, beginning of period |  | $ | 4,072 |  |  | $ | 3,294 |
Interest incurred |  |  | 6,263 |  |  |  | 6,223 |
Interest charged to interest expense |  |  | (5,918 | ) |  |  | (5,794 | )
Interest charged to cost of sales |  |  | (146 | ) |  |  | (105 | )
Interest capitalized, end of period |  | $ | 4,271 |  |  | $ | 3,618 |

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