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Credit Facility, Loans Payable, Senior Notes, Senior Subordinated Notes and Mortgage Company Warehouse Loan Credit Facility, Loans Payable, Senior Notes, Senior Subordinated Notes and Mortgage Company Warehouse Loan (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2012
Credit Facility, Loans Payable, Senior Notes, Senior Subordinated Notes and Mortgage Company Warehouse Loan [Abstract] |
Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt [Table Text Block] | As of October 31, 2012, the annual aggregate maturities of the Company’s loans and notes during each of the next five fiscal years are as follows (amounts in thousands):
| Amount
2013 | $ | 265,837 |
2014 | 278,092 |
2015 | 310,103 |
2016 | 402,068 |
2017 | 1,003,323 |
Schedule of Debt Instrument [Table Text Block] | At October 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company’s senior notes consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
| 2012 |  | 2011
6.875% Senior Notes due November 15, 2012 | $ | 59,068 |  |  | $ | 139,776 |
5.95% Senior Notes due September 15, 2013 | 104,785 |  |  | 141,635 |
4.95% Senior Notes due March 15, 2014 | 267,960 |  |  | 267,960 |
5.15% Senior Notes due May 15, 2015 | 300,000 |  |  | 300,000 |
8.91% Senior Notes due October 15, 2017 | 400,000 |  |  | 400,000 |
6.75% Senior Notes due November 1, 2019 | 250,000 |  |  | 250,000 |
5.875% Senior Notes due February 15, 2022 | 419,876 |  |  |  |
0.5% Exchangeable Senior Notes due September 15, 2032 | 287,500 |  |  |  |
Bond discount | (8,726 | ) |  | (8,399 | )
| $ | 2,080,463 |  |  | $ | 1,490,972 |
Schedule of Debt [Table Text Block] | Information regarding the Company’s loans payable at October 31, 2012 and 2011 is included in the table below ($ amounts in thousands).
| 2012 |  | 2011
Aggregate loans payable at October 31 | $ | 99,817 |  |  | $ | 106,556 |
Weighted-average interest rate | 3.64 | % |  | 3.99 | %
Interest rate range | 0.26% - 7.87% |  |  | 0.16% - 7.87% |
Loans secured by assets |  |  |
Carrying value of loans secured by assets | $ | 98,952 |  |  | $ | 105,092 |
Carrying value of assets securing loans | $ | 311,104 |  |  | $ | 283,169 |

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