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Information on Geographic Segments | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2012
Geographic Segments [Abstract] |
Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block] | Information on Geographic Segments The table below summarizes revenue and income (loss) before income taxes for each of the Company’s geographic segments for each of the fiscal years ended October 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 (amounts in thousands):
| Revenues |  | Income (loss) before income taxes
| 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
North | $ | 513,724 |  |  | $ | 381,569 |  |  | $ | 407,723 |  |  | $ | 71,836 |  |  | $ | 42,525 |  |  | $ | (2,296 | )
Mid-Atlantic | 564,434 |  |  | 499,747 |  |  | 488,359 |  |  | 67,768 |  |  | 57,606 |  |  | 33,946 |
South | 366,701 |  |  | 285,012 |  |  | 264,321 |  |  | 18,000 |  |  | (25,936 | ) |  | (35,193 | )
West | 437,922 |  |  | 309,553 |  |  | 334,368 |  |  | 39,383 |  |  | (27,113 | ) |  | (11,895 | )
Corporate and other |  |  |  |  |  |  | (84,045 | ) |  | (76,448 | ) |  | (101,749 | )
Total | $ | 1,882,781 |  |  | $ | 1,475,881 |  |  | $ | 1,494,771 |  |  | $ | 112,942 |  |  | $ | (29,366 | ) |  | $ | (117,187 | )
“Corporate and other” is comprised principally of general corporate expenses such as the Offices of the Executive Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, and the corporate finance, accounting, audit, tax, human resources, risk management, marketing and legal groups, directly expensed interest, offset, in part, by interest income and income from the Company’s ancillary businesses and income from a number of its unconsolidated entities. Total assets for each of the Company’s geographic segments at October 31, 2012 and 2011 are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
| 2012 |  | 2011
North | $ | 1,205,900 |  |  | $ | 1,060,215 |
Mid-Atlantic | 1,304,798 |  |  | 1,160,926 |
South | 821,001 |  |  | 760,097 |
West | 913,699 |  |  | 650,844 |
Corporate and other | 1,935,646 |  |  | 1,423,164 |
Total | $ | 6,181,044 |  |  | $ | 5,055,246 |
“Corporate and other” is comprised principally of cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, deferred tax assets and the assets of the Company’s Gibraltar investments, manufacturing facilities and mortgage subsidiary. The Company provided for inventory impairment charges and the expensing of costs that it believed not to be recoverable and write-downs of investments in unconsolidated entities (including the Company’s pro-rata share of impairment charges recognized by the unconsolidated entities in which it has an investment) for the years ended October 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, as shown in the table below; the net carrying value of inventory and investments in and advances to unconsolidated entities for each of the Company’s geographic segments at October 31, 2012 and 2011 is also shown (amounts in thousands).
| Net Carrying Value |  | Impairments
| At October 31, |  | Year ended October 31,
| 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
Inventory: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Land controlled for future communities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North | $ | 13,196 |  |  | $ | 19,390 |  |  | $ | (881 | ) |  | $ | 948 |  |  | $ | 3,947 |
Mid-Atlantic | 27,249 |  |  | 21,592 |  |  | 327 |  |  | 307 |  |  | (81 | )
South | 7,724 |  |  | 3,812 |  |  | 800 |  |  | 313 |  |  | (233 | )
West | 8,131 |  |  | 1,787 |  |  | 205 |  |  | 16,184 |  |  | 2,436 |
| 56,300 |  |  | 46,581 |  |  | 451 |  |  | 17,752 |  |  | 6,069 |
Land owned for future communities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North | 226,082 |  |  | 231,085 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 15,900 |
Mid-Atlantic | 431,620 |  |  | 455,818 |  |  | 300 |  |  | 300 |  |  | 9,000 |
South | 141,644 |  |  | 125,461 |  |  | 918 |  |  | 16,700 |  |  | 13,950 |
West | 241,027 |  |  | 166,781 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16,850 |
| 1,040,373 |  |  | 979,145 |  |  | 1,218 |  |  | 17,000 |  |  | 55,700 |
Operating communities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North | 803,085 |  |  | 738,473 |  |  | 2,725 |  |  | 2,885 |  |  | 9,557 |
Mid-Atlantic | 729,739 |  |  | 659,081 |  |  | 5,500 |  |  | 3,700 |  |  | 2,100 |
South | 603,239 |  |  | 539,582 |  |  | 4,245 |  |  | 3,800 |  |  | 23,444 |
West | 528,451 |  |  | 453,861 |  |  | 600 |  |  | 6,700 |  |  | 18,388 |
| 2,664,514 |  |  | 2,390,997 |  |  | 13,070 |  |  | 17,085 |  |  | 53,489 |
Total | $ | 3,761,187 |  |  | $ | 3,416,723 |  |  | $ | 14,739 |  |  | $ | 51,837 |  |  | $ | 115,258 |
Investments in and advances to unconsolidated entities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North | $ | 142,213 |  |  | $ | 40,734 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
South | 31,252 |  |  | 32,000 |  |  |  |  |  | 15,170 |  |  |
West | 116,452 |  |  | 17,098 |  |  | (2,311 | ) |  | 25,700 |  |  |  |
Corporate | 40,700 |  |  | 36,523 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Total | $ | 330,617 |  |  | $ | 126,355 |  |  | $ | (2,311 | ) |  | $ | 40,870 |  |  | $ | — |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 131 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8380-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 10 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8538-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8864-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 35 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8924-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 33 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 15: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8595-108599 + Details
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