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Geographic Segments | 3 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2013
Geographic Segments [Abstract] |
Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block] | Geographic Segments Revenue and income (loss) before income taxes for each of the Company’s geographic segments, for the periods indicated, were as follows (amounts in thousands):
| Three months ended January 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012
Revenue: |  |  |
North | $ | 92,670 |  |  | $ | 75,580 |
Mid-Atlantic | 132,151 |  |  | 100,799 |
South | 87,185 |  |  | 76,466 |
West | 112,595 |  |  | 69,110 |
Total | $ | 424,601 |  |  | $ | 321,955 |
Income (loss) before income taxes: |  |  |
North | $ | 7,242 |  |  | $ | 1,201 |
Mid-Atlantic | 15,095 |  |  | 10,642 |
South | 2,725 |  |  | (2,077 | )
West | 8,047 |  |  | 5,603 |
Corporate and other | (24,783 | ) |  | (21,777 | )
Total | $ | 8,326 |  |  | $ | (6,408 | )
“Corporate and other” is comprised principally of general corporate expenses such as the offices of the Executive Officers of the Company, and the corporate finance, accounting, audit, tax, human resources, risk management, marketing and legal groups, interest income and income from certain of the Company’s ancillary businesses, Gibraltar and income from a number of the Company's unconsolidated entities. Total assets for each of the Company’s geographic segments, as of the date indicated, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands).
| January 31, 2013 |  | October 31, 2012
North | $ | 1,430,831 |  |  | $ | 1,205,900 |
Mid-Atlantic | 1,349,624 |  |  | 1,304,798 |
South | 869,325 |  |  | 821,001 |
West | 959,673 |  |  | 913,699 |
Corporate and other | 1,508,798 |  |  | 1,935,646 |
Total | $ | 6,118,251 |  |  | $ | 6,181,044 |
Corporate and other is comprised principally of cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, restricted cash, the assets of the Company’s manufacturing facilities and mortgage subsidiary, and its Gibraltar investments. 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) and recoveries of prior charges for the periods indicated, 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, as of the dates indicated, are also shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
| Net Carrying Value |  | Impairments
| At January 31, |  | At October 31, |  | Three months ended January 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2013 |  | 2012
Inventory: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Land controlled for future communities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North | $ | 14,937 |  |  | $ | 13,196 |  |  | $ | 88 |  |  | $ | 24 |
Mid-Atlantic | 26,031 |  |  | 27,249 |  |  | 16 |  |  | 199 |
South | 8,130 |  |  | 7,724 |  |  | 355 |  |  | 555 |
West | 5,423 |  |  | 8,131 |  |  | (450 | ) |  | (1 | )
| 54,521 |  |  | 56,300 |  |  | 9 |  |  | 777 |
Land owned for future communities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North | 395,575 |  |  | 226,082 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Mid-Atlantic | 474,446 |  |  | 431,620 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
South | 163,080 |  |  | 141,644 |  |  |  |  |  | 918 |
West | 220,001 |  |  | 241,027 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 1,253,102 |  |  | 1,040,373 |  |  | — |  |  | 918 |
Operating communities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North | 855,440 |  |  | 803,085 |  |  | 500 |  |  | 2,265 |
Mid-Atlantic | 739,084 |  |  | 729,739 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
South | 633,822 |  |  | 603,239 |  |  |  |  |  | 4,160 |
West | 619,078 |  |  | 528,451 |  |  | 200 |  |  |  |
| 2,847,424 |  |  | 2,664,514 |  |  | 700 |  |  | 6,425 |
Total | $ | 4,155,047 |  |  | $ | 3,761,187 |  |  | $ | 709 |  |  | $ | 8,120 |
Investments in and advances to unconsolidated entities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
North | $ | 143,358 |  |  | $ | 142,213 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
South | 31,609 |  |  | 31,252 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
West | 106,368 |  |  | 116,452 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Corporate | 40,516 |  |  | 40,700 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Total | $ | 321,851 |  |  | $ | 330,617 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |

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