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Inventory | 9 Months Ended
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Jul. 31, 2015
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Inventory | Inventory Inventory at July 31, 2015 and October 31, 2014 consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
| July 31, 2015 |  | October 31, 2014
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 76,371 |  |  | $ | 122,533 |
Land owned for future communities | 2,344,705 |  |  | 2,355,874 |
Operating communities | 4,569,802 |  |  | 4,011,914 |
| $ | 6,990,878 |  |  | $ | 6,490,321 |
Operating communities include communities offering homes for sale, communities that have sold all available home sites but have not completed delivery of the homes, communities that were previously offering homes for sale but are temporarily closed due to business conditions or nonavailability of improved home sites and that are expected to reopen within 12 months of the end of the fiscal period being reported on, and communities preparing to open for sale. The carrying value attributable to operating communities includes the cost of homes under construction, land and land development costs, the carrying cost of home sites in current and future phases of these communities, and the carrying cost of model homes. Communities that were previously offering homes for sale but are temporarily closed due to business conditions and that do not have any remaining backlog and are not expected to reopen within 12 months of the end of the fiscal period being reported on have been classified as land owned for future communities. Backlog consists of homes under contract but not yet delivered to our home buyers (“backlog”). Information regarding the classification, number, and carrying value of these temporarily closed communities, as of the dates indicated, is provided in the table below.
| July 31, 2015 |  | October 31, 2014
Land owned for future communities: |  |  |
Number of communities | 18 |  |  | 16 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 142,936 |  |  | $ | 122,015 |
Operating communities: |  |  |
Number of communities | 8 |  |  | 9 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 38,443 |  |  | $ | 42,092 |
The amounts we have provided for inventory impairment charges and the expensing of costs that we believed not to be recoverable, for the periods indicated, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
| Nine months ended July 31, |  | Three months ended July 31,
| 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 679 |  |  | $ | 2,198 |  |  | $ | 69 |  |  | $ | 1,192 |
Land owned for future communities | 12,600 |  |  |  |  |  | 11,900 |  |  |
Operating communities | 18,000 |  |  | 7,700 |  |  | 6,000 |  |  | 4,800 |
| $ | 31,279 |  |  | $ | 9,898 |  |  | $ | 17,969 |  |  | $ | 5,992 |
See Note 13, “Fair Value Disclosures,” for information regarding the number of operating communities that we tested for potential impairment, the number of operating communities in which we recognized impairment charges, the amount of impairment charges recognized, and the fair values of those communities, net of impairment charges. See Note 15, “Commitments and Contingencies,” for information regarding land purchase commitments. At July 31, 2015, we evaluated our land purchase contracts to determine whether any of the selling entities were VIEs and, if they were, whether we were the primary beneficiary of any of them. Under these land purchase contracts, we do not possess legal title to the land. Our risk is generally limited to deposits paid to the sellers and predevelopment costs incurred, and the creditors of the sellers generally have no recourse against us. At July 31, 2015, we determined that 58 land purchase contracts, with an aggregate purchase price of $812.0 million, on which we had made aggregate deposits totaling $43.0 million, were VIEs and that we were not the primary beneficiary of any VIE related to our land purchase contracts. At October 31, 2014, we determined that 63 land purchase contracts, with an aggregate purchase price of $578.2 million, on which we had made aggregate deposits totaling $30.7 million, were VIEs, and that we were not the primary beneficiary of any VIE related to our land purchase contracts. Interest incurred, capitalized, and expensed, for the periods indicated, was as follows (amounts in thousands):
| Nine months ended July 31, |  | Three months ended July 31,
| 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Interest capitalized, beginning of period | $ | 356,180 |  |  | $ | 343,077 |  |  | $ | 372,894 |  |  | $ | 367,135 |
Interest incurred | 117,896 |  |  | 123,267 |  |  | 37,438 |  |  | 40,638 |
Interest expensed to cost of revenues | (94,942 | ) |  | (91,766 | ) |  | (36,989 | ) |  | (37,181 | )
Write-off against other income | (2,795 | ) |  | (1,876 | ) |  | (1,057 | ) |  | (836 | )
Interest capitalized on investments in unconsolidated entities | (6,149 | ) |  | (7,098 | ) |  | (1,324 | ) |  | (2,341 | )
Previously capitalized interest on investments in unconsolidated entities transferred to inventory | 15,915 |  |  | 1,811 |  |  | 15,143 |  |  | — |
Interest capitalized, end of period | $ | 386,105 |  |  | $ | 367,415 |  |  | $ | 386,105 |  |  | $ | 367,415 |
Inventory impairment charges are recognized against all inventory costs in a community. The amounts included in the table directly above reflect the gross amount of capitalized interest without allocation of any impairment charges recognized. We estimate that, had inventory impairment charges been allocated on a pro rata basis to the individual components of inventory, capitalized interest at July 31, 2015 and 2014, would have been reduced by approximately $33.5 million and $35.8 million, respectively. During the three months ended July 31, 2015, we transfered $132.3 million from investment in unconsolidated entities to inventory. See Note 4, “Investments in and Advances to Unconsolidated Entities - Homebuilding Joint Ventures” for additional information.

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