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Information on Segments (Tables)
 12 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2021
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Revenue and income (loss) before income taxes and total assets [Table Text Block]
The table below summarizes revenue and income (loss) before income taxes for our segments for each of the fiscal years ended October 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019 (amounts in thousands).
 RevenueIncome (loss) before income taxes
 202120202019202120202019
Traditional Home Building:
North$1,645,724 $1,364,750 $1,484,430 $154,298 $57,826 $81,350 
Mid-Atlantic1,072,300 845,597 804,342 129,056 50,621 50,737 
South1,183,272 1,041,204 991,915 153,799 108,399 106,082 
Mountain2,003,045 1,535,757 1,130,874 276,360 167,687 112,979 
Pacific2,156,114 2,029,851 2,416,629 384,036 352,831 509,760 
Traditional Home Building8,060,455 6,817,159 6,828,190 1,097,549 737,364 860,908 
City Living (1)
370,772 120,946 253,188 157,653 29,679 70,133 
Corporate and other519 (748)(999)(154,887)(180,142)(143,871)
8,431,746 6,937,357 7,080,379 1,100,315 586,901 787,170 
Land sales and other revenue358,615 140,302 143,587 
Total$8,790,361 $7,077,659 $7,223,966 $1,100,315 $586,901 $787,170 
(1)    In the first quarter of fiscal 2021, we sold certain commercial assets associated with our Hoboken, New Jersey condominium projects for $82.4 million which is included in Land sales and other revenues above. City Living recognized net gains of $38.3 million from these sales.
“Corporate and other” is comprised principally of general corporate expenses such as our executive offices; the corporate finance, accounting, audit, tax, human resources, risk management, information technology, marketing, and legal groups; interest income; income from certain of our ancillary businesses, and income from our Rental Property Joint Ventures and Gibraltar Joint Ventures.
Total assets for each of our segments at October 31, 2021 and 2020, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
20212020
Traditional Home Building:
North$1,357,168 $1,427,523 
Mid-Atlantic976,887 918,641 
South1,421,612 1,176,962 
Mountain2,397,484 1,961,348 
Pacific2,174,997 2,226,685 
Traditional Home Building8,328,148 7,711,159 
City Living332,972 539,750 
Corporate and other2,876,730 2,814,824 
$11,537,850 $11,065,733 
“Corporate and other” is comprised principally of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, income tax receivable, investments in our Rental Property Joint Ventures, expected recoveries from insurance carriers and suppliers, our Gibraltar investments and operations, manufacturing facilities, and our mortgage and title subsidiaries.
Schedule of inventory, by segment [Table Text Block] Inventory for each of our segments, as of the dates indicated, is shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
Land controlled for future communitiesLand owned for future communitiesOperating communitiesTotal
Balances at October 31, 2021
Traditional Home Building:
North$24,791 $56,803 $1,193,052 $1,274,646 
Mid-Atlantic51,267 90,735 776,746 918,748 
South34,567 44,304 1,135,370 1,214,241 
Mountain40,483 85,631 2,126,863 2,252,977 
Pacific34,548 76,091 1,897,214 2,007,853 
Traditional Home Building185,656 353,564 7,129,245 7,668,465 
City Living— 211,173 36,246 247,419 
$185,656 $564,737 $7,165,491 $7,915,884 
Balances at October 31, 2020
Traditional Home Building:
North$40,753 $155,737 $1,140,833 $1,337,323 
Mid-Atlantic31,572 142,196 647,481 821,249 
South13,964 122,671 847,360 983,995 
Mountain8,811 38,370 1,840,830 1,888,011 
Pacific128,425 379,916 1,656,682 2,165,023 
Traditional Home Building223,525 838,890 6,133,186 7,195,601 
City Living— 197,953 265,352 463,305 
$223,525 $1,036,843 $6,398,538 $7,658,906 
Schedule of inventory impairments, by segment [Table Text Block] The amounts we have provided for inventory impairment charges and the expensing of costs that we believed not to be recoverable for each of our segments, for the years ended October 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
 202120202019
Traditional Home Building:
North$12,194 $28,352 $25,472 
Mid-Atlantic10,922 17,905 1,535 
South662 2,869 8,452 
Mountain379 790 984 
Pacific1,278 5,967 1,117 
Traditional Home Building25,435 55,883 37,560 
City Living1,100 — 4,800 
$26,535 $55,883 $42,360 
Schedule of investments in unconsolidated entities and equity in earnings (losses) from unconsolidated entities, by segment [Table Text Block]
The net carrying value of our investments in unconsolidated entities and our equity in earnings (losses) from such investments, for each of our segments, as of the dates indicated, are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands):
Investments in unconsolidated entitiesEquity in earnings (losses) from
unconsolidated entities
At October 31,Year ended October 31,
20212020202120202019
Traditional Home Building:
Mid-Atlantic$27,313 $33,523 $5,953 $(11)$— 
South128,777 93,734 12,619 14,012 19,098 
Mountain14,612 — — 381 — 
Pacific73,066 433 (17)1,280 (37)
Traditional Home Building243,768 127,690 18,555 15,662 19,061 
City Living12,944 33,819 (641)(7,674)4,103 
Corporate and other342,389 269,192 56,121 (7,040)1,704 
$599,101 $430,701 $74,035 $948 $24,868 
“Corporate and other” is comprised of our investments in the Rental Property Joint Ventures and the Gibraltar Joint Ventures.