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REAL ESTATE AND CAPITALIZED INTEREST (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Real Estate | Real estate consists of the following (in thousands):
|  | At December 31,
|  | 2023 |  | 2022
Homes under contract under construction (1) |  | $ | 704,206 |  |  | $ | 822,428 |
Unsold homes, completed and under construction (1) |  | 1,260,855 |  |  | 1,155,543 |
Model homes (1) |  | 118,252 |  |  | 97,198 |
Finished home sites and home sites under development (2) (3) |  | 2,637,978 |  |  | 2,283,094 |
|  | $ | 4,721,291 |  |  | $ | 4,358,263 |
(1)Includes the allocated land and land development costs associated with each lot for these homes. (2)Includes raw land, land held for development and land held for sale, less impairments, if any. We do not capitalize interest for inactive assets, and all ongoing costs of land ownership (i.e. property taxes, homeowner association dues, etc.) are expensed as incurred. (3)Includes land held for sale of $10.7 million and $66.8 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Summary of Capitalized Interest | A summary of our capitalized interest is as follows (in thousands):
|  | Years Ended December 31,
|  | 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2021
Capitalized interest, beginning of year |  | $ | 60,169 |  |  | $ | 56,253 |  |  | $ | 58,940 |
Interest incurred |  | 57,759 |  |  | 60,599 |  |  | 62,836 |
Interest expensed |  | — |  |  | (41) |  |  | (318) |
Interest amortized to cost of home and land closings |  | (63,412) |  |  | (56,642) |  |  | (65,205) |
Capitalized interest, end of year (1) |  | $ | 54,516 |  |  | $ | 60,169 |  |  | $ | 56,253 |
(1)Approximately $346,000, $208,000 and $208,000 of the capitalized interest is related to our joint venture investments and is a component of Investments in unconsolidated entities in our consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

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