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Inventories (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2015
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Inventories | Inventories consisted of the following (in thousands):
| August 31, 2015 |  | November 30, 2014
Homes under construction | $ | 1,187,576 |  |  | $ | 928,272 |
Land under development | 1,686,674 |  |  | 1,710,149 |
Land held for future development | 527,487 |  |  | 579,966 |
Total | $ | 3,401,737 |  |  | $ | 3,218,387 |
Schedule of Capitalized Interest Costs | Our interest costs were as follows (in thousands):
| Nine Months Ended August 31, |  | Three Months Ended August 31,
| 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Capitalized interest at beginning of period | $ | 266,668 |  |  | $ | 216,681 |  |  | $ | 299,678 |  |  | $ | 241,583 |
Interest incurred | 140,789 |  |  | 127,041 |  |  | 46,587 |  |  | 44,603 |
Interest expensed | (17,850 | ) |  | (26,289 | ) |  | (4,394 | ) |  | (6,455 | )
Interest amortized to construction and land costs (a) | (99,488 | ) |  | (59,471 | ) |  | (51,752 | ) |  | (21,769 | )
Capitalized interest at end of period (b) | $ | 290,119 |  |  | $ | 257,962 |  |  | $ | 290,119 |  |  | $ | 257,962 |
(a) | Interest amortized to construction and land costs for the three months and nine months ended August 31, 2015 included $16.4 million related to land sales during those periods.
(b) | Capitalized interest amounts presented in the table reflect the gross amount of capitalized interest, as inventory impairment charges recognized, if any, are not generally allocated to specific components of inventory.

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