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Inventories | 9 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2016
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Inventories | Inventories Inventories consisted of the following (in thousands):
| August 31, 2016 |  | November 30, 2015
Homes under construction | $ | 1,402,650 |  |  | $ | 1,031,356 |
Land under development | 1,773,962 |  |  | 1,766,045 |
Land held for future development | 421,061 |  |  | 516,346 |
Total | $ | 3,597,673 |  |  | $ | 3,313,747 |
Interest is capitalized to inventories while the related communities are being actively developed and until homes are completed. Capitalized interest is amortized to construction and land costs as the related inventories are delivered to homebuyers or land buyers (as applicable). Interest and real estate taxes are not capitalized on land held for future development. Our interest costs were as follows (in thousands):
| Nine Months Ended August 31, |  | Three Months Ended August 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Capitalized interest at beginning of period | $ | 288,442 |  |  | $ | 266,668 |  |  | $ | 309,045 |  |  | $ | 299,678 |
Interest incurred | 138,994 |  |  | 140,789 |  |  | 46,485 |  |  | 46,587 |
Interest expensed | (5,667 | ) |  | (17,850 | ) |  | — |  |  | (4,394 | )
Interest amortized to construction and land costs (a) | (106,663 | ) |  | (99,488 | ) |  | (40,424 | ) |  | (51,752 | )
Capitalized interest at end of period (b) | $ | 315,106 |  |  | $ | 290,119 |  |  | $ | 315,106 |  |  | $ | 290,119 |
(a) | Interest amortized to construction and land costs for the nine months ended August 31, 2016 included $.5 million related to land sales during the period. 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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