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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Allowance for Doubtful Accounts) (Details) (Allowance for Tenant Receivables [Member], USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012
Allowance for Tenant Receivables [Member]
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Provision for doubtful accounts	$ 2,643us-gaap_ProvisionForDoubtfulAccounts / us-gaap_ValuationAllowancesAndReservesTypeAxis = cbl_AllowanceForTenantReceivablesMember	$ 1,253us-gaap_ProvisionForDoubtfulAccounts / us-gaap_ValuationAllowancesAndReservesTypeAxis = cbl_AllowanceForTenantReceivablesMember	$ 798us-gaap_ProvisionForDoubtfulAccounts / us-gaap_ValuationAllowancesAndReservesTypeAxis = cbl_AllowanceForTenantReceivablesMember

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Amount of expense related to write-down of receivables to the amount expected to be collected. Includes, but is not limited to, accounts receivable and notes receivable.

+ References

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 230

-SubTopic 10

-Section 45

-Paragraph 28

-Subparagraph (a)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=31042434&loc=d3e3602-108585



Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 225

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.5)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26872669&loc=d3e20235-122688



Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 03

-Paragraph 5

-Article 5

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