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Note 3 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2013
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Real Estate Inventory Capitalized Interest Costs [Table Text Block] |
|  | Year Ended |
(Dollars in thousands) |  | October 31, 2013 |  |  | October 31, 2012 |  |  | October 31, 2011 |
Interest capitalized at beginning of year |  |  | $116,056 |  |  |  | $121,441 |  |  |  | $136,288 |
Plus interest incurred(1) |  |  | 132,611 |  |  |  | 147,048 |  |  |  | 156,998 |
Less cost of sales interest expensed |  |  | 52,230 |  |  |  | 54,538 |  |  |  | 74,676 |
Less other interest expensed(2)(3) |  |  | 91,344 |  |  |  | 97,895 |  |  |  | 97,169 |
Interest capitalized at end of year(4) |  |  | $105,093 |  |  |  | $116,056 |  |  |  | $121,441 |
Cash Paid for Interest, Net of Capitalized Interest [Table Text Block] |
|  | Year Ended |
(Dollars in thousands) |  | October 31, 2013 |  |  | October 31, 2012 |  |  | October 31, 2011 |
Other interest expensed |  |  | $91,344 |  |  |  | $97,895 |  |  |  | $97,169 |
Interest paid by our mortgage and finance subsidiaries |  |  | 2,975 |  |  |  | 2,433 |  |  |  | 1,959 |
(Increase)/decrease in accrued interest |  |  | (8,062 | ) |  |  | 1,132 |  |  |  | 2,637 |
Cash paid for interest, net of capitalized interest |  |  | $86,257 |  |  |  | $101,460 |  |  |  | $101,765 |

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