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Note 3 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2015
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule of Real Estate Inventory Capitalized Interest Costs [Table Text Block] |
|  | Year Ended |
(Dollars in thousands) |  | October 31, 2015 |  |  | October 31, 2014 |  |  | October 31, 2013 |
Interest capitalized at beginning of year |  | $109,158 |  |  | $105,093 |  |  | $116,056 |
Plus interest incurred(1) |  | 166,188 |  |  | 145,409 |  |  | 132,611 |
Less cost of sales interest expensed |  | 59,613 |  |  | 53,966 |  |  | 52,230 |
Less other interest expensed(2)(3) |  | 91,835 |  |  | 87,378 |  |  | 91,344 |
Interest capitalized at end of year(4) |  | $123,898 |  |  | $109,158 |  |  | $105,093 |
Cash Paid for Interest, Net of Capitalized Interest [Table Text Block] |
|  | Year Ended |
(Dollars in thousands) |  | October 31, 2015 |  |  | October 31, 2014 |  |  | October 31, 2013 |
Other interest expensed |  | $91,835 |  |  | $87,378 |  |  | $91,344 |
Interest paid by our mortgage and finance subsidiaries |  | 2,050 |  |  | 1,969 |  |  | 2,975 |
Increase in accrued interest |  | (8,166 | ) |  | (3,961 | ) |  | (8,062 | )
Cash paid for interest, net of capitalized interest |  | $85,719 |  |  | $85,386 |  |  | $86,257 |

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