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Note 2 - Business | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements |
Nature of Operations [Text Block] | 2. Business HEI conducts all of its homebuilding and financial services operations through its subsidiaries (references herein to the “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our” refer to HEI and its consolidated subsidiaries and should be understood to reflect the consolidated business of HEI’s subsidiaries). Our operations consist of homebuilding, financial services and corporate. Our homebuilding operations are made up of six reportable segments defined as Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Southeast, Southwest and West. Homebuilding operations comprise the substantial part of our business, representing approximately 97% of consolidated revenues for the year ended October 31, 2018, approximately 98% for the year ended October 31, 2017 and approximately 97% for the year ended October 31, 2016. HEI is a Delaware corporation, which through its subsidiaries, was building and selling homes at October 31, 2018 in 123 consolidated new home communities in Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia. Our homebuilding subsidiaries offer a wide variety of homes that are designed to appeal to first -time buyers, first and second -time move-up buyers, luxury buyers, active lifestyle buyers and empty nesters. Our financial services operations, which are a reportable segment, provide mortgage banking and title services to the homebuilding operations’ customers. Our financial services subsidiaries do not typically retain or service the mortgages that they originate but rather sell the mortgages and related servicing rights to investors. Corporate primarily includes the operations of our corporate office whose primary purpose is to provide executive services, accounting, information services, human resources, management reporting, training, cash management, internal audit, risk management, and administration of process redesign, quality, and safety. During fiscal 2016, we exited the Minneapolis, Minnesota and Raleigh, North Carolina markets and in the third quarter of fiscal 2016, we completed the sale of our portfolios in those markets. During fiscal 2018, we completed a wind down of our operations in the San Francisco Bay area in Northern California and in Tampa, Florida. See Note 10 “Operating and Reporting Segments” for further disclosure of our reportable segments.

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