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Note 18 - Commitments and Contingent Liabilities | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2025
Commitments and Contingent Liabilities |
Commitments and Contingent Liabilities | 18. Commitments and Contingent Liabilities We are involved in litigation, claims and other proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. The significant majority of our litigation matters are related to construction defect claims. Our estimated losses from construction defect litigation matters, if any, are included in our construction defect reserves. While the outcome of such contingencies cannot be predicted with certainty, we do not believe that the resolution of such matters will have a material adverse impact on our results of financial position, results of operations or cash flows. In December 2020, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) and theAdministrator of the New Jersey Spill Compensation Fund (the “Spill Fund”) filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Union County against Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., in addition to other unrelated parties, in connection with contamination at Hickory Manor, a residential condominium development. Alleged predecessors of certain defendants had used the Hickory Manor property for decades for manufacturing purposes. In 1998 (when one of our affiliates purchased the property and assumed control of its remediation), NJDEP confirmed that groundwater at this site was impacted from an off-site source. The site was later remediated, resulting in the NJDEP issuing an unconditional site-wide No Further Action determination letter (“NFA”) and Covenant Not to Sue in 1999.Subsequently, one of our affiliates was involved in redeveloping the property as a residential community. The complaint asserts claims under the New Jersey Spill Act and other state law claims and alleges that remediation was not properly completed, inaccurate reports were provided to NJDEP when the NFA was issued, and the NJDEP and the Spill Fund have incurred over $5.3 million since 2009 to investigate vapor intrusion at the development and to install vapor mitigation systems. Among other things, the complaint seeks recovery of the costs incurred, an order that defendants perform additional required remediation and disgorgement of profits on our affiliate’s sales of the units in the development. Discovery has commenced. Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. intends to defend these claims vigorously.

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