Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

REAL ESTATE AND CAPITALIZED INTEREST (Tables)

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REAL ESTATE AND CAPITALIZED INTEREST (Tables)
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract]  
Schedule of Real Estate
Real estate consists of the following (in thousands):
 
 
 
At December 31,
 
 
2017
 
2016
Homes under contract under construction (1)
 
$
566,474

 
$
508,927

Unsold homes, completed and under construction (1)
 
516,577

 
431,725

Model homes (1)
 
142,026

 
147,406

Finished home sites and home sites under development (2)
 
1,506,303

 
1,334,005

 
 
$
2,731,380

 
$
2,422,063

 
(1)
Includes the allocated land and land development costs associated with each lot for these homes.
(2)
Includes raw land, land held for development and land held for sale. Land held for development primarily reflects land and land development costs related to land where development activity is not currently underway but is expected to begin in the future. For these parcels, we may have chosen not to currently develop certain land holdings as they typically represent a portion or phases of a larger land parcel that we plan to build out over several years. We do not capitalize interest for inactive assets, and all ongoing costs of land ownership (i.e. property taxes, homeowner association dues, etc.) are expensed as incurred.

Summary of Capitalized Interest
A summary of our capitalized interest is as follows (in thousands):
 
 
 
Years Ended December 31,
 
 
2017
 
2016
 
2015
Capitalized interest, beginning of year
 
$
68,196

 
$
61,202

 
$
54,060

Interest incurred
 
79,045

 
70,348

 
67,542

Interest expensed
 
(3,853
)
 
(5,172
)
 
(15,965
)
Interest amortized to cost of home and land closings
 
(64,824
)
 
(58,182
)
 
(44,435
)
Capitalized interest, end of year (1)
 
$
78,564

 
$
68,196

 
$
61,202

 
(1)
Approximately $517,000, $130,000 and $445,000 of the capitalized interest is related to our joint venture investments and is a component of “Investments in unconsolidated entities” in our consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively.