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Operating and Reporting Segments

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Operating and Reporting Segments
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Operating and Reporting Segments [Abstract]  
OPERATING AND REPORTING SEGMENTS

NOTE 10 — OPERATING AND REPORTING SEGMENTS

As defined in ASC 280-10, Segment Reporting, we have seven operating segments (the seven states in which we operate). These segments are engaged in the business of acquiring and developing land, constructing homes, marketing and selling those homes, and providing warranty and customer service. We aggregate our operating segments into reporting segments based on similar long-term economic characteristics and geographical proximity. Our reporting segments are as follows:

West: California and Nevada

Central: Texas, Arizona and Colorado

East: Florida and North Carolina

Management’s evaluation of segment performance is based on segment operating income/(loss), which we define as homebuilding and land revenue less cost of home construction, commissions and other sales costs, land development and other land sales costs and other costs incurred by or allocated to each segment, including impairments. Each reportable segment follows the same accounting policies described in Note 1, “Organization and Basis of Presentation,” to the consolidated financial statements in our 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Operating results for each segment may not be indicative of the results for such segment had it been an independent, stand-alone entity. The following is our segment information (in thousands):

 

                 
    Three Months Ended March 31,  
    2012     2011  

Revenue (1):

               

West

  $ 34,502     $ 24,150  

Central

    132,178       132,506  

East

    37,670       20,933  
   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Consolidated total

    204,350       177,589  
   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income/(loss) (2):

               

West

    186       (984

Central

    3,371       4,226  

East

    2,806       2,237  
   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Segment operating income

    6,363       5,479  

Corporate and unallocated (3)

    (4,825     (5,531

Earnings from unconsolidated entities, net

    1,423       908  

Interest expense

    (7,371     (8,023

Other (loss)/income, net

    (164     723  
   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income taxes

  $ (4,574   $ (6,444
   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) Revenue includes the following land closing revenue, by segment: three months ended March 31, 2012 $328,000 in the Central Region; three months ended March 31, 2011 $100,000 in the Central Region.
(2) See Note 2 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for a breakout of real estate-related impairments by region.
(3) Balance consists primarily of corporate costs and numerous shared service functions such as finance and treasury that are not allocated to the reporting segments.

 

                                         
    At March 31, 2012  
    West     Central     East     Corporate and
Unallocated  (1)
    Total  

Deposits on real estate under option or contract

  $ 3,366     $ 10,759     $ 903     $ 0     $ 15,028  

Real estate

    208,063       558,016       101,955       0       868,034  

Investments in unconsolidated entities

    176       10,593       12       608       11,389  

Other assets

    12,968       113,899       10,534       185,762       323,163  
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

  $ 224,573     $ 693,267     $ 113,404     $ 186,370     $ 1,217,614  
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

                                         
    At December 31, 2011  
    West     Central     East     Corporate and
Unallocated  (1)
    Total  

Deposits on real estate under option or contract

  $ 3,216     $ 11,158     $ 834     $ 0     $ 15,208  

Real estate

    207,656       529,885       77,884       0       815,425  

Investments in unconsolidated entities

    176       10,245       14       653       11,088  

Other assets

    8,911       90,532       8,842       271,372       379,657  
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

  $ 219,959     $ 641,820     $ 87,574     $ 272,025     $ 1,221,378  
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) Balance consists primarily of cash and other corporate assets not allocated to the reporting segments.