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Investment in real estate fair value disclosure.

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Amount of write-down of assets recognized in the income statement. Includes, but is not limited to, losses from tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill.

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Ratio of the net operating income produced by an asset and its capital cost (original prices paid to buy the asset), used as an input to measure fair value.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Percentage of assumed long-term growth in revenues, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements - Assets Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis (Details) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Total Impairment Charge	$ 0us-gaap_AssetImpairmentCharges	$ 5,080,000us-gaap_AssetImpairmentCharges	$ 2,551,000us-gaap_AssetImpairmentCharges
Income Approach Valuation Technique
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Total Impairment Charge		4,911,000
Market Approach Valuation Technique
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Total Impairment Charge		169,000
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring \| Level 3 \| Income Approach Valuation Technique
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Investment in real estate, net		2,420,000
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring \| Level 3 \| Market Approach Valuation Technique
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Investment in real estate, net		722,000
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring \| Level 3 \| Real Estate Investment \| Income Approach Valuation Technique
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Fair value inputs, discount rate		14.00%
Fair value inputs, cap rate		11.80%
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring \| Level 3 \| Real Estate Investment \| Income Approach Valuation Technique \| Minimum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Fair value inputs, estimated revenue growth		5.00%
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring \| Level 3 \| Real Estate Investment \| Income Approach Valuation Technique \| Maximum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Fair value inputs, estimated revenue growth		16.00%
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring \| Level 3 \| Real Estate Investment \| Market Approach Valuation Technique \| Minimum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Fair value inputs, estimated selling price		700,000
Fair Value, Measurements, Nonrecurring \| Level 3 \| Real Estate Investment \| Market Approach Valuation Technique \| Maximum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Fair value inputs, estimated selling price		$ 900,000