Note 8 - Leases

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Notes to Financial Statements

Lessee, Operating Leases [Text Block]

8. Leases

We lease certain property, land and equipment, the majority of which comprise property related leases to provide office space where we operate our business. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet. We recognize lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

Our property related leases typically have terms of between three and five years, with the exception of the lease governing the Company’s headquarters, and are classified as operating leases. These leases do not contain any residual value guarantees or restrictive covenants and do not include variable lease payments, except for the payment of common area maintenance and real estate taxes. Many of our property related leases give us the option to extend the lease term for a period of time, generally consistent with the initial lease term. These options are excluded from our calculation of the right-of-use asset and lease liability until such time as we determine it is reasonably certain that the option will be exercised.

The property related lease for the Company’s headquarters in Denver, Colorado is ten years in length with an expiration date of October 31, 2026 and contains a ten year option to extend the term of the lease through 2036. This option has been excluded from our calculation of the right-of-use asset and lease liability as it is not currently considered reasonably certain that the option will be exercised.

Operating lease expense is included as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses in the homebuilding and expenses in the financial services sections of our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, respectively. Components of operating lease expense were as follows:

	Three Months Ended
	March 31,
	2020			2019
	(Dollars in thousands)
Operating lease cost 1	$	2,046		$	1,980
Less: Sublease income (Note 19)		(38	)		(37	)
Net lease cost	$	2,008		$	1,943
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1 Includes variable lease costs, which are immaterial.

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases was as follows:

	Three Months Ended
	March 31,
	2020		2019
	(Dollars in thousands)
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	1,906	$	1,771
Leased assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities	$	2,645	$	1,477

Weighted-average remaining lease term and discount rate for operating leases were as follows:

	March 31, 2020
Weighted-average remaining lease term (in years)		6.0
Weighted-average discount rate		5.5	%

Maturities of operating lease liabilities were as follows:

	Year Ended
	December 31,
	(Dollars in thousands)
2020 (excluding the three months ended March 31, 2020)	$	5,112
2021		7,009
2022		6,670
2023		5,718
2024		5,307
Thereafter		9,529
Total operating lease payments	$	39,345
Less: Interest		6,073
Present value of operating lease liabilities 1	$	33,272

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¹ Homebuilding and financial services operating lease liabilities of $32.2 million and $1.1 million, respectively, are included as a component of accrued and other liabilities and accounts payable and accrued liabilities, respectively, in the homebuilding and financial services section of our consolidated balance sheet at March 31, 2020.