Available-for-sale Securities (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]

Available-for-sale Securities [Table Text Block]

Available-for-Sale Securities

Available-for-sale securities are included in other assets in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets, and consists of the following (in thousands):



	September 30, 2014
	Amortized Cost		Gains in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss		Losses in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss		Estimated Fair Value
Common stock	$	14,350	$	4,809	$	—	$	19,159

The Company did not have any available-for-sale securities at December 31, 2013.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2014, the Company acquired common stock of AmREIT, Inc. ("AmREIT"). During the nine months ended September 30, 2014, no available-for-sale securities were sold. Net unrealized holding gains on available-for-sale securities, of approximately $4.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2014, have been included in accumulated other comprehensive loss in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets.

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of available-for-sale securities which includes, but is not limited to, changes in the cost basis and fair value, fair value and gross unrealized gain (loss), fair values by type of security, contractual maturity and classification, amortized cost basis, contracts to acquire securities to be accounted for as available-for-sale, debt maturities, transfers to trading, change in net unrealized holding gain (loss) net of tax, continuous unrealized loss position fair value, aggregate losses qualitative disclosures, other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses or other disclosures related to available for sale securities.

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