Organization and Significant Accounting Policies	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Organization and Significant Accounting Policies	Organization and Significant Accounting Policies Business: The TIAA Real Estate Account (“Account”) is an insurance separate account of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (“TIAA”) and was established by resolution of TIAA’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) on February 22, 1995, under the insurance laws of the State of New York, for the purpose of funding variable annuity contracts issued by TIAA. The Account offers individual and group accumulating annuity contracts (with contributions made on a pre-tax or after-tax basis), as well as individual lifetime and term-certain variable payout annuity contracts (including the payment of death benefits to beneficiaries). Investors are entitled to transfer funds to or from the Account, and make withdrawals from the Account on a daily basis, under certain circumstances. Funds invested in the Account for each category of contract are expressed in terms of units, and unit values will fluctuate depending on the Account’s performance. The investment objective of the Account is to seek favorable total returns primarily through the rental income and appreciation of a diversified portfolio of directly held, private real estate investments and real estate-related investments while offering investors guaranteed, daily liquidity. The Account holds real estate properties directly and through subsidiaries wholly-owned by TIAA for the sole benefit of the Account. The Account also holds limited interests in real estate joint ventures, funds and operating business, as well as investments in loans receivable with commercial real estate properties as underlying collateral. Additionally, the Account invests in real estate-related and non-real estate-related publicly traded securities, cash and other instruments to maintain adequate liquidity levels for operating expenses, capital expenditures and to fund benefit payments (withdrawals, transfers and related transactions). Segment Reporting: The Account has identified the Managing Director, Portfolio Management, and Head of TIAA Real Estate Account and Senior Director, Annuities Product Management, as the chief operating decision makers (“CODMs”), who use Investment Income, Net and Net Change in Net Assets Resulting from Operations, as presented in the Consolidated Statements of Operations, to evaluate the results of operations and to manage the Account. The measure of segment assets is reported on the Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities as Total Assets. The Account’s operations constitute a single operating segment and therefore, a single reportable segment, because the CODMs manage the business activities using information of the Account as a whole. The accounting policies used to measure the profit and loss of the segment are the same as those described below. The Account has no major tenants. Interim Financial Information: The Consolidated Financial Statements of the Account as of March 31, 2026 and for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 are unaudited and include all adjustments necessary to present a fair statement of results for the interim periods presented. Results of operations for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the entire year. These Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Accordingly, certain footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted from this report pursuant to the rules of the SEC. As a result, these Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto included in the Account’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 (“2025 Form 10-K”). Use of Estimates: The Consolidated Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP, which requires the use of estimates made by management. Actual results may vary from those estimates and such differences may be material. Basis of Presentation: The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements include the Account and those subsidiaries wholly-owned by TIAA for the benefit of the Account. Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified for comparative purposes to conform to the current period financial statement presentation. These reclassifications had no effect on previously reported results of operations. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions between the Account and such subsidiaries have been eliminated. The Accumulation Unit Value (“AUV”) used for financial reporting purposes may differ from the AUV used for processing transactions. The AUV used for financial reporting purposes includes security and contract owner transactions, as well as purchases and sales of liquidity units by TIAA, effective through the period end date to which this report relates. Total return is computed based on the AUV used for processing transactions. Significant Accounting Policy Updates: There have been no changes to the Account’s significant accounting policies as described in the Account’s 2025 Form 10-K. Recent Accounting Pronouncements: In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement— Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40). The amendments in ASU 2024-03 improve financial reporting by requiring that public business entities disclose additional information about specific expense categories in the notes to financial statements at interim and annual reporting periods. This information is generally not presented in the financial statements today. The amendments in ASU 2024-03 are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. Management is currently assessing the impact this standard will have on our Consolidated Financial Statements as well as the method by which we will adopt the new standard. In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270) Narrow Scope Improvements (“ASU 2025-11”). The amendments in ASU 2025-11 provide a comprehensive list of interim disclosures that are required by GAAP. ASU 2025-11 also includes a disclosure principle that requires entities to disclose events since the end of the last annual reporting period that have a material impact on the entity. The amendments in ASU 2025-11 are effective for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, for public business entities and for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2028, for entities other than public business entities. Early adoption is permitted. Management is currently assessing the impact this standard will have on our Consolidated Financial Statements as well as the method by which we will adopt the new standard.

Business: The TIAA Real Estate Account (“Account”) is an insurance separate account of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (“TIAA”) and was established by resolution of TIAA’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) on February 22, 1995, under the insurance laws of the State of New York, for the purpose of funding variable annuity contracts issued by TIAA. The Account offers individual and group accumulating annuity contracts (with contributions made on a pre-tax or after-tax basis), as well as individual lifetime and term-certain variable payout annuity contracts (including the payment of death benefits to beneficiaries). Investors are entitled to transfer funds to or from the Account, and make withdrawals from the Account on a daily basis, under certain circumstances. Funds invested in the Account for each category of contract are expressed in terms of units, and unit values will fluctuate depending on the Account’s performance.

The investment objective of the Account is to seek favorable total returns primarily through the rental income and appreciation of a diversified portfolio of directly held, private real estate investments and real estate-related investments while offering investors guaranteed, daily liquidity. The Account holds real estate properties directly and through subsidiaries wholly-owned by TIAA for the sole benefit of the Account. The Account also holds limited interests in real estate joint ventures, funds and operating business, as well as investments in loans receivable with commercial real estate properties as underlying collateral. Additionally, the Account invests in real estate-related and non-real estate-related publicly traded securities, cash and other instruments to maintain adequate liquidity levels for operating expenses, capital expenditures and to fund benefit payments (withdrawals, transfers and related transactions).

Segment Reporting: The Account has identified the Managing Director, Portfolio Management, and Head of TIAA Real Estate Account and Senior Director, Annuities Product Management, as the chief operating decision makers (“CODMs”), who use Investment Income, Net and Net Change in Net Assets Resulting from Operations, as presented in the Consolidated Statements of Operations, to evaluate the results of operations and to manage the Account. The measure of segment assets is reported on the Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities as Total Assets. The Account’s operations constitute a single operating segment and therefore, a single reportable segment, because the CODMs manage the business activities using information of the Account as a whole. The accounting policies used to measure the profit and loss of the segment are the same as those described below. The Account has no major tenants.

Interim Financial Information: The Consolidated Financial Statements of the Account as of March 31, 2026 and for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 are unaudited and include all adjustments necessary to present a fair statement of results for the interim periods presented. Results of operations for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the entire year. These Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Accordingly, certain footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted from this report pursuant to the rules of the SEC. As a result, these Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto included in the Account’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 (“2025 Form 10-K”).

Use of Estimates: The Consolidated Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP, which requires the use of estimates made by management. Actual results may vary from those estimates and such differences may be material.

Basis of Presentation: The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements include the Account and those subsidiaries wholly-owned by TIAA for the benefit of the Account. Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified for comparative purposes to conform to the current period financial statement presentation. These

The Accumulation Unit Value (“AUV”) used for financial reporting purposes may differ from the AUV used for processing transactions. The AUV used for financial reporting purposes includes security and contract owner transactions, as well as purchases and sales of liquidity units by TIAA, effective through the period end date to which this report relates. Total return is computed based on the AUV used for processing transactions.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements: In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement— Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40). The amendments in ASU 2024-03 improve financial reporting by requiring that public business entities disclose additional information about specific expense categories in the notes to financial statements at interim and annual reporting periods. This information is generally not presented in the financial statements today. The amendments in ASU 2024-03 are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. Management is currently assessing the impact this standard will have on our Consolidated Financial Statements as well as the method by which we will adopt the new standard.

In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270) Narrow Scope Improvements (“ASU 2025-11”). The amendments in ASU 2025-11 provide a comprehensive list of interim disclosures that are required by GAAP. ASU 2025-11 also includes a disclosure principle that requires entities to disclose events since the end of the last annual reporting period that have a material impact on the entity. The amendments in ASU 2025-11 are effective for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, for public business entities and for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2028, for entities other than public business entities. Early adoption is permitted. Management is currently assessing the impact this standard will have on our Consolidated Financial Statements as well as the method by which we will adopt the new standard.