Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America offers individual and group accumulating annuity contracts with contributions made on a pre-tax or after-tax basis. It also provides individual lifetime and term-certain variable payout annuity contracts, including payment of death benefits to beneficiaries. In addition, the company offers real estate account under the various annuity contracts, such as retirement and group retirement annuities, retirement choice and retirement choice plus annuities, Keoghs, after-tax retirement annuities, and real estate account accumulation contract.