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Segment Reporting (Details) (USD $) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015 | Mar. 31, 2014
Reconciliation of NOI to net income |  |  |  |
Net income | $ 208,053,000 us-gaap_ProfitLoss |  | $ 141,599,000 us-gaap_ProfitLoss |
Indirect operating expenses, net of corporate income | 15,271,000 avb_IndirectOperatingExpensesNetOfCorporateIncome |  | 10,818,000 avb_IndirectOperatingExpensesNetOfCorporateIncome |
Investments and investment management expense | 1,034,000 us-gaap_AssetManagementCosts |  | 979,000 us-gaap_AssetManagementCosts |
Expensed acquisition, development and other pursuit costs | 1,187,000 avb_ExpensedAcquisitionDevelopmentAndOtherPursuitCosts |  | 715,000 avb_ExpensedAcquisitionDevelopmentAndOtherPursuitCosts |
Interest expense, net | 45,573,000 us-gaap_InterestExpense | [1] | 42,533,000 us-gaap_InterestExpense | [1]
General and administrative expense | 10,598,000 us-gaap_GeneralAndAdministrativeExpense |  | 9,236,000 us-gaap_GeneralAndAdministrativeExpense |
Equity in (income) loss of unconsolidated real estate entities | (34,566,000)us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments |  | (5,223,000)us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments |
Depreciation expense | 116,853,000 us-gaap_Depreciation | [1] | 106,367,000 us-gaap_Depreciation | [1]
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets Held-for-use | 5,788,000 us-gaap_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsHeldForUse |  | 0 us-gaap_ImpairmentOfLongLivedAssetsHeldForUse |
Gain on sale of real estate assets | (70,958,000)avb_Gainonsaleofrealestateassetsincontinuingoperations |  | 0 avb_Gainonsaleofrealestateassetsincontinuingoperations |
Gain on sale of discontinued operations | 0 us-gaap_GainLossOnDispositionOfRealEstateDiscontinuedOperations |  | (37,869,000)us-gaap_GainLossOnDispositionOfRealEstateDiscontinuedOperations |
Income from discontinued operations | 0 us-gaap_DiscontinuedOperationIncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationDuringPhaseOutPeriodNetOfTax |  | (310,000)us-gaap_DiscontinuedOperationIncomeLossFromDiscontinuedOperationDuringPhaseOutPeriodNetOfTax |
Net operating income from real estate assets sold or held for sale, not classified as discontinued operations | (836,000)avb_DisposalGroupNotDiscontinuedOperationNetOperatingIncomeFromAssetsHeldforSaleNotClassifiedasDiscontinuedOperations |  | (4,971,000)avb_DisposalGroupNotDiscontinuedOperationNetOperatingIncomeFromAssetsHeldforSaleNotClassifiedasDiscontinuedOperations |
Net operating income | 297,997,000 us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss |  | 263,874,000 us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss |
Continuing Operations |  |  |  |
Reconciliation of NOI to net income |  |  |  |
Net operating income | $ 297,997,000 us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentContinuingOperationsMember |  | $ 263,874,000 us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentContinuingOperationsMember |
[1] | Includes amounts associated with assets sold or held for sale, not classified as discontinued operations.

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