Highwoods Properties, Inc.

Highwoods Properties owns and manages office buildings in eight major cities across the Southeast: Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Nashville, Orlando, Raleigh, Richmond, and Tampa. They buy, build, and lease these properties to companies that need office space. The company is structured as a real estate investment trust, which is a type of company that owns real estate and distributes income to shareholders. Highwoods was founded in 1978 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.