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Cousins is a Sun Belt office REIT — it owns a ~22.9M-sq-ft portfolio of trophy 'lifestyle office' towers in fast-growing markets like Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte and Tampa, then rents that space to tech, finance and professional-services tenants (Amazon is its #1). Rent flows back to shareholders as a monthly-of-life dividend, and the company pays out most of its income to keep its tax-free REIT status.

Where Cousins sits in the chain

Cousins is an owner-operator: capital and debt fund it, it buys and builds trophy office towers, leases and runs them (largely in-house), and rents the space to tech, finance and professional tenants whose demand is driven by Sun Belt migration and return-to-office.

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