Southwood Realty Co.

Name

Southwood Realty Co.

Legal name

Southwood Realty Company

Website

https://southwoodrealty.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Southwood Realty Co. is a private Southeast US real estate firm founded in 1977 that provides property management services, headquartered in Gastonia, North Carolina with 251-500 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Residential Property Management

NAICS

Residential Property Managers (531311), Real Estate Property Managers (53131)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Property Management Advisory & Leasing Administration (FSAEAJAN)

Keywords

• Residential property management
• Apartment rentals
• Multifamily housing
• Real estate acquisitions
• Southeast US real estate

Headquarters

HQ city

Gastonia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Southwood Realty Co. provides residential property management services in the Southeast United States. The company owns and operates multifamily apartment communities in North Carolina, including the recently acquired Laurel View Apartments in Concord, and delivers ongoing leasing, maintenance, and tenant management for those properties.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Residential Property Management Services Property management services for residential apartment communities in the Southeast United States, covering leasing, maintenance, and tenant management for owned and operated multifamily housing.
• Laurel View Apartments (Concord, NC) A multifamily apartment community in Concord, North Carolina, owned and operated by Southwood Realty Co. following its March 2026 acquisition, offering residential rental units to tenants.

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Technology focussed No

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Direct peers

• Bell Partners: Bell Partners is a Greensboro, NC-based multifamily real estate investment and property management firm with a heavy Southeastern U.S. concentration. It is highly comparable to Southwood given overlapping Carolinas geography and similar mid-market multifamily management focus.
• Hawthorne Residential Partners: Hawthorne Residential Partners is a multifamily property management firm based in the Southeast U.S. that manages properties for institutional and individual owners. It is a direct peer to Southwood given similar residential property management services and regional Southeastern focus.
• Carroll Property Management: Carroll Property Management is a residential property management firm serving the Carolinas and broader Southeast. It is a direct regional peer to Southwood, offering similar multifamily and single-family management services to owners in overlapping geographies.
• RangeWater Real Estate: RangeWater Real Estate is a Southeast-focused multifamily owner, operator, and property manager headquartered in Atlanta. It is comparable to Southwood as both pursue acquisition and third-party management strategies in the Southeast residential market.
• Drucker + Falk: Drucker + Falk is a Mid-Atlantic and Southeast-focused residential and commercial property management and real estate firm. It is comparable to Southwood as both are regional property managers serving similar owner clients with similar service offerings.

Broad incumbents

• Greystar Real Estate Partners: Greystar is the largest multifamily property management company in the United States, managing over 800,000 units. It is comparable to Southwood as it operates in the same residential property management space, although at vastly greater scale and with a national footprint.
• Asset Living: Asset Living is one of the largest third-party multifamily property managers in the U.S., with a strong Southeast footprint. It is comparable to Southwood as both firms earn fee-based revenue managing residential properties on behalf of owners, though Asset Living operates nationally.
• Lincoln Property Company: Lincoln Property Company is a large national residential and commercial property management and real estate services firm. It directly competes with Southwood in the multifamily property management space, particularly in the Southeast where it has a meaningful presence.
• Camden Property Trust: Camden Property Trust is a large publicly-traded multifamily REIT with operations across the Sunbelt, including the Carolinas. It competes with Southwood for both tenants and third-party management opportunities in the Southeast.
• MAA (Mid-America Apartment Communities): MAA is one of the largest publicly-traded apartment REITs in the U.S. with significant Southeastern exposure. While vertically integrated, it competes with Southwood for management contracts and acquisitions in the Carolinas.

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Investors

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Investments

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