Cousins Properties to Present at the NAREIT Institutional Investor Forum.

ATLANTA -- Cousins Properties Incorporated (NYSE:CUZ) announced today that it will provide an online audio simulcast of its presentation to the investment community at the 2006 NAREIT Institutional Investor Forum in New York City. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, June 7, 2006, at 3:10 p.m. Eastern time.

The live audio broadcast of Cousins Properties' panel presentation will be available online at www.cousinsproperties.com and at http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ confLobby.zhtml?ticker=CUZ&item_id=1325807. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) The online replay will begin shortly after the presentation ends and will be available for 30 days.

Cousins Properties Incorporated, headquartered in Atlanta, has extensive experience in the real estate industry including the development, acquisition, financing, management and leasing of properties. The property types that Cousins actively invests in include office, multi-family, retail, industrial and land development projects. The Company's portfolio consists of interests in 7.4 million square feet of office space, 3.8 million square feet of retail space, 0.8 million square feet of industrial space, two multi-family residential projects, over 9,000 acres of strategically located land tracts for sale or future development, and significant land holdings for development of single-family residential communities. Cousins also provides leasing and management services to third-party investors; its client-services portfolio comprises 12.7 million square feet of office space. Cousins is a fully integrated equity real estate investment trust (REIT) that has been public since 1962 and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CUZ." For more information on the Company, please visit Cousins' Web site at www.cousinsproperties.com.