The Davis Companies is a vertically integrated real estate investment, development, and management firm founded in 1976 by Jonathan G. Davis and headquartered in Boston. Starting with urban residential renovations capitalized through high-net-worth investors, the company has evolved over nearly five decades into a diversified platform managing investments across multifamily, science and technology, industrial, self-storage, and office properties. The firm operates both on its own account and for institutional investors, employing a value-oriented strategy that includes distressed acquisitions, ground-up development, repositioning, and long-term asset management. The firm targets a diversified, value-oriented strategy across multifamily, industrial, self storage, office, and science & technology properties, with life sciences now a growing focus in major innovation markets. Top markets by exposure include Boston, Cambridge, Savannah, and Richmond.