Highwoods Properties (HIW) S-3ASR Automatic shelf registration

Exhibit 23.3

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our report dated March 12, 2008 (which report expresses an unqualified opinion on the financial statements and financial statement schedules and includes an explanatory paragraph referring to the adoption on January 1, 2006 of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), “Share-Based Payment,” and Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 04-5, “Determining Whether a General Partner or the General Partners as a Group, Controls a Limited Partnership or Similar Entity When the Limited Partners Have Certain Rights”), relating to the financial statements and financial statement schedules of Highwoods Realty Limited Partnership appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Highwoods Realty Limited Partnership for the year ended December 31, 2007, and to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in the Prospectus, which is part of this Registration Statement.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

Raleigh, North Carolina

March 13, 2008