Standard & Poor's Announces Change to U.S. Index

NEW YORK, Jan. 31  /PRNewswire/ -- Trizec Properties Inc. (NYSE:TRZ) will replace Amli Residential Properties Trust (NYSE:AML) in the S&P REIT Composite after the close of trading on a date to be announced.  Amli is being acquired by Prime Property Fund LLC in a deal that is still pending final approval.

Standard & Poor's will monitor this transaction, and post any relevant updates on its website: http://www.standardandpoors.com/.

Trizec's portfolio of commercial office properties is concentrated in the metropolitan areas of seven major U.S. cities.  Headquartered in Chicago, IL, the company will be added to the S&P REIT Composite Industrial/Office property category.

  Following is a summary of the change:

                      S&P REIT COMPOSITE INDEX - TBA

           COMPANY               REIT TYPE       PROPERTY CATEGORY
  ADDED    Trizec Properties     Equity          Industrial/Office

  DELETED  Amli Residential      Equity          Residential




Additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the companies concerned.

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