Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to U.S. Indices

NEW YORK, Sept. 21  /PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's will make the following changes to the S&P SmallCap 600 and S&P REIT Composite indices after the close of trading on Tuesday, September 27, 2005:

  -- Prosperity Bancshares Inc. (NASDAQ:PRSP) will replace CRT Properties
     Inc. (NYSE:CRO) in the S&P SmallCap 600.  CRT is being acquired by
     clients advised by DRA Advisors LLC, along with S&P SmallCap 600 and
     S&P REIT Composite constituent Colonial Properties Trust (NYSE:CLP),
     in a deal that is expected to close on that date, pending final
     approvals.

  -- LTC Properties Inc. (NYSE:LTC) will replace CRT Properties Inc.
     (NYSE:CRO) in the S&P REIT Composite.



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

Prosperity Bancshares provides a line of financial products and services to small and medium-sized businesses and consumers.  Headquartered in Houston, TX, the company will be added to the S&P SmallCap 600 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Regional Banks Sub-Industry Index.

LTC Properties invests primarily in long-term care and other health care- related properties.  Headquartered in Malibu, CA, the company will be added to the S&P REIT Composite Health Care property category.

  Following is a summary of the changes:

               S&P SMALLCAP 600 INDEX - September 27, 2005

              COMPANY            GICS ECONOMIC SECTOR  GICS SUB-INDUSTRY
  ADDED    Prosperity Bancshares       Financials       Regional Banks
  DELETED  CRT Properties              Financials       Real Estate
                                                         Investment
                                                         Trusts


              S&P REIT COMPOSITE INDEX - September 27, 2005

              COMPANY            REIT TYPE             PROPERTY CATEGORY
  ADDED     LTC Properties         Hybrid                Health Care
  DELETED   CRT Properties         Equity              Industrial/Office



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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               Managing Director & Chairman of the Index Committee

               

    (MHP PRSP CRO CLP LTC)

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