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<CONFORMED-NAME>CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES INC
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<ASSIGNED-SIC>6798
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<STATE-OF-INCORPORATION>DE
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<STREET1>2030 HAMILTON PLACE BVLD, SUITE 500
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<CITY>CHATTANOOGA
<STATE>TN
<ZIP>37421
<PHONE>4238550001
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<CONFORMED-NAME>LEBOVITZ CHARLES B
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<STREET1>CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES INC STE 300
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<CITY>CHATTANOOGA
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<STREET1>CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES INC
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<STATE>TN
<ZIP>37421
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">These shares were acquired via the Company's Dividend Reinvestment Plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The Reporting Person owns a limited partnership interest in CBL &amp; Associates Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (the Operating Partnership), that, together with the partnership interests of other limited partners in the Operating Partnership which are controlled by the Reporting Person, may be exchanged at any time for an aggregate of 15,743,308 shares of the Issuer's Common Stock (on a one-for-one basis) or cash, at the Issuer's election.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Reported totals reflect the Company's 2-for-1 stock split, effective June 15, 2005.</footnote>
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        <signatureName>/s/ Lebovitz, Charles B.</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2005-10-28</signatureDate>
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