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CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	NSAR-B
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20001231
FILED AS OF DATE:		20010226

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			COHEN & STEERS TOTAL RETURN REALTY FUND INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000891290
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	UNKNOWN SIC - 0000 [0000]
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
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		SEC ACT:		
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	811-07154
		FILM NUMBER:		1553674

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O MERRILL LYNCH ASSET MANAGEMENT
		STREET 2:		800 SCUDDERS MILL RD
		CITY:			PLAINSBORO
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			08536
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6092822116

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O MERRILL LYNCH ASSET MANAGEMENT
		STREET 2:		800 SCUDDERS MILL RD
		CITY:			PLAINSBORO
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			08536

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	COHEN & STEERS OPPORTUNITY TRUST INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930714
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Report of Independent Accountants

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders
of Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc.

In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund,
Inc. (the "Fund") for the year ended December 31, 2000,
we considered its internal control, including control
activities for safeguarding securities, in order to
determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of
expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to
comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to
provide assurance on internal control.

The management of the Fund is responsible for
establishing and maintaining internal control.  In
fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by
management are required to assess the expected benefits
and related costs of controls.  Generally, controls that are
relevant to an audit pertain to the entity's objective of
preparing financial statements for external purposes that
are fairly presented in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles.  Those controls include the
safeguarding of assets against unauthorized acquisition,
use or disposition.

Because of inherent limitations in internal control, errors
or fraud may occur and not be detected.  Also, projection
of any evaluation of internal control to future periods is
subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate
because of changes in conditions or that the effectiveness
of their design and operation may deteriorate.

Our consideration of internal control would not
necessarily disclose all matters in internal control that
might be material weaknesses under standards established
by the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants.  A material weakness is a condition in
which the design or operation of one or more of the
internal control components does not reduce to a
relatively low level the risk that misstatements caused by
error or fraud in amounts that would be material in
relation to the financial statements being audited may
occur and not be detected within a timely period by
employees in the normal course of performing their
assigned functions.  However, we noted no matters
involving internal control and its operation, including
controls for safeguarding securities, that we consider to
be material weaknesses as defined above as of December
31, 2000.

This report is intended solely for the information and use
of the Board of Directors, management and the Securities
and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and
should not be used by anyone other than these specified
parties.


PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
New York, New York
February 7, 2001











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