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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000891290-13-000001
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	NSAR-B
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20121231
FILED AS OF DATE:		20130301
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20130301
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20130301

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			COHEN & STEERS TOTAL RETURN REALTY FUND INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000891290
		IRS NUMBER:				133680664
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MD
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		NSAR-B
		SEC ACT:		1940 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	811-07154
		FILM NUMBER:		13656530

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		280 PARK AVENUE
		STREET 2:		10TH FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10017
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2128323232

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		280 PARK AVENUE
		STREET 2:		10TH FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10017

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	COHEN & STEERS OPPORTUNITY TRUST INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930714
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SIGNATURE   COLLEEN DEAN
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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") as of and for the year
ended December  31, 2012, in accordance with the standards of the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), we considered the Fund's
internal control over financial reporting, including controls over
safeguarding securities, as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for
the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to
comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, but not for the purpose of
expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund's internal control over
financial reporting.  Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the
effectiveness of the Fund's internal control over financial reporting.

The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining
effective internal control over financial reporting.  In fulfilling this
responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess
the expected benefits and related costs of controls.  A fund's internal
control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation
of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles.  A fund's internal control over financial
reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the
maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly
reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the fund: (2)
provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to
permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the fund
are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and
directors of the fund: and (3)  provide reasonable assurance regarding
prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition
of a fund's assets that could have a material effect on the financial
statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting
may not prevent or detect misstatements.  Also, projections of any evaluation
of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may
become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of
compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

A deficiency in internal control over financial reporting exists when the
design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in
the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect
misstatements on a timely basis.  A material weakness is a deficiency, or a
combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting,
such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of
the Fund's annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or
detected on a timely basis.

Our consideration of the Fund's internal control over financial reporting was
for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph and would not
necessarily disclose all deficiencies in internal control over financial
reporting that might be material weaknesses under standards established by
the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  However, we
noted no deficiencies in the Fund's internal control over financial reporting
and its operation, including controls over safeguarding securities, that we
consider to be material weaknesses as defined above as of December 31, 2012.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and
the Board of Directors of Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc. 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 22, 2013

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Item 77(D) - Effective September 19, 2012, the Board of Directors approved the
Fund's investments in mortgage- and asset-backed securities. Mortgage-backed
securities are mortgage-related securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S.
Government, its agencies and instrumentalities, or issued by non-government
entities. Mortgage related securities represent pools of mortgage loans
assembled for sale to investors by various government agencies, as well as by
non-government issuers such as commercial banks, savings and loan
institutions, mortgage bankers and private mortgage insurance companies.
Although certain mortgage-related securities are guaranteed by a third party
or otherwise similarly secured, the market value of the security, which may
fluctuate, is not guaranteed.

Other asset-backed securities are structured like mortgage-backed securities,
but instead of mortgage loans or interests in mortgage loans, the underlying
assets may include such items as motor vehicle installment sales or
installment loan contracts, leases of various types of real and personal
property, and receivables from credit card agreements and from sales of
personal property. Regular payments received in respect of such securities
include both interest and principal. Asset-backed securities typically have no
U.S. Government backing. Additionally, the ability of an issuer of
asset-backed securities to enforce its security interest in the underlying
assets may be limited.

If a Fund purchases a mortgage-backed or other asset-backed security at a
premium, that portion may be lost if there is a decline in the market value of
the security whether resulting from changes in interest rates or prepayments
in the underlying collateral. As with other interest-bearing securities, the
prices of such securities are inversely affected by changes in interest rates.
Although the value of a mortgage-backed or other asset-backed security may
decline when interest rates rise, the converse is not necessarily true, since
in periods of declining interest rates the mortgages and loans underlying the
securities are prone to prepayment, thereby shortening the average life of the
security and shortening the period of time over which income at the higher
rate is received. When interest rates are rising, the rate of prepayment tends
to decrease, thereby lengthening the period of time over which income at the
lower rate is received. For these and other reasons, a mortgage-backed or
other asset-backed security's average maturity may be shortened or lengthened
as a result of interest rate fluctuations and, therefore, it is not possible
to predict accurately the security's return.

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