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                                                                      EXHIBIT 24


                      TRUSTEE AND OFFICER POWER OF ATTORNEY

                                    FORM 10-K
                           CLEVETRUST REALTY INVESTORS

    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That each person whose name is signed below
has made, constituted and appointed, and by this instrument does make,
constitute and appoint John C. Kikol and Michael R. Thoms and each of them his
true and lawful attorney, with full power of substitution and resubstitution to
affix for him and in his name, place and stead, as attorney-in-fact, his
signature as a trustee or officer, or both, of CleveTrust Realty Investors, a
Massachusetts business trust (the "Company"), to the Company's Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ending September 30, 1997, pursuant to the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, and to any and all amendments and exhibits to that Form
10-K, and to any and all applications and other documents pertaining thereto,
giving and granting to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do
and perform every act and thing whatsoever necessary to be done in the premises,
as fully as they might or could do if personally present, and hereby ratifying
and confirming all that each of such attorneys-in-fact or any such substitute
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Power of Attorney has been signed at Westlake, Ohio
as of the date indicated.


/s/   Howard Amster                               December 9, 1997
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      Howard Amster, Trustee                      Date

/s/   Robert H. Kanner                            December 9, 1997
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      Robert H. Kanner, Trustee                   Date

/s/   John C. Kikol                               December 3, 1997
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      John C. Kikol, Trustee                      Date

/s/   Leighton A. Rosenthal                       December 4, 1997
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      Leighton A. Rosenthal, Trustee              Date

/s/   John D. Weil                                December 2, 1997
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      John D. Weil, Trustee                       Date