If there's a lesson to be learned from this year's analyst forecasts, it would be the more things change, the more things stay the same. While some REIT teams' predictions have taken dramatic turns for 2006 (some for the better, some for the worse), others, such as Greg Whyte's team at Morgan Stanley, are sticking to a similar outlook for the new year as they did for 2005. One analyst who sees a rosier picture entering 2006 than he did heading into 2005 is Deutsche Bank's Louis Taylor, whose total returns range is 8 percent to 12 percent, more optimistic than his 2005 prediction of only a -5% to 5% range. Overall, total returns projections among the seven analysts ranged from 0 percent to 12 percent, with analysts choosing the retail sector as the most likely to outperform.