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If supply remains constrained, prices could stabilize. We’re not at the end of the housing nightmare, but we seem to be getting closer,” said Jeffrey Otteau, president of Otteau Valuation Group, an East Brunswick, N.J., appraisal firm. But if banks accelerate foreclosures, inventories will swell again. Mr. Otteau says it is too soon to celebrate because “we are all expecting that foreclosure ‘tidal wave’ to begin sometime soon.”

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