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Big investors are pouring unprecedented amounts of money into real estate hard hit by the housing crash, bringing those moribund markets back to life but raising the prospect of another Wall Street-fueled bubble that won’t be sustainable.

The agency that oversees mortgage markets is preparing to file suit against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgages they packaged and sold during the housing bubble, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

Real estate prices in China's capital city saw a sizeable correction last month. Is it a new trend?

Home prices have reached their lowest points since the housing bubble burst in 2006, driven down by foreclosures, a glut of unsold homes and the reluctance or inability of many to buy.

Home prices in a majority of major U.S. cities tracked by a private trade group have fallen to their lowest levels since the housing bubble burst.

A slowdown, or worse, in China's economy because of bursting stock and real-estate bubbles was high on most Davos 2010 participants' check-lists of risks to the recovery in global economic growth. They may have got some reassurance today from China's central bank's decision to rein in the lending that is inflating them by raising its capital reserve ratio requirement of the country' big banks for the second time in a month.

As markets boom, Fed officials and central bank researchers are looking for ways to keep housing and credit bubbles from happening in the first place.