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Don't be alarmed if you start seeing large groups of Chinese tourists circling your block—they're just here to buy up all the property you can't afford! Thanks to falling real estate values market and newly-relaxed visa rules, travel agencies in China are now putting together guided trips to places like New York and LA, package tours specifically designed for house hunting. Organizers of the trips say it's really not that different than Chinese tourists coming to NYC to buy a dozen handbags at Louis Vuitton. "In the past, people who traveled to the U.S. might carry back a large luggage with American goods," says one. "It's just that this time, what they bring back are [papers showing] hundreds of thousands of dollars of a house." But we can't imagine that desperate sellers, who have grown accustomed to seeing empty open houses in recent weeks, will mind a big crowd turning up. Even if they are camera-toting tourists who plan to hit the Bronx Zoo later that day. [LAT]