Unusually Low Mortgage Rates Cause Housing Market Boom (Picture-6027504)

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MIDDLETOWN, CT - FEBRUARY 8: (L-R) Mayor Sebastian Giuliano, Middletown Police Captain Peggy Liseo, and Police Chief Patrick McMahon attend a media conference to discuss the ongoing investigation of the explosion at Kleen Engery power plant at City Hall February 8, 2010 in Middletown, Connecticut. An explosion at the gas power plant, which is still under construction, killed five and injured 12 yesterday as workers were clearing air out of gas lines. (Photo by Douglas Healey/Getty Images)

MIDDLETOWN, CT - FEBRUARY 8: Glass from a broken window of a private home lies in a yard reportedly shattered from the blast February 8, 2010 in Middletown, Connecticut. The home is almost a mile away and across the river from where the explosion took place. An explosion at the gas power plant, which is still under construction, killed five and injured 12 yesterday as workers were clearing air out of gas lines. (Photo by Douglas Healey/Getty Images)

MIDDLETOWN, CT - FEBRUARY 8: Middletown Connecticut Police and Connecticut State Police escort the Medical Examiners van, which is carrying the remains of four victims who died in an explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant, February 8, 2010 in Middletown, Connecticut. An explosion at the gas power plant, which is still under construction, killed five and injured 12 yesterday as workers were clearing air out of gas lines. (Photo by Douglas Healey/Getty Images)

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CHICAGO - JUNE 14: Tony Schmidt, general manager of the McHenry, Illinois-based company, Sign Up Sign Company, installs a Century 21 'For Sale' sign in front of a home June 14, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. Unusually low mortgage rates of late have been a boom to the housing market and some real estate companies. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

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