Good Times Still Strong For Myrtle Beach, S.C., Housing Market - 2004-01-27
This could be the year to get that real estate license. It's going to be busy in home construction and housing sales.

Just about anyone involved with building and selling homes -- mortgage bankers, builders, Realtors -- foresee sticks, bricks, SOLD signs and small mortgage interest numbers. The housing market's only possible setbacks, local experts say, are terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
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Strong Numbers for Mortgage Banker Countrywide - 2004-01-27
Mortgage banker Countrywide Financial, surfing a tidal wave of mortgage refinancings, posted a 121% gain in fourth-quarter profit Tuesday.

The California-based lender earned $564 million, or $2.74 a share, up from $255 million, or $1.45 a share, a year ago. The nation's third-largest mortgage lender exceeded the Thomson First Call consensus estimate by 3 cents a share.
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