Mortgage company expanding - 2004-04-02
Countrywide Financial Corp., one of the nation's largest residential mortgage lenders, unveiled Thursday it will start financing the purchase of commercial properties.

The new unit, Countrywide Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc., will be a subsidiary of the corporation's broker dealer business, Countrywide Capital Markets Inc., and be based at the corporate headquarters in Calabasas.
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Will 2004 be year of the deal? - 2004-04-02
Mirror, mirror on the wall, will 2004 provide the best local commercial real estate deals of them all?

Local mortgage brokers say this is a great time to borrow money, but some local real estate agents say the fire sale of cheap property isn't here yet.

Still, the combination of low mortgage rates and some small real estate discounts -- in what usually is a rapidly growing market -- is convincing many people that now is the best time to buy.
Read the full story at Boulder County Business Report