Commercial Capital Bancorp, Inc. Board of Directors Authorizes Stock Repurchase Plan

Business Wire, May 26, 2004

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2004

Commercial Capital Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company"), (NASDAQ:CCBI), announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to 2.5% of the Company's proforma outstanding shares of common stock, giving effect to the acquisition of Hawthorne Financial Corporation, not to exceed $20 million in value. The purchases may be made from time to time either in the open market or through privately negotiated purchases. The shares repurchased by the Company under the stock repurchase program are to be held as treasury shares.

Stephen H. Gordon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer stated, "This decision reflects the confidence of management in the Company's future growth and performance, and our commitment to increasing shareholder value. The purchases will be made at the discretion of management based on its assessment of market conditions, and are anticipated to be immediately accretive to earnings per share."

The Company, headquartered in Irvine, CA, is a multifaceted financial services company which provides financial services to meet the needs of its client base, which includes income-property real estate investors, middle market commercial businesses, and high net-worth individuals, families and professionals. The Company was the 4th largest multi-family lender in California during the 12 months ended March 31, 2004 (source: Dataquick Information Systems) and the Bank was the fastest growing savings institution in California, based on percentage growth in total assets over the 36 months ended December 31, 2003 (source: www.fdic.gov). The Bank has full service banking offices located at the Company's headquarters in Irvine, Rancho Santa Margarita, Riverside, and La Jolla and loan origination offices in Sacramento, Corte Madera (Marin County), Oakland, Burlingame, Woodland Hills, Encino, Los Angeles, Riverside, Irvine, and La Jolla, CA, and plans to open banking offices in Malibu, California in June 2004, Beverly Hills, California in the summer of 2004, and Newport Coast, California in 2005. On January 27, 2004, the Company announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hawthorne Financial Corporation; a Southern California based savings institution with $2.7 billion of assets, $1.8 billion of deposits and 15 branches at March 31, 2004. The acquisition has received all necessary shareholder and regulatory approvals and is expected to close on June 4, 2004.

This press release may include forward-looking statements related to the Company's plans, beliefs and goals, which involve certain risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following factors: competitive pressure in the banking industry; changes in the interest rate environment; the health of the economy, either nationally or regionally; the deterioration of credit quality, which would cause an increase in the provision for possible loan and lease losses; changes in the regulatory environment; changes in business conditions, particularly in California real estate; volatility of rate sensitive deposits; asset/liability matching risks and liquidity risks; and changes in the securities markets. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release any revision to these forward-looking statements.