MIT Lending Opens 5 New Branches

MIT Lending, the New York City-based wholesale and correspondent lending division of MortgageIT Inc., has announced the recent opening of five new branch offices in California, Washington, and Florida.MIT Lending said the new offices in Seattle, San Diego, and Woodland Hills, Calif., will be overseen by R. J. Arnett and Sharon Bitz, both senior vice presidents of the company's Western region. Its new Florida offices, in Jacksonville and Tampa, will be managed by Shelley Fadida, a Southeast regional vice president with MIT Lending. The company said it plans to open eight more branch offices by 2005. MIT Lending can be found online at http://www.mitlending.com.