The share of mortgage loans that were held in portfolio rather than sold into the secondary market rose for the second consecutive year in 2010, but that may have more to do with the peculiarities of the rules for complying with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. A Federal Reserve analysis of the lastest HMDA data found that portfolio lending, especially involving owner-occupied refinance loans, has risen since the beginning of 2009 but is still far short of the levels portfolio lenders achieved in 2004 and 2005. Overall, originators held a total of 1.30 million mortgages in portfolio in 2010, with...