Bank and thrift holdings of home-equity loans continued to decline in the third quarter of 2014, according to the Inside Mortgage Finance Bank Mortgage Database. However, the two top banks increased their HEL holdings from midyear, and industry analysts expect home-equity lending to continue to increase in 2015. Banks and thrifts held a total of $991.27 billion in home-equity lines of credit, HELOC commitments and closed-end second liens as of the end of the third quarter of 2014, down 0.7 percent from the previous quarter and down 3.9 percent from the third quarter of 2013. Most of the top 10 bank and thrift HEL lenders saw...[Includes one data chart]