Bank of America led a strong second-mortgage market to the wire at 2005’s midway mark, a new Inside Alternative Mortgages ranking and analysis reveals. Inside Alternative Mortgages estimates that $204 billion in new second mortgages – including prime home-equity loans and home-equity lines of credit, were generated during the first half of the year. That performance marked a 46.8 percent rise from last year’s six-month volume of $139 billion, and it left the market… [One data table included]