A steady supply of subprime mortgage transactions helped push the home-equity securitization market to new heights during the first nine months of 2005, a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis reveals. On a year-to-year basis, securitization of HELs increased 27.8 percent, to $411.93 billion, through the end of September. Subprime loans accounted for the lion’s share – 89.8 percent – of that volume. Meanwhile, prime second mortgages, including home-equity lines of credit, closed-end fixed-rate… [One data table included]