Countrywide Financial ranked as the top originator of home-purchase mortgages and refinance loans at the halfway mark in 2005, according to an Inside Mortgage Finance ranking. Countrywide reported $101.92 billion in purchase-money mortgage originations during the first six months of the year, representing about 48.1 percent of the company’s total production. That gave Countrywide a 15.9 percent share of the estimated $641.0 billion in total purchase-money lending during the period. … [One data table included]