Compared to the first quarter, parent company earnings, mortgage originations and residential assets were higher at Huntington Bancshares Inc.
Mortgage loan production during the three months ended June 30 totaled $0.982 billion, quarterly earnings data indicate.
Business jumped from $0.657 billion in the first quarter.
But the Columbus, Ohio-based company fell short of the $1.282 billion in closings generated in the second-quarter 2013.
Total first-half 2014 activity amounted to $1.639 billion.
The third-party mortgage servicing portfolio was $15.560 billion as of June 30, 2014, slipping from $15.614 billion as of March 31. But Huntington grew its servicing portfolio from $15.213 billion as of June 30, 2013.
Residential assets closed out the second quarter at $14.112 billion, more than the $13.915 billion owned at the end of the first quarter and the $13.537 billion owned at the end of the second-quarter 2013.
The latest number included $8.405 billion in home-equity loans and $5.707 billion in residential mortgages.
Delinquency of at least 30 days on the mortgage portion of the residential investment portfolio fell to 3.96 percent from 4.16 percent three months earlier and 5.21 percent a year earlier.
On the HEL portion of the portfolio, delinquency was 0.89 percent, 11 BPS better than in the first quarter and 7 BPS below the second-quarter 2013.
Commercial real estate assets finished last month at $4.990 billion, off from $5.031 billion at the end of March but edging up from $4.893 billion as of June 30, 2013.
The June 30, 2014 total included $0.757 billion in construction loans and $4.233 billion in commercial mortgages.
CRE loan delinquency fell to 1.00 percent from 1.14 percent and sank from 1.63 percent as of mid-year 2013.
Mortgage banking income slipped to just under $23 million from just over $23 million and was down from $34 million in the same period last year.
At the bank-holding company level, earnings before taxes climbed to $222 million from $201 million and was also better than $206 million during the second-quarter 2013.
Headcount across all businesses was 12,000 employees. Staffing expanded from 11,848 three months earlier but subsided from 12,063 a year earlier.
There were 730 domestic full-service branches in operation as of the end of last month, three more than at the end of March.
In addition, Huntington said it received approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to purchase an additional 24 Michigan branches from Bank of America Corp. That deal is expected to closed in September.
