Do You Know Your Mortgage PNPs? Savvy Borrowers Know Them Well...
If I had been asked this question yesterday, I would have returned a blank stare. I read last week a very informative article on Inman News written by Professor Jack Guttentag of Wharton School of Business that talks about PNP's as it relates to mortgage loan pricing.
PNP stands for "Pricing Notch Points" and is a factor that determines pricing of goods. For example, when buying corn, a supermarket may offer "$0.75 per ear for the first three, $0.70 per ear for 4-12 ears and $0.50 per ear if you buy more than 12 ears". In this case the "thresholds" or PNPs are 3 and 12, which are the quantities that trigger the change in ...