Notes from https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/mortgage-rates-how-to-lower-db4ef842

• article last updated: April 29, 2024
• PulteGroup
  • home builder
  • CEO Ryan Marshall
• mortgage rate buydowns
• Tri Pointe Homes
  • Nevada based
  • Chief Financial Officer Glenn Keeler
• D.R. Horton
  • the nation’s largest public builder
  • CEO Paul Romanowski
  • the company buys down mortgage rates to between one percentage point to 1.5 percentage points below the market rate
• the 10-year Treasury yield
  • a benchmark for mortgage rates
• Redfin
  • Chen Zhao, Redfin’s economic research lead
• the iShares U.S. Home Construction etf