{"id":640,"date":"2007-01-29T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2007-06-20T10:36:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T17:36:30","slug":"seattles-pmi-risk-index-continues-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/29\/seattles-pmi-risk-index-continues-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle&#8217;s PMI Risk Index Continues Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/media.corporate-ir.net\/media_files\/irol\/63\/63356\/Winter07ERET.pdf\" title=\"Economic Real Estate Trends - Winter 2007\">latest PMI report<\/a> <em>(pdf)<\/em> is out, and much to no one&#8217;s surprise, Seattle&#8217;s risk index has increased yet again.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_FEzZUX-8Hkg\/Rb5mcUVHpiI\/AAAAAAAAACI\/hLhbNP3AaCU\/s1600-h\/PMI_Seattle_07.t1.png\" title=\"Seattle PMI Risk Index - Click to enlarge\" rel=\"lightbox[640]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_FEzZUX-8Hkg\/Rb5mcUVHpiI\/AAAAAAAAACI\/hLhbNP3AaCU\/s400\/PMI_Seattle_07.t1.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px\" title=\"Seattle PMI Risk Index - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"Seattle PMI Risk Index\" height=\"286\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_FEzZUX-8Hkg\/Rb5mcUVHpiI\/AAAAAAAAACI\/hLhbNP3AaCU\/s1600-h\/PMI_Seattle_07.t1.png\" title=\"Seattle PMI Risk Index - Click to enlarge\" rel=\"lightbox[640]\">Click to enlarge<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Jumping 14 points from the fall to a total of 167, Seattle now boasts a PMI that is 2.6 times its Summer 2005 low of 64.  Although Seattle&#8217;s Risk Index is still a good margin below regions such as San Diego or Sacramento, it is certainly interesting to note that it has now increased in five of the last six PMI reports.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t you worry, Seattle is special and all that.  Surely price growth will simply stabilize, and the Risk Index will head back down.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., <a href=\"http:\/\/media.corporate-ir.net\/media_files\/irol\/63\/63356\/Winter07ERET.pdf\" title=\"Economic Real Estate Trends - Winter 2007\">Winter 2007 Report<\/a> (pdf), 01.2007<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest PMI report (pdf) is out, and much to no one&#8217;s surprise, Seattle&#8217;s risk index has increased yet again. Click to enlarge Jumping 14 points from the fall to a total of 167, Seattle now boasts a PMI that is 2.6 times its Summer 2005 low of 64. Although Seattle&#8217;s Risk Index is still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[28,56,134],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-affordability","tag-pmi","tag-risk-index"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seattle&#039;s PMI Risk Index Continues Climb \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/29\/seattles-pmi-risk-index-continues-climb\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Seattle&#039;s PMI Risk Index Continues Climb \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The latest PMI report (pdf) is out, and much to no one&#8217;s surprise, Seattle&#8217;s risk index has increased yet again. 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