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Nuno Mota

Senior Manager, Economic and Strategic Research — Economics
Nuno Mota.

Nuno Mota is an economist on the Climate Research Team in Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research Group. His research focuses on real estate finance topics related to climate change and housing affordability. Most recently, he conducted research on the impacts of flood damage on mortgage performance and home sales and on how flood risk information disclosure impacts home prices.

Nuno has also published research related to mortgage closing costs and home purchase appraisals. His work has been published in the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Housing Economics, and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. He joined Fannie Mae in 2015.

Nuno has an M.S. in economics from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse University.

Research by Nuno Mota

July 18, 2018

Mortgage Experiences of Rural Borrowers in the United States: Insights from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations

In this Fannie Mae working paper, we show results from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations (NSMO) survey that oversampled people who took out mortgages in completely rural counties in 2014.

October 20, 2017

Home Equity Conversion Mortgages: The Secondary Market Investor Experience

In this Fannie Mae working paper, we analyze Fannie Mae's experience with the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage, the FHA-insured, non-recourse version of reverse mortgages, accrual notes of indeterminate maturity secured by home equity.

October 27, 2016

Rural Mortgage Lending Over the Last Decade

Fannie Mae's ESR group uses public and Fannie Mae data to provide important insights into the rural single-family conventional mortgage market.

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