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Nuno Mota

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

Nuno Mota is an economist on the Foundational Research Team in Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research Group. His research focuses on real estate finance topics related to natural disaster risk 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

March 30, 2021

Housing Insights: COVID-19 Led First-Time Homebuyers to Move Away from Highly Dense City Centers
Nuno Mota.
Nuno Mota

Senior Manager, Economic and Strategic Research — Economics

While there had been a slight increase in the high- to lower-density move share on a year-over-year basis in the first few months of 2020, the pandemic appears to have accelerated the trend.

October 8, 2020

When Appraisers Go Low, Contracts Go Lower: The Impact of Expert Opinions on Transaction Prices
Nuno Mota.
Nuno Mota

Senior Manager, Economic and Strategic Research — Economics

This Fannie Mae working paper studies buyer responses to the uncommon occurrence of the appraised value coming in below the contract price.

July 18, 2018

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

Senior Manager, Economic and Strategic Research — Economics

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.