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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

October 20, 2017

Home Equity Conversion Mortgages: The Secondary Market Investor Experience
Nuno Mota.
Nuno Mota

Senior Manager, Economic and Strategic Research — Economics

Jaclene Begley
Jaclene Begley

Senior Director, Economic and Strategic Research — Economics

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
Nuno Mota.
Nuno Mota

Senior Manager, Economic and Strategic Research — Economics

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

November 12, 2015

Housing Insights - November 12th 2015
Nuno Mota.
Nuno Mota

Senior Manager, Economic and Strategic Research — Economics

In this edition of Housing Insights, Fannie Mae's Economic & Strategic Research Group examines the effectiveness of common housing affordability metrics used in the industry.