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Expect an “across the board” reduction in Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s conforming loan limits sometime next spring, said Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, during a speech late this week. DeMarco telegraphed his loan limit decision for 2014 – which he will announce in late November – during remarks at a daylong conference sponsored by Zillow and the Bipartisan Policy Center. While the new limits will be announced in late November, the traditional timing of the announcement, the agency will give sellers six months to implement them. “Any reduction would be...