Connecticut now assesses an owner's renovation costs back to that owner's unit
Connecticut now assesses an owner's renovation costs back to that owner's unit
2026-09-09 · Connecticut · Legislation
When a Connecticut unit owner's renovation drives up the association’s common expenses, the statute now sends the bill to that owner. The rule is a new subsection (h) of § 47-257, added by Section 9 of Public Act 25-73 and in force since October 1, 2025.1
It runs to a single sentence, and it changes the default answer to one of the most persistent arguments inside Connecticut associations.
What the subsection says
“If any addition, alteration or improvement made by, or at the direction of, a unit owner results in an increase in common expenses, including, but not limited to, any cost of maintenance, repair or insurance, the amount of such increase shall be assessed solely against the unit owned by the unit owner who caused such addition, alteration or improvement to be made.”1
Three words carry most of the weight. “Shall” makes it mandatory rather than an option the board may take up. “Solely” puts the whole increase on one unit rather than sharing it. And “or at the direction of” reaches work the owner commissioned but did not personally carry out.
Insurance is named on purpose
The inclusion of “any cost of… insurance” is the practically significant part. An upgraded unit that raises the association's replacement-cost valuation, and with it the master policy premium, produces exactly the kind of diffuse cost increase that associations have historically absorbed across all units because no mechanism existed to allocate it.
Section 9 also amended the surrounding subsections to accommodate the new one: subsection (b)'s list of exceptions to proportional assessment now reads “subsections (c), (d), (e) and (h)”.1
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Related Connecticut HOA Topics
- Public Act No. 25-73 (Substitute House Bill No. 6957), full enrolled text — § 9 repeals and substitutes Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-257; approved June 23, 2025 ↩
- 2025 Acts Affecting Housing and Real Estate, OLR Report 2025-R-0113 (July 31, 2025) ↩
- HB 6957 bill status and history, Connecticut General Assembly ↩
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