Latest Legal Updates
Latest Legal Updates
HOA and condominium association legislation, court rulings and regulatory changes across every state, the District of Columbia and federal law — newest first.
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A Virginia HOA voided three data-centre rezonings over a notice defect
In the Digital Gateway appeals the Court of Appeals held that a locality's failure to advertise a zoning hearing properly renders the ordinances void ab initio — and that participating in the hearing does not waive the defect.
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South Carolina's leading new covenant case: 'residential purposes' aims at commercial use, not at empty lots
In Hoffman v. Saad Holdings, refiled March 25, 2026, the Court of Appeals held an owner who used lakefront lots only to reach his docks did not breach a residential-purposes covenant.
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Utah's Open Meetings Act does not reach an HOA
The state's HOA ombudsman held that Utah's Open and Public Meetings Act does not apply to a community association — the only open-meeting duty is the one in the Community Association Act itself.
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The Act 250 dates you were planning around are gone
Act 152 of 2026 deleted the road-jurisdiction trigger due July 1, 2026, repealed Act 181’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 provisions, and pushed what survives to January 1, 2028.
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A South Dakota condo budget now has to clear a 15% reserve line
Fannie Mae LL-2026-03 and Freddie Mac Bulletin 2026-C raise the reserve minimum from 10% to 15%, cap per-unit master deductibles at $50,000, retire Limited Review, and ban the baseline reserve funding method.
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The GSEs capped master-policy deductibles at $50,000 a unit, and Wyoming has no FAIR plan
Since July 1, 2026 a condominium master policy's per-unit deductible may not exceed $50,000, HO-6 coverage is mandatory where one exists, and a Wyoming association whose carrier non-renews has no state residual market to fall back on.
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Texas HOAs must now advertise architectural review seats before filling them
New Property Code § 209.00507 requires 10 days' notice soliciting candidates before an association elects or appoints anyone to an architectural review authority, and § 209.00506 makes that notice a condition of eligibility.
Read the full updateMandatory watering schedules run on odd and even house numbers. Association common areas do not have house numbers
South Carolina drought reached severe status in all 46 counties in May 2026. Water systems under Low Inflow Protocol Stage 2 impose address-based irrigation schedules and surcharge penalties that do not map onto association common-area meters.
Read the full updateVirginia legalises plug-in solar and exempts association covenants
From January 1, 2027 no Virginia locality may ban a small portable solar device on a residential structure — but the same section says it does not supersede a declaration or condominium instruments.
Read the full updateVermont condominiums got their own flood-loss reporting line
Bulletin #233 ordered every insurer to report Vermont flood claims from the 2024 events by zip code and line of business — with Sub-TOI 4.0001, Condominiums, broken out separately.
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Tennessee AG maps the narrow path to suing a nonprofit board
Opinion 25-012 sets out who may hold the directors of a memberless mutual benefit nonprofit corporation to account in Tennessee, and concludes the Nonprofit Corporation Act's standing thresholds leave the field to fellow directors and the Attorney General.
Read the full updatea covenant cannot reach the public street
The state's HOA ombudsman voided a Draper association's parking restriction on public streets and, in a separate opinion, rejected a driveway limit keyed to the number of garage bays.
Read the full updateNobody licenses the person who runs your South Dakota association
South Dakota licenses property managers as restricted brokers, but the statutory definition turns on rentals — collecting assessments, running board meetings and enforcing covenants are not in it, and community association managers are not on the exemption list either.
Read the full updateWyoming voided most noncompetes, and it reaches association staff
Chapter 170 of the 2025 session laws makes any covenant not to compete restricting the right to be paid for skilled or unskilled labor void, for contracts entered into on or after July 1, 2025, with four narrow exceptions.
Read the full updateAn SC association lost an architectural case because it never pleaded which covenant was breached
Three unpublished 2026 decisions address the mechanics of covenant enforcement in South Carolina: pleading a specific covenant, an association's standing to sue on an easement, and the law-of-the-case effect of an unappealed ruling.
Read the full updateA streaky roof can no longer cost a Vermont policy
Insurance Bulletin #241, issued August 21, 2026, tells Vermont insurers that cosmetic discoloration on an aerial image cannot support a non-renewal and that images older than 24 months are off-limits.
Read the full updateHUD moved to rescind the disparate-impact rule Virginia boards rely on
A January 2026 proposed rule would remove and reserve 24 CFR § 100.500 and strike the language recognising discriminatory-effect liability without discriminatory intent. Virginia's own fair housing law is enforced independently.
Read the full updateA missed $10 filing can stop a South Dakota HOA from doing anything but winding up
SDCL 47-24-13.2 says an administratively dissolved nonprofit corporation may not carry on any business except what is necessary to wind up and liquidate — and the trigger is an annual report sixty days late.
Read the full updateWyoming’s Fast Track Permits Act puts counties on a clock, not architectural committees
Chapter 42 of the 2026 session laws gives local governments 10 business days to call an application complete and 30 days to decide it, with deemed approval if they miss — and it leaves association architectural review entirely untouched.
Read the full updateA worker injured at a Myrtle Beach timeshare sued the owners' association. The association was his statutory employer
In Sullivan v. Ocean 22 Vacation Owners' Association, refiled May 13, 2026, the Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal because workers' compensation was the exclusive remedy against the association.
Read the full updateVermont court: short-term renters are not a protected class
A Rutland Unit judge dismissed the fair housing counts against a Killington association’s pet rule — but the count arguing the rule required a declaration amendment survives.
Read the full updateUtah's HOA ombudsman has issued a year of opinions
The Office of the Homeowners' Association Ombudsman launched in September 2025 and has published more than thirty advisory opinions; they are non-binding, inadmissible, and can still shift a later fee award.
Read the full updateTexas condominiums of 60 units or more must now post their governing documents online
New Property Code § 82.1142 requires a condominium association of at least 60 units, or any association that has contracted with a management company, to make its recorded dedicatory instruments available on a member-accessible website.
Read the full updateVirginia's association registration rules changed on New Year's Eve
Amended registration regulations took effect December 31, 2025, revising annual report timing and content, renewal and change-reporting duties, and setting a fee schedule that runs from $30 to $180 by community size.
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