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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Twenty-one days notice is the one CAI opposes
HB 1174 would more than double the minimum notice for a Pennsylvania association’s annual meeting, from ten days to 21. It is the only bill the industry’s Pennsylvania chapter lists as opposed, and it has not moved since April 2025.
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One storey decides whether a Nassau County condo has an assessment cap or none at all
A three-storey condominium never converted from rental gets Class 1 treatment and the 6 percent and 20 percent caps. One storey more, or a conversion history, and the same units are valued as a hypothetical rental with no cap.
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One Oregon HOA owns a dam, a lake and a $4 million loan
Fishhawk Lake Reserve & Community runs its own water, sewer and road systems for 257 lots, and told the Legislature that a delay in collecting assessments could put it in default on its spillway loan.
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The condo reserve minimum rises to 15 percent in January 2027
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are raising the minimum reserve contribution for project eligibility from 10 to 15 percent of the annual budget, with an exemption that requires a study updated within three years and funding above baseline.
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Two New Jersey bills would put teeth in association minutes and conflict rules
S2743 would let DCA fine an association up to $2,000 per meeting for withholding minutes. A1572 would apply public conflict-of-interest principles to HOA boards, managers and their immediate families.
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Conway must reassess by 2027, and the tax board is still watching
The Board of Tax and Land Appeals found commercial properties assessed at a median ratio of 0.77 against 0.99 for revaluation sales, ordered a full measure and list and a reassessment no later than tax year 2027, and retained jurisdiction until it is done.
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Santa Fe County will certify your defensible space — then you must keep it that way forever
A county certification exists mainly so owners can obtain property insurance, and it binds the owner to a Fuel Modification Plan indefinitely — running straight into covenants that protect trees and screen propane tanks.
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That contractor's certificate of insurance protects your board from nothing
Blue Water Condominium v. Motorists confirms that additional-insured status on a contractor's CGL policy does not cover the contractor's own faulty workmanship — which is the loss an association actually suffers.
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Tulsa's charter says no property is exempt. That includes your common areas
Tulsa's amended charter provides that no property of any kind in the city is exempt from special assessments for local improvements, and the Council's resolution is conclusive on whether the improvement benefits the property.
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North Dakota has still not decided whether a plat labelled “Access Easement” creates one
In Tamm v. Gatzke the Supreme Court assumed without deciding that recording a plat marked “Access Easement” can create an easement, and sent the question back for trial.
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Tupelo sober-living home loses on both the covenant and the Fair Housing Act
1st Step Sober Living v. Cleveland is final after certiorari was denied: a recovery residence in a covenanted subdivision was a commercial use, and the operator failed to prove its tenants were handicapped under the Fair Housing Act.
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Montana's new trust-account rule governs the money your manager holds
The Board of Realty Regulation replaced its trust-account rule effective February 21, 2026: funds held for others must sit in an insured Montana institution, be reconciled monthly, never be swept or invested, and be deposited within three business days.
Read the full updateA fifteen percent reserve floor lands in January
From 4 January 2027 a condominium project must budget at least 15% of annual assessment income to replacement reserves to remain conventionally financeable — up from 10%, and in a state whose own statutes require no reserve funding at all.
Read the full updateNew York broadened its common-area smoke alarm mandate by deleting the words “condominium or cooperative”
Chapter 21 of 2025 replaced a condo-and-co-op clause with a building-wide test: any residential building with common space shared between three or more dwelling units needs alarms audible in each common space, from December 31, 2025.
Read the full updateA New Jersey bill would revisit an HOA task force report from 1998
A4210 would create a 13-member Common Interest Community Task Force. Its own statement says the 1998 Assembly task force's recommendations remain “generally unfulfilled” twenty-eight years later.
Read the full updateReported: a record 6,200 New Mexico homes lost their insurance last year
New Mexico's Superintendent of Insurance told the Legislative Finance Committee that non-renewals hit an all-time high in 2025, nearly triple the 2021 figure, concentrated in four northern counties.
Read the full updateAn Oregon order froze master-policy cancellations — until this month
The Division of Financial Regulation's wildfire emergency order suspended cancellations and nonrenewals across all property and casualty lines in affected ZIP codes, and it runs out around September 29, 2026.
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Rhode Island repeals the ban on using home value to split private-road costs
Chapter 341 of the 2026 Public Laws strikes the 2018 clause that barred market value or assessed valuation from the calculation of benefit received under § 34-9.1-2, effective June 24, 2026.
Read the full updateThe stormwater rules moved three times in a year — and one version is not published
New Hampshire's Alteration of Terrain chapter was amended by interim rule in August 2025, fully readopted in January 2026 and amended again in August 2026, and the August filing had not been certified online when we checked.
Read the full updateOklahoma sheriff's sales moved online, and the buyer's premium is banned
SB 747 took effect immediately on an emergency clause in 2025, letting sheriffs sell through an online auction marketplace — which is where an Oklahoma HOA assessment-lien foreclosure ends up.
Read the full updateA new line on every Ohio tax bill says "Inflation Cap Credit"
HB 186 replaced Ohio's old rollback structure with a partial exemption phasing from 5.70% to 15.38%, and requires the credit to be printed on the bill under that name.
Read the full updateA Nevada HOA with no written solar rules must approve in 15 days and may impose no conditions
NRS 116.333, in force since October 1, 2025, gives an association 35 days to decide a solar request if it has adopted rules — and if it has not, 15 days to approve, with no power to deny or add conditions.
Read the full updateNorth Dakota published $327.6 million in home premium and no condominium line at all
The Insurance Department's 2024 statistical report gives homeowners premium and claims for the state — and issued no property bulletin in 2025 or 2026, and no hail loss statistic.
Read the full updateNew Mexico bill would have required owner-occupants on new condo boards — it died on referral
HB 122 would have required 55 percent owner-occupancy in condominiums created after July 1, 2025 and reserved 35 percent of board seats for owner-occupants. It was never heard in committee.
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