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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Montana cut the construction repose period to six years — and the covenant clock with it
Senate Bill 143, Chapter 174 of the 2025 Laws, shortened the written-instrument limitation period from eight years to six and the construction statute of repose from ten years to six, effective October 1, 2025.
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New Jersey court backs condo collection fees but vacates an interest-rate bump
In Haffert v. Bell Tower Condominium Association the Appellate Division affirmed $55,830 in counsel fees under N.J.S.A. 46:8B-21(a) and vacated the trial court's increase of a confirmed arbitration award's interest rate from 10 to 12 percent.
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A New York bill would have given HOA heat-pump applications a 60-day deemed approval — and fee shifting
The Central Air Conditioner and Heat Pump Rights Act reached the Assembly third-reading calendar and was never called. It defined an unreasonable limitation by a 10 percent cost test.
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A lot rent cap passed the House and stopped
HB 1250 would band manufactured-home lot rent increases to the regional consumer price index and protect resident associations. It passed the House 144-59 in June 2025 and has sat in a Senate committee for fifteen months.
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Mississippi Supreme Court: a condo anti-waiver clause can itself be waived
In Sea Breeze Condominiums v. Lyons, handed down September 10, 2026, the Court held that an express anti-waiver provision does not defeat a unit owner's waiver and estoppel defences as a matter of law, and left open whether a condominium association is a quasi-governmental body at all.
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An unauthorized charge on your association bill may be a consumer-protection claim
The Court of Civil Appeals revived a claim that a property owners association violated the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act by billing charges the owner had not authorized in advance.
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The federal solar credit is gone, the 60-day HOA clock is not
Public Law 119-21 ended the residential clean energy credit for expenditures after December 31, 2025 and the EV charging credit for property placed in service after June 30, 2026 — but ORS 94.778 and ORS 94.762 are unchanged.
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Cleveland makes short-term rentals a permitted use in one-family districts
Ordinance 561-2026 licenses Cleveland short-term rentals, adds them to the One-Family District permitted-use list, and repeals the limited-lodging section boards had been leaning on — without mentioning deed restrictions once.
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A common scheme gets you the road, not the beach
In Martin v. Far Echo Harbor Club the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that a deed referencing a subdivision plan implies an easement in the roads shown on it — but that a common scheme of development creates no right to use an association's amenities.
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New Mexico lets a homeowner irrigate with gray water. Your covenant still governs the hardware.
The state exempts under 250 gallons a day of residential gray water from permitting, subject to eleven conditions — and expressly subordinates the use to local ordinances while saying nothing about private restrictions.
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Fargo does not regulate short-term rentals at all, and a draft code would cap them at 25 percent
North Dakota's largest city has no short-term rental ordinance, so the covenant is the only restriction — and the Land Development Code draft would add licensing and a 25 percent per-building cap.
Read the full updateNew Jersey bill would close the townhouse gap in HOA solar protection
S3562 would remove the ownership and roof-responsibility qualifiers from New Jersey's solar-collector protection, so associations could not prohibit panels on any single-family home or townhouse roof in a common interest community.
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Nevada's new easement-relocation law expressly excludes HOA declaration easements
AB 192 enacted the Uniform Easement Relocation Act, giving burdened owners a judicial route to move an easement over the holder's objection — and carved out easements created by a declaration under NRS chapter 116.
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Rhode Island's high court: petitioning owners were entitled to the meeting they asked for
In Song v. Lemoine, decided May 19, 2025, the Rhode Island Supreme Court held unanimously that a condominium board cannot test the substantive validity of owner-petitioned agenda items as a precondition to calling the special meeting.
Read the full updateNew York City’s sidewalk shed penalties went live in January, they reach $6,000 a month, and they stack
Local Laws 48, 50 and 51 of 2025 cut shed permits to 90 days, charge up to $200 per linear foot per month where no work is in progress, and add $5,000–$20,000 penalties for missing facade repair milestones.
Read the full updateFannie and Freddie raise the condo reserve floor to 15 percent — 2027 budgets are the deadline
Lender Letter LL-2026-03 and Freddie Mac Bulletin 2026-C, both issued March 18, 2026, raise the minimum reserve allocation from 10 to 15 percent of annual budgeted assessment income for loan applications dated on or after January 4, 2027, and retire the Limited Review pathway.
Read the full updateAn Oklahoma association's fee award was cut by $10,670 for block billing
Grand Crest Owners Association won its covenant appeal and asked for $53,990 in appeal-related fees; the Court of Civil Appeals modified the award to $43,320, striking post-judgment collection time and block-billed entries.
Read the full updateNew Mexico bill to let the Attorney General sue HOAs for owners died in committee
SB 239 would have let a lot owner complain to the Department of Justice and allowed the Attorney General to bring a civil action on that owner's behalf. It cleared one committee and was never heard in Senate Judiciary.
Read the full updateThe new towing law stops at your parking lot
Pennsylvania criminalised predatory towing in Act 46 of 2026, but defined “tow” to mean removal at the scene of a motor vehicle accident — which leaves association parking-lot tows entirely outside the statute.
Read the full updateYour transfer fee is lawful only if you spend it right
FHFA reinstated the grandfather exceptions to its private transfer fee rule effective March 17, 2026 — and an association's own fee stays permissible only where the money provides a direct benefit to the burdened property.
Read the full updateFinCEN permanently exempts US entities — your board has nothing to file
A FinCEN final rule effective August 14, 2026 permanently removes beneficial-ownership reporting for entities created in the United States, ending the Corporate Transparency Act question for New Hampshire association boards.
Read the full updateOregon's defensible space code bans the mulch HOAs require
The State Fire Marshal's model code, adopted April 29, 2026, requires a five-foot noncombustible zone around buildings that expressly excludes bark mulch — and thousands of Oregon association landscape standards specify exactly that.
Read the full updateNobody licenses the company that runs your Mississippi HOA
Mississippi has no community association manager licence, registration or certification. The Real Estate Commission licenses brokers and salespersons, and its brokerage definition reaches persons who manage real estate for a fee.
Read the full updateNew Jersey tightened EV make-ready parking math for condo and co-op buildings
P.L.2026, c.51 requires every fractional EV parking calculation to round up to the next full space and caps the two-for-one parking credit at a 10 percent reduction in required parking.
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