Latest Legal Updates
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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 whole Wisconsin biennium, and not one bill to amend the Condominium Act
No bill introduced in the 2025-26 Wisconsin Legislature proposed to amend Wis. Stat. ch. 703, and the trade group that registered in February 2025 to draft a Chapter 703 proposal never produced a bill number.
Read the full updateWisconsin issues 240-odd licenses. Community association manager is not one
The person who holds a Wisconsin association's checkbook and signs its roofing contract needs no state credential, while renting out a single unit in the same building can require a broker's license under Wis. Stat. ch. 452.
Read the full updateA Wisconsin condo may bar an owner from living there past 29 days
In Munnik v. Blue Harbor, the Court of Appeals published the rule that an unambiguous condominium use restriction is enforceable without ever being tested for reasonableness.
Read the full updateWisconsin's own condo-insurance fact sheet says an HO-6 'usually provides $1,000'
OCI reissued its condominium insurance fact sheet in July 2025 — the only condo-specific document the state's insurance regulator refreshed — while issuing no bulletin on homeowners or condominium insurance at all since 2024.
Read the full updateA $1,200 pier bill became a foreclosure judgment on a Wisconsin condo
Wis. Stat. § 703.165(2) makes a Wisconsin unit owner liable for assessments coming due during the pendency of their own claim against the association, and Brittany Bay Club v. Traugott applies it.
Read the full updateWhen the condominium plat and the declaration disagree, the declaration wins
Bluemer v. Young reverses a judgment that would have let one lakefront unit swallow a riparian strip and close a shared access path, applying Wis. Stat. § 703.30(4).
Read the full updateMadison became a condominium unit owner, joined two boards, and budgeted the dues
File 92734, passed May 5, 2026, appoints city staff to the boards of two newly incorporated Madison condominium associations and commits the Parking Utility to pay assessments out of future operating budgets.
Read the full updateA design-review denial became Wisconsin's first D&O 'prior notice' ruling
Somerset Condominium Association v. RC Somerset is a published Wisconsin decision on a directors-and-officers prior-notice exclusion, and the underlying dispute began with an architectural committee saying no.
Read the full updateHUD's disparate-impact rule is still in force, and the comment window closes October 9
24 C.F.R. § 100.500 was last amended May 1, 2023 and has not been removed. Two HUD proposed rules would strip it, and the supplemental proposal's comment period is open until October 9, 2026.
Read the full updateA lot-rent cap and 90 days to buy your park: the bill that died in 26 days
2025 Assembly Bill 1049 would have capped Wisconsin manufactured-home-community rent increases to CPI with a 2 percent floor and 4 percent ceiling, required 12 months' notice before closure, and given residents 90 days to offer and 90 days to close. It never got a hearing.
Read the full updateThere is no new federal antenna rule. The last change was April 2023
47 C.F.R. § 1.4000, the rule that overrides association restrictions on satellite dishes and certain antennas, has nine recorded versions and has not been amended since April 10, 2023.
Read the full updateWisconsin's solar law voids covenants — but only on platted land
Wis. Stat. § 236.292(2) voids restrictions on platted land that prevent or unduly restrict solar energy systems; § 66.0401 binds only political subdivisions. Neither reaches a condominium declaration by its terms.
Read the full updateA committee froze Wisconsin's condo building code for two years. The Supreme Court unfroze it
After Evers v. Marklein struck down a legislative committee's indefinite objection, Wisconsin's commercial building code — which covers multifamily and townhouse buildings — took effect September 1, 2025, its first full update in a decade.
Read the full updateThis association amended away six units. Nobody told the assessor
Town Homes of Shell Lake shows what happens when a Wisconsin condominium shrinks on paper but not on the tax roll, and why a declaratory judgment action is the wrong way to fight the bill.
Read the full updateForty years to enforce a shared-access cost-sharing easement — unless a side deal swallows it
Market Square v. Normandy Square sets out the two clocks that govern a recorded Wisconsin cost-sharing easement, and shows how a separate lease can extinguish the reimbursement right for the years it runs.
Read the full updateMilwaukee now mails every neighbour within 250 feet about a short-term rental
MCO 105-80, published August 19, 2026, requires notice of every tourist rooming house application to residences within 250 feet, a public list of all licensed short-term rentals, and reporting of citations to the listing platforms.
Read the full updateWisconsin counties must now run free deed-fraud alerts, and forging a recording is a felony
2025 Wisconsin Act 234 rewrote the recording statute, created enumerated grounds for a register of deeds to refuse a document, mandated a free county recording-notification system, and made knowingly presenting a forged conveyance a Class I felony.
Read the full updateFinCEN permanently closed the HOA beneficial-ownership filing — and said so about HOAs
The final rule published August 14, 2026 makes permanent the exemption of all domestic entities from beneficial ownership reporting, and its preamble addresses homeowners associations by name.
Read the full updateThe bill that would have voided Wisconsin ADU covenants — retroactively — died
2025 Assembly Bill 365 would have made every Wisconsin covenant and association rule barring an accessory dwelling unit void and unenforceable, reaching back to instruments recorded decades ago. It never got a vote.
Read the full updateThe support-animal bill named condominium boards by title. It was vetoed
2025 Assembly Bill 366 would have let a representative of a condominium association demand documentation from a licensed health professional before allowing an emotional support animal. It passed both houses, was vetoed on December 5, 2025, and the override failed.
Read the full updateThe road drawn on your survey map may not legally exist
Smith v. Wiskerchen holds that a Certified Survey Map is not a plat and cannot create an easement by estoppel, which reaches every small Wisconsin development whose shared road exists only on a CSM.
Read the full updateA bill would let a condominium association itself borrow for repairs — and it has not moved
H.R. 9569 would let FHA insure a mortgage on which the governing body of a condominium project is the borrower, secured by future assessment liens. It was referred to committee on June 30, 2026 and nothing has happened since.
Read the full updateA multimillion-dollar siding job is 'maintenance', so no owner vote
In Naeve v. Spring Creek, a Racine County condominium's $10,000 owner-vote trigger did not reach an exterior replacement program across 25 buildings, because the character of the work decided the question, not the price.
Read the full updateWisconsin dissolves an association for a missed $25 report — no fine, just a certificate
Almost every Wisconsin HOA and condominium association is a ch. 181 nonstock corporation, owing a $25 annual report on a quarter-based deadline. Missing it long enough ends in administrative dissolution, and the form bars an association from serving as its own registered agent.
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