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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North Dakota is redrafting the tax statement, and a bill draft already exists
The Tax Reform and Relief Advisory Committee received bill draft 27.0244.01000 on the required contents of a real estate tax statement, and meets again on September 29, 2026.
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A quiet title action without the claimant quiets nothing
In a non-precedential August 2026 order the New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed that neighbors who obtained a quiet-title judgment without naming a known easement claimant did not extinguish her rights — and upheld a narrowed attorney's fee award against them.
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New Jersey bill would give DCA subpoena power over community associations
A4212 would let the Department of Community Affairs hear complaints, impose sanctions, issue subpoenas and remove board members, and would create an ombudsman, an advisory council and a trust fund — for communities over 100 units.
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A $145,000 covenant judgment was vacated because a lawyer's office broke down
In Bjorkman v. Noble the Oklahoma Supreme Court vacated a $75,000 actual, $50,000 punitive and $20,000 fee award in a common-area dispute, holding unavoidable casualty or misfortune prevented the owner from defending.
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New Mexico bill to ban HOA fees on home sales died without a hearing
HB 232 would have added one sentence to the Homeowner Association Act prohibiting any association fee on the sale of a lot. It was referred to committee in January 2025 and never placed on an agenda.
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Ohio banned agreements that run with the land, and named you as an exception
Senate Bill 101 voids "unfair service agreements" recorded against homes from June 16, 2026, with mandatory damages and fees — and carves out condominium declarations, planned-community declarations and association maintenance contracts by name.
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An association that holds the only policy may owe a duty to file the claim
Mortera v. Kona Villa Owners Association is now final: where a declaration makes the association the sole named insured and insurance trustee, whether it owes a fiduciary duty to pursue a unit owner's covered loss is a jury question, not a maintenance-clause question.
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The FinCEN question is permanently closed
A final rule effective 14 August 2026 permanently exempts all US-formed entities from beneficial-ownership reporting, ending a two-year question for Pennsylvania association boards — by rule rather than by injunction or enforcement forbearance.
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New York City’s facade inspection cycle changes on October 1, and most boards have not heard
Local Law 49 of 2025 replaces the fixed five-year FISP cycle with an interval set by DOB rule between six and twelve years, and moves a new building’s first examination from year five to year eight.
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Montana has no standalone construction defect claim, its high court confirms
In Grosvold v. Neely, 2025 MT 99, the Montana Supreme Court held the residential construction defect statutes created a pre-litigation dispute resolution procedure, not an independent cause of action.
Read the full updateNew Jersey capped rental application fees at $50. Does it reach HOA lease fees?
P.L.2025, c.405 caps residential rental application fees at $50, CPI-indexed, with penalties up to $1,000. Whether an association charging a lease-approval fee is an “agent” of the landlord is not addressed by the statute.
Read the full updateNorth Dakota gave itself 67 things to study before 2027 and not one is an HOA
The Legislative Management approved 20 required and 47 optional studies for the 2025-26 interim. None touches homeowners associations, condominiums, covenants, ADUs or short-term rentals — and none was even proposed.
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Portland's rental fines reach $27,513 with no warning first
The city ombudsman found Portland issues no warnings before assessing short-term rental fines, that the maximum for five violations is at least 27 times higher than comparable cities, and that only 46% of complaints result in citations.
Read the full updateThirty-eight homeowners now own Albany Acres — and its failing septics
Residents of a Carroll County manufactured home community bought their park in June 2026 with New Hampshire Community Loan Fund financing, and expect lot rent to rise from $455 to about $600 to fund deferred capital work.
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Nevada would make a departing HOA manager sign an inventory of what is missing
R091-25 would require a community manager leaving an account to hand over records in any format, list by name the records that do not exist or cannot be found, and certify that list in writing.
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Rhode Island's first homeowners association act died in committee
H 8273 and S 3094 would have created a chapter 34-36.2 governing every Rhode Island HOA of ten or more parcels — fiduciary duties, open board meetings, recall, records, pre-suit mediation. Both were held for further study and died.
Read the full updateNew Mexico legalized remote association meetings — and the quorum number that matters is 10 percent
SB 72 added remote participation to the Condominium Act and the Nonprofit Corporation Act. Three different quorum rules apply, and the one governing most incorporated New Mexico HOAs is one-tenth of the votes.
Read the full updateThe state permit that names HOAs by name — and hands you the detention pond forever
Oklahoma's stormwater permit for small municipal systems directs cities to make HOAs responsible for long-term maintenance of detention ponds and other stormwater controls, and expressly excludes the individual homeowner.
Read the full updateYour transfer-approval clause probably does not reach a gift
The Tattershall One trilogy read a board-approval-of-purchaser bylaw strictly against the association — and still ended with $21,537.82 in fees against one unit owner across three appeals.
Read the full updateNew Jersey bill would let associations apply to DCA to lower reserve obligations
S3406 would allow a planned real estate development to petition the Department of Community Affairs to reduce its reserve fund obligation based on the development's risk-mitigating features — potentially including having no high-rise.
Read the full updateStreamlined review is gone for condo loans
Since 3 August 2026 established condominium projects can no longer be approved through the abbreviated review route — a change affecting most transactions that previously used it, and one that puts the association’s full documentation in front of a lender at every sale.
Read the full updateA New Mexico water association argued it was not a public body. It paid $4 a day anyway.
The Court of Appeals affirmed findings that a mutual domestic water consumers association violated the Open Meetings Act and unreasonably denied a records request — while holding that a curative meeting is discretionary, not mandatory.
Read the full updateA Queens co-op took Local Law 97 to New York’s highest court and lost. The law is now settled.
Glen Oaks Village Owners ran the sector’s own test case against the emissions law. The Court of Appeals held in May 2025 that the state Climate Act did not preempt it, and the matter is concluded.
Read the full updateMontana's UCIOA draft would sweep in existing associations unless they opt out by 2028
The February 2026 committee draft would apply to every Montana common interest community from October 1, 2028 unless more than 50 percent of an association's votes amend the declaration and record the opt-out first.
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