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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Condo reserves must reach 15 percent on January 4
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raise the minimum replacement-reserve allocation from 10 to 15 percent of budgeted assessment income on January 4, 2027, with a reserve-study exception — and New Hampshire has no state reserve requirement underneath it.
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Your association's transfer fee is only permissible if the association keeps it
FHFA reinstated the grandfather exceptions to its private transfer fee rule in March 2026 — and the carve-out that keeps an association's fee lawful turns on who receives it and what it is used for.
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The fast-track condo review is gone, and the 50% owner-occupancy rule went with it
Since August 3, 2026 Freddie Mac has retired Streamlined Review and Fannie Mae has retired Limited Review, pushing established projects into Full Review. The same package dropped the 50% owner-occupancy requirement and expanded exempt-from-review to 2–10 unit projects.
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Oklahoma approved 162 interim studies this year. None is about homeowners associations
Speaker Hilbert approved 92 House studies and Pro Tem Paxton 70 in the Senate; none addresses HOAs, condominiums, covenants, ADUs or short-term rentals, and all must conclude by October 30.
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Oregon voided every CC&R that blocks fire hardening
Senate Bill 1551 took effect June 5, 2026, and it reaches declarations recorded before, on or after that date — no grandfathering, and not one no vote in either chamber.
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Nevada's insurance regulator asks carriers for flexibility after the Hawk Fire
Bulletin 26-003, issued August 26, 2026 after wildfires burned more than 150,000 acres in northern Nevada, asks insurers to relax premium timing and loss-of-use rules and flags burn-scar flooding.
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Every New Mexico HOA ruling of the past two years is one a judge is free to ignore
All 119 precedential Court of Appeals opinions from 2025 and 2026 were reviewed. None decides an association, covenant, assessment-lien or architectural-control question. Everything on those subjects came in memorandum opinions.
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A developer cannot dissolve your covenants by recording a release
Meeker v. Nolt holds a unilateral developer release ineffective and gives subsequent lot owners standing to enforce — but the covenants as written did not prohibit the use complained of.
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New Jersey bill would cap board terms at two years and run elections independently
A1138 would require association elections at two-year intervals run by an independent committee, cap board terms and board size, extend PREDFDA election rules to associations under 50 units, and mandate anonymous voting.
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In Rhode Island, six months of condo fees can erase a first mortgage
Twenty Eleven, LLC v. Botelho holds that foreclosing the six-month super-priority lien extinguishes a prior-recorded first mortgage if the lender does not redeem — a power Rhode Island associations exercise without a judge.
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The biggest New York co-op governance bill in years contained one sentence letting New York City opt out
S8912 would let shareholders fire the managing agent and would make the annual budget subject to member approval. Section 139 lets any city over one million people exempt itself.
Read the full updateThe petition to abolish homestead property tax is stalled at the Supreme Court
State Question 843 would phase out ad valorem tax on owner-occupied homes by 2029, but it has not gathered a single signature — a challenge argued in June 2026 is still undecided.
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HUD would drop the rule behind neutral covenants
A supplemental HUD rulemaking published 10 August 2026 continues the effort to remove disparate-impact liability provisions, with comments due 9 October. For Pennsylvania associations, the state’s own fair-housing law is unaffected.
Read the full updateA rent increase after a sale is not fraud, a Belknap judge held
Belmont residents who said a buyer's assurances discouraged them from exercising their purchase rights lost on August 4, 2026 — the court found no material misrepresentation, and the ruling turned on ordinary fraud elements, not the opportunity-to-purchase statute.
Read the full updateA private North Dakota nonprofit can be a public entity, and funding is the test
Two 2025 Attorney General opinions restate the test: a private nonprofit corporation is a public entity for open records and open meetings to the extent it is supported by or expends public funds.
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Montana bill requiring HOA budgets and capping dues rises died at the deadline
House Bill 232 would have made Montana associations mail annual budget and financial reports to every member and capped dues increases at 15 percent; it cleared second reading and then died at the general-bill transmittal deadline.
Read the full updateNew Mexico's new rental fee rules carry treble damages, not a $250 penalty
SB 267 routed rental application and tenancy fee violations into the Unfair Practices Act, and its definition of dwelling unit reaches a leased pad in a manufactured-home community.
Read the full updateA bill to defer HOA dues on county land passed 48-4, then died
House Bill 3545 would have suspended collection of association assessments on tax-foreclosed property held by an Oregon county. It cleared the House, got one Senate hearing, and was never voted on again.
Read the full updateMississippi's 2026 solar and EV bills are not about your covenants
SB 2527 on solar decommissioning was signed and takes effect July 1, 2026, and SB 2059 on EV charging died in committee. Neither creates any HOA solar-access or EV-charging right — both are utility and siting measures.
Read the full updateNew Jersey condos exempt from inspection still have to register — and apply
DCA guidance published in 2026 warns that condominiums, co-ops and townhouse communities exempt from the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law must still register with the Bureau of Housing Inspection and apply for the exemption.
Read the full updateThirteen Ohio counties reappraised in 2026, and Cuyahoga is not one of them
Butler reports a 19% median residential increase and Summit about 18%, landing on January 2027 tax bills — while Cleveland-area owners are on the 2027 cycle, which makes 2026 a Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton and Akron story.
Read the full updateNevada's ADU ordinance deadline for its biggest cities has passed
AB 396 required Clark and Washoe counties and Nevada's largest cities to adopt accessory dwelling unit ordinances by July 1, 2026 — and provided that if they did not, ADUs are authorized on any residentially zoned parcel without restriction.
Read the full updateOklahoma's older condo buildings just got a shield against retroactive elevator rules
HB 4321, effective November 1, 2026, bars the Department of Labor from applying new elevator rules to existing structures unless it produces written findings of an obvious safety hazard.
Read the full updateRuidoso rewrote its rental rules twice since the fires. Neither version mentions your HOA.
Village of Ruidoso Ordinance 2025-01 was superseded by Ordinance 2026-10 in June 2026. Both regulate permits, occupancy and fire safety — and neither addresses private covenants or notifies associations.
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