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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Twin Montana bills to stop covenants binding earlier buyers both died
House Bill 761 and Senate Bill 431 carried word-for-word identical text barring enforcement of more onerous covenants against owners who bought earlier; the Senate version was withdrawn the day after its hearing and the House version died at transmittal.
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A condo disclosure bill passed the New York Senate 58–1, and the industry killed it in the Assembly
S7541 would send every engineering report to the municipal building department within 60 days and let the Attorney General void an offering plan for non-compliance. Two co-op groups called it a death sentence.
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Oklahoma insurers must file rates 30 days early — starting July 1, 2027
HB 3781 moves Oklahoma property and casualty rates from use-and-file to file-and-wait and requires the Insurance Department to publish homeowners and dwelling-fire increases on its website, but none of it takes effect until July 2027.
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New Mexico's wildfire insurance moratorium ended in March — one protection survives
The Superintendent of Insurance revoked the Salt and South Fork fire emergency orders effective around March 31, 2026. The surviving requirement is a minimum of twelve months to repay deferred insurance premiums.
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Township ordinances now bind on day one
Act 3 of 2025 deleted the five-day grace period before a second-class-township ordinance takes effect — and most Pennsylvania planned communities sit in second-class townships.
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New Jersey court reads a fence covenant against the HOA
In Estates at Layton's Lakes Homeowners Association v. Watson the Appellate Division held a fence-specific covenant silent on setbacks controlled over a general 30-foot accessory-structure setback, and reaffirmed strict construction in the owner's favour.
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Your reserve floor rises to 15 percent in January, so set it in this budget
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raise the replacement-reserve minimum from 10% to 15% of annual budgeted assessment income for loan applications dated on or after January 4, 2027 — and Ohio law imposes no reserve mandate at all.
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Oregon's wildfire insurance transparency bill died in Rules
Senate Bill 1540 would have forced insurers to disclose wildfire risk-modeling methods to regulators and let the commissioner reject filings built on them. It cleared its policy committee unanimously and never reached the floor.
Read the full updateSanta Fe County capped rentals by community — then started filing criminal charges
A 2024 amendment caps non-owner-occupied short-term rentals at 3 or 7 percent of a community's housing stock. The county added three code officers in 2025 and owners have faced petty misdemeanour charges.
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A seasonal park still owes eighteen months' notice
In Dobens v. Fagnant the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that RSA 205-A's 18-month change-of-use notice applies to seasonal manufactured housing parks, that a home left on the lot keeps its owner a tenant year-round, and that Consumer Protection Act remedies follow a violation.
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Rhode Island creates a 16-member commission to rewrite condominium law
A joint resolution signed June 19, 2026 seats sixteen members — including two condominium owners and one condominium attorney — to study Rhode Island's condominium law and report by December 31, 2027.
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Nevada would raise its HOA mediation subsidy to $600 — and make complainants cite the statute
R091-25 would lift the Division's mediation subsidy from $500 to $600 per proceeding, require an intervention affidavit to name the law allegedly breached, create a remedial-measures off-ramp, and give any person a route to petition for rulemaking.
Read the full updateAnyone in Oklahoma can start managing your HOA tomorrow
Oklahoma issues no community association manager licence of any kind — the Real Estate Commission's licensing trigger reaches sales and rentals, and collecting assessments is neither.
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West Fargo now licenses short-term rentals and says in writing it will not enforce your covenant
Ordinance 1254 took effect July 1, 2026, licensing short-term rentals including condominiums — and § 10-1603(3) puts the burden of private covenants entirely on the applicant.
Read the full updateFebruary 15 is the only New York City deadline with no extension, no waiver and no appeal
Miss the prevailing-wage affidavit for the co-op and condo property tax abatement and the Department of Finance states the result plainly: loss of the abatement for the entire development, with no exception process.
Read the full updateWaiver and laches failed against clear Montana covenants — and the enforcer got its fees
In Sloway Cabin v. Extreme, 2025 MT 161, the Montana Supreme Court affirmed an injunction removing a towing and diesel-repair operation from a small subdivision, rejecting illusory-covenant, waiver and laches defences.
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The reserve floor for condo financing rises to 15% on January 4, 2027
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raised the minimum reserve allocation from 10% to 15% of annual budgeted assessment income, and barred baseline-funded reserve studies. Mississippi has no statutory reserve mandate, so the 2027 budget cycle is the decision point.
Read the full updateIn thirty New Mexico subdivisions the HOA dues are not the whole bill
Public Improvement District special levies are collected with property taxes on top of association assessments, the board cannot reduce them, and the disclosure duty falls on the seller before an offer is accepted.
Read the full updateNew Jersey bills would let associations stretch reserve funding to 35 years
A5306 and S4508 would add a 35-year capital reserve funding plan option and restart the clock on the 85% funding allowance. Both were introduced in late June 2026 after a wave of Atlantic County fee complaints.
Read the full updateYou cannot sue over common areas alone
In Macias v. Southfield Crossing the Commonwealth Court held that owners challenging a deed transferring common areas between two phase associations had to join every affected owner as an indispensable party — because use of common ground is a constitutionally protected property interest.
Read the full updateAn Ohio point-of-sale inspection can cite what the association owns
Nineteen Cuyahoga and Summit municipalities require a point-of-sale inspection, and in the interior-and-exterior cities the violations written up are often common elements the seller cannot repair and the buyer's escrow is holding money against.
Read the full updateFour Oklahoma cities, four different answers on whether your covenant matters
Oklahoma City lets the Board of Adjustment deny a short-term rental over a recorded covenant; Tulsa's code never mentions covenants; Owasso writes the shrug into its ADU section; Edmond applies whichever restriction is stricter.
Read the full updateOne kind of New Hampshire community has a financial regulator — and it isn't yours
The Insurance Department readopted its continuing care community rules effective June 27, 2026, supervising the finances of a residential community operator — a form of oversight no New Hampshire condominium or homeowners association is subject to.
Read the full updateOregon's manufactured-home covenant rule only binds new documents
ORS 94.776(3) voids a planned-community ban on manufactured dwellings and prefabricated structures — but only where the provision was adopted or amended on or after January 1, 2026.
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