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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New Jersey still does not license community managers. Two bills would change that
A1947 and S4158 would require DCA licensure of community management entities with a $4,000 penalty per unlicensed contract. Companion bills A1946 and S4157 would mandate three hours of board-member training.
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A $50,000 deductible cap now meets New Hampshire master policies
Since July 1, 2026 a condominium master property policy with a per-unit deductible above $50,000 makes the project ineligible for Fannie Mae financing, and the inflation-guard requirement is gone.
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Philadelphia makes STR hosts tell the neighbours
A Philadelphia ordinance requires a short-term rental operator to give written notice to residents of every unit in the building and to every other unit owner in the condominium, planned unit development or cooperative.
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Now the county clerk has to scrub the plat, not just the declaration
SB 2139, effective November 1, 2026, requires an Oklahoma county clerk to redact discriminatory language from the electronic plat on its own website once a municipality files a correction affidavit.
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The Local Law 97 credit for a heat-pump retrofit halves on January 1, 2027
The beneficial electrification coefficient in 1 RCNY § 103-14(d)(vii) is negative — it subtracts from reported emissions. Equipment operating before January 1, 2027 earns twice the credit of equipment that comes online after.
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New Mexico bill to stop HOA foreclosures over fines died in its second committee
HB 440 would have barred a New Mexico association from foreclosing a lien under $5,000, under twelve months delinquent, or made up solely of fines. It passed one committee and was never heard in the next.
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Not one 2025 bill touched North Dakota's Condominium Act, or the chapter your HOA is built on
The official Century Code Sections Affected table for the 2025 session contains zero entries for chapter 47-04.1 and zero for chapter 10-33 — and no bill in the whole assembly touched solar, ADUs, rentals, signs, reserves or covenants.
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A $25 Oregon condo filing can freeze the association's lawsuit
Under ORS 100.265, an opposing party who gives written notice can stop a delinquent Oregon condominium association from prosecuting or defending a case until its annual report is current.
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Nevada's draft $10,000 HOA fine cap was deleted before adoption
The Real Estate Division's own November 2025 draft capped uncapped HOA fines at $10,000 and required a court order above it. Both provisions are absent from the text adopted on September 9, 2026.
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Five property tax bills signed in December reach every association household
Governor DeWine signed HB 124, 129, 186, 309 and 335 on December 19, 2025, claimed at more than $3 billion in relief — with the inflation cap starting June 2026 and the owner-occupancy credit expansion in January 2027.
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A 16% windpool increase lands on coastal condo owners as a dues increase
The Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association raised rates 16% effective January 1, 2026, tied to the rollback of state reinsurance subsidies. Because coastal condo master wind coverage runs through the windpool, the increase arrives as an association cost, not a personal premium.
Read the full updateAn Atlantic City condo association filed bankruptcy after a $34M reserve study
Skyline Tower Resort Vacation Condominium Association filed Subchapter V in November 2025 after a reserve study projected roughly $34 million in capital needs. Its 32-story tower drew an $18.2 million winning bid in April 2026.
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Montana covenants with no short-term-rental clause still barred an Airbnb
In Brandt v. R&R Mountain Escapes, LLC, 2025 MT 155, the Montana Supreme Court read a 1990 declaration as a whole and held it unambiguously prohibits short-term rentals, and that a county permit does not cure a covenant violation.
Read the full updateNew Mexico's casita bills were quietly amended to spare existing HOA covenants
Two sessions of accessory dwelling unit bills died in New Mexico — and a sponsor's amendment had already narrowed them so that every HOA covenant recorded before the effective date would have survived.
Read the full updateOne manufactured-housing board rebuilt every rule it has; the other has filed none since 2013
New Hampshire's Installation Standards Board adopted six new rule chapters between January 2025 and January 2026, while the Board of Manufactured Housing — the state's only tribunal for a community-living dispute — has not filed a rule in thirteen years.
Read the full updateThree solar bills, one veto, and Oklahoma still has no solar-access law
SB 1917 died without a hearing, HB 4060 passed the House and died in Senate committee, and SB 915 was vetoed — leaving Oklahoma with no statute limiting what an association may do about solar panels.
Read the full updateResidents would get 90 days to buy their park
SB 746 would require a manufactured-home community owner to notify residents before selling and give them 90 days to make a competing offer. It is the furthest-advanced association-adjacent bill in Pennsylvania, sitting in Senate Appropriations.
Read the full updateA state-funded ADU records a ten-year covenant on a lot that may already be inside your HOA
New York’s Plus One ADU programme requires a recorded regulatory agreement of at least ten years. Neither the state programme page nor the participating counties mention homeowners association consent.
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Rhode Island makes developers budget reserves down to the mulch, then never again
Section 34-36.1-4.03(a)(5) requires a condominium developer's offering statement to itemise reserves for roof shingles, roadways, exterior wood, decks and mulch with life-spans and per-unit costs — and no Rhode Island statute requires an association to maintain any of it afterwards.
Read the full updateSix North Dakota landlord-tenant bills died, and associations that lease units feel it
Rent payment ordering, late fees, eviction notice contents, landlord obligations, move-in inspections and background checks all failed in 2025 — leaving association-owned rentals under unchanged law.
Read the full updateYour Ohio association has nothing to file with FinCEN
FinCEN's final rule of August 14, 2026 removes all domestic entities from the reporting-company definition, and it addressed homeowners associations by name — with one date left on the calendar.
Read the full updateA county can license short-term rentals without land use rules
Briggs v. Lincoln County upheld the county's short-term rental licensing program in full on August 12, 2026, and reversed the three provisions a trial court had struck as unconstitutionally vague.
Read the full updateAlbuquerque declined to loosen its casita rules — and the code already picks the paint colour
The 2025 IDO Update reversed proposed accessory dwelling unit expansions. The citywide size limit is 750 square feet, not the 650 figure widely repeated, and the code dictates façade colour and siting.
Read the full updateNew Jersey's housing agency dropped a rule capping HOA fees on affordable units
HMFA proposed tying condominium and HOA fees on affordable units to the common-interest percentage and barring increases that would make a unit unaffordable. After heavy comment, it declined to adopt the provision.
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