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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Maine's official housing numbers do not count condominiums
The Maine Association of Realtors reports existing single-family homes only. The best available condominium read for the first half of 2026 comes from a brokerage report — and it shows sales down 2.5 percent.
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Missouri cities can no longer force landlords to take vouchers — covenants untouched
Section 441.043 preempts local ordinances on rent control, source of income, tenant screening, security deposits and rights of first refusal. It restrains cities and counties, not recorded covenants.
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Minnesota HOAs must take three bids on contracts over $50,000
Chapter 82 imposes competitive bidding above $50,000, bans kickbacks to board members and property managers, forces disclosure of affiliated bidders in the minutes, and requires six years of bid records open to owners.
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Nobody testified against Nebraska's HOA political sign bill. It died anyway
LB 360 would have barred covenants prohibiting political signs for 90 days before an election; the hearing drew zero opponents and the committee never voted.
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A Michigan HOA lost its lawsuit because it never took the vote its own bylaws required
Northville Colony Estates held that litigation costs are a “nonoperating expenditure” needing a two-thirds member vote above $750, so the association had no authority to sue at all.
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NC court: an architectural committee's discretion is broad but not arbitrary
Smith v. Forge Creek holds that exceeding a conditional architectural approval is a violation as a matter of law, but whether the committee's refusal was arbitrary or in bad faith is a jury question — and that a court must consider an injunction bond even unasked.
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HUD will now enforce only for trained assistance animals. Maryland law did not change
A 22 May 2026 enforcement memorandum narrows HUD's fair-housing charging policy to animals individually trained to perform disability-related tasks. It binds HUD staff — not Maryland courts, and not the Fair Housing Act itself.
Read the full updateAfter the next hailstorm, your Missouri association cannot hand its claim to the roofer
New section 379.135, effective 28 August 2026, makes any assignment of post-loss property insurance benefits void and unenforceable — which voids the assignment-of-benefits page in most storm-restoration contracts.
Read the full updateMinnesota HOAs lose authority over street parking and driveway vehicles
Chapter 82 strips associations of power to regulate parking on publicly maintained streets, caps any delegated municipal police power at five years, and gives owners a right to park a personal or work vehicle on their own driveway.
Read the full updateA developer's missed deadline does not end its promises to a Maine association
Beane v. Village on Great Brook vacated a dismissal and held that whether a 1 March 2023 approval deadline was material to a developer-association settlement is a question of fact, not a Rule 12(b)(6) ruling.
Read the full updateFHA did not follow Fannie and Freddie, and that now matters in Michigan
No 2024, 2025 or 2026 Mortgagee Letter changed FHA condominium project approval. A Michigan project can fail the new 15% reserve or deductible standards and still be FHA-approvable.
Read the full updateReported: HUD owned a Nebraska home for years and the dues kept running
A Sarpy County association said it was owed more than $20,000 in assessments accrued since 2019 on a half-million-dollar home HUD took that year.
Read the full updateA Senate-passed NC bill would have ended fine-only foreclosure — and stalled
Senate Bill 1047 passed the Senate 27-14 with provisions removing an association's power to foreclose on a lien securing only fines, then stopped in House Rules and cannot be taken up again this session.
Read the full updateA Maryland court cannot raise an HOA's judgment after throwing out the homeowner's appeal
The Supreme Court of Maryland vacated a circuit court order that dismissed a homeowner's de novo appeal and then entered a money judgment larger than the District Court's — the dismissal ends the matter and reinstates the original number.
Read the full updateMichigan's virtual foreclosure-sale bill is about to become law — with none of its foreclosure content left
SB 527 still carries the subject line “allow to be held virtually.” A substitute replaced every word of it with court funding provisions, and it was ordered enrolled on September 9, 2026.
Read the full updateMissouri's storm tax credit covers your deductible, not the association's
A June 2025 special session created a homestead disaster credit of up to $5,000 for insurance deductibles from 2025 disasters — an individual-taxpayer credit that does not extend to an association paying a master-policy deductible.
Read the full updateMinnesota's new HOA law splits on community type, not building age
A 1979 condominium gets Chapter 82's $100 fine cap. A 1979 townhome association does not. The dividing line in Minn. Stat. § 515B.1-102 is what kind of community it is and when it was created — and it is the most likely source of bad advice in 2027.
Read the full updateMaine's EV-charging law is live, and board silence past 60 days is an approval
33 M.R.S. § 576-A took effect on 1 January 2026: declaration provisions banning chargers are void, the board must decide within 60 days or the application is deemed approved, and the prevailing party gets attorney's fees.
Read the full updateNebraska Supreme Court: you cannot sue "the Board"
Powers v. Elmwood Tower holds a nonprofit board is not a suable entity and the corporation is indispensable to a suit over who sits on it — and leaves the "members" question open.
Read the full updateA lawyer's letter cannot amend a master deed, Michigan panel holds as unbuilt units vanish
Woodfield Greens held that units never designated “must be built” were extinguished by operation of law, and that a developer's unilateral letter asserting otherwise changed nothing.
Read the full updateMaryland's fix for its own election law died in both chambers without a hearing vote
HB 955 and SB 955 would have limited the independent-party election requirement to genuinely contested races. Both died, so every Maryland condominium and HOA election — including uncontested ones — still needs an independent party.
Read the full updateA vetoed-then-overridden NC privacy law may reach HOA membership rosters
The Personal Privacy Protection Act became law over the Governor's veto and bars public agencies from collecting or releasing lists identifying members of a nonprofit organization, a definition broad enough to reach an HOA membership roster.
Read the full updateSt. Louis County boards get a new way to find out who really owns the rental house next door
House Bill 2508 extends Missouri's responsible-natural-person affidavit to any county over one million — but only after more than two ordinance violations and a failed attempt to resolve them through the registered agent.
Read the full updateMinnesota sets the FORTIFIED roof discount benchmarks at 35%, 38% and 40%
Commerce published the methodology fixing what wind-and-hail premium credit insurers must justify for IBHS FORTIFIED construction — but the model behind it was built on detached single-family exposure, not association master policies.
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