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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Portland's short-term rental cap is now a formula, not a number
The city replaced its flat 400-unit ceiling with 1.5 percent of the long-term rental stock, recalculated annually, and voters ratified tighter owner-occupancy proof with 67 percent of the vote.
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A Michigan bill would deregulate balcony solar — and your association could not stop it either way
House Bill 5764 would exempt small plug-in solar devices from utility interconnection requirements. Michigan's existing solar statute already voids association approval requirements for energy-saving improvements.
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Maryland already has an HOA regulator — it is the Attorney General, and nobody voted for it this year
Chapter 512 of 2025 deleted the words limiting the Consumer Protection Division to violations "affecting a consumer" and handed it authority to write regulations under both the Condominium Act and the HOA Act. It has not used it yet.
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Reported: an Omaha councilman wants short-term rentals to register a contact
Councilman Ron Hug said in July 2026 he would bring an ordinance requiring short-term rentals to file a manager's name and emergency contact; no ordinance has been introduced.
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The federal filing that panicked every Missouri HOA board in 2024 is permanently dead
A FinCEN final rule effective 14 August 2026 exempts all domestic entities from beneficial-ownership reporting — so a Missouri association incorporated under Chapter 355 has no filing, no update duty, and no reason to pay a compliance vendor.
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What the industry stripped out of Minnesota's HOA bill
CAI Minnesota says the 41 working-group recommendations were adopted in a single vote, and names four provisions it removed or scaled back before S.F. 1750 became Chapter 82 — including a personal pre-enforcement duty on board members.
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Fannie Mae's 15% reserve floor lands on NC condos with no state mandate
Fannie Mae retired Limited Review for condo loan applications dated on or after August 3, 2026 and raises the minimum reserve allocation from 10% to 15% on January 4, 2027, reaching North Carolina associations that have no statutory reserve requirement.
Read the full updateSix bills giving Michigan park residents a right to buy passed the Senate 34–0. They have not moved since May
SB 934 through 939 would rewrite the Mobile Home Commission Act, give residents 60 days to organise and 45 days to offer on a park sale, and grant sellers a 15% tax credit. All six sit in one House committee.
Read the full updateMaine's roof-grant programme excludes condominiums by name
Fortify Maine Homes pays up to $15,000 toward a fortified roof — but its eligibility rules rule out condominiums, seasonal residences and rentals, and the Bureau of Insurance says applications stay closed until 2027.
Read the full updateNine Maryland HOA bills passed the House this year. None passed the Senate
Four were unanimous in the House. Five never received a Senate committee vote at all — and Maryland publishes a committee voting record only when a committee actually votes, which is how you can prove it.
Read the full updateNebraska solar seller pays $200,000 over door-to-door tactics
The Attorney General settled with Everlight Solar on September 3, 2026 over claims including salespeople who ignored no-solicitation signs and refused to leave.
Read the full updateMichigan tells insurers: a streaky roof in a drone photo is not grounds to drop the policy
DIFS Bulletin 2025-12-INS, issued June 6, 2025, says cosmetic roof issues cannot be the sole evidence for adverse action, and that aerial-imagery underwriting rules must be filed with the department first.
Read the full updateThe newspaper that publishes your foreclosure notice only needs to be a year old now
House Bill 1940 cut the seasoning requirement for legal-notice newspapers from three years to one and added 'all legal publications affecting the title to real estate' to the statute's scope.
Read the full updateEighth Circuit: an appraisal award settles the matching fight for Minnesota HOAs
Jamestown Villas v. State Farm, decided 4 September 2026, holds that an appraisal panel's amount of loss necessarily resolves whether replacement shingles are of “like kind and quality” — and that clarification questions are not a second bite.
Read the full updateNorth Carolina's Homeowners Association Reform Bill is dead
House Bill 444 was re-referred to House Judiciary 1 on May 6, 2025 and has had no action since, missing the crossover deadline and leaving it ineligible for the rest of the biennium.
Read the full updateA bill giving Maryland owners a veto over common-area work above $1,000 died without a vote
HB 1577 would have barred any condominium, co-op or HOA board from substantially altering a common area without majority owner approval, exempting only ordinary repairs and jobs under $1,000. Maryland law still says nothing on the subject.
Read the full updateMaine's short-term-rental classification bill died on a 16-16 Senate tie
LD 1181 would have let municipal assessors code a non-owner-occupied short-term rental as “commercial in use.” The majority report failed on a tied Senate vote on 5 June 2025 and the bill is finished.
Read the full updateMichigan rewrote its real-estate licensing rules in 2025 and still licenses nobody who manages your money
The general rules for real estate brokers and salespersons were amended effective June 4, 2025. The adopted text contains no occurrence of “condominium,” “community association” or “association manager.”
Read the full updateNebraska's Missing Middle housing bill lost its override by nine votes
LB 839 passed 34-15, was vetoed on April 16, 2026, and the override motion failed 19-28-2 on the final day of the session.
Read the full updateEight Missouri contractor-fraud cases in ten months, all over storm-repair deposits
Eight Missouri enforcement actions since December 2025 against storm-repair contractors, every one involving upfront money for work not performed — in a state with no contractor licensing.
Read the full updateMinnesota HOA master premiums rose 90% in two years, survey shows
A survey filed into Minnesota's own legislative record puts average master-policy premiums at $40,397 in 2022 and $76,909 in 2024 — with matching exclusions and doubled non-renewals behind the special assessments that followed.
Read the full updateMaryland associations that beat a developer's SLAPP cannot sue it for bringing one
The Supreme Court of Maryland held in July that legal costs, temporary loss of property value, emotional distress and a chilling of rights are not the "special injury" a malicious use of process claim requires — and declined to write a SLAPP exception.
Read the full updateMichigan bill would start the redemption clock at recording, not at the sale
House Bill 5046 supplies the missing consequence for a sheriff's deed recorded late: the redemption period, and interest, would begin at recording. It passed the House 105–2 and sits in a Senate committee.
Read the full updateNC's Helene road program gives HOAs a 50% cost share — and the deadline has passed
The Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 directs a 50% cost share with the HOA for construction costs on association-owned private roads and bridges, but the interest-form and partial-reimbursement deadlines have both closed.
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