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 property-tax task force reports on 15 December, and condos are not in its scope
The Real Estate Property Tax Relief Task Force created by Resolve 2025, chapter 108 delivers final recommendations with suggested legislation by 15 December 2026 — aimed at owners' tax bills, not association operations.
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MSD started spending its stormwater tax in June. Your detention basin is still yours.
The first Proposition S-funded project broke ground on 8 June 2026, with $700 million programmed. MSD's standing position is that detention and retention basins are private and the subdivision's responsibility.
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Minnesota raised the water fees HOAs pay to irrigate common areas
DNR's new appropriation fee schedule took effect 1 January 2026 — the minimum rose from $140 to $200, top-tier rates nearly doubled, and a $50-per-million-gallon summer surcharge expressly reaches landscape irrigation. The bill lands February 2027.
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A Nebraska defect clock starts at the leak, not at the cause
An unpublished Court of Appeals decision applies the rule that limitations run from discovery of the defect rather than discovery of its source, under the statute condominium associations sue on.
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A nine-month lease was a “commercial use,” a Michigan panel held
Timber Lake Drive POA v Gribi held that leasing a home for $2,400 a month violated a 1967 residential-purposes covenant, and that tolerating earlier short-term rentals did not waive enforcement.
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A Maryland property manager got 20 years for running a Ponzi scheme through the HOA accounts she managed
She moved money between association accounts to hide the holes, fabricated bank statements, and took close to $600,000 across four years. More than 250 households were affected, and a board found it, not an auditor.
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NC associations have no beneficial ownership filing — that file is closed
A FinCEN final rule effective August 14, 2026 permanently exempts domestic entities from Corporate Transparency Act beneficial ownership reporting, ending a three-year compliance question for North Carolina community associations.
Read the full updateMissouri's new mortgage law says your assessment lien is not a mortgage — and that is deliberate
The Uniform Mortgage Modification Act, effective 28 August 2026, lets a lender modify a loan and keep its recorded priority without recording the modification — and expressly excludes association assessment liens from its protections.
Read the full updateA Macomb County township billed a condo community $6,000 a unit for a water line
Chesterfield Township approved a “Fire Suppression Line Readiness to Serve” charge in November 2025. NorthPointe residents learned of the $6,000 bill, payable in quarterly instalments, in March 2026.
Read the full updateMinnesota insurance fraud referrals now go to the BCA, not Commerce
The Commerce Fraud Bureau was dissolved and its criminal investigative function moved to a new Financial Crimes and Fraud Section at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension — a routing change that matters after a Minnesota hail season.
Read the full updateMaine legalised balcony solar — and left associations out of the statute
P.L. 2025, c. 644 authorises plug-in solar devices up to 1,200 watts and bars utilities from blocking them, but unlike the EV-charging law it contains no override of condominium or HOA restrictions — and expressly requires compliance with them.
Read the full updateNebraska's HOA solar bill died a fourth time, 91 comments to 3
LB 137 would have voided covenant restrictions on solar collectors and pollinator gardens and given owners a cause of action; it never got a committee vote.
Read the full updateThe federal filing Maryland HOA boards were warned about for three years is permanently gone
A FinCEN final rule effective 14 August 2026 removes beneficial-ownership reporting for US companies and US persons — and the agency will delete what was already filed.
Read the full updateAnn Arbor condos are taking twice as long to sell as houses
A July 2026 brokerage analysis of MLS data found condo price per square foot down 8% year over year, 34% of condo sellers cutting price against 24% for houses, and condos selling in roughly double the time.
Read the full updateMissouri boards that sue their critics now face a 60-day dismissal motion and mandatory fees
Senate Bill 1067 repealed Missouri's narrow anti-SLAPP statute and enacted the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act, which covers speech on any matter of public concern and shifts fees to a prevailing movant.
Read the full updateMinnesota caps HOA director terms at three years and gives boards a manager exit
Chapter 82 requires regular staggered elections with terms no longer than three years, terminates declarant-signed management contracts a year after turnover, and lets associations exit a manager on three months' notice.
Read the full updateNC court grants an outside developer easements over HOA-owned streets
Cape Homeowners Association v. S. Destiny affirms easements by implication and by necessity over private streets owned and maintained by the association, holding the necessity was fixed at severance in 1986.
Read the full updateEvery Maine bill you were tracking is dead — here is the 2027 calendar
The 132nd Legislature adjourned sine die at 8:32 p.m. on 29 April 2026, nothing carries into the 133rd, and the default effective date for 2026 laws was 29 July. What survives, and what has to start over.
Read the full updateMaryland more than doubles a condo owner's damage bill and orders every owner to buy insurance
Chapter 717 raises unit-owner responsibility for the association's deductible from $10,000 to $25,000 and, for the first time, requires Maryland condominium owners to carry their own policy — on 1 October 2027.
Read the full updateNebraska's ADU mandate stopped at the covenant line, then died
LB 1041 would have forced cities to allow accessory dwelling units but wrote an express exception for HOA and condominium restrictions; it died on General File.
Read the full updateThe FCC just restricted the inverters Michigan's solar law requires associations to allow
Foreign-produced grid-tied power inverters went onto the FCC's Covered List in July 2026 and the entry was narrowed in August. Every rooftop array a Michigan HOA must now permit needs one.
Read the full updateA bill stripping Missouri associations of any say over concealed carry died again
HB 1665 would have overridden any rule, policy, covenant or deed restricting concealed carry — expressly reaching common elements, limited common elements, parking areas and every walkway. It was never referred to a committee.
Read the full updateFinCEN permanently ends beneficial-ownership filing for Minnesota HOAs
A final rule effective 14 August 2026 exempts every entity created in the United States from beneficial ownership reporting — which covers every Minnesota association incorporated under chapter 317A. Remove it from the compliance calendar.
Read the full updateA $3,871 HOA judgment cost a Maryland homeowner her house, and paying it off did not undo the sale
The Supreme Court of Maryland held 4-3 in July that a judgment debtor's post-sale satisfaction cannot be raised as an exception to a sheriff's sale — even where the HOA itself asked the court to vacate it.
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