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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Most North Carolina HOAs must file an annual state report from 2027
New G.S. 55A-16-22.1 requires every North Carolina nonprofit corporation to file an annual report with the Secretary of State by November 15, and makes delinquency a ground for administrative dissolution.
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“Subject to restrictions of record” no longer preserves anything in Michigan
New section 5a of the Marketable Record Title Act says a deed recital referencing restrictions without a liber and page is not effective to create, preserve or continue them — retroactive to instruments recorded after March 28, 2019.
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The flood-insurance programme's authority expires on 30 September
NFIP authorisation lapses at 11:59 p.m. on 30 September 2026 unless Congress acts. Existing policies run their term, but no new or renewal policies can be issued during a lapse — a live problem for any Maine closing after 1 October.
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An association that invokes appraisal is stuck with the number
The Eighth Circuit affirmed that a homeowners association bound by an appraisal panel's $52,482.81 roof award could not recover more from its insurer.
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Missouri's percolation test dies on 31 December, and community septic now needs a permit
Senate Bill 914 requires a construction permit before building or majorly repairing an on-site sewage system, moves design from percolation rate to soil properties, and voids percolation-test acceptance after 31 December 2026.
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Minnesota manufactured-home rent cap passed the Senate and died in the House
S.F. 2691 would have limited lot-rent increases to one a year and made any rise above three percent challengeable. It cleared the Senate 35–31 in April 2026, was referred to a House committee, and was never heard again.
Read the full updateMichigan now bans big institutional investors from buying detached homes — including site condos
2026 PA 32 took effect July 21, 2026. It bars an investor holding 100+ Michigan homes and $375 million from buying a structure with two or fewer dwelling units, with a $25,000-per-home civil fine.
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Gaithersburg pulled its associations out of Montgomery County's HOA commission
Four years after opting in, the city repealed it: from 1 July 2025 Gaithersburg community associations are no longer required to register with the CCOC, and Chapter 10B no longer applies inside city limits.
Read the full updateMaine Bulletin 483: a blurry satellite photo is not enough to drop a policy
The Bureau of Insurance's March 2025 bulletin on aerial imagery in homeowners underwriting sets out what insurers should do before relying on a drone or satellite image — and it contains none of the numeric deadlines third-party summaries attribute to it.
Read the full updateNorth Carolina political-sign covenants keep the exception flags just lost
The Regulatory Reform Act of 2026 struck the drafting exceptions from the flag half of G.S. 47F-3-121 and left the political-sign half untouched, so one statute now works two different ways.
Read the full updateThe Nebraska HOAs that quietly stopped being corporations in 2025
Nebraska nonprofit corporations that missed the 2025 biennial report were administratively dissolved on June 17, 2025, and the next deadline is April 1, 2027.
Read the full updateMichigan appeals court: an Airbnb guest is your association's invitee
Letvin v The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, published July 13, 2026, decided as a matter of first impression that a short-term rental guest is an invitee of the association on common elements it maintains.
Read the full updateCharles County board members must be trained by 1 October or risk losing their seat
Chapter 804 makes Charles County the one Maryland jurisdiction where an untrained condominium or HOA director can be removed — while the statewide version of the same bill passed the House 92-29 and died in the Senate.
Read the full updateA new St. Louis County nuisance suit most Missouri HOAs cannot bring
New section 67.452 lets a neighbourhood organisation sue to abate a nuisance with fee-shifting — but only a 501(c)(3), which most Missouri homeowners associations are not.
Read the full updateMinnesota HOAs must hear owner grievances free — and refer failures to the state
Chapter 82 creates a general grievance right with no fee attached, and requires boards that cannot resolve a grievance to refer the owner to the Common Interest Community Ombudsperson — an office currently not accepting mediation requests.
Read the full updateHUD will no longer charge cases over untrained assistance animals — Michigan law is unchanged
A May 22, 2026 FHEO memo limits reasonable-cause findings to animals individually trained for disability-related assistance. It is enforcement discretion, not a rule, and it does not touch Michigan's own civil rights statutes.
Read the full updateMaine now allows three units per lot by right — and your covenants still win
P.L. 2025, c. 385 raised as-of-right residential density to three units per lot, four in growth areas, and removed planning-board approval for four units or fewer. The private-covenant carve-out at § 4364-B(11) is unchanged since 2021.
Read the full updateEighth Circuit revives a RICO claim over condo assessment collection
Geivett v. AMC Management holds each new injury from assessment-collection conduct can start its own limitations clock, reversing a dismissal of a unit owner's racketeering suit.
Read the full updateThe biggest open question in NC covenant law still has no answer
Whether North Carolina's Marketable Title Act extinguishes planned-community covenants older than thirty years remains unresolved by any published appellate decision, with cases reported pending at the Court of Appeals.
Read the full updateThere is no Maryland task force on community associations, and the deadline being cited comes from withdrawn bills
The "31 December 2026 report deadline" circulating in search results and AI summaries is lifted from bills their own sponsors pulled. The only body ever to bear the name expired in 2006.
Read the full updateMissouri's big storm-insurance bill died — and it had excluded associations anyway
SB 1543 and HB 3328 would have created a $12 million retrofit fund, roof-age underwriting limits and a free disaster-claim mediation programme. The mediation route expressly excluded multiple-family dwellings.
Read the full updateMinnesota lets detached-home HOAs dissolve on 67% — and silence counts as yes
Chapter 82 cuts the termination threshold from 80% to 67% for single-family detached communities with no common elements, removes the mortgagee consent requirement, and deems an owner who does not respond within 60 days to have agreed.
Read the full updateMichigan bill would repeal the HOA solar law outright — and has moved twice without a hearing
House Bill 4363 would repeal 2024 PA 68 in its entirety. Since April 2025 it has been referred to Energy, discharged to Government Operations, and discharged back to Energy, with no hearing at any stop.
Read the full updateMaine Law Court vacates a condo foreclosure that shut out a disability counterclaim
In Tidewater Loft Condominium Ass'n v. Moskal-Kanz, the Law Court vacated a $58,885.48 foreclosure judgment in its entirety because the trial court told the unit owner her Fair Housing Act counterclaim was “not part of this trial.”
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