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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Georgia covenant communities get a new 80% route into the POA Act
SB 406 amends O.C.G.A. §§ 44-3-222, 44-3-226 and 44-3-235 so an existing mandatory-membership association can submit to the Property Owners' Association Act on an 80% vote and a recorded instrument.
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A bulk buyer cannot amend its way out of a unanimous termination clause, the Third DCA held
Avila v. Biscayne 21 holds that dropping a condominium's termination threshold from 100 percent to the statutory 80 percent alters voting rights, and so itself requires unanimity. The Supreme Court declined review.
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Illinois assessment judgments now expire in 15 years with no revival, and $1,000 is off limits
Public Act 104-0120 gives consumer-debt judgment debtors an automatic $1,000 bank exemption and caps new consumer-debt judgments at 15 years with no revival — and most assessment judgments against individual owners will qualify.
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The body that rewrote Louisiana's HOA law has finished a Condominium Act rewrite for 2027
The Louisiana State Law Institute told the Legislature in April 2026 that its Common Interest Ownership Regimes Committee has completed its review of the Condominium Act and hopes to recommend legislation in the 2027 Regular Session. The same committee produced the 2024 Planned Community Act.
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Letting a lot go to a tax sale may not end HOA assessments, Alabama court holds
Stoney Point Landing HOA v. Lee reverses a summary judgment for owners whose lot had sold twice for unpaid taxes: because neither tax purchaser took possession or sued in time, title may have reverted to them — along with the 2024 assessment.
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A Colorado manager's incident report can start the duty to preserve evidence
In Terra Management Group v. Keaten, decided June 23, 2025, the Colorado Supreme Court held a court may sanction destruction of evidence where litigation was reasonably foreseeable — and an incident report plus persistent complaints can be enough.
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A hurricane watch does not decide which deductible applies
Commissioner's Memorandum 2026-7A tells insurers to determine causation claim by claim after Hurricane Lala — a distinction worth millions to an association with a 2 percent hurricane deductible.
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Massachusetts still has no condo flag-display protection. The bill was sent to study
H.1555 would have barred condominium associations from prohibiting display of the United States flag, Armed Forces flags and the POW/MIA flag. It died in study order H.5352 on 13 April 2026.
Read the full updateGeorgia's HOA board-training bill was tabled on Crossover Day without a hearing
SB 393 would have required four hours of training for association directors before a board could fine or threaten foreclosure. It sat in Senate Public Safety for eleven months and was tabled on the deadline.
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Iowa's community solar bill died on the House calendar — and it was the HOA workaround
HF 2672 would have created the subscription model Iowa owners use when a declaration restricts rooftop panels. It cleared committee 19-4, was never called up, and died at the second funnel.
Read the full updateA second motion to reconsider does not stop the sheriff in an Illinois condo eviction
In Royal Oak Condominium Association v. Stevenson the First District held a successive, untimely motion neither stayed the judgment nor extended the time to appeal, so the association was not in contempt for proceeding with the eviction.
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Indiana capped the HOA payoff letter at $50 — nine days after capping it at $250
Two 2026 acts amended the same subsection of IC 32-21-5-8.5. The later one controls, and it set the ceiling for a statement of unpaid assessments at fifty dollars.
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The shortcut that financed 40% of condo sales ended on August 3
Fannie Mae retired the Limited Review process for loan applications dated on or after August 3, 2026, pushing established Kansas condominium projects into Full Review or a Waiver of Project Review — and putting the association's paperwork in the path of every sale.
Read the full updateA Kona association paid $162,500 for refusing accommodations that cost it nothing
DOJ consent decrees resolved Fair Housing Act claims after a buyer with paraplegia was refused an accessible parking space, a ramp and a toilet installation he offered to pay for himself.
Read the full updateLimited Review is gone, and Colorado condos need a 15% reserve allocation by January 4
Fannie Mae retired the Limited Review process for loan applications dated on or after August 3, 2026 and raises the minimum replacement reserve allocation from 10% to 15% of annual budgeted assessment income on January 4, 2027.
Read the full updateDisplaced tenants can sue a condo association as a class — and the policy may not respond
The Third DCA affirmed class certification for tenants displaced by a condominium fire. In a separate case it held an association's businessowners policy owed no defence for a shooting on the property.
Read the full updateNo Louisiana agency registers an HOA, licenses its manager, or takes a complaint about it
Established from the agencies' own publications: zero Attorney General opinions on community-association law in twenty months, zero occurrences of “condominium” or “homeowners association” in the Real Estate Commission's rules, no state registry of associations, and a property-management rule confined to buildings of four units or fewer.
Read the full updateIllinois court calls deconversion bid-suppression predatory and holds the association cannot sue over it
In 540 North Lake Shore Drive Condominium Association v. MCZ Development the First District affirmed dismissal of every claim over an alleged blocking stake and disinformation campaign, and held Section 9.1(b) gives no standing to represent former owners.
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No non-waiver clause, nobody enforcing — and the covenant still held
Muth v. Phillips confirms that in Kentucky, non-enforcement defeats a covenant only where it has fundamentally changed the neighbourhood's character — and that a judge may go and look.
Read the full updateGeorgia's HOA foreclosure threshold is not simply “$4,000”
SB 406 rewrites O.C.G.A. § 44-3-232(c) from 1 January 2027: a two-part threshold with a $2,000 floor, 60 days' notice, fines excluded from the lien maths — and a lien that now lasts six years instead of four.
Read the full updateIn opt-in Massachusetts towns, multifamily over 12,000 square feet must meet Passive House
The Specialized Code at 225 CMR 23.00, amended effective 14 February 2025, requires Passive House compliance for multifamily buildings exceeding 12,000 square feet in municipalities that adopt it.
Read the full updateHawaii's condo insurance crisis produced a long bill list and no new law
Association captives, producer commission disclosure, competitive-quote requirements, hurricane retrofit tax credits and a fire-safety pilot all died in 2026 — leaving Act 296 (2025) as the operative response.
Read the full updateThe reserve mandate Illinois rejected arrived through Fannie Mae instead
The GSEs' 2026 condominium project standards retire Limited Review, cap master-policy deductibles at $50,000 per unit, and require budgets to reflect the highest recommended reserve allocation — binding Illinois associations without any act of the legislature.
Read the full updateFreddie Mac now expressly permits a deductible buy-back policy — the option Colorado boards need
Freddie Mac Bulletin 2026-C retired the Streamlined Review and the 50% owner-occupancy requirement, capped per-unit master-policy deductibles at $50,000, and expressly blessed deductible buy-back insurance as a way to meet its requirements.
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