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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An Arizona owner cannot sue alone over neglected common areas
Division One held that a claim over an association's failure to maintain common areas is derivative, so it requires 50 members or 25 percent of the voting power plus a written demand under A.R.S. §§ 10-3631 and 10-3632.
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The Hurricane Relief Fund is writing condo excess again — here's who qualifies
Two declination letters, insured value above $10 million, a $10 million underlying limit and a fixed 2 percent per-building deductible: the HHRF's terms, and the deadlines that lock a board out.
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Louisiana doubled property insurance cancellation notice to sixty days — in two separate acts
Act 182 of 2025 changed the policyholder bill of rights and the cancellation and nonrenewal statutes from thirty days to sixty, effective July 1, 2026, and added a duty to state the cause. Act 848 of 2026 made the matching change inside the Standard Fire Policy form.
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Illinois tells insurers to stop naming public adjusters on association claim checks
IDOI Company Bulletin 2026-01 says insurers have been adding public adjusters as co-payees regardless of whether the insured agreed, and calls the practice a violation of the Illinois Public Adjuster Law.
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Colorado's drought shield against HOA watering fines is narrower than owners think
A July 23, 2026 state advisory says the CCIOA drought protection only covers an owner watering to the maximum the local restriction allows — and concedes the statute never defines what proof of that looks like.
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Nine Georgia HOA transparency bills, and not one floor vote
Beyond the marquee measures, the 2025-2026 biennium carried a whole tier of records, account-statement and election bills. Two were favourably reported and never called; the rest never left committee.
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Florida's Marketable Record Title Act wiped out a golf-course restriction an HOA relied on
The Sixth DCA held that an affidavit confirming signing authority is not a muniment of title, so it could not preserve a 1973 use restriction past the 30-year window.
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Reported: Iowa home insurance rose 28% in 2025 — and the condo deductible cap just went to $50,000
A private-sector projection put Iowa third nationally for 2025 premium increases. Iowa's Insurance Division has issued no bulletin on the homeowners market, and the gap between master-policy and HO-6 deductibles is where condo assessment disputes begin.
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Four Kentucky housing bills, one identical sentence: your covenants are not being preempted
Every significant land-use preemption bill of Kentucky's 2026 session carried an express clause preserving homeowners association and condominium restrictions — and all four bills died anyway.
Read the full updateA shuttered 152-unit Hilo condo-hotel shows how a leasehold project ends
The state ordered an $8,600 structural inspection of a vacant 1969 building on Banyan Drive after a party expressed interest in rehabilitating it — even though $14 million is already appropriated to demolish it.
Read the full updateBlue Island revoked a mobile home park's licence and 66 households had no statutory safety net
The City revoked Forest View Mobile Home Park's business licence effective immediately in July 2025 over unpaid water bills and code violations. Because Blue Island is home rule, IDPH licensing never applied — and no Illinois law guaranteed residents relocation money.
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Cambridge demolished a 66-unit condominium, and the owners are being billed for it
Structural defects found during 2023 roof repairs at 221 Mount Auburn Street led to evacuation, a city-run demolition, and a municipal lien. Some owners may see no proceeds from the land sale.
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Wichita would drop the public hearing for backyard apartments
Wichita has been working since November 2025 toward replacing conditional use approval for accessory apartments with an administrative permit. The drafts say nothing about private covenants, and nothing is adopted yet.
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The HOA fuel-source bill died at 10:16 p.m. on the last night
HB 1389 passed both Indiana chambers in 2025 and then collapsed when the Senate rejected its own conference report 17-33, hours before sine die — a year before the same language became law.
Read the full updateYour master policy is not “homeowners insurance” in Louisiana, and that decides which protections apply
R.S. 22:47(15) confines “homeowners' insurance” to a policy on a one- or two-family owner-occupied premises. Every 2025-2026 Louisiana instrument addressed to homeowners insurers therefore misses association master policies — including the nonrenewal-plan regulation boards keep citing.
Read the full updateThe ballot measures to cap Colorado HOA dues and make them deductible never made the ballot
Two 2026-cycle initiatives — a $150 to $300 monthly cap on HOA fees, and a deduction for them — died at the review-and-comment stage because the proponents filed an idea rather than statutory text.
Read the full updateGeorgia neighbours voted in a short-term rental ban and it bound the owner who objected
In Vaughn v. Windfield, the Court of Appeals let a 1987 covenant community amend itself into a mandatory association, submit to the POA Act, and enforce a new rental ban against owners who never consented.
Read the full updateSix condominium ombudsman bills, zero hearings — and the task force said no too
Every 2026 measure to create a DCCA ombudsman for condominium owners died without a committee hearing, and the state's own task force declined to recommend one on duplication grounds.
Read the full updateTwo Illinois laws now demand the first page of a lease, and boards renting units must satisfy both
Public Act 104-0479 bans eleven rental fees and requires every non-optional fee on page one of the lease; the Summary of Rights for Safer Homes Act requires the state survivor-rights summary as page one. Associations and managers leasing units must reconcile both.
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An Orange Beach condo association sued the city under the Open Meetings Act — not the Condominium Act
Turquoise Place Condominium Association sued the City of Orange Beach in December 2025 alleging a special-called settlement meeting was posted online five minutes before it began, and asked the court to invalidate what the council did.
Read the full updateA Massachusetts court ordered a condo trust to buy out a dissenting owner after a fire
Counsel describe Samuels v. Stratford Condominium Trust as the first known court-ordered buy-back in Massachusetts under c. 183A section 17. The trust paid $835,000 and satisfied the judgment in January 2025.
Read the full updateFlorida HOAs can no longer demand a building permit before they will review your project
HB 803, now Chapter 2026-63, bars an association or its architectural committee from requiring a building permit as a prerequisite to review. It took effect on 1 July 2026.
Read the full updateColorado is building 39 apartments for every condominium
Reported figures put Colorado rental apartment production at nearly 39 times condominium production by 2025, with condo-builder liability insurance running 4% to 6% of hard costs and fewer than five insurers underwriting the risk.
Read the full updateA missing postmark undid a Georgia HOA's foreclosure against a lender
River Mansions cancelled a security deed by default judgment. The Court of Appeals set the whole thing aside: the certified-mail receipt carried a private postage meter stamp, not a Post Office postmark.
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