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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Florida's proposed public database of condo turnover certificates died in both chambers
HB 255 and SB 638 would have required boards to file turnover certificates with the state and directed DBPR to build a searchable database. Neither bill was ever agendaed.
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Fort Collins legalised ADUs and cut parking minimums — with no mention of covenants anywhere
Ordinance No. 009, 2025 added ADUs across Fort Collins residential districts and removed minimum parking requirements for new multi-unit development. Searched in full, its eighteen pages contain no reference to HOAs or covenants.
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Naming a minor kills the whole Illinois eviction case, not just that defendant
Public Act 104-0317 requires dismissal of an eviction complaint in its entirety against all defendants if it names a minor, seals the case, and exposes the plaintiff to $1,000 in liquidated damages plus fees.
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Reported: Johnson County demanded a rent freeze from Havenpark and had no power to require one
Two years of press coverage of three Johnson County manufactured-home communities — rising lot rents, water outages, homes reported sinking — and a county board of supervisors with letters as its only instrument.
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Tightening a Louisiana HOA's use restrictions now takes more than 80% of the whole association
R.S. 9:1141.14 requires a supermajority to amend a declaration to restrict use, grandfathers uses already under way, treats a minimum-lease-term rule as more burdensome, and routes tougher design standards through a separate two-thirds vote with a forty-percent-of-value trigger.
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Kansas insurers paid $879 million in storm claims in one year
The Kansas Insurance Department's March 2026 release put 2025 storm claims at 82,498 and $879,074,368.54 paid — a 99 percent increase over 2023, with Sedgwick County alone above $328 million.
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A Georgia developer claimed declarant rights it never had — and lost a RICO verdict
In Kingwood v. McMurry, four amendments were void because the entity that made them was never the declarant. The fraud and RICO verdicts stood; a $1.9m-per-household punitive award was vacated as excessive.
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Indiana HOAs finally got the power to fine — with a condition attached
New IC 32-25.5-3-12 gives planned communities their first express statutory fining authority, but only after the board adopts and publishes a written schedule of fines that members can vote to amend.
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A 25 percent cap on association attorneys' fees was cut, then the bill died
SB 2037 would have barred charging owners attorneys' fees on fines that are not collectable and capped fee awards at a quarter of the underlying claim; the committee deleted the cap and Judiciary never heard it.
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Write detailed covenants and you keep less discretion — a Kentucky panel ordered plans approved
Strunk v. Taylor holds that where plans plainly conform to specific and unambiguous covenants, a general consent-to-build clause does not license an arbitrary rejection.
Read the full updateAn Illinois disability claim against a condo board failed by one day
In Chellappa v. Summerdale Court Condominium Association the First District affirmed dismissal of repair and disability-accommodation claims over soundproofing — rejecting the trial court's exhaustion rationale but holding the claims were filed one day late.
Read the full updateColorado froze homeowners non-renewals in five ZIP codes after the Aspen Acres Fire
Emergency Regulation 26-E-04 took effect August 19, 2026, barring cancellations and non-renewals based solely on location in five Pueblo and Custer county ZIP codes — but it applies to owner-occupied homeowners policies, not association master policies.
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Massachusetts right to charge: a board has 60 days to answer an EV charger request, or it is approved
M.G.L. c. 183A section 10A bars condominium and homeowners associations from unreasonably restricting an owner's EV charger, and deems an application approved if not denied in writing within 60 days.
Read the full updateNo association foreclosure judgment while the owner's interrelated counterclaims sit unresolved
The Third DCA reversed a summary foreclosure judgment where the owner's tender defence and counterclaims for breach of the declaration and fiduciary duty had never been adjudicated.
Read the full updateThree bills to tighten agricultural condominium regimes died in 2026
Two would have forced county sign-off on condominium maps for agricultural land; one cleared the Senate 25–0 and was never heard in the House. The one restriction that did pass rode in an agriculture bill.
Read the full updateLouisiana's association lien machinery was rewritten, and it now runs on two different clocks
Part III of the Chapter — R.S. 9:1145 through 1148, which governs both condominium and planned-community associations — now sets a thirty-day demand, a mandatory payment-application order, priority from recordation, and a one-year or five-year deadline to file a notice of pendency depending on what the assessment was for.
Read the full updateGeorgia created no HOA study committee — before or after passing its HOA law
The 2026 interim roster runs to 24 committees covering kratom, nuclear power and foster care. Not one touches community associations, housing affordability or property insurance — and two resolutions to create one died.
Read the full updateIllinois SB 3527 makes a written collection policy a condition of suing for assessments
Public Act 104-0734 bars a condominium or common interest community association from taking legal action on unpaid common expenses unless it has adopted and follows a seven-point written collection policy, effective January 1, 2027.
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Alabama rebuilt its PACE financing program — and kept condominiums shut out
Act 2026-265, effective June 1, 2026, opened Alabama's property-assessed financing program to private capital providers while retaining the exclusion of condominium and cooperative units, limited common elements and common elements.
Read the full updateFHA and VA did not follow the GSEs — Colorado condo eligibility is about to split by loan type
HUD's condominium project approval page lists no 2025 or 2026 change, and no VA circular on condo approval was located. From January 2027 a Colorado project can satisfy FHA at 10% reserves while failing conventional review at 15%.
Read the full updateLand Court: an arbitrary architectural denial gets no protection from the business judgment rule
In Feldman v. Sanctuary Condominium Association the Land Court ordered a Salem board to permit an owner's own-expense repair after 37 years of refusals, finding the denial inconsistent and unsupported.
Read the full updateOverland Park formally asked the Legislature to limit HOA solar bans
The city wrote support for state limits on homeowners association solar restrictions into its 2026 legislative program — an unusual case of a Kansas city lobbying against private association authority. The bill it backed died in committee.
Read the full updateIllinois owners nearly won the right to record board meetings; HB 4618 died eight days after reaching subcommittee
HB 4618 would have let unit owners or their proxies record board meetings, mandated a video-conference option, restricted copying fees and banned confidentiality agreements around board decisions. It was killed on the House committee deadline.
Read the full updateHawaii AG indicts a property manager over $647,061 taken from associations
An Oahu grand jury indicted a Hawaiian Properties manager on computer fraud and first-degree theft over 22 allegedly unauthorized association checks — a sum that exceeds Hawaii's statutory fidelity-bond ceiling three times over.
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