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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Indiana investors lost the vote on HOA rental restrictions in March
A single section of a 418-page local-government bill limits voting on rental prohibitions to members who use their property as a homestead — and unlike the rest of the 2026 package it took effect on passage.
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Florida water-damage claims turn on one question: can you rule out the common-element pipes?
Two Third DCA decisions a month apart put the same burden on whoever sues. An association lost a directed verdict against an owner; an owner lost summary judgment against her association.
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Iowa SF 2448 adds payoff certificates and transfer-fee schedules to the 10-day records rule
From July 1, 2026, an Iowa association must produce an estoppel certificate and a full transfer-fee schedule within ten business days of an owner's request, and must be able to document the arithmetic behind any fee it charges.
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Georgia enacted eviction-record sealing inside its HOA bill
Section 8 of SB 406 has nothing to do with associations: it adds a new O.C.G.A. § 44-7-50(e) letting a court make dispossessory records unavailable to the public — a renter protection that has failed as standalone legislation elsewhere.
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The HOA bills that died on August 31 are gone for good — nothing carries over
2026 closed a two-year session, so four common interest development measures cannot return. Ten more sit with the Governor until September 30.
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HUD now charges only trained-animal cases — but Connecticut boards answer to CHRO too
HUD withdrew its assistance-animal guidance in September 2025 and limited reasonable-cause findings to trained animals in May 2026. Neither step binds the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities or affects a private court action.
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DC Water must now post your association's arrears at every unit
A District law in force since August 14, 2026 requires shutoff notices to name the condominium or community association as the delinquent party, state the amount owed and the days past due, and go up at each unit 30 working days ahead.
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The POA said the pool was fine. The neighbours sued anyway, and won
An Arkansas court ordered part of an in-ground pool removed for breaching a 25-foot setback, holding that a property owners association's blessing does not bind lot owners with their own enforcement rights.
Read the full updateHOA foreclosure buyers can be outbid for 45 days after the auction
Bird Rock Home Mortgage v. Breaking Ground holds that the Civil Code section 2924m post-sale bidding window applies to association assessment-lien foreclosures.
Read the full updateDC's rooftop solar rule for major re-roofing runs out this month
A temporary act requires rooftop renewable systems where a project replaces or repairs half the roof — with pool decks, roof terraces and HVAC penthouses as the statutory escape hatches. It expires 225 days after taking effect.
Read the full updateConnecticut bill capping gifts to condo board members died without a committee vote
House Bill 5433 would have barred board members and candidates from accepting gifts worth more than $50 a year and stopped managing agents and vendors campaigning in association elections. It never got a vote.
Read the full updateCommunity managers owe no duty of care to individual homeowners
Alarcon v. Avalon Management clears a management company sued by 63 condo owners over an undisclosed structural report and a city vacate order. It is not citable.
Read the full updateDC set a floor for privately collected trash — and put the condo credit under review
The CLEAN Collections Amendment Act requires at least 32 gallons of container space per residential unit and twice-weekly collection, and orders the CFO to report on the condominium and cooperative trash collection tax credit.
Read the full updateThe Eighth Circuit just made owner RICO claims against associations harder to dismiss
A condominium owner's racketeering suit against his association, its manager, its agent and its law firm was revived on the separate accrual rule, in a decision binding on Arkansas federal courts.
Read the full updateDC changed one section of its Condominium Act in two years
Across 77 sections of the DC Condominium Act, exactly one carries a 2025 or 2026 amendment. Everything that reached District associations in that period arrived sideways — through water, stormwater, roads, trees and energy.
Read the full updateConnecticut Supreme Court: being “regarded as” disabled does not earn an assistance animal
In CHRO ex rel. Pizzoferrato v. Mansions, LLC, the Supreme Court held a person only “regarded as” having a mental disability is not entitled to an accommodation — and vacated the Appellate Court's reasoning on when a second animal is “necessary.”
Read the full updateCalifornia HOAs can no longer charge any fee for an ADU
A single sentence added to Civil Code section 714.3 in June 2025 removed fees and financial requirements from the definition of a reasonable restriction. The state's own handbook says so too.
Read the full updateDC regulator: depreciating labor on a property claim is an unfair practice
Bulletin 25-IB-001 tells every property and casualty insurer licensed in the District that depreciating labor, taxes, fees, overhead and profit in an actual-cash-value settlement violates § 31-2231.17(b)(6) — and that no such policy form will be approved.
Read the full updateLittle Rock's flagship POA filed three covenant injunctions in four weeks
Chenal Valley sued three owners in Pulaski County between October and November 2025, and elsewhere in Arkansas owners are suing their own boards — a snapshot of what association litigation actually looks like.
Read the full updateSB 1007 would have cut California's HOA assessment increase cap to 8% — it died in June
The bill passed the Senate 24-13, then never got a hearing in the Assembly. The 20 percent limit in Civil Code section 5605 is unchanged.
Read the full updateConnecticut now lets condo developers spend some buyers' deposits before the building exists
Public Act 25-146 permits a condominium developer to use a purchaser's deposit for actual construction costs instead of holding it in escrow — but only where the contract allows it and the purchaser is an accredited investor.
Read the full updateDC makes condo virtual meetings and electronic voting permanent
D.C. Law 25-324 wrote electronic meetings and early electronic voting into the Condominium Act at § 42-1903.03(f), overriding any contrary language in a condominium's own instruments.
Read the full updateSB 908 would cap California HOA design review over window replacement
The bill would add Civil Code section 4754, imposing a 45-day deemed-approval clock and limiting aesthetic control to buildings over 20 units. It awaits the Governor's signature.
Read the full updateDC Water pauses the stormwater re-measurement that would reset condo bills
The Authority halted its rollout of new Equivalent Residential Unit measurements in January 2026 and says changes will not begin before fiscal year 2029 — but the annual rate keeps rising, reaching $24.23 per ERU per month.
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