Condominium registration fees have not moved since 2019
Condominium registration fees have not moved since 2019
2026-09-15 · New Hampshire · Regulation
The state of play. The New Hampshire Attorney General filed zero administrative rules of any kind between January 2025 and September 2026. The final entry in the Department of Justice's complete filing history is Document #14162, readopting the charitable trusts chapter effective December 27, 2024 — before the window opens.1
So the two chapters that govern condominium and land-sales registration remain exactly as adopted: "#12909* Adopt Jus 1300 Land Sales Full Disclosure Rules (eff 10-24-19) EXPIRES: 10-24-29" and "#12910* Adopt Jus 1400 Condominium Rules (eff 10-24-19) EXPIRES: 10-24-29."
The fees, verbatim
Jus 1402.02(b): "The fee accompanying each initial application for registration shall be no less than $300, nor more than $2,000. The fee accompanying each additional application filed by the same applicant shall be no less than $200, nor more than $2,000. This paragraph shall be construed to mean that the total fee for a condominium that is to be registered in phases can exceed $2,000."2
Jus 1402.02(c): "the amount of the fee for each application shall be calculated by multiplying the number of units for which registration is sought by $30."
Jus 1402.04: "The amount of the fee that shall accompany an application for exemption shall be $200."
Filing may be electronic. Jus 1402.05: "Any application, request, report, or supporting documents related thereto filed with the bureau for registration under, exemption from, or as required by any provision of RSA 356-B or these rules may be submitted in an electronic form or in paper form."
The forms themselves are dated August 2019 — Form CPLC001, Affirmation of Complete Application, and Form CPLC300, Certification of Amendment Pursuant to RSA 356-B:54, V. No form revision in the window either.
The 25-unit exemption rule, and why it is worth reading now
The provision most small New Hampshire condominiums actually live under is Jus 1404.02, "Exemption from Registration; 25 Units," implementing RSA 356-B:49, III. Its conditions, verbatim:
"Pursuant to RSA 356-B:49, III, the bureau shall exempt a condominium from the registration and annual reporting requirements of RSA 356-B:50, I, and RSA 356-B:51-55 if the following conditions are met: (1) The total number of units in the condominium shall not exceed 25, including any units to be added by reason of expansion or merger; (2) The condominium shall not be a time sharing or conversion condominium; (3) The declarant shall be the owner of record of the condominium property at the time the application for exemption is filed… (6) Prior to a prospective purchaser entering into a purchase and sale agreement, the declarant shall: a. Disclose in writing to each prospective purchaser all improvements which are promised and which are proposed or contemplated but not promised; and b. Post a bond in favor of the unit owners' association, and the bureau, to ensure completion of all promised improvements, other than units; (7) Construction of all improvements shall be complete within 2 years from the date the application for exemption is filed…"
Three conditions in that list do work people miss. The 25-unit count includes units "to be added by reason of expansion or merger," so a phased project is measured at its full built-out size, not its first phase. Conversion condominiums are excluded outright, which matters in a state with a lot of converted mills and converted apartment stock. And the bond in favour of the unit owners' association is a real asset the association owns — whether one was posted and whether it was ever released is a post-transition question.
What the registration file is worth to an existing association
Boards treat the AG registration as developer-era paperwork with no present relevance. It has at least two present uses.
The first is environmental. New Hampshire's septic and subdivision rules make a condominium created between June 18, 1971 and September 1, 1989 eligible for individual sewage disposal system approval without subdivision approval only if, among other conditions, "[t]he condominium was registered under RSA 479-A or was approved by the New Hampshire attorney general under RSA 356-B, if required by the statute in effect at the time." The registration file is a precondition to fixing a septic system.
The second is documentary. The registration submission contains the public offering statement, the promised improvements, and the instruments as filed — sometimes the cleanest surviving copy of what the declarant actually committed to, in an association whose own records have been through three managers.
A caveat on the fee numbers
The rule states the $30-per-unit calculation and the $300 to $2,000 band as a rule, and the band can be exceeded in aggregate for a phased registration by the rule's own terms. What the rule does not do is set the statutory exemption threshold, which lives in RSA 356-B:49 and which the 2026 session moved. A developer reading the rule's 25-unit exemption alongside the statute's threshold should check both, because the rule has not been amended since 2019 and the statute has.
What to watch next
The Jus 1300 and Jus 1400 chapters both expire October 24, 2029. A readoption has to happen before then, and it is the natural moment for the Bureau to reconcile its rules with whatever the Condominium Act review produces. Nothing suggests it will move earlier.
One reading note for anyone checking New Hampshire rules themselves: a filing appears in the agency filing history within a day or two of being filed, but the certified text can lag, and an entry without an asterisk is filed-but-not-yet-certified. There were no unasterisked Justice Department entries in 2025 or 2026.
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