News Archive
Every story we have filed, newest first. 169 stories from March 19, 2026 to October 17, 2026, grouped by month. Every claim links to a primary source.
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October 2026 17
- Tax Alert The Second Department stayed the pied-à-terre annulment. Co-op boards now collect under a mechanism a trial court found defective. October 17, 2026
- How To How to get dues status certification before your NYC condo closing. Iowa requires it by statute. New York doesn't. October 16, 2026
- Comparison Michigan set a minimum reserve floor for condo associations by administrative rule. New York's equivalent bills never moved. October 15, 2026
- Regulatory Gap New York has had a condo and co-op civil court bill since 2009. No committee has heard it. October 14, 2026
- Mandate Alert LL126 Sub-Cycle 1C opened January 1. Three boroughs. No licensed filer. October 13, 2026
- Deadline Alert Local Law 157's gas detector deadline arrives January 1. New York licenses no one overseeing it. October 12, 2026
- Comparison Wisconsin required condo associations to offer owners a dispute conference before suing. New York has no equivalent. October 11, 2026
- Comparison Indiana required a written fine schedule before any board can penalize an owner. New York's Condominium Act has no equivalent. October 10, 2026
- Regulatory Gap A managing agent stayed in a condo lawsuit for repairs. New York has no license. October 9, 2026
- Comparison Arizona required condo and HOA boards to act reasonably and banned votes in executive session. New York has neither. October 8, 2026
- Comparison North Carolina banned fine-based pay for managing agents and capped their contracts at two years. New York has no equivalent. October 7, 2026
- Comparison Georgia required every homeowners association and condo board to register with the state and gave owners twelve rights. New York's bill never advanced. October 6, 2026
- Comparison Maryland authorized condo boards to install EV charging in common parking areas. New York has no equivalent. October 5, 2026
- Comparison New Jersey required structural integrity inspections for steel and concrete condo buildings. New York has no equivalent. October 4, 2026
- Comparison Florida can revoke a condo manager's license and ban the firm. New York has none to revoke. October 3, 2026
- Comparison Florida built a court path to remove condo board directors. New York's Condominium Act has no equivalent. October 2, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Co-op anti-LL97 group took $750K from REBNY. No disclosure required. October 1, 2026
September 2026 32
- Tax Alert Pied-à-terre rollout annulled. The co-op share problem stays. September 30, 2026
- How To Local Law 97's first penalty season is here. Here is what over-limit condo and co-op boards do now. September 29, 2026
- Deadline Alert NYC's Building Code gives traction elevators until January 1 to add a secondary brake. The managing agent overseeing the work needs no license. September 28, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Condo industry asked Congress to pause the Fannie Mae reserve floor. FHFA said no. September 27, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Fannie Mae set a co-op reserve floor. NYC boards use flip taxes instead. September 26, 2026
- Regulatory Gap New York's occupied conversion rules are final. Here is where they stop. September 25, 2026
- Legislation New York's co-op protection bill gave New York City a way out. September 24, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Azure's board fixed its ground rent in three years. New York has no cap. September 23, 2026
- Regulatory Gap New York will fund 300 affordable co-ops. Same governance gap. September 22, 2026
- Regulatory Gap An AI-photo label ships. A managing-agent license waits. The arithmetic is fifty years old. September 21, 2026
- Tax Alert HPD extended the 421-a(16) construction deadline to 2031. The income-restricted condo ownership track has no extension. September 21, 2026
- Mandate Alert DCWP posted the Local Law 61 wage floor. NYC co-op and condo boards have 103 days to budget it. September 20, 2026
- Legislation The bill that would license NYC managing agents has no Senate sponsor going into 2027. September 19, 2026
- Regulatory Gap An NYC permit firm filed 57 jobs without review. No license was required. September 18, 2026
- Mandate Alert Local Law 97 posted 95% compliance in year one. The 2030 threshold will catch 63% of those same buildings. September 17, 2026
- Regulatory Gap New York set a 90-day notice before condo foreclosures. It set no dollar floor. September 16, 2026
- Comparison An Arizona HOA took a house over $977 in dues. New York's rules are thinner. September 15, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Carnegie House won the arbitration fight. New York has no ground lease cap. September 15, 2026
- Comparison Utah licensed property managers and exempted the ones who run condos. September 14, 2026
- Comparison Maryland required condo unit owners to carry insurance. New York hasn't. September 13, 2026
- Deadline Alert LL152 Cycle 2 closes December 31. Five community districts. No licensed filer. September 12, 2026
- Comparison Massachusetts put a reserve fund in its condo law. New York still hasn't. September 11, 2026
- Comparison Washington required condo boards to send owners a reserve summary. New York's bills did not advance. September 10, 2026
- Legislation The city will fund LL97 retrofits. New York still licenses no one managing them. September 9, 2026
- Legislation The bill NYC co-op boards support consolidates energy reports, not disclosures. September 8, 2026
- Regulatory Gap NYC co-op fair housing: a new protected class, the same enforcement gap. September 7, 2026
- Regulatory Gap The city put $100 million into a housing insurance fix. Market-rate condos and co-ops are not in it. September 6, 2026
- Regulatory Gap New York law required the deposits in escrow. 427 Marcy Avenue's developer spent $6.715 million of them. September 5, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Your board can shift a $250,000 deductible to your unit. New York sets no limit. September 4, 2026
- Comparison Tennessee required condo boards to update reserve studies every five years. New York's bill did not advance. September 3, 2026
- Tax Alert DOF fixed 1,210 pied-à-terre errors. The fix revealed a policy choice. September 2, 2026
- Comparison Oregon required annual reserve studies in 1999. New York has nothing. September 1, 2026
August 2026 36
- Comparison Florida required condo boards to post records online. New York's transparency bill passed the Senate and stopped. August 31, 2026
- Mandate Alert LL87 energy audits are due December 31. Your managing agent needs no license to file them. August 30, 2026
- Mandate Alert NYC has run a managing agent registry for decades. Still no license required. August 29, 2026
- Regulatory Gap A co-op overpaid property taxes for 40 years. New York returned six years of it. August 28, 2026
- Legislation Co-op rejection reasons: required in Westchester since 2021, stalled in NYC. August 27, 2026
- Disclosure Local Law 58 gave co-op boards a 45-day deadline. The bill for buyer financial records did not advance. August 26, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Nationwide, HOA reserves are running out. New York has no reserve requirement. August 25, 2026
- Legislation Albany is about to require public listings for home sellers. Condo and co-op buyer disclosure did not move. August 24, 2026
- Disclosure Manhattan luxury co-ops outsold new-development condos last week. Buyers have no statutory right to the books before signing. August 23, 2026
- Disclosure New York's condo boards must delete discriminatory covenants by June 2027. Buyers have no right to know they're there. August 22, 2026
- Mandate Alert NYC gave renters the right to air conditioning by 2030. Co-op subletters are the landlord. Sellers don't have to say so. August 21, 2026
- Disclosure NYC gave co-op buyers a deadline. It did not give them the books. August 20, 2026
- Comparison A reporter counted every condo in an LA tower. New York exempts what she found. August 19, 2026
- Comparison Arizona expanded its condo resale disclosure law. New York has none. August 19, 2026
- Comparison Texas required every condo association to post its governing documents online. New York has no equivalent. August 18, 2026
- Renters Manhattan's average rent hit a record $6,655. The 1.49% vacancy rate quoted beside it is June's number, and it is not the city's. August 18, 2026
- Mandate Alert New York's state cooling tower law adds biannual certifications and fines up to $12,500. LL159 is not the only obligation now. August 17, 2026
- Comparison California prohibited charging interest on condo and HOA fines. New York has no cap and no interest ban. August 16, 2026
- Regulatory Gap The condo industry's own trade organization backs mandatory reserve studies. New York's bill didn't advance. August 15, 2026
- Comparison Illinois required condo and HOA boards to adopt a written collection policy. New York hasn't. August 14, 2026
- Disclosure The federal beneficial ownership data for U.S. companies is being deleted. New York's condo sponsor LLCs were never in the state version. August 13, 2026
- Regulatory Gap A PE firm bought a bankrupt condo sponsor at foreclosure and denied owning it. The Martin Act had one answer. August 12, 2026
- Tax Alert A judge ordered the pied-à-terre database taken down. The city undid it the same evening, and nothing about September 18 changed. August 11, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Three condo boards controlled access to a $2B NYC flood project. New York required no disclosure to their unit owners. August 11, 2026
- Mandate Alert Your building's energy grade posts publicly October 31. New York gives sellers no disclosure duty. August 10, 2026
- Tax Alert New York's pied-à-terre tax rollout faces its first court test. August 9, 2026
- Regulatory Gap The co-op and condo industry quantified $5,859 in annual cost increases. Here is what its proposed remedies leave out. August 8, 2026
- Comparison Maryland mandated reserve plans and independent elections for condo owners. New York hasn't. August 7, 2026
- How To New York has no primary-residence registry. Here is what co-op and condo owners must do about the pied-à-terre notice before September 18. August 6, 2026
- Renters The Extraction Economy: why your landlord shouldn't be getting richer while you get poorer August 5, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Sponsor board service doesn't buy indemnification against the board. August 5, 2026
- Regulatory Gap New York's condo insurance law sets no floor. Fannie Mae just set one. August 4, 2026
- Regulatory Gap A managing agent illegally evicted four tenants. New York has no license to revoke. August 3, 2026
- Regulatory Gap A lawyer's warning about defunct owners associations has 1.07 million views. New York gives you no way to check. August 2, 2026
- Comparison Florida made structural condo reserves non-waivable in 2024. New York's equivalent bill never moved. August 2, 2026
- Comparison Minnesota capped condo board fines and created an owner ombudsman. New York has neither. August 1, 2026
July 2026 31
- Regulatory Gap New York has $22 billion to build affordable homes and $750,000 to save the ones it already built. July 31, 2026
- Comparison Washington enacted a 26-item condo resale disclosure law in 2026. New York has no equivalent. July 31, 2026
- Tax Alert Taxed as a rental building. Exempt from every rental protection. July 31, 2026
- Regulatory Gap NYC has a standard condo renovation contract. Boards don't have to use it. July 30, 2026
- Comparison Colorado required reserve studies at new condo turnover. New York still hasn't. July 24, 2026
- Mandate Alert Albany backed off the 2030 climate target. NYC's LL97 penalty schedule is unchanged. July 23, 2026
- Disclosure When your building loses conventional financing, New York doesn't require your seller to tell you. July 22, 2026
- How To What your reserve study's funding method means after August 3. July 21, 2026
- Legislation The biggest federal housing law in 30 years skips condo and co-op governance. July 20, 2026
- Regulatory Gap An untouchable board and no standard to hold it to: how NY law steers condos and co-ops toward default. July 20, 2026
- Regulatory Gap NYC required monthly cooling tower tests in May. Most buildings hadn't complied. July 20, 2026
- Comparison Hawaii mandated annual condo audits in 2006. New York has no equivalent. July 19, 2026
- Comparison Washington D.C. licensed property managers in 1999 and codified their fiduciary duty. New York's bill has never had a committee hearing. July 18, 2026
- Legislation New York's Senate voted 60-0-2 for a condo owner's bill of rights. Albany adjourned without it. July 17, 2026
- Comparison Georgia required community association manager licensing in 1997. New York's bill has never received a hearing. July 16, 2026
- Tax Alert One shareholder's unpaid pied-à-terre surcharge can lien your entire co-op. DOF's proposed rules don't change that. July 15, 2026
- Regulatory Gap The AG's condo conversion comment period closed July 12. What happens next is not defined by law. July 14, 2026
- Comparison Connecticut required community association manager registration in 1991. New York still doesn't. July 13, 2026
- How To How condo boards can use the NYCEEC MEG loan to fund LL97 upgrades. July 12, 2026
- Comparison Illinois licensed community association managers in 2010. New York's equivalent bill has never moved. July 11, 2026
- Legislation NY's condo ombudsman bill did not advance for the second consecutive session. July 10, 2026
- Regulatory Gap New York's AG filed its first rent stabilization lawsuits. Here is what they reveal about the condo governance gap. July 9, 2026
- Comparison Nevada certified community managers in 2005 and gave owners a state ombudsman. New York has neither. July 8, 2026
- Breaking The largest U.S. office-to-resi conversion buckled mid-construction. The DOB had already written it up seven times. July 10, 2026
- How To Co-op boards have 21 days to protect their summer calendar. July 7, 2026
- Mandate Alert NYC repealed the 1968 building code. The Existing Building Code is next. July 6, 2026
- Regulatory Gap 485-x has a 99-unit floor. NYC developers found it in two years. July 5, 2026
- Regulatory Gap NYC building workers have a four-year contract. Your co-op board didn't negotiate it. July 4, 2026
- Regulatory Gap NYC co-op boards can reject you without a reason. Westchester County disagrees. July 3, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Co-op buyers now have a 45-day application clock. Condo buyers don't. July 2, 2026
- Regulatory Gap A six-year enforcement gap on condo offering plans ended July 1, 2026. July 1, 2026
June 2026 28
- How To How NYC co-ops can use C-PACE financing: lessons from the first deal. June 30, 2026
- How To How co-op boards collect the pied-à-terre surcharge from shareholders. June 29, 2026
- Mandate Alert LL97's June 30 grace period: what late filers and over-limit buildings owe. June 28, 2026
- Regulatory Gap A developer stopped paying common charges. Here is what the condo board can legally do. June 27, 2026
- Mandate Alert NYC's 2025 electrical code lands June 29. LL97 permits now require plan review. June 26, 2026
- Mandate Alert Local Law 61 adds a prevailing-wage mandate to your building's security contract. June 25, 2026
- Regulatory Gap New York mandates flood disclosure. Co-op and condo buyers are exempt. June 24, 2026
- Disclosure What NYC condo and co-op owners can legally demand from the board June 23, 2026
- Comparison Virginia licensed condo managers in 2008. New York still hasn't. June 22, 2026
- Mandate Alert Fannie Mae's 15% reserve floor arrives in January. NYC condo boards need to act. June 21, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Your contractor is ready. Your board has no deadline to approve the permit. June 20, 2026
- Disclosure Most condo sponsor LLCs are exempt from NY's transparency act. June 19, 2026
- Legislation When Albany adjourned in June, four co-op reform bills had no vote. June 18, 2026
- How To New York rewrote the rules for neighbor access during facade repairs. June 17, 2026
- Legislation Ground lease co-op rent cap failed to advance. Fourth year in a row. June 16, 2026
- Regulatory Gap The FDNY's steam-era staffing rule is making LL97 retrofits cost more. June 15, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Local law 97's C-PACE financing tool has a structural gap for co-ops. June 14, 2026
- Comparison New Jersey mandated reserve studies for condos. New York still hasn't. June 13, 2026
- Comparison California required balcony inspection disclosure at sale. New York hasn't. June 12, 2026
- Regulatory Gap The AG published proposed condo conversion rules. The comment window closes July 12. June 11, 2026
- Mandate Alert Three 2025 laws rewrote FISP. The shed clock is now 90 days. June 10, 2026
- Tax Alert The 467-a abatement expires June 30. The DOF crackdown came first. June 9, 2026
- Mandate Alert Every NYC condo loan goes to full review on August 3. Is your building ready? June 8, 2026
- Legislation NY's condo transparency bill: 58-1 Senate, Assembly sponsor withdrew it June 7, 2026
- Regulatory Gap The AG secured $230,000 from a condo sponsor. The structural gap remains. June 6, 2026
- Mandate Alert NYC just made managing agents liable. They still need no license. June 6, 2026
- Pillar Hudson Yards: What $5.6 Billion in Public Money Actually Built June 4, 2026
- Tax Alert The Pied-à-Terre Tax Just Made Your Co-op Board a State Tax Collector June 3, 2026
May 2026 9
- Tax Alert The J-51 Abatement Just Came Back for Ten Years. Here's Who Qualifies. May 23, 2026
- Comparison Florida Fixed Condo Transparency After Surfside. New York Hasn't. May 21, 2026
- Regulatory Gap Why the NY AG Can't Help With Most Condo Governance Disputes May 19, 2026
- Legislation S.71 Is the NY Managing-Agent Licensure Bill Nobody's Talking About May 18, 2026
- Methodology What's Actually in a Forensic Building Audit (Sample Walkthrough) May 15, 2026
- Legislation New York's Condo-Reform Record: What Stalled, and What Passed. May 12, 2026
- Disclosure The NY LLC Transparency Act Took Effect — Sponsor Disclosure Looks Different Now May 9, 2026
- Methodology How We Built the Tier Carrying Burden Framework for 421-a Phase-Out May 6, 2026
- How To How to Write an AG REFB Complaint That Doesn't Get Ignored May 3, 2026
April 2026 11
- Methodology The 15,108-Building NYC Condo + Co-op Universe: What's In It and What's Missing April 30, 2026
- Thesis Your Home Is Not an Investment. It's a Point of Extraction. April 27, 2026
- Pillar The NYC Local Law Extraction Stack: Every Mandate, Every Dollar April 24, 2026
- Mandate Alert Local Law 97: The $20 Billion Carbon Penalty Hanging Over NYC Condos April 21, 2026
- Explainer Local Laws 84, 87, 88: The NYC Energy Compliance Bundle April 18, 2026
- Mandate Alert Local Law 126: The Next Local Law 11 (But for Parking Garages) April 16, 2026
- Mandate Alert Local Law 152: The Gas Piping Inspection Every Four Years April 14, 2026
- Explainer Local Law 147: Cooling Towers, Legionella Testing, and the 2015 Outbreak April 12, 2026
- Deadline Alert Local Law 31: XRF Lead Testing and the Abatement Economy April 9, 2026
- Explainer Local Law 55: Indoor Allergens, Annual Inspections, HPD Exposure April 6, 2026
- Explainer Local Law 196: The 40-Hour SST Card and the Construction Labor Toll April 3, 2026
March 2026 5
- Mandate Alert NYC Elevator Laws: CAT1, CAT5, LL64 Door Locks, 2027 Deadline March 31, 2026
- Explainer Local Law 111: Annual Boiler Inspections and Combustion Tests March 28, 2026
- Mission Why We Built CondosCoopsNYC March 25, 2026
- Tax Alert Your 421-a Tax Abatement Is Expiring — Here's What It Will Cost You March 22, 2026
- Explainer What Is Local Law 11 and Why It Could Cost You $50,000 March 19, 2026