Residential Property

State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over [HB-767] [Real Estate ] [Housing ] [Consumer Protection ]
Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedures and requirements for the execution of a warrant for repossession; establishing that the Act does not restrict the authority of the State or a local jurisdiction to enact or enforce certain legislation; applying the Act prospectively; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein Approved By The Governor - Chapter 563 on 05/13/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Property Tax – Low–Income Housing Tax Credit – Valuation of Property [SB-598] [Housing ] [Property Tax ] [Taxes ] [Community Development ] [Finance ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, within 30 days of closing and the execution and delivery of a certain regulatory agreement, that a commercial property that is developed under a certain provision of federal law has been awarded a low-income tax credit; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman Approved By The Governor - Chapter 68 on 04/08/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Sale of Residential Property - Taxes and Offers to Purchase (End Hedge Fund Control of Maryland Homes Act of 2025) [SB-582] [Real Estate ] [Taxes ] [Housing ] [Community Development ] [Nonprofit ] [Property Tax ]
Authorizing a person who offers for sale to a third party improved single-family residential real property, for the first 30 days, to accept an offer to purchase the property made only by an individual, a community development organization, a nonprofit organization, or a real estate enterprise that owns an interest in less than 3% of all residential real property in the county; and altering the rate of the State transfer tax payable for an instrument of writing for a sale of certain residential real property under certain circumstances.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson Hearing Canceled (budget And Taxation) And Hearing Canceled (judicial Proceedings) on 02/17/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Homestead Property Tax Credit - Eligible Properties - Alteration [HB-726] [Property Tax ] [Taxes ] [Housing ]
Expanding eligibility for the homestead property tax credit to include additional residences.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. William J. Wivell Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/28/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Residential Real Property - Tenants' Right of First Refusal [SB-606] [Housing ] [Real Estate ] [Consumer Protection ]
Clarifying the circumstances under which liability for the failure to comply with certain requirements relating to a tenant's right of first refusal to purchase residential property is restricted to the owner of the property and does not attach to the property.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West Approved By The Governor - Chapter 525 on 05/13/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases and Holdover Tenancies - Local Good Cause Termination (Good Cause Eviction) [HB-709] [Housing ] [Real Estate ] [Consumer Protection ]
Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for a local law or ordinance adopted in accordance with the Act; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle K. Wilkins Hearing Canceled on 02/13/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Utilities - Alternatives to Construction of New Transmission Lines [HB-657] [Energy ] [Environmental ] [Agriculture ] [Public Lands and National Parks ] [Construction ] [Public Safety ]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap with certain lots, parcels, or tracts of land.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barrie S. Ciliberti Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Real Property - Short-Term Rentals [HB-705] [Real Estate ] [Housing ] [Consumer Protection ]
Prohibiting the governing body of a county or municipality from enacting a local law or ordinance prohibiting the offering of residential property as a short-term rental by an operator solely because the operator is a lessee or sublessee.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kriselda Valderrama Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer [SB-502] [Property Tax ] [Law Enforcement ] [Taxes ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or municipal corporation to define, by law, who is a correctional officer and judicial officer; and applying the Act retroactively to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe Approved By The Governor - Chapter 130 on 04/22/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Excess Ownership of Single-Family Residences Excise Tax (End Hedge Fund Control of Maryland Homes Act of 2025) [SB-510] [Housing ] [Taxes ] [Real Estate ] [Finance ] [Community Development ] [Economic Development ]
Imposing an excise tax on the acquisition and excess ownership of certain single-family residences in the State by certain entities; providing for the calculation, collection, and distribution of the excise tax; establishing the Down Payment and Settlement Expense Loan Program Fund which may be used only to provide financing for down payment and settlement expenses to enable eligible homebuyers to purchase homes; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/17/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Real Property - Filing Fee for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure - Increase [SB-566] [Real Estate ] [Finance ] [Housing ] [Property Tax ]
Increasing the filing fee required to accompany an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property from $300 to $450.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Charles E. Sydnor Approved By The Governor - Chapter 569 on 05/13/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Utilities - Alternatives to Construction of New Transmission Lines [SB-483] [Energy ] [Environmental ] [Agriculture ] [Public Safety ] [Infrastructure ] [Construction ]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap with certain lots, parcels, or tracts of land.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Carozza Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Criminal Law – Fraud – Possession of Residential Real Property [HB-560] [Real Estate ] [Crime ] [Housing ] [Criminal Justice ] [Property Tax ] [Public Safety ]
Prohibiting a person from possessing or claiming a right to possess residential real property the person does not lawfully possess or own, with the intent to defraud another; authorizing the owner of certain residential real property to file a certain sworn affidavit and requiring a sheriff to remove a certain person from residential real property under certain circumstances; and providing that the Act does not prohibit the owner of property from filing a wrongful detainer action.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin E Holmes Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Criminal Law - Fraud - Possession of Residential Real Property [SB-489] [Real Estate ] [Crime ] [Housing ] [Criminal Justice ] [Property Tax ] [Public Safety ]
Prohibiting a person from possessing or claiming a right to possess residential real property the person does not lawfully possess or own, with the intent to defraud another; authorizing the owner of certain residential real property to file a certain sworn affidavit and requiring a sheriff to remove a certain person from residential real property under certain circumstances; and providing that the Act does not prohibit the owner of property from filing a wrongful detainer action.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. J.B. Jennings Hearing 2/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/24/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Residential Owners in Common Ownership Communities - Bill of Rights [HB-557] [Housing ] [Real Estate ] [Consumer Protection ] [Community Development ]
Establishing a bill of rights for unit owners of a condominium, members of a cooperative housing corporation, and lot owners of a homeowners association.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin E Holmes Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Property Tax - Low-Income Housing Tax Credit - Valuation of Property [HB-585] [Property Tax ] [Housing ] [Taxes ] [Community Development ] [Real Estate ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, within 30 days of closing and the execution and delivery of a certain regulatory agreement, that a commercial property that is developed under a certain provision of federal law has been awarded a low-income tax credit; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr Approved By The Governor - Chapter 67 on 04/08/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Real Estate Development and Highway Rights-of-Way - Installation of Broadband Micro Conduits and Microducts [HB-626] [Real Estate ] [Telecommunications ] [Infrastructure ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Construction ] [Economic Development ]
Requiring the installation of micro conduits in any utility easement and building power or telecommunication rooms during the new construction or major improvement of certain commercial and residential premises; requiring that buried fiber optic cable installed in a highway right-of-way include conduit containing at least seven microducts; requiring the Department of Transportation or a unit of local government to ensure a broadband service provider has access to the conduit on a neutral and nondiscriminatory basis; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Phillips Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/17/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over [SB-442] [Real Estate ] [Housing ]
Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedures and requirements for the execution of a warrant for repossession; establishing that the Act does not restrict the authority of the State or a local jurisdiction to enact or enforce certain legislation; and applying the Act prospectively.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Charles E. Sydnor Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/05/2025

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State (Arizona)
Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

Home purchase; corporate buyer restriction [HB-2360] [Real Estate ] [Housing ] [Consumer Protection ]
Home purchase; corporate buyer restriction

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Lydia Hernandez Introduced In House And Read First Time on 06/27/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Prince George's County - Community Associations - Registration Fees for Administrative Hearing Process PG 408-25 [HB-360] [Community Development ] [Housing ] [Real Estate ]
Altering the registration fee requirement for the Community Association Registry; permitting the County Executive to establish the registration fee; prohibiting a person or entity who fails to register from filing a dispute; and requiring the Prince George's County Office of Community Relations to provide revenue from annual community association registration fees to fund the administrative hearing process for disputes between community associations and owners in Prince George's County.

  

Sponsored by: No sponsors Approved By The Governor - Chapter 597 on 05/13/2025

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