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AB 1684 passed the Assembly 74-0 and the Senate 38-0. It was enrolled and presented to the Governor on August 27. Zero opposition. When signed, every HOA in California with a cooling restriction on the books is out of compliance. Here is what boards, managers, and owners need to know.
Read on hmrent.comCalifornia's statewide rent cap repeals itself on January 1, 2030. The study that is supposed to tell the Legislature whether it worked is due on or before that same date. If you own rental property in this state, that scheduling is the whole story.
Read on hmrent.comSB 1160 would put California eviction filings into a public spreadsheet broken out by ZIP code. It would also have started in 2028, until an amendment last week pushed every date back five years.
Read on hmrent.comIf you own income property inside a condo or planned development, it can feel like the HOA holds all the cards. On a handful of specific upgrades, California law has been steadily taking that leverage away from the board, and a new bill would add one more item to the list.
Read on hmrent.comIf you own a rental in the South Bay and your property manager touched up the listing photos before posting them, here is a compliance question worth asking now instead of later.
Read on hmrent.comArgentina passed a sweeping rent control law in 2020 and repealed it at the end of 2023. Rental listings in Buenos Aires jumped more than 170 percent and inflation-adjusted rents fell about 40 percent. New York is running the same experiment in slow motion, and Los Angeles is early in the same sequence.
Read on hmrent.comGood News - The 3-Month Eviction Proposal Failed In a significant turn of events on February 10, 2026, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors rejected a controversial proposal
Read on hmrent.comModerate Growth: The Southern California rental market showed moderate growth with low vacancy rates around 5%.
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