Legal Issues in the Condominium Acts in the U.S.: Focusing on the Types of Buildings

Abstract

I have been to Arkansas Law School for my sabbatical from 2018 to 2019. Arkansas was also the first state in the U.S. to have a condominium act along with Hawaii at the state level. In America, as each state has a different condominium law, the trend of uniform law is also seen. To me, the city's approval of hybrid buildings, owners' associations, and development projects were impressive. Owners' associations or community associations are now normal. The United States has a variety of laws at the federal and state levels surrounding collective buildings and regulating statutory controls and housing and owners. In particular, the definitions and differences of condominiums, townhouses, cooperatives, and time-sharing, the creation and conversion of collective buildings, and the governance of owner associations will have many implications for Korea, which has an unfinished collective building law system.