Georgia HOA & condo associations in court: the numbers

Georgia on the map

10 of the 565 communities with court records (rings, coloured by their most common case type) have an address or ZIP in the record and are drawn here; the rest have no location in any record and are not on the map, but stay searchable. Click a pin for the community's report, or open the full-screen map.

HOA Spy indexes 3,136 Georgia homeowner and condominium associations. 565 of them appear in 809 court records — 0 from county and state trial courts, 527 from appellate courts and 282 from federal dockets. Georgia ranks 14th of the 15 states with the most court records on HOA Spy. Every number on this page is computed from official court and county records; data as of 2026-10-02.

The facts

• The records are spread thin: 433 of the 565 communities with a court record appear in exactly one case, and the ten most-litigated together hold only 9% of the records.
• It cuts both ways: associations were the plaintiff in 256 records and the defendant in 434.
• The busiest year on file was 2025, with 67 records.
• Appellate cases make up 65% of the records (527): decisions of the state's appellate courts. Next come Other cases (130).
• HOA Spy indexes no Georgia trial court yet, so these are appellate decisions (527) and federal dockets (282) only — the county-court suits where most HOA litigation happens are not counted here.
• 47 records are fair-housing, disability-accommodation or other civil-rights suits — the kind of case a buyer with a service animal or an accessibility request should know about.
• The 543 associations with a registered unit count hold 39,602 units between them.
• Fulton County alone holds 82 records (10% of the state) across 51 communities.

What the cases are about

Each court record is labelled by its nature of suit the way the map colours it. Georgia's 809 records break down as:

• Appellate527 · 65%
• Other130 · 16%
• Insurance60 · 7%
• Civil Rights47 · 6%
• Collections23 · 3%
• Foreclosure10 · 1%
• Property9 · 1%
• Labor2 · 0%
• Tax1 · 0%

Appellate: decisions of the state's appellate courts · Other: dockets that carry no nature of suit or one outside these groups (county civil dockets often say only "civil") · Insurance: coverage disputes with an insurer · Civil Rights: fair-housing, disability-accommodation and other civil-rights claims · Collections: assessment, debt and contract claims · Foreclosure: the association foreclosing its lien, or named in a lender's foreclosure · Property: property and condominium disputes · Labor: employment and labor claims · Tax: tax matters

Who is suing whom

The side comes from the role the court recorded for the association where the docket gives one, otherwise from which side of the “v.” the association's name sits. Appeals, petitions and association-versus-association captions stay undetermined.

Filings by year

court records · 2026 is partial

The oldest records on file date from 1978. Years reflect the filing date on the docket (the decision date for appellate opinions); records with no date are left out. Coverage grows as courts are added, so part of any rise is HOA Spy reaching more dockets — see the sources below.

Where the cases are

The county is the community's own (from its registration or ZIP), not the court's. Courts with the most Georgia records: Court of Appeals of Georgia (487); District Court, N.D. Georgia (231); Supreme Court of Georgia (40); District Court, M.D. Georgia (21); District Court, S.D. Georgia (20); United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Georgia (6); Supreme Court of the United States (2); Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2).

Associations with the most court records

A long record is not by itself a verdict on a community: a large association collecting assessments through the courts can have hundreds of small-claims entries. Open the profile to see what the cases are and who brought them.

How Georgia compares

The states with the most court records on HOA Spy. The share column is the part of each state's indexed communities that appear in at least one case; it depends on which courts are indexed there as much as on the communities themselves.

Where this data comes from

• Federal dockets and state appellate opinions: CourtListener (RECAP archive and bulk data, snapshot 2026-09-30)
• Local inventories: DeKalb County GA GIS — HOA and Neighborhoods (homeowner, condo, townhome, neighborhood & civic associations) (422); City of Sandy Springs GA —… (2,587 records)
• IRS roster: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File (132 records)
• Not collected: SOS corporate bulk — $500 one-time / $5,000-yr
• Not collected: GSCCCA statewide deed/lien index — paid subscription

Most HOA litigation happens in state trial courts, which have no national index; HOA Spy reads the portals it can. A Georgia community outside the indexed courts can have cases this page does not count. Names are matched conservatively, so an ambiguous match is left out rather than guessed. Sources & methodology.

Questions people ask

How many HOA lawsuits are filed in Georgia each year?

In 2025, the last full year, 67 court records naming a Georgia community association were filed in the courts HOA Spy indexes; the five-year average is 47 a year. The busiest year on file is 2025 with 67.

Which Georgia associations have the most court cases?

By records on file: DRUID HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION (12); CAMELOT CLUB CONDOMINIUM (10); the Plantation at Bay Creek Homeowners Association, Inc. (9).

Do Georgia HOAs sue homeowners more than they get sued?

In the records with a known side, the association was the plaintiff 256 times and the defendant 434 times. Suits brought by associations are typically assessment collection and lien enforcement; suits against them typically come from owners, insurers or lenders.

How do I check a specific Georgia HOA?

Search it by name on HOA Spy: the report lists every lien, case and complaint on file with a link to the official record, and says which sources were checked. Communities with records also have a profile page under the Georgia directory. Data as of 2026-10-02.