Alaska
Alaska HOA and Condo Resale Certificate: Fees, Deadlines, and How to Order
A resale certificate is the document a title company asks for before an Alaska closing. Alaska associations must deliver it within 10 days. Alaska puts no dollar cap on the fee.
Free for the resale platform. No contract to sign.
Alaska Resale Certificate
Example Harbor Owners Association
Regular assessment
$345.00 monthly
Buyer's review period
5 days by statute
Master insurance
Certificate on file
Due to the requester
Within 10 days
Alaska at a glance
- What Alaska calls it
- Resale Certificate
- Fee cap
- No fixed dollar cap
- Delivery deadline
- 10 days
- Buyer's right to cancel
- 5 days after receiving it
Also called: condo resale certificate. If you were told to get an Alaska resale certificate, or an AK resale certificate as closing agents write it, for a home in an HOA or a condominium, this is that document. It has nothing to do with the sales tax resale certificate a retailer files with the state.
What Alaska law sets
One set of rules covers Alaska. Havn applies it to every order in the state.
AS 34.08.590
Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act. Applies to condominiums, HOAs and planned communities, and cooperatives.
- Required by statute
- Yes
- Fee
- No fixed dollar cap
- Deadline
- 10 days from the request
- Buyer may cancel within
- 5 days
Alaska HOA laws on resale documents, in plain words
Each entry links to the official text. Read the statute itself before relying on a summary.
AS 34.07 (Horizontal Property Regimes Act)
Alaska's original condominium statute, governing horizontal property regimes (condominiums) created in the state before January 1, 1986. It covers how a regime is formed and recorded, ownership and use of apartments and common areas, the association's assessment lien and collection remedies, and basic owner disclosure duties on resale. Select provisions of the newer common interest ownership act also extend forward to cover these older condominiums.
AS 34.08 (Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act)
Alaska's modern common interest ownership statute, governing condominiums, cooperatives, and planned communities (homeowner associations) formed on or after January 1, 1986, with select provisions reaching back to also cover older communities. It addresses formation and governance of the association, the executive board and owner meetings, association records and financial reporting, the assessment lien and collection process, and a unit owner's disclosure obligations when a unit is resold.
AS 34.08.590 (Resales of units)
Requires a unit owner, with the association's help, to give a purchaser the governing documents and a resale certificate describing the community's finances, assessments, and legal standing before a sale closes. The statute sets a deadline for the association to produce the certificate and a fee limit, and gives the buyer a way to unwind the deal if the certificate is not delivered in time.
AS 34.08.470 (Lien for assessments)
Gives the association a lien on a unit for unpaid assessments and fines and sets out how that lien is prioritized and enforced. It also requires the association, on request, to give a unit owner or purchaser a statement of the unit's unpaid assessment balance, a binding payoff-style disclosure used in sales and refinances.
AS 34.07.140 (Statement of unpaid assessments)
Under Alaska's older condominium statute, entitles a purchaser to a statement from the association's manager or board showing the seller's unpaid assessment balance before the sale closes. The statement is binding once given, so the buyer and the unit cannot be held for unpaid assessments beyond what it discloses.
The notice Havn prints on every Alaska resale certificate
Every Alaska document Havn prepares carries a notice that tells the reader where the document comes from and what Alaska law says about it. This is the wording, act by act.
AS 34.08.590Condominiums, HOAs and planned communities, and cooperatives
This resale certificate is furnished under AS 34.08.590 of the Alaska Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act. A purchaser is not liable for any unpaid assessment or fee greater than the amount set out in this certificate. The purchase contract is voidable by the purchaser until this certificate has been provided and for five days after it is provided, or until conveyance, whichever occurs first. The unit owner is not liable to the purchaser for erroneous information provided by the association and included in this certificate, or for the association's failure or delay in providing it. Under AS 34.08.590(a), the unit owner must also furnish the purchaser a copy of the declaration as amended, the bylaws, and the rules or regulations of the association. The information in this certificate is current as of its issue date. Alaska law sets no fixed expiration period for it.
Alaska resale certificate: common questions
What is an Alaska resale certificate?
It is what Alaska law has the association provide when a home in condominiums, HOAs and planned communities, and cooperatives is sold: a statement of what the home owes and of the association's finances, insurance, and rules, under AS 34.08.590.
How much does an Alaska resale certificate cost?
Alaska sets no dollar cap, so the association or its management company sets the fee.
How long does an Alaska association have to provide a resale certificate?
10 days, counted from the request.
Is a resale certificate required in Alaska?
Yes, for condominiums, HOAs and planned communities, and cooperatives, under AS 34.08.590.
Can a buyer cancel after receiving an Alaska resale certificate?
Yes. The buyer has 5 days after receiving it to cancel the purchase contract.
Who pays for the resale certificate in Alaska?
Whoever orders it pays the association's fee, usually the seller or the closing agent on the seller's behalf, and the purchase contract can move the cost to the buyer.
What is included in an Alaska resale certificate?
What the home owes the association, the fees due at closing, the budget and reserves, the insurance the association carries, pending lawsuits, and the governing documents. The full list is in AS 34.08.590.
How do I get a resale certificate in Alaska?
Ask the association, or its management company if it has one. Many take the request through an online order page and deliver by email. Once asked, a Alaska association has 10 days. A buyer should ask the seller or the closing agent to order it.
Is this the same as an Alaska sales tax resale certificate?
No. A sales tax resale certificate is a form a retailer gives a supplier so it can buy goods without paying sales tax. It shares a name and nothing else. This page is about the HOA document used when a home is sold.
How Alaska compares with its neighbors
Management companies that work across state lines meet a different rule on each side. Alaska: no fixed dollar cap, 10 days.
Washington
Resale Certificate
$275
10 days
Required by statute
Oregon
Resale Package
No fixed dollar cap
10 business days
Not required by statute
Hawaii
Association Documents
No fixed dollar cap
30 days
Required by statute
See all 51 jurisdictions on the map, compare every state in the fee and deadline table, or read about lender questionnaires, estoppel letters, and demand letters.
Your next Alaska resale certificate could write itself.
The resale platform is free for the association. The requester pays for the document. No contract to sign.