The house has been used and furnished for years. However, the decision (Bescheid) records a permit that is revocable or limited to a certain period. You want to live there long-term and invest heavily. For that reason the previous duration of existence must not be taken unexamined as a permanent legal basis in your purchase decision.
Understanding the special permit in the decision
§71 Bauordnung für Wien allows, for the types of structures described there, a permit for a certain period or one that is revocable. The provision concerns buildings of temporary existence and contains further requirements and decision-related particularities. [WIDERRUF]
Have the complete concrete decision assessed, including plans and later rulings. Which building parts and which use are covered? What temporal or other limitation is actually envisaged? The brief statement “baubewilligt” is not sufficient for this special case.
Keep four different items separate
Our editorial recommendation: note the building’s age, the actual previous use, the specific type of permit and the current administrative status side by side. None of these items automatically replaces the others.
The fact that nobody has demanded a change for a long time is not a confirmed transition here to an indefinite permanent permit. Nor should you infer an imminent removal from the mere word “Widerruf”. The legal classification and known current developments must fit the specific case.
Disclose the investment plan
Tell the adviser which works you intend and over what personal period you wish to use the property. Necessary maintenance and a substantial new investment can have different economic significance for your decision. Whether a particular change would be permissible must be clarified separately.
Also ask whether another future permit basis has actually been examined in concrete terms or was only mentioned as a possibility. A planned later legalisation or improvement of the permit situation must not already be treated today as if it were an assured acquired state. The article does not promise any conversion.
Hypothetical case: the modernisation is calculated with an anticipated later permit
A couple wants to comprehensively renovate the house they have bought. They calculate long-term because they were verbally told that a later permanent permit is likely. However, a corresponding examination result is not available; the existing decision is revocable.
Before committing, the couple has the existing basis and the asserted path for the future clarified separately. The bank receives the documents required for the specific status. The example neither makes a revocation prognosis nor a financing statement. It illustrates that prior existence and hoped-for permanence are different assumptions.
Measure the purchase against the examined status
Record which existence is legally declared, which processes are known and which essential question about the future remains open. If your purchase decision only works with a still unexamined permanent solution, state that dependency precisely. A lower purchase price does not explain it by itself. You need a conscious decision about the actually offered basis and the investment matched to it.