VIC Property Law - Purchasing Property Without Building Permit from Owners?

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Nikola

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Looking at buying a property to which the owners have added a pergola without having a building permit. Can I apply for a post factum permit without being fined under Property Law? Can I be forced to demolish it?
 

Tim W

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  1. Are you certain that it's not a complying work?
  2. Is it an option to offer them, say, ten thousand less,
    being the cost of removing it, and replacing it with a compliant one?