Housing Schemes

For years, Pakistan's flagship low-cost housing loan struggled with one fatal flaw: the numbers were too small to matter. A Rs2m–Rs3.5m cap could not build a real house in an…

For the first time in roughly 25 years, Pakistan has a fresh housing rulebook. The Federal Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, approved the National Housing Policy 2026 —…

The Gap Between 5% and 11.5% Is the Whole Opportunity In February 2026 the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved a revised version of the federal government's flagship housing-finance programme, Mera…

A Genuinely Big Idea for First-Time Buyers Among the property measures floated with the Budget 2026-27 (the Finance Bill was tabled on 10 June 2026), one proposal stands out for…

If you are sitting on a 5-marla plot in an RDA-approved society around Rawalpindi and have been waiting for the "right time" to build, that time may have just arrived.…

In June 2026 the Capital Development Authority Board approved, in principle, a set of amendments to the Islamabad Capital Territory (Zoning) Regulation 1992 — the 34-year-old instrument that decides where…

If you have scrolled through property pages this year, you have seen the claim: "developers in Pakistan are now required to hold buyer funds in escrow." It is repeated constantly…

In June 2026, the Punjab Cabinet Standing Committee on Legislative Business cleared a package of amendments to the Punjab Private Housing Schemes Rules, 2022 — the rulebook that governs how…

What actually changed on 5 July 2026 On 5 July 2026, Punjab's Housing and Urban Development Minister Bilal Yasin chaired a review that formally widened the scope of the Apni…