Property News

On 30 July 2026, the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) issued show-cause notices to 13 housing schemes and sub-divisions and formally wrote to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi, the Federal…

For years, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) treated an empty plot and a fully built house almost identically when fixing "fair market value" for tax. That has changed. Through…

For years, traffic from Islamabad's F, G and H sectors — and the fast-developing societies along the GT Road (N-5) belt — had only one clumsy way onto the Islamabad–Peshawar…

If you buy, sell, or gift property in Rawalpindi in 2026, the paperwork you grew up with is gone. The hand-written judicial and non-judicial stamp paper that vendors sold outside…

The Aug 14 Target: A Soft Opening, Not a Finished Highway The Punjab government has set 14 August 2026 — Independence Day — as its latest target to open the…

For months, buyers across Rawalpindi's housing societies have been watching one number in the tax code more nervously than any plot price: Section 114C of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001.…

For twenty years, holding a plot in a wife's name, a driver's CNIC or a cousin's file was standard practice in Rawalpindi. It kept the withholding tax low, kept the…

On 27 July 2026, at 11:00am in a conference room at the Large Taxpayers' Office (LTO) Islamabad — Plot No. 20, Mauve Area, G-9/1 — the Federal Board of Revenue…

Two changes landed within weeks of each other this year, and together they reshape what a plot transfer in Rawalpindi costs and how long it takes. In July 2026 the…