Real estate

There is emerging talk in print media about stagnant performance of real estate sector in Pakistan

Taxation measures, political uncertainty have pushed investors on sidelines

Investor activity remains largely muted during the three-month period

In return, govt gets paltry Rs877m in taxes; Karachi tops list of transactions

MCCI president urges govt to address the issue urgently

SECP suggests FBR check data of these individuals

Real estate sector facing problems due to imposition of heavy taxes

Growth in free property portals has removed the need for middlemen to conduct transactions

Brings major marketing firms under one roof

Many markets struggle in the wake of political and economic uncertainty

Indicating maturity, the markets show no sharp movements before and after budget

Country needs more homes for its growing population, space for offices and facilities for workforce

Arif Habib Dolmen REIT Management CEO says eight projects shelved plans to get listed

Urged the government to regulate the real estate sector to bring property investment into the formal economy

Despite growth in borrowing, textile exports continue to decline

Kushner disclosed earlier this year that his stake in the WiredScore was worth $5 million to $25 million

It is time Pakistan learned from the US subprime mortgage crisis.

February survey shows mixed results across different cities

Provincial authorities expect to double tax collection from endeavour

Says regulatory frame work for such initiatives does not exist in country

Start-up offers entry-level ticket to own small stakes in commercial or residential property

Report says Karachi fared well, Lahore and Gujranwala were stable

Revised rates would have meant lower tax collection on transactions .

Karachi is probably most infamous of the cities for haphazard city projects

Confidence in the real estate market is rising

Gujranwala, with comparatively lower land prices, leads price surge

The budget of 2016 brought nothing but bad news for the real estate sector

Calls for tax amnesty, tax reduction for sector

After tax amnesty scheme, stakeholders getting back in the game

Says a general tax amnesty scheme should be extended especially to the industrial sector

A global real estate tycoon is being elected president of the USA

Sense of ambiguity prevails for fourth month in a row

Samhan Housing unveils plans for future residential projects

The scheme will allow people to retain 97% of ill-gotten and tax-evaded money

Sector's bubble needed to be given a reality check

Most ideas came in payments, finance, insurance, investment and real estate

Scheme, if cleared by parliament, will whiten an estimated Rs7 trillion of black money

Despite increase in property prices, share of taxes has declined

The real estate market must be given time to reach a new equilibrium

Since the last week of September, international gold prices have significantly receded

The real estate sector is the latest to be affected by the government’s tax reform measures

Real estate has become the mother of all corruption; it has served as the safest haven for all tainted resources

Tussle has come to an end, but at the cost of national exchequer

Agents say their ‘bread and butter’ has been put in jeopardy

Judgment says govt cannot delegate its powers of levying taxes to its organs

The government has clearly retreated from its earlier stern stance, but has still managed to win a crucial battle

Govt lowers capital gains tax on profits made from property.

Talks between govt, real estate players reach stalemate over property valuation

Gap between market value determined by official valuers and DC rates not as wide as govt initially worked out

However, Islamabad is left behind with sluggish growth