Most of what goes wrong in Islamabad plot buying is not exotic. It is the same handful of mistakes, and each one has a specific check that prevents it. These pages are those checks.
Verify a plot before you pay
Nine checks, in order, ending with the one that stops most frauds dead: the payee name and NTN on the pay order.
A file is not a plot
Clause 8 issues an Allotment Letter only to lump-sum payers. Everyone else trades Intimation rights. Two different assets, one word.
How a transfer works
When a plot can be transferred, what DHA requires, and the fees we could and could not verify.
Taxes and charges
236C at 2.75 per cent, 236K at 1.5 per cent for filers under the Finance Act 2026 — and what we refused to guess.
How plot fraud actually works
Five patterns, each with the specific check that defeats it.
The 19 contract terms
Every clause of the application form in plain English.
Questions we get asked
The real ones, answered without the sales varnish.
Instalment calculator
Your quarterly figure, the category premium and the withholding tax, in one place.
Not sure which of these applies to you?
Describe the situation in a message and you will be pointed at the right one.