While the cities like Karachi & Lahore are on peak of real estate activity and investors are pouring in money, but most part of these metropolitan cities are already hitting a plateau and may stay in same situation for next year or two. Besides being already highly developed cities, most areas are pre-existing and there are not many high potential new societies / real estate initiatives in execution stage here. On the other side, Islamabad started experiencing rapid growth in last decade and it still has a lot of margin for expending and offering new investment opportunities to people who are looking to invest good and safe. Besides, corporate world is changing dynamics, entering new cities and making their mark in new places. So most of the real estate experts are starting to put their bets elsewhere, well at least they are putting in their money to places other than these two big cities. Two top names that surface in every real estate investment opportunities discussion are Islamabad and Gwadar.
Islamabad is the federal capital, a city that was built according to a well crafted design / plan and a city that has an implicit advantage over most other cities, that is, more and more corporates are bringing their country head offices here. At least all of our major telecommunications industry giants have their head offices in Islamabad. That itself is about 30 thousand staff, 30 thousand households and their growing residential as well as commercial needs. Being the seat of government, Islamabad is not going out of focus for new developments and fancy projects for the foreseeable future. That means creation of more jobs, further expansion of city and an ever increasing potential of real estate development. Let us quickly look at what are some large scale housing projects that are in progress within Islamabad, we have initiatives like B-17, D-12, E-12, G-14, I-15, Park Enclave, Gulberg Residencia, Bahria Town (many different real estate initiatives are brewing within Bahria), Eighteen, Top City and last but not the least, DHA Islamabad. Most of these one dozen real estate projects have great potential. Islamabad is expending and so are its housing and commercial needs. With so many of investment options here and this still being a developing city, real estate experts such as salaarestate think that real estate investment options are even better than investing in largest metropolitan cities.
Gwadar is a deep sea port and government knew its importance all along, however it remained untouched for half a century after Pakistan realized its value in 1954. First time the Gwadar sea port was developed and inaugurated in 2007. It was still not operating at all until it was inaugurated again in 2016. Besides that an enormous expansion of Gwadar port also started in 2016. Once completed, this expansion will make Gwadar one of the biggest ports in the region…and for the very same reason; Gwadar real estate sector is on an endless stretch of boom. While there have been some frauds in last 5-6 years, once you invest your money with proper guidance from experts, the return on your investment would definitely be beyond speculation. Experts say that the sooner investors get into Gwadar real estate; the better it is for those investors.
