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Loading...Before you transfer money for property in Pakistan, get an independent verification of title, ownership, physical boundaries, and legal status. We work for you — not the seller, not the agent.
The Problem
Overseas Pakistanis lose significant amounts of money to property fraud every year. The most common schemes include double-selling the same property to multiple buyers, presenting forged title deeds, selling plots that are disputed or government-owned, and acting as an agent without authority from the actual owner.
The agent or developer showing you the property has a financial interest in completing the sale. They are not independent. We are.
Our due diligence report is completely independent of any seller, agent, or developer. We verify everything at the source — the Land Revenue Office, the Sub-Registrar, and the relevant development authority — before you commit a single penny.
If you recognise any of these, do not transfer funds until you have had an independent check done.
Full Coverage
Every check is done at the original source — not from photocopies provided by the seller.
We obtain and verify the original registered deed (Registry) and Fard from the Sub-Registrar office and Arazi Record Centre to confirm the seller genuinely owns the property.
We check for fraudulent parallel registries — a common scam where the same property is sold to multiple buyers using forged or duplicate documents.
Our on-ground team physically visits the property to verify its actual location, dimensions, and boundary markers match what you have been shown.
We confirm whether the property is vacant or occupied and whether any occupants have a legal claim that could complicate your purchase.
We obtain an official NEC confirming the property is free from mortgages, charges, liens, disputes, or any other legal encumbrances.
For society or authority-approved plots, we verify the property is officially approved, the NOC status, and that the developer has not made conflicting allotments.
Case Study — Anonymised
Client: A family in London. They were about to purchase a house in a well-known residential area of Islamabad, having visited it during a trip to Pakistan and paid an initial token amount. Before transferring the full amount, their UK-based relative suggested getting an independent check done.
What We Found: Our title verification at the Sub-Registrar office revealed that the property had been sold to a different buyer approximately eight months earlier. The “seller” presenting themselves to our client was not the registered owner — they had no legal authority to sell. The original registered owner was entirely unaware their property was being fraudulently marketed.
The Outcome: The family did not proceed with the purchase. They recovered their token amount. The fraudulent seller was reported to local authorities. Our report was the only thing that stood between the family and losing their savings.
Property due diligence in Pakistan is the process of establishing, before you pay anything, that the person selling you the property owns it, that the title is clear, that nobody else is on it, and that what you have been shown is the same thing you are being sold. Almost all of the property fraud in Pakistan exploits a gap in exactly this process, and almost all of that gap exists because the buyer was abroad and the seller was not.
The honest position is that you cannot verify Pakistani property records from the UK on your own. You can access some online records, and they are genuinely useful, but they do not tell you who is physically occupying the land, whether the boundary on the map matches the boundary on the ground, or whether the seller has already sold the same plot to someone else. That gap is what a property due diligence service in Pakistan exists to close.
The sections below cover what we check, what the common scams look like, and the questions that decide whether a purchase is safe.
Most property fraud in Pakistan is not clever. It is a forged fard malkiat, a duplicate registry entry created by a dishonest mutation, a plot sold twice using a genuine allotment letter that has already been used, or a seller who is a nominee for someone else and has no right to sell at all. Property scams in Pakistan also include the oldest and most common variant: the property exists, the documents look real, and the buyer never visits and never asks anyone independent to visit.
Verification has three layers and all three are needed. First the documentary layer: obtain the current fard from the revenue record, trace the registry entry back through previous owners, and confirm the mutation history is consistent rather than recently rewritten. Second the physical layer: send someone to the address to confirm the structure exists as described and to establish who is in occupation. Third the corroboration layer: confirm the name on the allotment or approval matches the name on the registry and the name on the national identity document. Fake registry in Pakistan is usually caught at the third layer, because it is rarely consistent across all three.
Online access has improved. You can usually obtain or check a fard for Punjab through the provincial online records, verify an allotment or approval letter, and run a basic registry search where the facility exists. Property record check online Punjab services are useful for a first filter, particularly for spotting a document that does not exist at all. They are not sufficient on their own. An online record confirms what the record says. It does not confirm that the record is current, that it has not been superseded, or that the person in front of you is entitled to rely on it.
Buying property in Pakistan from the UK is done successfully every day, and the risks are well understood and manageable. What makes it safe is procedural rather than personal: verified documents, a physical inspection, a properly drafted and registered power of attorney so a named person can act for you, staged payments tied to verified milestones, and a registry transfer completed in your name. The clients who get into difficulty are almost never the ones who did nothing; they are the ones who accepted a verbal assurance in place of a document.
A useful report is specific and falsifiable. It should name the current recorded owner and the chain of previous owners, state the plot or survey number and the exact area, identify the mutation status and any pending litigation, record who was found in occupation and when, and state plainly what could not be verified. A service that returns a general assurance that the property is genuine is worth very little, because it cannot be tested and does not protect you if it is wrong.
It depends on the location, the number of records that need tracing, whether a physical visit and photographic evidence are required, and how complex the mutation history is. We quote a fixed fee for a defined scope before starting, and tell you if the records you have been given turn out to require more work than the standard scope covers.
Partially. You can obtain and check official records remotely, and we can do the documentary and physical verification without you leaving the UK. What you cannot do alone is confirm occupation and boundaries, which is why an independent on-the-ground check is part of any serious due diligence.
Yes, and this is the case where it matters most. Almost every family dispute over property we have seen involved a sale that was arranged on trust without documents, and none of them would have happened if the record had been checked. Trust is the reason people skip verification, not a substitute for it.
It is a certificate confirming there are no registered charges, mortgages or liens against the property. You need it before a transfer in most cases, and you should ask for it as part of the transaction rather than discovering its absence at the registry. See our property documentation service for how these are obtained.
Property investigation and inspection
Independent on-site check of what actually exists and who occupies it.
Property verification by city
City-specific guidance on record systems and common fraud patterns.
Property documentation in Pakistan
Fard, registry, NOC and intiqal handled on your behalf from the UK.
Power of attorney for Pakistan from the UK
How to authorise a named person to complete the purchase for you.
Send us the documents you have been given and the details of the property. We will tell you what they establish, what they do not, and what needs checking before the transaction is safe to complete.
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