Gulberg Greens Islamabad review: CDA status, possession and prices

Gulberg Greens is a CDA-approved farm housing scheme with an NOC (no-objection certificate), first issued in 2012 and revised in 2020. The catch is its newest, 20,875-kanal layout plan, which has no revised NOC and drew CDA show cause notices in 2026.

The safer buy is a farmhouse plot with possession that lies inside the area covered by the 2012 or 2020 NOC. As of August 2026, Zameen’s average for a 10 marla plot was Rs 1.35 crore.

Is Gulberg Green CDA approved?

Yes for the original scheme. CDA’s own housing scheme page (checked 16 October 2026) lists Gulberg Greens Farm Housing Scheme in Zone 4 with its layout plan approved and its NOC issued. The sponsor is the Intelligence Bureau Employees Co-operative Housing Society, known as IBECHS, and the scheme is on CDA’s approved list, not its illegal list.

The scheme has had three layout plans, each larger than the last, according to CDA’s 2026 notices:

CDA’s scheme page gives a different extension figure, 18,660.84 kanals approved in July 2018. We follow the dated notices, which are later and more detailed. Under CDA’s 2023 regulations, a revised layout on an extended area needs its own revised NOC.

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What are the CDA notices against Gulberg Greens?

CDA issued five notices on Gulberg Greens between April and July 2026.

On 25 May 2026 it said IBECHS had “failed to comply” with the conditions of the October 2023 layout approval. It demanded Rs 79.26 million in penalties and fees, including Rs 25 million for development without an NOC and approved engineering designs. The notice’s own text gives a lower total, Rs 64.985 million, calculated to 18 April 2026.

The notice warns of cancellation or withdrawal of the layout approval. Other possible steps it names are suspending building plan approvals, selling the plots mortgaged with CDA and sealing the scheme’s offices.

On 29 April 2026, CDA said buildings were going up on two plots, PB-29 (40 kanals) and PB-02 (93.28 kanals), that had already been transferred to CDA. It called them “illegal & unauthorized”. On 22 July 2026, it said 1,301 kanals of public building, park, graveyard and road land under the third plan still had to be transferred to CDA.

Is there possession in Gulberg Greens?

In part. Possession means handing over a developed plot you can build on. Parts of the scheme are built up: in September 2026 the Express Tribune described B-Block as a “densely populated housing scheme”.

Development isn’t finished. On the dealer site that CDA lists for the scheme, updated 2 October 2026, a Block C plot was offered as a “possession” plot, while plots in Blocks B and D were “non-developed”, with area cutting completed. CDA’s May 2026 notice also demanded a Rs 25 million penalty for development without an NOC and approved engineering designs.

Most plots for sale are farmhouse plots. On 16 October 2026, the first page of Zameen’s listings was mostly 4, 5 and 10 kanal plots in Blocks A to D, with a few 5 marla and commercial plots. We couldn’t confirm whether the 5 marla plots sit inside the CDA-approved farm housing layout.

What are Gulberg Greens plot prices?

We use Zameen’s index of average asking prices. Asking prices are what sellers ask, not what buyers pay.

The 5 marla average rose 88% from May 2021 to August 2026. But it didn’t change at all from August 2023 to April 2026, which usually means few new listings.

The 10 marla average was also frozen at Rs 1.16 crore from May 2023 to April 2026, then rose to Rs 1.35 crore by August 2026. Treat both small-plot series as rough, since this is mainly a farmhouse scheme.

What about gas, electricity and water?

We couldn’t confirm any of them from SNGPL, IESCO or CDA. Property portals and dealers say gas, electricity and water are available, but we found no independent source.

CDA makes water supply and sewage treatment the sponsor’s job. In May 2026 it said the scheme’s sewage treatment plant “is encroached on ground, hence, is not operational”.

Who is the developer, and what is its track record?

IBECHS is a co-operative society of Intelligence Bureau employees. Its projects include Pakistan Town Phases I to III, and Gulberg Greens and Gulberg Residencia are in its Phase III. Dawn reported in May 2021 that it had over 10,000 members but more than 50,000 allottees.

The same Dawn report said four senior IB officers had gone to court alleging corrupt practices in the society’s management committee elections. The Islamabad High Court was then hearing 45 cases about housing schemes run by ministries and departments.

IBECHS has delivered lived-in blocks. Its weak point is compliance: CDA’s 2026 notices list unmet layout conditions, land not yet transferred to CDA and building on CDA’s own plots.

How easy is it to resell a Gulberg Greens plot?

There is plenty of supply, mostly farmhouse plots. Zameen showed 1,123 plots for sale in Gulberg Greens on 16 October 2026, and it has kept a 10 marla price index here since 2014. We have no data on how long plots take to sell.

Where is Gulberg Greens?

Gulberg Greens lies in Sub-Zone C of Zone 4, off the Islamabad Expressway near Koral Chowk. It is about 13 km in a straight line from Zero Point, 10 km from Rawalpindi Saddar and 31 km from Islamabad International Airport.

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