FBR Property Valuation Islamabad 2026 (SRO 644): Every Sector's Official Rate, Readable

Every property tax you pay in Islamabad is computed on a number most buyers have never seen: the FBR fair market value of their sector. The current table is SRO 644(I)/2026, gazetted 16 April 2026 — an 11-page scanned PDF that, as far as we can find, nobody in this market has published in readable form. We transcribed it page by page from the gazette itself. Here is the whole ladder, what it actually decides, and the one comparison it unlocks that neither FBR nor the portals can give you: how far market asking prices sit above the official values.

What this table decides — and what it does not

• §236K buyer’s advance tax (1.25% filer) and §236C seller’s tax (2.75% filer) are charged on the higher of your declared consideration and this FBR value — under-declaring does not work. Rates verified from the Finance Act 2026 gazette on our taxes & costs page; the calculator budgets on them.
• CGT uses the same higher-of logic on the sale side.
• It does NOT set stamp duty — that runs on the ICT collector’s separate DC/registration values, a different table from a different authority. (Three irreconcilable stamp-duty rates circulate; we still refuse to quote one — confirm at the counter.)
• Superstructure is valued separately: Rs 2,500/sq ft if the building is up to five years old, Rs 1,200/sq ft if older — so an old 1 Kanal F-7 house = plot value + a modest structure value, which is why demolishable houses trade essentially as plots.
• Clause 4 of the SRO: where two rates could apply to one area, the higher governs.

FBR’s own ladder — every residential line, highest to lowest

This doubles as the only official, dated answer to “which is Islamabad’s most expensive sector”: on FBR’s table it is E-7, then the combined F-6/F-7 line, then F-8 — matching what our live asking-price sweeps found, and settling the “F-6 is Pakistan’s priciest” cliché against a primary source.

Transcribed from the SRO 644(I)/2026 gazette scan (read visually, 27 Aug 2026 — the PDF’s embedded text layer is OCR-corrupted and was not trusted). Per-Kanal column is our arithmetic at 1 Kanal = 500 sq yd (Islamabad standard). Rural ICT areas run on the District Collector’s separate 1-Jul-2025 notification, not this table.

The gap nobody quantifies: market asking vs FBR value

Because we publish dated per-Kanal asking sweeps for the elite sectors, we can put the two side by side — the closest thing this market has to a “declared value vs street value” index:

Read it as a structural fact, not a loophole: taxes are computed on at least the FBR column, and the gap between the columns is where negotiation, condition and corner premiums live. When the gap compresses (FBR revisions have come three times in 2026 alone), effective tax on the same transaction rises without any rate change — which is exactly why the SRO timeline below is worth watching.

Apartments and commercial — the lines worth knowing

Commercial highlights from the same gazette: Blue Area (Jinnah Avenue) ground shops at Rs 100,000/sq ft — equalled by E-7 Markaz, the F-6/F-7 Markaz line and Centaurus shops; and a detail we have seen nowhere else: FBR values “New Blue Area” ground shops at 105,000 — above old Blue Area — and defines New Blue Area on the face of the table as “G-9/F-9, G-8/F-8”, which corroborates the opposite-F-9 identification in our Blue Area guide. Blue Area’s Fazal-e-Haq Road side runs at half the Jinnah Avenue values (ground shops 50,000).

The 2026 SRO timeline — three revisions in six months

• SRO 163(I)/2026 — 2 Feb 2026
• SRO 332(I)/2026 — 24 Feb 2026
• SRO 644(I)/2026 — 16 Apr 2026, superseding both — the table above
• SRO 1335(I)/2026 — 7 Aug 2026, reported (Business Recorder, 8 Aug) to add Sector E-8, which the April table omitted. We have not yet obtained the PDF itself, so we publish no E-8 figure — this page updates the day we read it.