5, 8 and 10 Marla commercial on Park Road: the 13-Feb application deadline, the 18-Feb-2026 ballot, the instalment ladder, and why the advertised price appears as both 9.10 Crore and 91 Lac.
Margalla Orchards Walk is the commercial zone inside Margalla Orchard — and it is the only part of the scheme where DHA ran a direct, published, application-and-ballot process. That makes it the best-documented corner of the project, and also the one where the advertised price appears in two forms that are exactly ten times apart. Both facts are covered below, dated.
Status at 25 August 2026. The first advertised application window closed 13 February 2026 and the ballot was held 18 February 2026 at DHA Phase II Imperial Hall. DHA has since publicly advertised a further commercial window — its own channels promoted an “apply by 7 August 2026” deadline under the line “the wait is over, Margalla Orchards Walk is back”, and that later push named 5, 8 and 10 Marla plots, where the original round was 5 and 8 Marla only. Confirm the current window on DHA's own portal — dates in this scheme have moved before, and no dealer's date is worth acting on.
| Step | Terms |
|---|---|
| Processing fee (non-refundable) | PKR 40,000 for 5 Marla · PKR 50,000 for 8 Marla |
| Who enters the ballot | All eligible applicants who submitted the form with the processing fee |
| Down payment | 5% of total sale price, within 45 days of successful ballot allotment |
| Confirmation payment | 15%, within 60 days of allotment |
| Balance options | Lump sum · 1 year (4 quarterly) · 2 years (8 quarterly) · 3 years (12 quarterly) |
| First round dates | Applications closed 13 Feb 2026; ballot 18 Feb 2026, DHA Phase II Imperial Hall |
Note the shape of this: the processing fee is non-refundable and paid before you know whether you get anything, which is normal for a ballot but catches first-time applicants. And the 45-day and 60-day clocks start at allotment, not at your convenience — missing them is the usual way people lose a successful ballot.
| Size | Set A (better corroborated) | Set B (conflicting) |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Marla (133.33 sq yd) | from PKR 9.10 Crore lump sum, up to PKR 10.50 Crore on the 3-year plan | from PKR 91 Lac |
| 8 Marla (200 sq yd) | from PKR 14.00 Crore lump sum, up to PKR 16.00 Crore on the 3-year plan | PKR 1.40 Crore |
Exactly ten times apart, on both sizes. That pattern is the signature of a Crore/Lac transcription error rather than two genuine market views. We lean toward Set A for three reasons: it is internally consistent across a detailed instalment table, the lump-sum-to-3-year uplift is a sensible ~15%, and a third publication independently quotes the same figures. Zameen’s society page also shows commercial listings running up to about PKR 10.5 Crore as of 25 August 2026, which sits squarely in Set A’s range.
The live market settles it. On 25 August 2026 we counted 35 live commercial listings for this zone across Zameen and Lamudi. They run PKR 9.0 to 16.04 Crore, clustering at ~10.5 Crore for 5 Marla and ~16 Crore for 8 Marla — squarely inside Set A. So Set B’s “91 Lac” is a Crore-for-Lac error, wrong by a factor of ten, and it is sitting live on a site that ranks for this project. A separate social-media post quoting “ballotted” prices of PKR 35–45 Lac reconciles with nothing; ignore it.
What we still could not do is read DHA’s own portal: margallaorchards.dhai-r.com.pk returned HTTP 400 behind a Cloudflare challenge on every attempt on 25 Aug 2026, from two different tools and from a Pakistan exit. The parent domain dhai-r.com.pk loads fine, so this is the project subdomain specifically. Before you pay a non-refundable processing fee, open it yourself on a phone and read the official number.
All published prices are stated to be exclusive of applicable DHA charges and government taxes — so the sticker is not the completion cost. Our transfer-cost guide covers the federal layer, which under the Finance Act 2026 means §236C at a flat 2.75% for filers and around 11% for non-filers.
Commercial plots here balloted in February 2026 with possession targeted for around December 2026. That means, plainly: there is no built commercial stock, no tenant, no occupancy history and no rent anywhere in this scheme yet. Any yield percentage quoted to you today is a projection dressed as a number. Marketing language about “steady rental income” and a “captive market” from the surrounding residential blocks is a reasonable thesis — the residential plots are largely unbuilt too, so the captive market is also a forecast.
What genuinely supports the case: a Park Road position opposite a large university, DHA running the development, and a permitted LG+G+5 envelope. What genuinely counts against it: an eight-to-sixteen crore entry with no comparable transacted evidence, a possession date that is a marketing claim, and the fact that the wider scheme’s layout plan may be under revision. Those are not reasons to avoid it. They are reasons to buy it on documents rather than on renders.
If you want a second pair of eyes on a Margalla Orchards Walk allotment or resale file before you commit, that is exactly the kind of check we do — see how we verify a plot, or send the file over.
Sources for this section
From Sector A’s finished streets to Sector O’s entry tickets — 5 Marla to 4 Kanal, file to allotment to possession — we keep live options in all fifteen sectors, plus DHA Margalla Enclave ballots, files and resales. Buying, selling, or exchanging: one WhatsApp message gets you today’s real options, with verification built in before any token moves.
It is the designated commercial zone inside the Margalla Orchard housing scheme on Main Park Road, Islamabad, opposite COMSATS University, developed under DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi and marketed on a Spanish-architecture theme. The original round offered 5 Marla (133.33 sq yd) and 8 Marla (200 sq yd) plots with a permitted lower-ground + ground + 5 floors envelope, planned for retail, offices and restaurants. A later DHA window also advertised 10 Marla.
The first advertised application deadline was <b>13 February 2026</b> and the ballot was held on <b>18 February 2026</b> at DHA Phase II Imperial Hall, Islamabad. DHA's own channels have since promoted a further commercial window with an advertised 7 August 2026 deadline. Because dates in this scheme have shifted more than once, confirm the current position on DHA's own portal rather than acting on any dealer's published date — including ours.
This is genuinely disputed. The better-corroborated set is <b>5 Marla from PKR 9.10 Crore</b> (rising to about PKR 10.50 Crore on the 3-year plan) and <b>8 Marla from PKR 14 Crore</b> (to about PKR 16 Crore). A second site publishes PKR 91 Lac and PKR 1.40 Crore — exactly ten times lower on both, which looks like a Crore/Lac error. Zameen's live commercial listings running to about PKR 10.5 Crore support the higher set. All prices are stated exclusive of DHA charges and government taxes. Read the number on DHA's own portal before paying anything.
A non-refundable processing fee of PKR 40,000 (5 Marla) or PKR 50,000 (8 Marla) enters you into the computerised ballot. On a successful allotment you pay <b>5% down within 45 days</b> and a <b>15% confirmation payment within 60 days</b>, then clear the balance either as a lump sum or across 1 year (4 quarterly instalments), 2 years (8 instalments) or 3 years (12 instalments). Those 45 and 60-day clocks run from allotment, and missing them is the usual way a successful ballot is lost.
None yet, and nobody can honestly tell you a number. Commercial plots only balloted in February 2026 with possession targeted around December 2026, so there is no built stock, no tenant and no occupancy history in this scheme. The surrounding residential blocks are largely unbuilt too, so the "captive market" argument is also a forecast rather than an observation. Any specific yield percentage quoted to you today is a projection presented as data.
It is a federal-authority scheme with DHA executing development, which is meaningful comfort — but three things deserve written answers before you commit: whether your specific plot falls inside the approved layout plan (CDA's 21 August 2026 directive restricts transfers to plots that do, and there is an unverified report this scheme's layout is being revised), what the all-in cost is once DHA charges and government taxes are added, and the confirmed price from DHA's own portal rather than a dealer table. Get those three in writing and the risk becomes manageable.
Not an orchard and not originally DHA's: the FGEHA-SCBA Park Road Housing Scheme of 2019, rebranded after DHA joined on 26 Sep 2025. Location, blocks, plot sizes — and the 'CDA NOC' claim nobody can source.
Residential is quoted cash-only while the commercial zone runs a 3-year plan, and two dealer sites disagree by a factor of ten on the same plot. Every number here carries its source and its date.
Different road, different origin, different legal track — and Google suggests the comparison in both directions. Developer, approval basis, prices, liquidity and possession risk, set side by side and dated.
+8% in six months, +0.5% year-on-year — both true. Underpass tailwinds, a CDA notice nobody mentions, and why sector selection beats society averages. With sources.
Send the plot number, block and the seller's documents. You get the checks back, not a sales pitch.