Bahria Orchard review: LDA status, prices by phase and the risks

Bahria Orchard is the cheaper Bahria option, about 40% less than Bahria Town for a 5 marla plot, but on the record we could check no phase is LDA approved. Phases 1 to 4 are built and lived in. A 5 marla plot averaged about Rs 48 lakh in asking prices in August 2026, roughly the same as at the end of 2023. It’s further out too: about 25 km by road from Thokar Niaz Baig.

Is Bahria Orchard LDA approved?

Not on the record we could check. LDA’s list of approved schemes, as reproduced by Zameen in March 2021 and by Pakistan Observer in May 2025, has two Bahria entries, Bahria Town Sector A and Safari Town, and no Bahria Orchard phase.

• In November 2015 LDA publicly warned that Phase II was unapproved and being marketed illegally.
• In November 2018 Zameen reported that the Phase I Extension wasn’t LDA approved.
• Phase V was first sold through open forms in January 2021, before any official launch.

Some estate agents say Phase 1, or its Northern Block, is LDA approved. None of them shows an LDA letter or notification. We couldn’t open LDA’s own website to check the current list.

Has possession been given?

For the older phases, yes. All of this comes from Zameen’s reporting, not from an official Bahria or LDA record:

We found no neutral update on Phase 5 since 2022.

What does a plot cost now?

These are Zameen’s averages of asking prices across all phases, not sale prices.

A 5 marla plot rose from about Rs 30.7 lakh (June 2021) to Rs 46.3 lakh (June 2023), then stalled. It dipped to Rs 44.2 lakh in mid-2025 and was about Rs 48 lakh in August 2026, only 4% above mid-2023. With inflation, that’s a fall in real terms.

A 10 marla plot followed the same path: Rs 47.1 lakh in June 2021, Rs 74 lakh in June 2023 and about Rs 77.8 lakh in August 2026. In Bahria Town Lahore, a 5 marla plot averaged Rs 79.5 lakh in the same month; see our Bahria Town Lahore review.

Gas, electricity and water

Electricity comes through Bahria’s bulk LESCO connection, which Bahria redistributes. On 27 November 2025 LESCO cut power to Bahria’s Lahore societies over unpaid dues; Dawn reported that Bahria Orchard alone owed Rs137 million. Supply came back the next day after payment.

On gas and water, we found only promotional and agency claims, with no SNGPL record or news report, so we can’t confirm either.

Who is behind it?

Bahria Town (Private) Limited, which also built Bahria Town Lahore. Phases 1 to 4 have been delivered and are inhabited. But the Orchard’s own history includes phases sold before LDA approval, Phase 2 marketed while its land was still being bought (2015), and delayed possession in Phase 3.

The developer’s wider troubles also matter, because services here depend on its finances. In 2019 the Supreme Court accepted Bahria’s Rs460 billion offer to settle the Karachi land case, and by November 2023 Bahria had stopped paying instalments. In 2025 NAB auctioned some of its assets.

How easy is it to resell?

Zameen showed about 1,550 plots for sale in Bahria Orchard on 7 October 2026, and its price index has run without a break since 2011. That points to a working resale market, but we found no data on how long plots take to sell.

Where is it?

On Raiwind Road in Tehsil Raiwind, south of Bahria Town. By road it’s about 25 km from Thokar Niaz Baig and 36 km from the GPO on Mall Road, against about 17 km to Thokar from Bahria Town. See all Lahore reviews.