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Independence
No developer retainers, no builder referral fees, no under-the-table splits. Our only fee is the one on your invoice, printed and signed.
Property advice,held to the older standards.
A boutique firm founded in Lahore in 1998. We work with a small number of Pakistani owners, investors and family offices who want the same senior person on the phone every single time.
Since 1998SBP-panel valuer
The firm
Independent.
Senior.
In writing.
Boutique advisory built on three things clients can verify: no developer retainers, no ghost partners, no verbal-only agreements. Every scope is written, every fee is printed.
Established
Lahore · Karachi · Islamabad
1998
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SBP-panel valuer
Signed valuations, defensible before any Pakistani bank or counterparty.
02
PBBA member
Standards committee seat since 2004. Fee schedules on request.
03
Fee-only, insured
No developer retainers, no referral splits. Fully covered.
How we work
Four principles.
Written down.
Followed.
02
Seniority
The person you meet in the first hour is the person on your mandate for its full length. No handoffs to juniors, no ghost partners.
03
Discretion
Your name, your address and your numbers stay inside the firm. Case studies published only with your signed consent.
04
Restraint
We turn down more work than we take. It is the only way to hold the first three principles, quarter after quarter.
Milestones
Twenty-six years,
in small increments.
01
1998
Lahore office
Mukarram Zia Chatha founds the firm from a single room off MM Alam Road.
02
2007
First PKR 3bn mandate
Portfolio restructure for a Karachi-based industrialist family.
03
2014
Karachi desk
Sindh coverage opens with a senior advisor in Clifton.
04
2023
Third generation
First long-standing clients hand over to the next generation.
Mukarram Z. ChathaCEO
CEO & Founder
Mukarram Zia Chatha,
SBP-panel valuer.
Twenty-six years in prime Pakistani property. Read economics at LUMS, trained at Colliers Pakistan, then partner at a Karachi family office before starting Chatha in 1998. Sits on the PBBA standards committee and mentors two junior advisors.
Sectors
Prime residential, agricultural estates, mixed-use commercial.
Coverage
Punjab, Sindh, Islamabad Capital Territory, selected GCC.
Standing
PBBA standards committee, SBP-panel valuer since 2011.
About the firm
Common questions,
frankly answered.
Discretion aside, we prefer to be plain about how we work.
An advisor. Brokers are paid by transactions; we are paid by hours. That difference decides whose interest gets served first.