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🏪 Commercial

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Advanced Analytics

Market trends across every tracked area — filters below apply to all charts

Figures come from asking prices of listings seen on the portal, not sale prices. Price changes are shifts in average asking price, which can also move when the mix of listings changes. "Sold / rented / absorbed" means the listing was taken down, not a confirmed deal. Small samples are noisy, so check the listing count in each tooltip; hatched heatmap tiles have fewer than 15 listings. Colours differ by chart: on price-trend charts green means prices rose, while on Momentum and Best Value green means better for a buyer (prices falling or cheaper than peers).

Property Type

Focus Areas (optional)

Time Range

Exclude extreme outliers (prices only)

Market Pulse · Karachi

Live counts across every tracked category, and which areas are seeing the most activity right now

Sale

House for Sale—

Apartment for Sale—

Rent

House for Rent—

Apartment for Rent—

Plots

Residential Plot—

Commercial Plot—

Top Areas by Activity

Market Heatmap

Box size = active listing volume · Color = price index % change over the selected period

Decreasing

Increasing

Striped tile = fewer than 15 listings, treat with caution

Compare Areas

Pick two areas, or the same area on both sides to compare one sub-area or tier against the rest of that area, over the selected period

Area A

Area B

Pick an area for each side above to compare them directly.

Price Index — % Change Since Inception

One line per area · click legend entries to isolate a specific area · ◆ marks a month that moved unusually sharply for that area

Average Price Trend

One bar per area, per month — the actual price level, not its rate of change

Top Movers

Ranked by % change over the selected time range

Area Momentum Score

Price and supply change over the last 3 tracked months, per area — a recent-window read, separate from the since-inception trend above

Price Distribution

Box shows the middle 50% of listings (Q1–Q3) · whiskers span the full min–max range · ◆ marks the mean

Price Position

Where a specific price sits among similar active listings · same area, same property type, similar size · asking prices only

Area

Size (sq yd)

Your price

Compare with sizes within

Supply vs. Demand — Trend Over Time

Active listings (supply) as bars, per month · clustered by sub-area when narrowed down · new vs. absorbed lines shown only for a single, un-narrowed area (too many lines otherwise)

Liquidity / Absorption Score

How fast each area's current listings are being absorbed — higher absorption rate and lower months of supply mean a more liquid, faster-moving market · latest tracked month, blended across size tiers

Area	Active	Absorbed	Absorption Rate	Months of Supply

Price Change Trend

Listings whose price rose or fell each month (bars, left axis) against the actual price trend at the time (line, right axis) · ignores the Size Tier filter — always shows every tier blended together

Rental Yield by Area & Tier

Annual rent against sale price, per size tier — ranked highest yield first · rows with too few listings on either side are set aside below the ranking · uses Focus Area above, but its own Category (not the shared Property Type)

Always shows the latest available monthly data — not affected by the period filter above

Min. listings per side

Area	Tier	Sale Price/Unit	Sale Price	Rent Price/Unit (mo.)	Rent (mo.)	Gross Yield	Listings (Sale/Rent)

Best Value — Price vs. Peer Sub-areas

Each sub-area's current price/unit against the median of its own tier's peers — most below peers first · a tier needs 3+ sub-areas with data to appear

Always shows the latest available monthly data — not affected by the period filter above

Area	Tier	Price/Unit	Total Price	Peer Median	vs. Peers	Listings

Commercial Subtype Breakdown

Office, Shop, Warehouse, Factory, and Building compared separately, not blended into one Commercial average — uses Focus Area above

Always shows the latest available monthly data — not affected by the period filter above

Subtype	Avg. Price/Unit (Sq. Yd.)	Trend Since Inception	Listings

Days on Market Trend

Median days a listing stays active before being marked sold/rented · not available for rentals (not captured at the source)

Days-on-Market Decay Curve

Average price per unit for currently active listings, by how long they've been listed · ignores the Size Tier filter — always shows every tier blended together

Genuinely live — reads current active listings directly, right now, not a monthly summary. Not affected by the period filter above

Cross-Category Price Comparison

Switch between buying and renting: each has its own scale (a sale price and a monthly rent are about two orders of magnitude apart) · uses the Focus Area filter above, ignores Property Type

Buying — sale price

Each view has its own scale. Hover a bar to see how many listings it is based on; fewer than 5 listings is a low sample.

Buy vs Rent

Buy vs. rent-and-invest, for any area AIRES tracks — not tied to a specific listing

1. Choose a market

Pulls the current typical price and rent for this exact combination from AIRES' own tracked data

Area

Property Type

Size (Sq. Yd.)

Purchase Price

Monthly Rent

2. Financing scenario

Full Cash

50% Down

20% Down

Result at year

Buyer net worth

Renter portfolio

Break-even year

Gross yield (before costs)

An illustration, not advice. This compares two paths using asking prices tracked by AIRES and the assumptions you can edit above. It is not financial, tax or legal advice, and past data does not predict future prices, rents or rates. The default costs and rates are estimates to check, not current facts: stamp duty, registration, withholding taxes and agent fees depend on your filer status and the area, and tax on rental income and tax on a future sale are not modelled. Confirm the figures with your lawyer, bank or tax adviser before deciding.

Net worth over time

Buyer net worth is shown net of exit (selling) costs at every year — an honest comparison against the renter's always-liquid portfolio throughout, not only at the finish line

Year-by-year detail

Year	Buyer Net Worth	Renter Portfolio	Buyer Total Outflow	Renter Rent Paid

Sensitivity — what would change the decision

Break-even values solved for the scenario selected above (same horizon and assumptions), plus which assumption the verdict is most sensitive to. Each value is the point where the verdict flips: change only that one input and the gap closes to roughly zero.

Assumption	Current Value	Break-even Value

Which assumption the verdict is most sensitive to

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Where to open in DHA

Pick a business type. DHA locations are scored against each other on nearby demand and competition.

ⓘ How this works

The idea. A heat map of locations that are busy but not yet crowded with competitors, for the business type you pick.

Where the scores come from. DHA is divided into small hexagons, about 300 m across. Each one is scored on nearby demand (offices, shops, schools, lifestyle, food and health places), nearby competition from the same type of business, how built-up it is, and how close it is to a main road. Crowded locations are marked down. Demand and competition come from Google Maps data; AIRES keeps only the resulting scores and plain-language levels, never place counts.

Reading the map. Darker gold hexagons score higher, relative to the rest of DHA, and the numbered ones are the five best zones. Every other hexagon is shown too, tinted by how developed it is. Not being scored never means a poor location: young areas such as Phase 8 are too new to score yet. Hover a hexagon for a summary and click it for its story.

The story. Each hexagon's story is written from AIRES' own building data, Zameen listings and, where scored, the score: what the place is, how developed it is, and what's on the market. Where Google Maps data is held, it also says how nearby demand and competition compare with the rest of DHA, in plain words and never as counts. It never uses guesses where data is missing.

What's around. For each hexagon we also say how much of each kind of place is nearby (offices, shops, schools, gyms and salons, restaurants, health facilities) as light, moderate or strong. Each kind is rated against the rest of DHA on its own scale, so strong offices and strong shops don't mean the same number of places. How the ratings work:

Commercial areas. Switch the Map button to "Commercial areas" to colour every hexagon by how commercial it is, whatever business type is selected: busy where offices, shops, restaurants and gyms & salons are almost all strong nearby (strong in at least three of the four, and at least moderate in the fourth), quiet where they are mostly light. It reuses the "what's around" levels, so it is relative to the rest of DHA.

Shortlist and compare. Open a hexagon's story and press "Add to shortlist" on up to three. They appear as A, B and C on the map, and "Compare" puts them side by side for the business type and Rent / Buy choice you have selected. Pick what matters most (overall score, lowest competition, strongest demand, most commercial activity, most spaces) and the page says which comes out ahead and why, using only the facts in the table. It is a screening aid, not a forecast.

Available spaces. Blue dots are commercial properties currently listed on Zameen, to rent or, with the Buy switch, for sale, grouped by location: solid in a scored zone, hollow in an area the scores don't cover, grey outside the mapped DHA area. Each space is matched to the nearest hexagon, and listing locations are approximate.

Which businesses are already there? This tab doesn't list individual businesses. Open a hexagon's story and use "See … near here on Google Maps", or the satellite link, to look at the area on Google's own map.

What it can't tell you. Scores rank DHA locations against each other. They are a screening aid, not a forecast of sales or profit, and the weighting is a judgement that hasn't been calibrated against real outcomes. Visit a location before deciding.

Business type

Spaces

Map

Show available spaces on the map

Suitability for this business

weakerstronger

Developing: not scored yet

Early-stage: mostly open land

Established, not scored for this business

Space in a scored zone

Space in an area not scored

Space outside the mapped area

Gold = scored, relative to the rest of DHA. Dashed outlines are DHA phases. Click any hexagon for its story.