Every Faisal Town Phase 2 buyer faces the same fork: pay the full amount now with a 20% discount, or spread it over 36 months and keep your cash. Dealers usually push whichever suits their inventory. Here is the actual arithmetic, so you can decide from your own balance sheet.
What the two routes cost, side by side
Per the developer's April 2026 rate sheet (development charges included, prices revisable):
- 5.56 Marla: PKR 3,495,000 on installments vs PKR 2,790,000 cash — you pay PKR 705,000 for the convenience of time.
- 8 Marla: PKR 4,665,000 vs PKR 3,730,000 — a PKR 935,000 spread.
- 10.89 Marla: PKR 6,065,000 vs PKR 4,850,000 — PKR 1,215,000.
- 1 Kanal: PKR 10,155,000 vs PKR 8,120,000 — over PKR 20 Lac.
The full tables for every size are on the payment plan page.
Why the discount is bigger than it looks
The 20% is off the *total*, but you were going to pay the down payment either way. Look at the 5 Marla: the installment route asks PKR 1,335,000 down and then PKR 60,000 monthly for 36 months. The cash route asks PKR 2,790,000 once. So the real question is: does having roughly PKR 14.5 Lac extra *today* justify saving PKR 7 Lac over three years? That is an implied return most fixed-income options cannot match — which is why, if the cash is genuinely idle, the lump-sum route usually wins on paper.
When installments still make sense
Paper is not life. Installments are the better choice when:
- The cash is not idle. If your money is deployed in a business earning more than the discount's implied return, keep it there.
- You would be left with no reserve. Emptying your emergency fund to capture a discount is how forced sales happen. A surrendered or distressed-sold file loses more than 20%.
- You are averaging risk. In a society whose NOC is under process, some buyers deliberately stage their exposure — smaller down payment now, watch the approval and development trajectory, keep options open.
- You are paid monthly. A PKR 60,000–80,000 installment against a salary is a forced-savings plan with a plot at the end of it.
When full payment is clearly right
- You hold idle cash earning bank-deposit returns — the discount beats it.
- You want the Model Block (Sector O, Q & R) — it is sold on full payment anyway, and pairs the discount with the earliest possession queue.
- You are an overseas buyer consolidating remittances — one transaction, one paper trail, and on Model Block commercial the overseas lump-sum discount is 20% against 15% for local buyers.
The hybrid most people miss
Nothing stops you starting on installments and settling early. Ask the developer's office how early settlement is treated *before* you book, and get the answer in writing. If early settlement earns a meaningful rebate, the installment plan becomes a cheap option on your own future liquidity.
The honest caveats
These are the developer's published figures and they get revised — confirm the live rate sheet before deciding. And no payment mode changes the underlying risk profile: the NOC is under process, not approved, and your decision should price that in regardless of how you pay.
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