Houses in Pakistan

Types of Pakistani Houses

Pakistani housing type consists of houses, villas, farmhouses and apartments. Most people in Pakistan buy property and build their own houses. Karachi and Islamabad mostly has flats. People used to own a large size house. Villa's or large house is the symbol of a wealth in Pakistan. Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad have thousands of property millionaires like other big cities in the world.

Preferent Houses size in Pakistan

Pakistan has land size is measured in term of Marla or Kanal. 1 Marla is equal to 225 square feet and I Kanal is equal to 20 Marla or 4500 square feet. Popular land sizes in Pakistan are 5 Marla, 10 Marla and 1 Kanal. Average land size in Pakistan is 15 Marla. Whereas average covered area of a house in Pakistan is 3000 square feet. House size is measured by lot size in Pakistan, but in allover the world house size is measured by covered area. Therefore according to the world standards, average house size in Pakistan is 3000 square feet.

Average house size in the other world areas

The average house size in the world is 1200 square feet normally. Hong Kong has smallest houses like 495 square feet, whereas Australia has largest houses, 2400 square feet. This shows that Pakistani normal house is 2.5 times bigger than the normal house in the world.

House size dependency

The major factor that defines the house size is the population density of any region or area. The countries which has large houses have less population and are in enough size in land like Canada, Australia and United States. then again, the countries which has small size houses have less land and high population density like Japan, Britaain and Hong Kong. Pakistan has a Population density of 235. In general Pakistani houses are 3 times bigger than other countries.

Large house History in Pakistan

In the reign of  Mughal and Sikh periods, houses iin cities were very small. Cities were fortified and the space was very small. This trend had changed when British government came there and demolished the fortified walls of big cities. Then British government start building the large size housing societies. Lahore and Model Town were developed in 1921. 

Normal lot size of Model Town at that time was one (1) acre. Pakistan also imported the styles of USA houses in 1960s, during reign of President Ayub Khan. American villas and mansions were designed by the famous architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. Still We can see  two to four Kanal houses of that time in Pakistan. Large houses were considered normal at the time when Pakistani population was just 60 million. Now the time population is 200 million but we are still building large houses on valuable agricultural land.