Farmhouses are residential buildings in the villages. It includes multiple combined spaces such as agricultural land, animal barns, lawns, mini dams, etc. In today’s real estate market, the trend of farmhouses is growing. Multiple (farm) housing societies are built in the side areas of big cities such as Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad, and Karachi, etc. Dera is another common name for farmhouses in Pakistan. Urban elites build farmhouses in the nearby hill-station or countryside to spend their weekends and vacations with their families in an organic and natural environment. Usually, the land for farmhouses is expensive because of the land's size and provision of facilities on that land (such as electricity, water, and security, etc.).

The agricultural land is used for two purposes: building farmhouses and secondly for pastoral or cultivational purposes. The farming land is comparatively inexpensive than farmhouse’s land because the land for farmhouses needs amenities like electricity, gas, and security. The cultivational land spans at acres whereas farmhouses can easily build on 4 Kanal areas. There are different plot sizes available for farmhouse building, starting from 2, 4, and 8 Kanal (can span on to acres). The land prices depend on the distance of the land from the cities and markets, security conditions, and infrastructure.

If you are searching for farmhouses for sale in Islamabad, then there are different societies in the surrounding of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, which offers land for the construction of farmhouses. Gulberg Greens, C-12, D-12, Hobbit Town, Chak Shehzad, Bani Gala, etc. are the noteworthy places. People of Islamabad also build their farmhouses independently in the nearby countryside of KPK and Punjab province (Khanpur, Haripur, Chakri and Fateh Jang, etc.). In case you are looking for farmhouses for sale in Lahore or farmhouses for sale in Karachi. These cities, just like other cities, have many side areas where you can find land or already constructed farmhouses such as Malir, Gadap, Gharo, DHA (Phase 7, Lahore), Spring Meadows, Gajju Matah and Wapda Town, etc.