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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has sounded a note of caution for lower courts while adjudicating property disputes, highlighting that unlike a bygone era when real estate values appreciated at a snail’s pace, the contemporary reality was one of rapid and often exponential escalation in property prices.
