Cricketer Shreyas Iyer is not the only one to have bought a 500 sq ft apartment in Mumbai

Indian Cricketer Shreyas Iyer and mother Rohini Iyer were in the news for having purchased a 525 sq ft apartment for ₹ 2.90 crore in Mumbai's Worli area earlier this month. Iyer is not the only homebuyer or investor to have bought a 500 sq ft flat in the financial capital.

Incidentally, almost 33% of the monthly apartment sales in the city are for apartments below 500 sq ft, according to industry data. Shreyas Iyer has bought a 525 sq ft apartment on the second floor of Triveni Industrial CHSL in the Adarsh Nagar area of Worli, according to the documents accessed by Zapkey In July 2024, Iyer purchased a commercial property in the Worli area for ₹ 2.9 crore measuring 510 sq ft, documents accessed by Propstack had shown.

In August 2024, Kangana Ranaut, a BJP MP and Bollywood actor was in the news for purchasing an office space in Mumbai's Andheri area for ₹ 1.56 crore measuring 407 sq ft. In May 2024, Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan had bought six apartments for ₹ 15.

42 crore in the Oberoi Sky City , a luxury project by Oberoi Realty in Borivali area of Mumbai. Out of the six apartments, two apartments measure 252 sq ft and are spread across an area of around 1,100 sq ft (carpet). The size of the remaining two units is 1094 sq ft, according to the property registration documents accessed by Zapkey.

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