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#India’s most expensive homes: #DMart’s Radhakishan Damani’s dream home cost him ₹1,001 crore

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By @Krittiiii

Avenue Supermarts’ (DMart) founder and CEO, #RadhakishanDamani, bought the most expensive home in India last year. The house, located in the Malabar Hill area of #Mumbai, was bought for a whopping ₹1,001 crore in April last year.

The 90-year-old house is said to be spread over 5,752 square meters. Notably, Damani is the 72nd richest man in the world with a networth of $19.7 billion as per Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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The second most expensive property was bought by Ravi and Neel Raheja — who are the promoters of real estate development company K Raheja Corp Promoters. The family bought three duplex apartments spanning across 66,811 square feet in the high-end Worli area for ₹427 crore.

JC Chaudhry, the managing director and founder of Aakash Educational Service, spent ₹150 crore to buy a house in Delhi. This was the fifth most expensive house sold in India last year. #Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan who bought a house worth ₹76 crore in Bengaluru.

Here is the list of top 10 most expensive houses sold in #India since 2021👇

While most of the home owners on the list are business owners, it had some others too. The most popular name on the list is the investment banker-turned-author #ChetanBhagat who bought a house worth ₹11.6 crore in Delhi last month.

Chandrasekaran Natarajan, the chairperson of Tata Sons, also bought a home worth ₹98 crore in Malabar Hill. The director at #RelianceJio and Reliance Retail Manoj Modi, along with his family, also bought several properties in the last one year, cumulatively worth ₹192 crore.