Dhoni had bought a commercial property in Kamala Mills in 2009 along with cricketer Harbhajan Singh. They then sold it in December 2017, at less than even Ready Reckoner rates.
By Varun Singh
On Saturday cricket legend M S Dhoni, announced his retirement. The entire nation went into a shock, with the news.
However, Dhoni the most successful Indian cricket team captain had ventured into real estate of Mumbai too.
According to documents available with SquareFeatIndia, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his cricketer friend Harbhajan Singh had bought a huge commercial space.
This commercial office was located in Kamala Mills’ Trade World Building in Lower Parel.
Dhoni and Singh had purchased this property way back in 2009, to be precise on November 9, 2009.
Then they had paid Rs 20 crore for the entire 8th floor in the building, located inside the mill compound.
In December 2017, Dhoni and Singh sold 8,456 sq ft of the 8th floor property. They sold it for Rs 21 crore.
The date of registration according to documents was December 11, 2017. The eye catching aspect the rate at which they sold the property was even less than the Ready Reckoner rate.
Ready reckoner rate of the property that was sold by the cricketers stood at Rs 26.33 crore.
Ready reckoner rates are decided by the government for every area, based on which stamp duty is paid to the government.
After the retirement announced by the cricketer social media platforms were filled with messages for him.
Meanwhile, Dhoni was in news a few days ago too, when Sushant Singh Rajput the actor who played his character in his biopic was found dead.
Sushant had allegedly died by suicide in his Mount Blanc apartment located at Bandra in June 2020.
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