From Pitch to Property: How SKY, Rohit Sharma's Family, and Zaheer Khan Are Building Their Mumbai Portfolios

When India's highest-earning cricketers put their money somewhere, the financial logic behind it tends to be sharper than the celebrity headline suggests. Over a 12-month period spanning 2025 and early 2026, three Indian cricket households made Mumbai luxury apartment purchases and rentals worth a combined Rs 65 crore, with every single transaction concentrated in the city's premium residential belt. Suryakumar Yadav, the family of former captain Rohit Sharma, and fast bowling legend Zaheer Khan each made distinct property decisions in distinct micro-markets. Together, they sketch a map of where Mumbai's high net worth residential demand is genuinely concentrating right now.

The most discussed of these purchases was SKY's March 2025 acquisition at Godrej Sky Terraces, Deonar. Suryakumar and his wife Devisha Yadav picked up two apartments on consecutive floors, with a combined carpet area of approximately 4,222 square feet and a total built-up area close to 4,568 square feet. The deal was registered for Rs 21.1 crore with a stamp duty outgo of Rs 1.26 crore and included six dedicated car parking spaces.

The choice of Deonar is the detail worth examining. Located in eastern Mumbai near Chembur, the locality sits at a connectivity intersection that has been quietly improving for years. The Harbour Line railway, the Mumbai Monorail, the Eastern Express Highway, and the Sion-Panvel Expressway all converge around this zone. Deonar real estate has been historically undervalued relative to western Mumbai addresses of comparable infrastructure quality, which makes it precisely the kind of micro-market a financially disciplined buyer enters before institutional recognition drives prices up. The average price at Godrej Sky Terraces stood around Rs 52,433 per square foot, reflecting a premium that the project's amenity quality and views have already established in the eastern corridor.

This was not Devisha's only recent acquisition. In February 2026, she purchased a third apartment in the family's Mumbai portfolio valued at Rs 7.18 crore, marking a continued deepening of their presence in the city's premium residential market.

The single largest transaction in this cluster came from Rohit Sharma's wife, Ritika Sajdeh, who bought an apartment in Ahuja Towers at Prabhadevi for Rs 26.30 crore, registered in December 2025. The apartment spans a carpet area of approximately 2,760 square feet with three car parking spaces. Stamp duty on the transaction came to Rs 1.31 crore. The sellers were Ajinkya DY Patil and Puja Anjinkya Patil.

Prabhadevi property Mumbai occupies a specific position in the city's luxury residential geography that is easy to overlook but hard to argue with. The locality sits between Lower Parel's commercial intensity and Worli's sea-facing prestige, connecting seamlessly to BKC via Annie Besant Road and to South Mumbai via Senapati Bapat Marg. For a family that already owns a sea-facing primary residence in Worli's Ahuja Towers and investment apartments in Lower Parel, adding a Prabhadevi address completes a portfolio that spans three of the most fundamentally sound premium micro-markets in Mumbai within a roughly 5-kilometre radius.

And the financial discipline elsewhere in the Rohit Sharma property portfolio is equally instructive. His Lower Parel apartment in Lodha Marquise, purchased alongside his father in 2013 for Rs 5.46 crore, was rented out in January 2025 for Rs 2.6 lakh per month. That single unit is now delivering a 6% rental yield on original cost, a performance that most equity investments over the same twelve-year period would struggle to match on a risk-adjusted basis.

Former pace spearhead Zaheer Khan and his wife Sagarika Ghatge purchased a luxury apartment at Indiabulls Sky on Elphinstone Road for Rs 11 crore in February 2025. The property carries a carpet area of 2,158 square feet and includes three parking spaces. Elphinstone Road sits adjacent to Lower Parel, placing this acquisition in the same western Mumbai commercial and residential corridor that has seen consistent premium demand from financial services professionals, media executives, and senior corporate leadership over the past decade.

For a retired cricketer managing wealth over a long time horizon, the logic of owning in this corridor is clear. Rental demand from the corporate occupier base that surrounds Lower Parel and Elphinstone Road is structurally stable, lease renewal rates are high, and the underlying land constraint ensures that capital values have only one directional tendency over multi-year holding periods.

These transactions, read together, point to something beyond celebrity purchasing power. Each buyer has chosen a ready-to-move or near-ready asset in a micro-market with proven fundamentals rather than an off-plan project in an emerging location. Each deal involves stamp duty and registration costs that indicate registered, IGR-verified transactions rather than informal arrangements. And each location, whether Deonar, Prabhadevi, or Elphinstone Road, sits in a zone where infrastructure improvement is structural rather than speculative.

The combined Mumbai luxury apartment investments of over Rs 65 crore by Suryakumar Yadav at Godrej Sky Terraces Deonar, Ritika Sajdeh at Ahuja Towers Prabhadevi, and Zaheer Khan at Indiabulls Sky Elphinstone Road reflect a clear and consistent philosophy: buy registered, ready-to-occupy assets in infrastructure-rich Mumbai micro-markets and hold for the long term. As cricketer property Mumbai transactions go, this cluster is less about lifestyle statement and more about the kind of disciplined real estate portfolio thinking that Mumbai's premium residential market consistently rewards.