₹40,000. This happened because of the pandemic as rents were lower as people working remotely had still not returned to the city.
Post-pandemic, rents have surged and this very apartment now commands a monthly rent of ₹50,000-55,000," she said. The apartment’s biggest draw was that it was newly-built and had a swanky kitchen. “It has a modular and very spacious kitchen.
It’s hard to find such an apartment in Mumbai," she said. “Since the apartment was newly built, it looked pretty and clean. Setting up things in a new house is exciting and easier, compared to a house that has been used before," she said.
And to have got all this at the rent they are currently paying was a bonus, Nitya added. “I was paying the same rent for a 100 sq ft smaller flat in Andheri West.