Mumbai, Oct 25 (PTI) Swedish furniture retailer Ikea on Saturday termed Pune a "priority market", a day after reports that the brand had leased a 37,000-sq ft space in a mall in the city.

Ikea India Private Limited has leased a 37,529 sq ft plot area in the Phoenix Marketcity mall in Lohegaon's Viman Nagar, as per documents accessed by real estate data analytics firm CRE Matrix.

The Swedish company, which entered India through a store in Hyderabad in 2018, has leased the Pune property from Vamona Developers.

The lease is for 59 months, and Ikea has committed to pay a monthly rent of Rs 38 lakh initially, which will get enhanced to Rs 42.70 lakh from the fourth year of the lease, as per the deed.

The space is on the ground floor of the mall, which is run by Phoenix Mills.

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