 One such estate was the famed 1200 acre (5 km²) Salawa estate which was used as a rubber plantation.And also Rukkattana estate in Bingiriya was another property of him which was used as a coconut plantation.He owned 46 acres (7360 perches) of land mostly in the Cinnamon Gardens (Colombo 7) which, being one of the most expensive areas in Ceylon, would be worth approximately $600 million in the economy of the 2010s.