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The Tbilisi price ladder runs from $865 a metre to $4,319
TBC Capital's six-segment breakdown of the last twelve months shows a top-to-bottom spread of five times. The market-wide average sits near the bottom third of it.
Foreign investment fell 23% — and a quarter of what arrived went into property
Georgia took in $468.8 million of foreign direct investment in the second quarter of 2026, down from $610.6 million a year earlier. Real estate activities absorbed $119.9 million…
A forecast puts Batumi flat yields at 3.4-5.1%, and hotel rooms at 10-17%
Georgia is completing more flats than it ever has. Galt & Taggart's numbers say the apartment that yielded 10% in 2023 is on course for a third of that, while hotel rooms are…
The policy rate held at 8.25%, and the growth forecast went up to 7.2%
On 21 October the National Bank of Georgia left its rate unchanged for the fourth meeting running, raised its 2026 inflation projection to 5.4% and lifted its growth forecast to…
A Batumi short-let books 35.5% of its open nights, and August carries the year
One short-let data provider's trailing-year numbers for Batumi put average revenue at 10,108 lari per active listing across 3,813 listings. The seasonality inside that figure is…
Batumi daily rates stood still while prices rose — and yields paid for it
Average turnkey prices went from $1,569 a square metre in 2023 to $1,865 in 2025 while the average daily rate sat around $35.6. Gross rental yield fell from 8.8% to 7.4%.
A $250 million Batumi tower pair is selling off-plan with 60-month terms
The figures come from the developers, not from a regulator: pre-sales are open before construction starts. That gap between announcement and foundation is exactly where an…
Property contributed less to growth this year, while ICT carried almost 29%
The EBRD raised its Georgia forecast and the economy grew 7.8% in the first half. But the sector mix behind that growth shifted away from construction and property — which is the…
Foreign buyers took 52% of Batumi sales, and 12,400 flats stayed unsold
Galt & Taggart's review of the Batumi market, reported by Investor.ge in April, holds two facts that have to be read together. Foreign buyers accounted for 52% of apartment sales…
A Tbilisi studio yields 8.46%, a two-bedroom 6.95%
Global Property Guide's Q1 2026 survey breaks Georgian rental yields down by apartment size, and the spread inside a single city is wider than the gap between the two cities. In…
China put in $219.5m and Britain $123.5m in one quarter
Georgia recorded USD 468.8 million of foreign direct investment in the second quarter of 2026 on preliminary figures, down 23.2% against adjusted Q2 2025, with the fall attributed…
The average mortgage is now 99,600 lari, and the rate 11.88%
Georgian commercial banks issued 1.28 billion lari of mortgages across 12,835 loans in the first quarter of 2026, according to National Bank of Georgia figures reported by BM.ge.…
A $300 million resort is starting at Kobuleti, not Batumi
Archi and NEXT, two Georgian developers, began construction of the Swissôtel Kobuleti Beach Resort with a capsule-laying ceremony reported on 4 June 2026. The stated investment is…
A 1,200-room casino resort is going up in central Tbilisi
Planet Hollywood Resorts International announced on 20 March 2026 that it has licensed its brand to the Georgian developers Orbi Group and Block Group, in association with Iconic…
Branded hotels ran at 58% occupancy and charged $134 a night
Investor.ge reported on 14 October 2026 that large branded hotels in Georgia filled 58% of their rooms in the first half of the year, four percentage points more than a year…
Eagle Hills has committed $6 billion to two Georgian sites
The Caucasus Business Journal, reporting on Georgia's Hospitality Investment Forum Tbilisi 2026, says the Abu Dhabi developer Eagle Hills has committed $6 billion to two mixed-use…
Prices rose 4.97% in name and fell 0.81% in real terms
Global Property Guide's Georgia page reports a nationwide nominal house price change of +4.97% year on year for the second quarter of 2026 and, adjusted for inflation, a real…
Studios yield 8.46% in Tbilisi; two-bedrooms only 6.95%
A survey of gross rental yields published for the first quarter of 2026 puts the Georgian average at 7.42%, down from 7.90% in the third quarter of 2025. Tbilisi averages 7.53%…
Foreign investment fell 23%, and China supplied almost half of what came
Preliminary GeoStat figures put foreign direct investment in Georgia at USD 468.8 million in the second quarter of 2026, down 23.2% year on year. China accounted for USD 219.5…
Construction is the one sector going backwards in a growing economy
Preliminary Geostat estimates reported on 30 September put real GDP growth at 6.3% year on year in August, with growth for the first eight months of 2026 reported as 7.6%.…
Batumi gross yields are 7.1%, and the forecast is 5.1%
A June review of the Batumi market reports gross rental yields of about 7.1%, down from roughly 10% three years earlier, with Galt & Taggart projecting 5.1% and 3.4% in a…
A Batumi short-let averaged 10,108 lari over the past year
Short-term rental tracker AirROI, in data covering October 2025 to September 2026 and updated on 1 October, puts the average Batumi listing at 10,108 lari of revenue for the year,…
Travel revenue rebounded 11.9% in the third quarter, after a flat first half
Georgia earned USD 1,864.4 million from travel in the July-September quarter, 11.9% more than in the same quarter of 2025, on National Bank of Georgia figures reported on 21…
S&P moved Georgia's outlook to positive — and named reserves as the reason
In August 2026 S&P Global Ratings affirmed Georgia's sovereign credit rating at BB and revised the outlook from stable to positive. The agency's stated driver was sustained growth…
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