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Tbilisi rent reached $11.3 a metre in September — and two analysts disagree on the yield
Galt & Taggart puts September's rental yield at 9.4%. TBC Capital, reading the same market in the same month, puts it at 8.2%. Both numbers sit in the same report.
The average Georgian mortgage is now ₾99,600, and the rate fell to 11.88%
Banks issued 12,835 mortgages worth ₾1.28 billion in the first quarter of 2026. Volume rose faster than the number of loans, which means people are borrowing bigger.
Tbilisi commissioned 20% less floor space in the first half, and Adjara 72% more
Georgia commissioned 1,459 buildings and about 1.54 million square metres in January to June 2026. The national total barely moved, but the map underneath it moved a lot.
Tbilisi houses outran flats last quarter, and Mtatsminda reached 7,004 lari a metre
Geostat's index for newly built Tbilisi housing rose 1.5% on the quarter and 5.9% on the year. Private houses moved faster than apartments — worth knowing if you are still…
A Borjomi project pairs 100 hotel rooms with 430 branded residences
The Wyndham Grand hotel and residences planned for Likani Forest are due to open in 2028, with Aimbridge Hospitality EMEA managing. The ratio of residences to rooms is the part…
Vake costs $2,945 a metre and Vashlijvari $1,069 — in the same city
April 2026 figures for Tbilisi new-builds show a 2.8-fold price gap between the dearest and cheapest districts, while the volume sits in neither of them. Three quarters of buyers…
Tbilisi closed 3,388 flat sales in August, and foreign buyers took 14%
The month's figures, published by Colliers, show value rising faster than volume and the new-build share of demand concentrated in two districts rather than the centre.
From February the 25% repayment cap reaches ₾2,000 earners
The National Bank is not touching the cap itself — only the income line that triggers it, in two steps through 2027. If you sell to buyers who need a mortgage, your pool quietly…
Real estate took 25.6% of a foreign investment total that fell 23.2%
Geostat's preliminary figures put foreign direct investment into Georgia at USD 468.8 million in the second quarter of 2026, down 23.2% against revised figures for the same…
Permitted floor area in Tbilisi fell 29.9% while sales value rose 23.1%
Galt & Taggart's figures for the first quarter of 2026 put two numbers side by side that point in opposite directions. The residential market in Tbilisi turned over USD 958…
Registration runs four days at ₾150, or hours at ₾350
Transferring title in Georgia is unusually quick, and the choice is openly priced: a standard registration takes four working days for a state fee of ₾150, an accelerated one…
A Tbilisi short-let grossed ₾16,604 over twelve months
Across 6,075 active Tbilisi listings in the twelve months to September 2026, AirROI puts average revenue at ₾16,604 per listing, gross and before costs, on 41.6% occupancy of…
The appraiser's figure decides the permit, not the contract price
The property threshold for a Georgian residence permit has been $150,000 since 1 March 2026, up from $100,000. The part that catches buyers is how the figure is measured: it is…
Houses rose 7.0% over the year, flats 5.6%
Geostat published its residential property price index for the third quarter of 2026 on 23 October. For newly built housing in Tbilisi, measured in lari, the index rose 1.5%…
Batumi prices rose 9.8% while the nightly rent fell 4.2%
Galt & Taggart's Batumi residential report, published 14 August 2026, puts the June price of a turnkey new-build at $1,960 per square metre, up 9.8% on a year earlier, and a…
Tbilisi is due 35,000 finished flats in 2026, against 16,000 to 21,000 before
Galt and Taggart forecasts that Georgia's residential construction cycle peaks this year. Tbilisi is projected to complete 35,000 units in 2026, falling to 27,000 in 2027 and…
A $2 billion Tbilisi project asks three to five times the local price
The Real Deal reports that Archi Group, Georgia's largest developer with roughly 18% of the market, expects studios in its Trump-branded 62-storey Tbilisi tower to sell at about…
The residence permit by property now starts at $150,000
Since 1 March 2026 the minimum property value for Georgia's investment residence permit has been USD 150,000, up from the USD 100,000 that had stood since July 2019. The permit is…
The tower on the old hippodrome, and why its height keeps changing
A branded tower was presented in Tbilisi on 15 September as the centrepiece of a two billion dollar mixed-use development on the former hippodrome site in Saburtalo. Reported…
The income floor for a 50% debt ratio rises in February 2027
On 30 September the National Bank announced a phased change to the income threshold that decides how much of a borrower's pay can go to loan repayments. The floor moves from 1,500…
Tbilisi prices rose 5.9% and Mtatsminda costs 7,004 lari a metre
Geostat's residential price index for Tbilisi rose 5.9% year on year in the third quarter and 1.5% against the previous quarter, according to figures reported on 23 October.…
Registered primary sales fell 5.3% while developers reported 35% growth
Galt & Taggart's second-quarter Batumi report, published on 14 August with June price data, records 4,168 apartment sales in the Public Registry, up 3.7% year on year. Within…
Who buys in Batumi: Georgians 37%, Europe 18%, Israel 10%
A developer survey covering about 40% of Batumi's primary market tracks buyers by origin. Georgian citizens took 32% of transactions in 2024, 44% in 2025 and 37% in the first…
Batumi by district: $3,146 a square metre in the old town, $1,787 inland
A June market review drawing on Galt & Taggart's developer survey and Public Registry transaction data breaks March 2026 prices down by district. The primary-market average was…
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