A Batumi short-let averaged 10,108 lari over the past year

Batumi has one high season, June to September, and the monthly series shows how steep it is. The dataset puts average August revenue per listing at 3,304 lari against 1,204 lari in January, roughly two and a half times as much. Occupancy follows the same curve, around 49% in August and about 32% in December. A projection built from a strong August will overstate the year badly; a projection built from January will understate it. Anyone pricing a purchase on nightly rates should be looking at the twelve-month total instead.

Supply grew 16% in a year, to 3,813 active listings, while average revenue per listing still rose 10.3%. Both can be true at once if total visitor spending grew faster than the stock of apartments. The risk sits in the direction of travel: new towers finishing on the Batumi coast add listings to the same four-month season, and each additional unit competes for the same August nights. Average occupancy of 35.5% means a typical flat is empty roughly two nights in three across the year.

The 10,108 lari is gross revenue per listing, before the platform's commission, cleaning and laundry, utilities, building service charges, furniture replacement, any management company and tax. It is also an average across the whole city: a sea-view flat in a newer tower and a studio several streets back are both in it. Treat it as a reality check on a seller's projection rather than as your own forecast, and ask for the actual twelve-month booking history of the specific unit before agreeing a price.