Georgian developers are now staffing Arabic-speaking sales teams for the UAE and Saudi market

The Georgia International Real Estate Forum ran from 6 to 8 February 2026 in Tbilisi, organised by the Business Association of Georgia with the developers Archi, NEXT Property and Biograpi Living, and with government support. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze spoke. The stated theme was cross-regional investment ties with the Gulf Cooperation Council states. Archi said it would continue focusing on GCC markets with investor support and asset management services; NEXT Property described active engagement in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, supported by Arabic-speaking sales teams.

The numbers quoted at the event came from the government and the statistics office rather than from independent analysis, and it is worth labelling them as such. Georgian government records were cited for average annual economic growth of 9.2 percent over four years and average annual tourism growth of 23.9 percent over six. Preliminary National Statistics Office data were cited for foreign direct investment of 533.2 million dollars in the third quarter of 2025, close to double the year before. Free trade agreements with the European Union, China, the CIS states and the UAE were presented as access to a combined market of 2.3 billion people.

Archi presented Le Méridien Sioni Lake Resort and Spa, near Tbilisi National Park at 1,100 metres, under exclusive development rights around Sioni Lake, alongside Grand Avenue, which it described as Tbilisi's largest urban development. NEXT Property works with the Radisson and Wyndham hospitality brands and reported fifteen projects across Tbilisi, Batumi, Kenya, Spain and Dubai. Biograpi Living showed residential communities in Tbilisi. The common thread is branded, managed product aimed at an investor who will never live in the unit — which is a different competitive set from a family apartment and should be priced as one.

Organised, state-backed marketing to Gulf investors is good for the country's visibility and not automatically good for your resale price. If you own a one-bedroom investment unit in Batumi or Tbilisi, the new stock being pitched in Dubai and Riyadh competes directly with yours, and it comes with a developer's sales team, a hotel brand and a payment plan that you cannot match. The article reports no signed agreements from the forum, only continued dialogue, so this is a direction of travel rather than a committed pipeline. Watch what completes, not what is presented.