Georgia
The lowest entry threshold on the list and the simplest transaction for a foreigner.
- Role in a portfolio
- Cheap entry
- Foreign ownership
- Apartments — no restrictions on foreign buyers
Georgia is on this list for one reason: it is the easiest entry of everything here. A foreigner buys an apartment on the same terms as a citizen, registration of title takes a day, and the tax burden on ownership is light. The restrictions apply to agricultural land, not to housing.
The market is of a fundamentally different scale, though. Tbilisi and Batumi are cities, not global hubs, and the tenant is local or relocated rather than a corporate expatriate. That changes both the stability of the rental stream and the speed of resale.
In our own material Georgia mostly appears as a reference point: what buys a studio in Dubai buys a full apartment here — and the useful conversation is about what exactly you are giving up for that difference.
The caveat: Lari currency risk and a narrow tenant pool: cheap to enter, slow to leave.
Georgia on camera
What we filmed on location — projects, rules and the things a brochure leaves out.
Other locations
Comparing this market with Dubai
Tell me the budget, the horizon and what the purchase is for. Where the answer is Dubai I will say so with numbers from our own stock; where it is not, I will say that too.