We get the same question every week: is now a good time to buy in Georgia, and where. Here is our honest read, set beside the numbers the research desks publish, so you can always tell our opinion from the market's data.
Prices have grown, and steadily
Our director, Nata Samnidze, put recent price growth at roughly 8 to 10 percent a year. The independent desks land in the same neighborhood. TBC Capital reports average Batumi apartment prices around 1,395 dollars per square meter, up 17 percent on the year. Galt & Taggart counted a record 17,478 apartment transactions in 2025, with foreign buyers behind 52 percent of them. Colliers Georgia reported a similar shape, more than 1 billion dollars in volume with around 70 percent of the growth driven by foreign buyers. When our own read and three research desks point the same way, that is a number you can lean on.
Where the demand actually sits
Batumi's city center and the Old Town lead residential demand, the New Boulevard draws investors with lower entry prices than the center, and the first and second rows back from the sea stay the most sought-after. We wrote a fuller guide to choosing between them in how to choose a Batumi area.
How the installments really work
The part many first-time buyers miss: most Georgian new-build sales run on interest-free developer installments, with no bank involved. New projects can stretch the schedule to about 60 months, while completed projects are shorter, around 18. That flexibility is real, and it is one of the market's genuine advantages. The catch is that an off-plan installment is only as sound as the developer behind it, and Georgia has no escrow protecting your payments, which is why we treat developer track record as a hard filter. Here is why.
What we would check before believing any pitch
- Whether a quoted yield is gross or net of management and tax.
- Who stands behind every figure. We publish the source next to each number on this site, and where there is no source we show nothing.
- The entry price for the specific area, which ranges widely across the city.
The bottom line
Georgia is a real, foreign-driven, steadily appreciating market, and after 14 years and more than a thousand transactions here we still think it rewards patience over urgency. If you want the numbers for a specific project with their sources attached, that is exactly what we do.
