Disclaimer

General information, not advice

The guides, data, tools, profiles, reviews and answers on avi.ge describe how buying, owning and renting out property in Georgia works in general. They do not take your citizenship, tax residence, family situation, finances or the specific property into account. Reading them does not make you a client and does not create any duty of care beyond what the law imposes on any publisher. Before you sign a contract, pay a deposit or file an application, have your case checked by a qualified lawyer, accountant or other adviser.

Estimates are estimates

Prices per square metre, rents, yields, occupancy rates, exchange rates, construction timelines and processing times on this site are estimates taken from named sources on a stated date and labelled as such. Markets move, and the figure that was right on the "Last checked" date may be wrong today. Calculators and checkers apply the assumptions shown on their pages to the numbers you type in; their output illustrates how a calculation works and is neither a quote nor a forecast.

What we do not guarantee

• Residence permits. A residence permit is granted or refused by the Georgian state. Owning property above a threshold makes an application possible; it does not make approval certain, and rules and thresholds change.
• Income. Rental income depends on the property, the season, the tenant and the management. No figure on this site is a promise of income.
• Prices and resale. Property prices can fall as well as rise, and a property can take longer to sell than expected.
• Developers and projects. Developer profiles and project reviews state facts with sources. They are not a recommendation to buy from any developer and not a guarantee that a project will be delivered as promised.
• Legal and tax outcomes. Laws, tax rates and official fees change, sometimes with little notice. Pages are updated when we learn of a change, not before.

Pages under review

Legal, tax and residency pages are reviewed by our partner lawyer or accountant. Until that review is complete, the page shows a visible notice and its content may change. A reviewed page is still general information; the reviewer has checked it against the law as it stood on the review date, not against your case.

Sources and third-party content

We cite official and professional sources and link to them. We do not control those websites and are not responsible for their content or availability. Where we quote a source, the quote is accurate at the date of access; the source may have changed since. Links to third-party services such as WhatsApp or Google Maps are provided for convenience and are not endorsements.

Translations

Pages are written in English and adapted into Georgian, Russian, Hebrew and Arabic. We work to keep the facts identical in every language. If a translation differs from the English page, the English page states what we meant, except where the law of Georgia requires the Georgian text to prevail.

Errors

We check facts against primary sources and correct mistakes when we find them or when readers report them through the report-an-error page. We cannot promise that a page is free of errors at the moment you read it.

Services

When you hire AVI Estates, the scope of our work, our fee and our responsibilities are set out in a written agreement. That agreement, not this website, governs what we owe you as a client. This disclaimer limits reliance on the website; it does not limit obligations we accept in writing or any liability that cannot be excluded under the law of Georgia. The terms of use contain the full liability clause.

Questions

If something on a page is unclear or seems to apply to your situation in a way you cannot judge, ask before you act: info@avi.ge or WhatsApp +995 501 113 200. The first conversation is free.

Why a site that checks its facts still needs a disclaimer

A reader may reasonably ask why a site that names its sources, dates every figure and has its legal pages reviewed by a lawyer also tells them not to rely on it. The answer is that accuracy and applicability are different things. A page can be exactly right about the rule and still be the wrong basis for your decision, because your citizenship, your tax residence, the land under the house you chose, the clause on page four of your contract or the appraiser's view of your apartment's value are not on the page. The guides describe the general case as well as we can; the disclaimer says, in legal language, that the general case is not your case. The two belong together: the first makes the site useful, the second keeps it honest about where its usefulness ends.

What a page cannot know about you

Your documents	Whether your passport, marriage certificate or power of attorney will be accepted depends on how they were issued and legalised. A guide can say what is usually required; only the authority can say whether yours is in order.
Your property	Whether an apartment is sound, whether its registry entry is clean and whether its appraised value reaches a threshold are questions about that apartment, answered by an extract, an inspection and an appraisal, not by a page.
Your contract	Two contracts for similar apartments can differ in the one clause that matters. A guide lists the clauses to look for; a lawyer reading your contract tells you whether they are there and what they say.
Your tax position	Tax depends on where you are resident, what treaty applies and how you hold the property. The Georgian side can be described in general; your position needs an accountant with your facts.
Your timing	Rules change, and the page describes the rule on its last-checked date. A decision made months later needs the rule as it stands on that day.
Your tolerance for risk	A page can name the risks of a seasonal rental or an off-plan purchase. Whether they are acceptable to you is your judgement, not ours.

How to use this site responsibly

1. Read the date first

   The last-checked date in the byline tells you when a person compared the page with its sources. The older the date on a subject that moves, the more you should verify before acting.

2. Open the sources

   Every figure links to where it came from. For a decision that depends on a number, read the source yourself; our page is a map to it, not a substitute for it.

3. Treat every estimate as an estimate

   Yields, prices, timelines and costs are labelled estimates because they are. Put your own assumptions into the tools and see how much the answer moves.

4. Match the page to your case

   Ask which of the things in the table above differ for you, and take those to a professional before you sign, pay or file.

5. Watch for the review notice

   A legal, tax or residency page with a visible notice has not yet been confirmed by the lawyer or the accountant. It may still be right; it has not been checked by them.

6. Ask before acting

   If something on a page seems to apply to you in a way you cannot judge, write to us. A first conversation is free and the answer may be "that page does not cover your case".

How reliance goes wrong, and how it does not

The losses we hear about rarely come from a page being wrong. They come from a page being read as more than it is. A buyer reads that the residence permit threshold is $150,000, pays that amount for an apartment and learns that the appraiser values it lower; the page was right and the application fails anyway, because the test is the appraisal and not the price, which the page also said. A buyer reads an average yield figure, applies it to a specific apartment in a specific building, and discovers that the building's charges, the season and the vacancy produce something else; the published average was right and the apartment was not average. A buyer reads that foreigners may own property outright, buys a village house, and finds the plot classed as agricultural land; the page was right about apartments and houses and the land under this house was the exception the page mentioned. In each case the remedy was available before the money moved: an appraisal, a calculation with the building's own numbers, an extract showing the land category. The site exists so that readers know to ask for those things; it cannot ask for them on a reader's behalf.

What a reviewed page means for reliance

When the partner lawyer or the accountant has reviewed a page, the review notice is removed and the reviewer is named in the byline. That tells you that a qualified person compared the page's general statements with the law as it stood on the review date and found them correct. It does not tell you that the reviewer has considered your situation, that the authority will apply the rule the same way at the counter on the day you file, or that the rule has not changed since. A reviewed page is a better starting point than an unreviewed one, and it is still a starting point. The reviewer's own role, and its limits, are described on the partner lawyer's page.

The agency's duties and the site's limits

This disclaimer is about the website. It is not about what we owe a client who has hired us: for a client, the written agreement and the quote say what we will do, the lawyer's summary says what was checked, and the law of Georgia says what we are responsible for if we fail. A client who followed our written advice and suffered a loss has a different position from a reader who followed a general guide, and the disclaimer does not change that. The services page describes what a client receives at each step, and the terms of use contain the liability clause for the website.

Tools, calculators and checkers

The tools on this site deserve their own sentence in a disclaimer, because a number on a screen looks more certain than a sentence in a guide. A calculator's result is arithmetic applied to the inputs you typed and the assumptions you left in place, and it is exactly as reliable as the least reliable of those. The residence permit checker compares a figure with published thresholds and does not know whether your property is agricultural land, whether the appraiser will agree with your figure or whether your file will be complete. The tools say all of this on their pages and label every result an estimate, and the disclaimer repeats it here so that a screenshot of a result is never mistaken for a quote, a valuation or a decision. If a tool ever produces a result that looks wrong, the report-an-error page is the way to tell us, and the tool's change log records what was fixed.

Photographs and descriptions of places

Photographs on district pages and project reviews were taken by our team on the date shown and describe that place on that date; a building site changes monthly and a street changes with the season. Descriptions of noise, light, parking and the character of a street are our observations, made in good faith and recorded with the visit date, and another visitor on another day may form a different view. Where a page says we have not yet visited, it means exactly that, and the descriptions on it are from published sources only. None of this is a substitute for seeing the property yourself or through a live video tour, which is why both are part of every purchase we assist.

Readers in other countries

The site is read in many countries, and some of them give consumers protections that cannot be limited by a disclaimer. Nothing on this page limits a right that the law of your country gives you and does not allow to be limited. Equally, nothing on this page is advice under the law of your country: statements about home-country tax, document legalisation or banking on the country guides are general and end, every time, with the instruction to confirm them with an adviser where you live. The Georgian side is the side we can describe with authority; the other side of the border is yours to check.

Change log

• 11 October 2026 - Draft published for lawyer review.