Prices and fees

Two kinds of cost

A purchase in Georgia produces two kinds of cost, and our quote keeps them apart.

• Our fee. What you pay AVI Estates for the service you ordered: search, viewing trip, legal due diligence, remote purchase, bank account, residence permit, renovation, rental management or resale. The basis of the fee is written in the quote.
• Third-party costs. What you pay directly to other providers at their own rates: the notary, the certified translator, the accredited valuer for the residence permit, the Public Registry for registration, the state fee for the residence permit, and your bank for transfers. We do not add a margin to these and we show the expected amounts in the quote.

Services and price basis

The three packages (Essential, Remote, Turnkey) combine these services; what each contains is on the services page.

What makes a price higher or lower

• Remote or in person. A purchase by power of attorney needs more documents, translations and notary steps than a purchase where you sign yourself.
• Number of properties. Two apartments in one deal cost less than two separate deals.
• New build or resale. A developer contract needs a different legal check from a resale with a chain of previous owners.
• Documents in other languages. Every foreign document that the notary or the registry needs must be translated and often apostilled.
• Urgency. Faster registration and faster appointments cost more at the Public Registry and the Public Service Hall; the official fee schedules are linked from the relevant guides.

What is always included

• A free first consultation.
• A written quote before any paid work, and no work until you approve it.
• An itemised statement of third-party costs with receipts.
• A single contact person who speaks your language.
• The lawyer's written summary after the due diligence, whatever its conclusion.

Payment and invoices

Our fee is invoiced to you; the purchase price is never paid to us. Third-party providers invoice you directly or are paid against their invoices from your account.

What a written quote contains

A quote from us is a one- or two-page document, in your language, that you receive after the first consultation if you ask for one. It names the services you ordered from the table above and nothing else. For each service it states the price basis as a fixed amount, a percentage or an hourly rate, the amount or the estimated amount, and the moment at which it becomes payable. Below that it lists the third-party costs we expect for your case, item by item, with the provider that will invoice you and the basis of their charge, marked as estimates where the provider's tariff depends on the document or the speed. It states the currency of our fee and the accepted payment methods, which are the subject of the yellow box above until the owner confirms them. It states what is not included, so that nothing appears later as a surprise. It is valid for a stated period and it is signed by the lead adviser. Work begins when you return it approved, not before, and a change to the scope produces a new quote rather than a larger invoice.

The third-party costs, one by one

Notary	Charges by a tariff for certifying signatures, powers of attorney and, where used, the sale contract. Paid at the notary's office at the time of the act. The tariff depends on the document and the value of the transaction and is set by the notary, not by us.
Certified translator	Charges per page or per document for translations that will be used before a notary or an authority, including the translator's certification. Paid to the translator against an invoice.
Accredited appraiser	Charges per valuation report for the residence permit application. The fee depends on the property and the appraiser; the report is addressed to you.
Public Registry	A state fee for registering the transfer, which depends on the processing speed chosen. Paid at the Public Service Hall or online when the application is filed. The official fee schedule is linked from the registration guide.
Public Service Hall, residence permit	A state fee for the application, which also depends on speed. Paid when the file is submitted.
Apostille or consular legalisation	Charged by the authority in your country or by the consulate, per document. Paid there, before the document travels.
Your bank and the Georgian bank	Transfer charges, currency conversion and, for some banks, a fee for opening a non-resident account. Charged by the banks under their own tariffs.
Contractors and suppliers	For renovation and furniture, invoiced to you directly or paid from your account against invoices. We do not mark up their work.

When you pay what

Costs fall at predictable moments, and knowing them in advance keeps a purchase calm. At the start, nothing: the first consultation is free. When the quote is approved, our fee for the search or the first stage becomes payable according to the schedule in the quote. During the search and the viewings, your own travel and hotel. At the legal check, the registry extracts if ordered. At the signing, the notary and the translator, and the purchase price or its first instalment to the seller through the bank, never to us. At registration, the state fee for the registry, and the part of our fee that the quote ties to registration. For a residence permit, the appraiser before the application and the state fee at filing. During renovation, contractors against milestones. During rental management, our fee deducted from the rent as the management agreement states, with the statement showing it. At resale, the notary and the registry fee again, the bank's charges for the transfer abroad, and our fee from the proceeds as agreed in writing. Each of these payments is confirmed to you in writing before it is made, with the amount, the recipient and the purpose.

If the purchase does not go ahead

Purchases stop for good reasons: the legal check finds a problem, the seller withdraws, your circumstances change. What you owe then depends on the stage, and the quote says so in advance rather than leaving it to argument. The principle is that you pay for work that was done and not for a result that did not happen. A search that produced a shortlist is still paid for as a search, even when you end up buying nothing; a legal check that found a reason not to buy is paid as a legal check, because that is exactly what it is for; support at a signing that never took place is not charged. Third-party costs already incurred, such as a translation or an extract, are yours because the provider did the work. Reservation payments to a seller or a developer follow the reservation agreement, which is why we insist that it states the refund conditions before you pay it.

Fixed fee, percentage or hourly: what each means for you

The quote states a basis for each service, and the three bases behave differently. A fixed fee is known in advance and does not change with the price of the property, which suits services whose work is the same whatever you buy: a legal check, a residence permit application, a bank account. A percentage of the purchase price is the traditional basis for a search and purchase and rises with the property's price; its weakness is that it rewards a higher price, which is why any percentage basis in our quotes is paired with the disclosure rules on the independence page and with the written recommendation not to buy when that is our view. An hourly or daily rate suits open-ended work such as a viewing trip or renovation supervision, and the quote states an estimated number of hours and a cap beyond which we ask before continuing. The owner has not yet confirmed which basis applies to which service, which is why the table reads "on request"; when it is confirmed, each line of the table will state the basis, and a client can still ask for a different basis for their case.

How the packages are priced

The three packages described on the services page, Essential, Remote and Turnkey, are combinations of the services in the table, and their price is the sum of their parts with a reduction for ordering them together, because work shared between services, such as the brief and the file, is done once. A package is not a way to pay for services you do not need: if your purchase does not require a bank account or a power of attorney, the quote removes them and the price falls. Equally, any service can be added to a package later at the basis in the original quote. The point of a package is to give a buyer a single known figure for the whole journey, from shortlist to keys or to the first year of rental, rather than a sequence of surprises.

Questions to ask about any agency's fees

• Is the fee basis fixed, a percentage or hourly, and is it in writing before work starts?
• Are third-party costs shown separately, and does the agency add a margin to them?
• Does the purchase price or any part of it pass through the agency's account?
• Does anyone other than me pay the agency in connection with this property, and will I be told in writing before I decide?
• What do I owe if the purchase stops at each stage?
• In which currency is the fee, and what payment methods are accepted?
• Will I receive receipts for every third-party cost?

Our answers are on this page and on the independence page; the ones that depend on the owner's confirmation are marked.

Why there is no price list yet

A price list published before the owner has confirmed each amount would be an invented number, and this site does not publish invented numbers, even about itself. The table above therefore reads "on request" for every service, and a written quote is given after the first free consultation, which costs you nothing and commits you to nothing. When the amounts are confirmed, they will appear in the table with the date, the yellow boxes on this page will be removed, and the change will be recorded in the change log below, like every other change on this site. Until then, the honest statement of our pricing is the structure on this page: a fee agreed in writing, third-party costs without a margin, the purchase price never through our hands, and nothing payable until you have approved a quote.

Frequently asked questions

Do you charge a percentage of the property price or a fixed fee?

The basis depends on the service and is written in your quote before you decide. The table on this page shows the basis for each service as soon as the owner confirms it.

Are notary and translation costs included in your fee?

No. They are third-party costs paid by you directly to the notary, the certified translator, the valuer or the Public Registry at their own rates. We list the expected amounts in the quote so there are no surprises.

Is the first consultation really free?

Yes. The first conversation about your goal and budget is free and does not oblige you to anything.

Can the price change after the quote?

Only if the scope changes, for example a second property or a remote purchase instead of a visit, and only after you approve the new quote in writing.

Change log

• 11 October 2026 - Published; price list to be added by the owner.