Our team

Who does what

Languages

Between us we work in Georgian, English, Russian, Hebrew and Arabic. A client is matched with the adviser who speaks their language; documents are translated by certified translators, not by us.

How reviewers work

1. Draft

   The author writes the page from primary sources and records every fact with its source and date.

2. Review

   For legal, tax and residency pages the lawyer or accountant reads the page, corrects it and confirms it. Until then the page shows "being reviewed".

3. Sign-off

   The reviewer's name goes into the byline and the structured data of the page. The review notice is removed.

4. Re-check

   Pages are re-checked when a rule changes and at least once a year. The "Last checked" date and the change log show what happened.

Author pages

Each author and reviewer has a profile page describing what they do, the pages they wrote or reviewed, how they check facts and how to contact them: founder and lead adviser, property adviser, partner lawyer, partner accountant. Names, photos and credentials are added as soon as the team supplies the details above; the analyst's profile follows. Full editorial rules are on the editorial policy page.

Writers and editors

We are looking for writers and editors who can work from primary sources in one of our five languages. Write to info@avi.ge with two samples of your work.

How the roles work together on one purchase

A purchase passes through several hands, and the handovers between them are where things go wrong in most agencies. Ours are fixed. The lead adviser owns the client relationship from the first message to the keys: the brief, the quote, the negotiations and every written confirmation come from them. The property adviser owns the ground: the screening visits, the viewings, the photographs, the handover inspection and, later, the renovation site. The partner lawyer owns the paper: every extract, permit and contract passes through them before the client is asked to decide, and their summary is the document the client's own advisers at home receive. The accountant owns the tax side once the apartment is bought: registration with the Revenue Service, declarations and the answers to a client's home accountant. The analyst owns the numbers that all of the others quote: the facts register, the price context in a shortlist and the data on this site. At each handover the receiving person gets a written file, not a phone call, and the client is told who now holds their case.

What each role will never do

Lead adviser	Will not quote a price basis that is not in writing, will not promise a yield, a date or a permit, and will not ask a client to pay the purchase price to the agency.
Property adviser	Will not show a property whose cadastral code has not been checked, will not describe a project from a brochure instead of a visit, and will not omit a defect from the viewing notes because it might cost a sale.
Partner lawyer	Will not approve a contract the client cannot read in a language they understand, will not sign off a legal page on this site without reading the primary source, and will not act for the seller and the buyer in the same deal.
Accountant	Will not advise on foreign tax, will not confirm a tax page without the current text of the rule, and will not estimate a client's tax without their documents.
Analyst	Will not publish a number without a source and a date, will not average figures from sources with different definitions, and will not produce a forecast.

How we choose the people we work with

Beyond the core team, a purchase depends on partners we do not employ: notaries, certified translators, accredited appraisers, contractors and, sometimes, lawyers in the client's own country. We choose them by the same test we apply to a developer, which is the record. A translator is used again when a notary has accepted their work without correction; an appraiser when their report has stood up at the Public Service Hall; a contractor when the defects list at handover was short and closed on time. We keep a record of each partner's work for our clients, and a partner who fails a client is not used again, whatever the price. Clients are free to bring their own partners, and the lawyer's summary and our notes are written so that any competent professional can act on them.

Keeping current

Rules in this market change: on 1 March 2026 the threshold for a residence permit through property went up from $100,000 to $150,000, from that same day foreign employees needed a work permit, and in September 2025 a new three-year residence permit for IT specialists appeared. Each of these changed advice we give and pages we publish. The analyst watches the Legislative Herald of Georgia and the Public Service Hall's announcements, the partner lawyer confirms the reading of any new rule from the primary text, and the affected pages return to review with a visible notice until they are confirmed. Internally the same change is written up for the whole team so that the client hears one answer whoever they ask. A reader who sees a page that still describes an old rule is asked to use the report-an-error page; that report goes to the analyst first.

Languages, task by task

Working in five languages is more than speaking them, because different parts of a purchase have different language rules. Conversation and written notes with a client are in the client's language, through the team member assigned to them. Contracts, powers of attorney and registry documents are in Georgian, and a client signs a Georgian text; the translation they read is prepared by a certified translator, not by us, because a translation used before a notary has to carry a translator's certification. The lawyer's summary and our viewing notes are written in the client's language by us. Site pages are written in English first, then the Georgian, Russian, Hebrew and Arabic versions are adapted by people familiar with how buyers in each of those countries read, following one terminology list so that a term in a contract translation can be matched to the same term on this site. Where a team member does not cover a language, we say so rather than improvising, and the client is matched with the colleague who does.

What we will publish about each person, and why

The yellow boxes on this page list what is missing: names, photographs, years of experience, credentials, the lawyer's bar membership, the accountant's qualification. These are not decoration. A reader who sees that a legal page was reviewed by a named lawyer with a verifiable bar membership can check that membership; a reader who sees a photograph of the adviser who will meet them at the airport knows who to look for; a reader who sees how many years someone has worked in this market can weigh their advice accordingly. Until the owner supplies these details, the pages describe the roles and the method, which is honest but incomplete, and the structured data on the author pages carries the role rather than a name. We would rather publish a page that says "to be added" than one that invents a credential, and the same rule applies to every developer profile on this site.

A week in the team's work

Because the roles are easier to understand through what they do than through titles, here is how a typical week divides, without client details. The lead adviser spends the mornings on written work: briefs for new clients, quotes, the negotiation notes from the previous day, and the confirmation messages that every decision generates. The afternoons are calls and meetings in the clients' time zones, which for a client in the Gulf or Israel means the Tbilisi afternoon and for a client in Europe the late afternoon. The property adviser is out of the office most of the week: screening visits to properties before they reach a shortlist, viewings with clients who are in town, live video tours for those who are not, construction site visits with a camera and a notebook, and handover inspections when a developer delivers. The partner lawyer works on files rather than days: a due diligence file arrives with the cadastral code and the documents, the summary goes back within the time stated in the quote, and once a week there is a review session for the site's legal pages. The accountant is busiest around declaration deadlines and otherwise answers questions as they come. The analyst's week is set by publication dates: when a research house publishes, the facts register is updated the same week and the affected pages are re-checked. The team meets once a week to go through every open purchase, so that each person knows what the others are waiting for, and that meeting is where a client's case changes hands when it needs to.

Mistakes, and what we do with them

A team that claims never to make mistakes is either new or not telling the truth. Ours happen in predictable places: a viewing note that understated a building's noise, a translation that reached a client a day late, a figure on a page that was correct when checked and overtaken by a new report. What matters is what happens next, and the rule is the same for the agency and the site. The client or the reader hears about the mistake from us as soon as we know, with what we propose to do. A mistake that cost a client money is discussed with the lead adviser and settled in writing. A mistake on a page is corrected and dated in the page's change log, and the person who signed the page is the person who corrects it. Once a quarter the lead adviser reads the corrections log and the complaints and changes a process where the same thing happened twice. None of this is unusual in a serious firm; it is written here because a reader choosing an adviser should be able to ask how mistakes are handled and get a specific answer.

Reaching the right person

You do not need to know who handles what: the WhatsApp button and the contact page reach the lead adviser, who routes the question. Legal questions about a specific purchase go to the partner lawyer through us, because the lawyer acts for clients, not for the public. Corrections to a page go to the analyst through the report-an-error page. Press and research requests go to the lead adviser. Job and writing enquiries go to the address in the section above. If you are already a client, your contact person is the right route for everything, including complaints, and a complaint about your contact person goes to the lead adviser by email.

How the team grows

We add people when the number of clients one contact person can serve properly in a language is exceeded, not before, and new advisers start by shadowing viewings and writing shortlist notes that the lead adviser reviews. Reviewers are added when a new subject needs one: a second lawyer for a specialism, an accountant for a particular home-country treaty. Writers and editors are recruited for the site under the conditions in the section above, and every new author gets a profile page before their first signed guide is published, so that no page on this site is signed by someone a reader cannot look up.

Change log

• 11 October 2026 - Published with role descriptions; names and credentials to be added by the team.