What are Khimshiashvili and Angisa?
These are two names for the newer, denser part of Batumi south of the old town. Khimshiashvili is an official administrative unit of the city; Angisa is a former village whose name survives in a street and its numbered lanes. Together they cover the inland streets behind the seafront towers: Pirosmani, Shartava, Kobaladze and Inasaridze streets, Tbel Abuseridze Street on the eastern edge, and the Angisi lanes further south. It is the Batumi of new towers, shopping malls and the city stadium rather than of old courtyards.
Batumi City Council set out the city's administrative units in a resolution of 29 August 2014, which created 13 of them. The Khimshiashvili unit is the wedge between Javakhishvili Street to the north, the sea to the west, the Zhilin canal to the south and Tbel Abuseridze Street to the east, and it includes the beach strip. That means the seafront tower belt described in our New Boulevard guide lies inside it. This page concentrates on the streets behind the first line and on Angisa.
Angisa is not an official unit at all. The Angisi street and its lanes start at the roundabout where Aghmashenebeli, Kobaladze and Tbel Abuseridze streets meet and run south of the canal towards Lortkipanidze Street, inside the Airport unit. The listing site ss.ge files them under its "Airport District" label, which our airport direction guide covers in detail; here we look at the part of Angisa that joins Khimshiashvili.
Map and boundaries
The Khimshiashvili unit runs from Javakhishvili Street south to the Zhilin canal, and from the sea inland to Tbel Abuseridze Street; the Angisi lanes continue south of the canal from the Aghmashenebeli roundabout.
Open the mapMeasured on OpenStreetMap in a straight line, Angisi Street is about 3.5 km from Europe Square in the old town and about 2.3 km from the airport terminal. Road distances are longer and depend on traffic. Because the official unit and the listing labels do not match, always check the exact address and the cadastral code rather than the district name on an advert.
Where the names come from
The unit is named after Sherif-Beg Khimshiashvili (1829-1892), the last prince of Upper Adjara and a general in the Russian army, who broke with the Ottoman Empire during the war of 1877-1878 and eased Adjara's transfer to Russia. The long road by the sea also carries his name and is officially an avenue.
Angisa, once called Ankisi, was a village settled in the second half of the 19th century by Abkhaz muhajirs, families who had emigrated from Abkhazia to the Ottoman Empire, according to Georgian Wikipedia. It belonged to Khelvachauri municipality until 2009, when it joined Batumi together with Kakhaberi, Adlia and Mejinistskali. Much of the land by the sea had an industrial past: a presidential decree of December 2009 let the city expropriate property to extend the seafront road, and the first phase ran over the former shipyard and a former poultry factory.
Who the zone suits
- Buyers who want a modern flat with services nearby: malls, the Public Service Hall and the main hospital are within or beside the unit.
- Long-let landlords: thousands of flats are advertised for rent here all year.
- Buyers who want choice: more than 3,000 flats are advertised for sale, from about GEL 3,200 per m².
- Less suited to buyers who want an old-town atmosphere: this is a district of towers built mostly in the last 15 years.
- Less suited to buyers seeking quiet and low density: building continues, and planning rules allow extra density in return for compensation.
What sellers ask
No research firm publishes a separate index for Khimshiashvili or Angisa, so listings are the starting point. On 27 October 2026 ss.ge showed 3,181 flats for sale under its "Khimshiashvili District" label. Almost every advert on the pages we read was in a tower of 17 to 55 floors; only 2 of about 50 were in buildings of 12 floors or fewer.
| Flat | Asking price | Per m² |
|---|---|---|
| Most adverts in the Khimshiashvili District | - | GEL 3,200 to 8,000 |
| 1 room, 33 m², floor 9 of 45, Pirosmani Street, off-plan to 2028 | GEL 112,000 | about GEL 3,394 |
| 2 rooms, 65 m², floor 20 of 45, Shartava Street | GEL 234,000 | about GEL 3,600 |
| 2 rooms, 47 m², floor 20 of 23, Kobaladze Street | GEL 221,000 | about GEL 4,703 |
| 2 rooms, 54 m², floor 24 of 41, Tbel Abuseridze Street | GEL 351,000 | about GEL 6,500 |
| New flats in the Angisi lanes, 28 to 65 m² | GEL 117,000 to 299,000 | GEL 2,873 to 5,040 |
The spread inside one district is wide because the adverts mix white frame, green frame and finished flats, new and resale, low and high floors, and promoted ads that the site lists first. Compare a flat with others in the same building and on similar floors, not with the district range. Our guide to white frame and green frame flats explains why condition changes the price per m² so much.
What the research figures say
Galt & Taggart's report for the second quarter of 2026 splits the Batumi market into seven zones, plus a separate figure for Kobuleti, and none of them is called Khimshiashvili or Angisa. Its zone borders appear only on a map, so we cannot say from the text which zone covers each inland street. Two zones are the likely reference points, and the numbers below are for new finished flats.
| Zone | Sales | Price per m² | Rent per m² a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Boulevard area | 1,664 | USD 1,800 | USD 12.3 |
| Inner areas | 422 | USD 1,672 | USD 10.6 |
| All Batumi, new finished flats | - | USD 1,960 | - |
The report puts the city-wide gross rental yield at 7.1% and the average price of resale flats at USD 1,497 per m². It also warns that the stock of unsold new flats stays high, a sign of oversupply. In a district where new towers keep rising, that matters for anyone counting on a quick resale at a higher price.
What flats rent for
ss.ge listed 3,736 flats for rent in the Khimshiashvili District on the same day, more than the number for sale. On the first page, flats of 30 to 85 m² asked GEL 700 to 2,340 a month.
- Studio of 30 m² on floor 25 of a tower on Shartava Street: GEL 1,040 a month.
- One room of 30 m² in an older five-storey block on Kobaladze Street: GEL 909 a month, furnished.
- Two rooms of 45 m² on the 4th floor of a five-storey block on Inasaridze Street, no lift: GEL 1,030 a month.
- Two rooms of 50 m² on Sherif Khimshiashvili Avenue: GEL 1,300 a month.
- Three rooms of 64 to 85 m² on high floors on Shartava Street: GEL 2,340 a month.
Some adverts quote dollars in the text and lari in the price field, and some mix monthly and daily rates, so read each one carefully. With so many flats on offer, tenants can choose, and an empty month between lets is a real cost. Check your figures in our rental yield calculator with a realistic vacancy allowance.
What kind of buildings
A 2020 site study by the consultancy Colliers for a plot on Pirosmani Street counted about 1.5 million m² of property in the surrounding area: 57% residential, 29% aparthotels, 11% hotels and about 3% offices. It described the plot as one of the last vacant ones nearby and the area as widely seen as Batumi's new centre. The share of aparthotels and hotels shows how much of the district was built with visitors in mind.
Older Soviet-era blocks still stand, but they are a small part of what is advertised: in the rent listings we read, only two flats were in five-storey buildings. Such blocks may have no lift, as one of those adverts points out, and their wiring and pipes are decades old. In any older block, ask whether walls inside the flat or in the shops below have been altered, and whether the building has a registered owners' association.
Services and landmarks
- Public Service Hall: at 7 Sherif Khimshiashvili Avenue, built in 2010-2011 to a design by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi; the place to register property and get documents.
- Batumi Stadium: opened on 27 October 2020 with 20,035 seats; home of Dinamo Batumi. Check how match days affect parking near a building.
- Batumi Republican Clinical Hospital: at 2 Tbel Abuseridze Street, just across the eastern boundary, with 190 beds for adults and children.
- Grand Mall: at 29 Sherif Khimshiashvili Avenue, described at its launch as a 24,000 m² centre with more than 100 brands, a cinema and a fitness club, financed with a loan from Bank of Georgia and the EBRD.
- Ardagani Lake: with its dancing fountain, the landmark that divides the old and new parts of the boulevard.
We could not confirm the addresses of public schools or kindergartens inside the unit, so check which school serves a specific building before you buy, especially if you are moving with children.
Density and planning
New towers in the Angisi lanes are going up under detailed development plans approved by the city council. A decision of 30 June 2026 approved such a plan for plots at numbers 12a to 24 of the first Angisi lane. It allows the developer to exceed the density limit known as K-2 in return for compensation: either handing the city black-frame flats equal to 10% of the extra area, or paying the market value of white-frame flats equal to 4% of it before the permit is issued.
For buyers, this means the view from a window in the Angisi lanes can be closed by a new tower within a few years, and streets that were quiet can become construction sites. Ask the city hall or the developer what is permitted on the neighbouring plots. Batumi's land-use plan dates from 2009, and work on a new one began in 2017; we found no record of a new plan being adopted. Our guide to checking a construction permit shows which documents to request.
Rain and flooding
Batumi is the rainiest city in the South Caucasus, with about 2,700 mm of rain a year, and it sits on a flat river delta. During two days of heavy rain in August 2020, Khimshiashvili Street was among the flooded streets. A drainage programme funded by the German development bank KfW built a pumping station and a 1.5 km rainwater collector under Javakhishvili Street, the northern edge of the unit; an evaluation in 2024 found that of 13 flood hotspots in the centre only 2 or 3 still flood, briefly and occasionally. Some planned collectors were not built under that programme.
We found no flood report naming Angisi Street, and we could not confirm whether the inland streets of Khimshiashvili fall within the improved drainage area. Ask neighbours and the shopkeepers on the ground floor where water stands after a storm, and look for marks on walls in basements and car parks.
Getting around
Under the city's bus route list as amended in April 2024, route 2a runs along Angisi Street, route 14 along Pirosmani Street and Sherif Khimshiashvili Avenue, and nine routes use Tbel Abuseridze Street. Routes change, so check them with the operator, Batumi Autotransport. A trip costs GEL 0.70 with a transport card under fares set in January 2026. Taxis and ride-hailing are common; if you will drive, test the route at a summer peak hour and on a match day. The city centre and the old town are a short bus ride north.
Pros and cons
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Modern towers with malls, the hospital and the Public Service Hall nearby | No research index for the zone; only listings |
| Thousands of rent adverts: steady long-let demand | Thousands of competing flats for tenants to choose from |
| Wide price range, from about GEL 3,200 per m² | Density can rise further under development plans |
| Several bus routes and quick access to the old town | Stadium events and summer traffic to plan around |
| Public Service Hall on the avenue for registry visits | Flooding history on some streets |
To be added by the team: photos for the team to take: Pirosmani Street towers, an Angisi lane with new blocks, the Public Service Hall, Batumi Stadium, and a five-storey block on Kobaladze Street.
Checking a flat in Khimshiashvili or Angisa step by step
Match the address to the unit
Khimshiashvili or Airport, not the ad label.
Get the registry extract
Owner, area, mortgages and bans.
Ask about neighbouring plots
Development plans can add towers.
Check the condition
White, green or black frame, or finished.
Price it within the building
Same tower, similar floor.
Look for water marks
Basement, car park and ground floor.
Frequently asked questions
Is Angisa an official district of Batumi?
No. It is a former village that joined Batumi in 2009; its streets lie in the Airport administrative unit, just south of Khimshiashvili.
Does Khimshiashvili include the New Boulevard towers?
Yes. The official unit runs from the sea to Tbel Abuseridze Street, so the seafront towers are inside it.
How much do flats cost in Khimshiashvili?
Most adverts on ss.ge asked GEL 3,200 to 8,000 per m² in October 2026, depending on the building, floor and condition.
And in the Angisi lanes?
New flats there asked about GEL 2,873 to 5,040 per m².
What does a flat rent for?
Flats of 30 to 85 m² asked GEL 700 to 2,340 a month on the first page of rent adverts.
Can a new tower go up next to my building?
Yes. Development plans approved by the city council can allow extra density in return for flats or money given to the city.
Does the area flood?
Khimshiashvili Street flooded in August 2020; we found no report naming Angisi Street. Check the building yourself.
Which buses serve the area?
Route 2a uses Angisi Street and route 14 the avenue and Pirosmani Street; check current routes with Batumi Autotransport.
Sources
- Batumi City Council Resolution No 29 of 29 August 2014 on the city's administrative units, Legislative Herald of Georgia
- Flats for sale and for rent in the Khimshiashvili District, and the Airport District, ss.ge (accessed 27 October 2026)
- Batumi Residential Real Estate, 2Q26 Overview, Galt & Taggart, 14 August 2026
- Angisa and Sherif Khimshiashvili, Georgian Wikipedia (accessed 27 October 2026)
- Presidential Decree No 921 of 9 December 2009 on extending the seafront road, Legislative Herald of Georgia
- Batumi City Council Decision No 36 of 30 June 2026 on a development plan in the Angisi lanes, Legislative Herald of Georgia
- Site analysis of a land plot on Pirosmani Street, Colliers Georgia, June 2020
- Public Service Hall, Batumi, LIMEN project, and Batumi Stadium, Wikipedia
- Batumi Republican Clinical Hospital (accessed 27 October 2026), and Batumi Grand Mall, CBW
- Ex-post evaluation of the Batumi stormwater programme, KfW, 2024
- Heavy rains flood Batumi streets, First Channel, 23 August 2020
- Batumi City Council Decision No 22 of 30 April 2024 on city bus routes, and Resolution No 9 of 30 January 2026 on bus fares, Legislative Herald of Georgia
Change log
- - Area guide published from ss.ge listings, Batumi City Council resolutions on administrative units, a development plan and bus routes and fares, Galt & Taggart, Georgian Wikipedia, a 2009 presidential decree, Colliers Georgia, the LIMEN project, Wikipedia, the Batumi Republican Clinical Hospital, CBW, KfW and First Channel.