What you get
- Rule changes. Residency thresholds, visa-free rules, taxes on rent and sales, registration fees: a short note the day we confirm the change against the official source, with a link to the updated guide.
- New guides. When a major guide or a new section goes live, one email with the three things worth knowing from it.
- Market data. New price and rent data when it is published by the sources we use, with our reading of what it means for a buyer.
What you do not get: daily emails, "hot offers", or anything paid for by a developer. The independence statement applies to the newsletter as much as to the site.
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Your address
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Past issues
No issues have been sent yet. The first one goes out with the first group of guides.
What an issue looks like
An issue is short and has the same shape every time, so that it can be read in a few minutes and searched later. It opens with a single line on why it was sent: a rule changed, a guide went live or new data was published. It then gives the facts in order: what changed, from what to what, from which date, according to which source, with the link to the official text or the report. Under the facts comes our reading of what it means for a buyer, kept separate from the facts and labelled as our view. Then the link to the page on this site that has been updated, with its new last-checked date. An issue ends there. There is no editorial essay, no round-up of "news" from other sites, no listings and no offers. If two things happened in the same week, the issue has two sections; if nothing happened, no issue is sent.
What triggers an issue
| A rule changes | Residence permit thresholds and conditions, visa-free periods, work permit rules, taxes on rent and on sales, registry and state fees. Sent the day we confirm the change against the official source, not the day a rumour appears. The 1 March 2026 increase of the property threshold from $100,000 to $150,000 is the kind of change that would have produced an issue. |
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| A major guide goes live | A complete guide, a new section or a reviewed legal page. One email with the three things in it that are most worth knowing and the link. |
| New market data | When Colliers Georgia, Galt & Taggart, TBC Capital, Geostat or the National Bank publish figures we use, an issue with the headline numbers, the source and our reading, and the updated data page. |
| A correction that matters | If a page was wrong about something that could affect a decision, subscribers are told, with the correction and the date, rather than left to find it in a change log. |
How often, and why not more
Rule changes in this market come a few times a year, major guides a few times a month while the site is being built, and data releases on the research houses' quarterly cycle. Together that is a handful of emails a month at most, and in a quiet month none. We do not fill gaps: an email sent to maintain a schedule is an email that teaches readers to ignore the ones that matter. The "mostly interested in" choice on the form lets you receive only rule changes, only data and guides, or everything, and the language choice decides which version you get. Readers who want more than that can follow the change logs on the pages they care about, which record every edit, or write to us with a question at any time.
Five languages, one issue
Each issue is written in English and adapted into Georgian, Russian, Hebrew and Arabic by the same people who adapt the site, with the same facts and the same source links; the examples and the emphasis may differ, because a rule change about document legalisation matters differently to a reader in Tel Aviv and a reader in Almaty. You choose the language on the form and can change it by replying to any issue. Where a change affects buyers from one country in particular, the issue in that language says so first.
How your address is handled
Until a newsletter service is connected, which is the subject of the yellow box above, subscriptions reach us by WhatsApp or email and the team keeps them in a list, and issues are sent by email from our own address. Your address is used for the newsletter and for nothing else: it is not used for sales messages, not shared with developers, agents or advertisers, and not combined with anything you told us as a client. Every issue carries an unsubscribe instruction; a reply saying "unsubscribe" is enough, and the address is removed from the list and deleted. When a newsletter service is connected, this page will say which one, what it stores and where, and the privacy policy will be updated on the same day with the change dated in its log. Readers who subscribed before that change will be told in the first issue sent through the new service.
Independence of the newsletter
No developer, bank, seller or advertiser pays for a mention in the newsletter, and there are no sponsored issues, no "partner offers" and no project launches announced as news. If a developer's project appears in an issue, it is because a published review or profile of it went live, and the issue links to the review, including its risks section. The rules on the independence page apply to every issue, and a reader who thinks an issue broke them can use the report-an-error page, which reaches the editor.
Who the newsletter is for
Three kinds of readers find it useful. Buyers who are months away from a decision and want to know when a rule or a threshold changes before they commit; owners who already hold property in Georgia and need to know when a tax rule or a registry fee changes; and advisers, lawyers and accountants in other countries who have clients buying in Georgia and want a dated, sourced note rather than a forum thread. It is less useful for someone who wants daily market commentary or listings, which we do not send, and for someone who wants a personal answer, which the contact page is for.
A sample issue
To show the shape rather than describe it, here is how the issue for the residence permit change of 1 March 2026 would read. The first line: "Rule change: the property-based residence permit threshold is now $150,000." The facts: the total value of non-agricultural property that must be exceeded for the one-year, renewable permit rose from $100,000, in force since 2019, to $150,000 from 1 March 2026; the value is confirmed by an accredited appraiser; holders who qualified under the old threshold can renew while they keep the property that qualified them; the investment permit from $300,000 for five years is unchanged. The sources: the reports by IMI Daily and EIG Law that we checked on 10 October 2026, with the note that the official text on the Legislative Herald will be cited once the partner lawyer has reviewed the page. Our reading, labelled as ours: a buyer who was planning a purchase just above the old threshold should either raise the budget or get an indicative valuation before signing, because the appraiser's market value and not the contract price is the test; buyers with existing permits should not restructure the ownership of the qualifying property without advice. The link: the Residency section, with its new last-checked date and the residency checker updated to the new threshold. End of issue. That is the whole thing, and it is deliberately short enough to read on a phone between two other emails.
Reading an issue in a minute
Because the structure never changes, a reader can decide in seconds whether an issue concerns them. The first line says the type: rule change, new guide, new data or correction. Readers waiting for a decision read rule changes immediately and skim the rest; owners read rule changes and corrections; advisers read everything but file it. The facts block is written so that it can be forwarded on its own to a spouse, a client or a lawyer without our reading attached, and the source links are plain addresses that work when the email is forwarded or printed. Our reading is the only part of an issue that contains opinion, and it is marked as such so that a reader who wants only the facts can stop before it.
Corrections to issues
An issue is a dated statement and, like a page, it can be wrong. If we learn that an issue contained an error that could affect a decision, a correction issue goes to the same subscribers with the same subject line prefixed by "Correction", stating what was wrong, what is right and where the mistake came from. The original issue in the archive is marked as corrected with a link to the correction, and is not silently edited. Readers who notice an error in an issue can reply to it or use the report-an-error page; corrections reported by readers are credited in the correction issue if the reader agrees.
The archive
Every issue will be published on this page after it is sent, with its date and in each language, so that the newsletter is also a dated record of what changed in the market and when. The archive will be searchable through the site's search box, and each issue will link to the pages it updated, which link back to it from their change logs. A reader who arrives at a guide a year from now will be able to trace each change on it to the issue that announced it and to the source behind it.
Frequently asked questions
How often do you send it?
Only when there is something to say: at most a few times a month, often less. Rule changes go out as soon as we have confirmed them against the official source.
In which language?
The language of the page you subscribe from: English, Georgian, Russian, Hebrew or Arabic. Tell us if you want another.
How do I unsubscribe?
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