Buying Real Estate in Tbilisi?

Find Out How Our All-Inclusive* Real Estate Purchase Assistance Costs Less Than a Traditional Agent, but Includes Much More!

In a nutshell, sometimes.

- Unlike private owners, developers typically include the expected agent fee in listings. They won't remove that fee for a consumer as they still have to pay their in-house agent staff, or a 3rd-party agent, as they don't want to deal directly with consumers who are typically inexperienced in real estate purchasing - especially if you are not Georgian and aware of local rules and customs.

- Owner's may not speak English, also very few owners advertise directly, so there is normally an agent in the way because owners mostly don't want to deal with buyers directly. But they will deal direct with agents, like us, as we have the expertise to make the sale easy for them and do the work.

ExpatHub have a working relationship with many developers so that you do not get charged the usual advertized price that includes agents fees.

Summary: There are some limited possibilities to do all the leg work yourself, and find a few owners who will speak English and work with you directly and remove the agent commission fee. But this is a very limited number of options. Normally, you just end up paying the same hidden fees you normally would to an agent, but doing all the leg work yourself.

If you are not happy with the final price we negotiate, you have the option for us to keep looking for other options. Given our access direct to owners and developers is significantly more extensive than independent buyers' or any traditional sellers' agent, we can normally get you the right price quite quickly.

90% of all our past deals have been direct to developers or owners and have bypassed sellers' agents entirely. Being an agency and having extensive experience and contacts, these direct deals are much easier to find and secure than if you just do an online search yourself.

It is of course in our interests to find you the right property and price quickly. But our service is not limited to the initial search and negotiation, and our agents will continue on your behalf until you are happy. If we weren't good at this process, then we wouldn't be able to do this cost-effectively. But our clients get the results they want within our usual time frame, so it turns out we are pretty good at this!

Our commitment is 100% satisfaction and sales completion for all our clients.

- 30% of the expected final sale price, at the commencement of our agreement. The work of your account manager is labor intensive, and personalized just to you. This downpayment covers our large time commitment to you from the start. As we have 100% customer satisfaction with this process, there has never been a case where we could not find a property of interest to every client.
- 50% once you have agreed to purchase a property, prior to the commencement of due diligence work.
- 20% ( ± the difference between the estimated sale price and the final sale price) immediately prior to the final signing of the purchase agreement.

1. Because it's still profitable for us to do so, even with all these inclusions. Most regular agents are overcharging for the basic, minimal services they provide in Georgia - which are a lot less than you'd get from a professional real estate agent in most countries.

2. Because we are a law firm, so many of the additional services we offer are in-house, so cost us less than if you had to pay retail price to a 3rd party.

3. We are not a traditional Real Estate Agency. We operate a streamlined, mostly digital & remote model for our Real Estate Services business, so our overall costs are lower in general.

A local Power of Attorney can be obtained by attending a notary appointment with one of our legal representatives in Georgia. We provide the paperwork to meet the requirements of what powers you wish to give to our legal department (from the right to make the purchase, to rights at your bank etc. it's your choice!). With the PoA completed, we can represent you so that you don't have to turn up to certain appointments or take certain actions yourself.

This means we can even complete the real estate purchase entirely on your behalf - which is very useful if you are frequently outside Georgia and may need to complete the purchase quickly once the property sale is agreed upon with the seller.

The *included* PoA is a local PoA applied for in person in Georgia. If you will NOT be visiting Georgia at all and need to arrange a Georgian PoA remotely, that process is significantly more complex and expensive. Please contact us, or discuss this on your free consultation call, in order to confirm the details and requirements.