From basic diligence checks, to comprehensive conveyancing and buy-side assistance. ExpatHub can safeguard your property purchase with international standard real estate legal services.
Considering buying in Georgia? We offer a free 30 minute consultation with our buy-side experts, where we can discuss:
Because we are a law firm, not a typical real estate agency, our interests align with yours. Our consultation is an information call, not a sales call.
This consultation is available to everyone - even if you have had a free legal / tax / immigration consultation with us in the past.
Calls do not include legal advice. Please book a premium consultation with a lawyer if you need legal assistance: ₾250 GEL per hour + VAT (when applicable). In-person or online via Zoom.
From basic legal checks to full negotiation assistance. Discover how ExpatHub can protect your real estate purchase in Georgia. For full buy-side concierge, see the next section.
Purchasing From An Individual Seller
Purchasing From A Developer
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Minimum recommended legal service. We cover the most essential due diligence.
You find the property, we do the legal.
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Peace of mind full legal service. We make sure every part of your purchase meets international expectations.
Full legal & basic negotiation assistance.
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Tell us the property you want, then we handle the legal process and negotiations from purchase agreements to completed sale.
*Prices vary depending on the length of the purchase agreement, negotiation times with the seller and any extra optional services requested.
If you need to purchase your real estate remotely, see our Power of Attorney services below.
Purchase agreements, drafted by us, are also available.
From:
+VAT (18%)
Minimum recommended legal service. We cover the most essential due diligence.
You find the property, we do the legal.
From:
+VAT (18%)
Peace of mind full legal service. We make sure every part of your purchase meets your international expectations.
Full legal & basic negotiation assistance.
From:
+VAT (18%)
Tell us the property you want, then we handle full legal and negotiations from pre-purchase agreements to completed sale.
Confused by any of the above? Read our FAQs below, and/or submit a quote request and ask your questions in the message section of the form.
Or get a detailed overview of all our real estate services and what they entail here.
Custom work for all your real estate legal needs.
Fully bilingual (Georgian & English) contracts. Purchase agreements, pre-purchase agreements, rental contracts, and more.
Drafted by us for both sellers and buyers.
Standard contracts from our archive: from ₾500 GEL + VAT. Includes basic filling of client specific details. Price varies depending on length.
Custom drafting or revisions: ₾250 GEL + VAT per hour.
Contact us with your requirements.
Not seeing something listed above? Or need a custom package?
Our standard legal by the hour rate for real estate is ₾250 GEL + VAT. This includes custom consultation services.
Contact us with your needs and questions and we can get you a quote for the services you need.
Hourly Add-On Service: In-depth written analysis (legal opinion) of the purchase/pre-purchase agreement for you to review.
(~$530 USD) + VAT.
Pricing is Standalone when not purchasing above legal packages
Georgian + English Bilingual PoA.
Give our lawyers the power to represent you in Georgia for your real estate purchase. We draft the necessary PoA which can either be translated locally by the notary, or internationally by a notary wherever you are and then apostilled and mailed to us. Bring your original passport to the PoA appointment in Georgia, or send us an apostilled copy of your passport.
Excluded: *Notary/translation fees outside Georgia; *Courier fees to get documents to Georgia; *Translation of languages other than English & Georgian.
Comprehensive purchase/research assistance and legal work. Start to finish premium concierge service, from initial property research, through due diligence, purchase, and post-purchase.
Why This Package Makes The Difference:
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Fee: 2.5% of expected property purchase value. Min 7,500 GEL, max 20,000 GEL + VAT.
Comprehensive assistance & legal from initial idea to final sale.
* All third party services and products may incur additional fees, paid directly by you to the provider. We do not receive commissions on referrals to third party providers.
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Fee: 3.5% of expected property purchase value. Min 9,000 GEL, max 24,000 GEL + VAT.
Premium + extended assistance and after-sale care
Our concierge service will take you from initial interest through to final purchase and beyond.
In addition to taking care of the conveyancing (legal/due diligence work), our team will assist you in both research, pre-screening, negotiations, and even helping you find tenants for your newly acquired house, apartment, or commercial space. Avoid getting the “foreigner” price on your property and let our in-house Georgian staff negotiate on your behalf.
NOTE: Contrary to most other buy-side agents, we never accept "kick-backs" from sellers, keeping our interests always aligned with yours.
For a comprehensive picture of the whole buy-side process, how it works, and what is included, download our brochure:
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With a power of attorney and apostilled passport we can complete every step of the process for you remotely. Funds for the actual purchase would need to be transferred directly to the seller as we cannot act as an intermediary for funds transfer.
Additional fees for 3rd party providers may apply, as marked above. Power of Attorney (optional) fees may apply. Typically there are no other additional fees relating to the stated inclusions, but we can discuss any possible additional costs at your initial consultation.
If you intend to conduct the purchase remotely, either entirely or partly, your power of attorney (if signed outside of Georgia) and other international documents may need to be notarized or apostilled in your home country, at your own expense.
Get a detailed inspection that could save you thousands of dollars.
Real estate inspection is common in many countries, but Georgia hasn't quite caught up on this process yet. There is no body or guild offering consistent inspections, which is why we had to create our own service to help with this urgent need.
We've enlisted the highest level of local experts who follow an international standard of assessment.
Putting 100% trust in the real estate agent or seller (who are typically not experts) to give you an honest and accurate assessment of their property is a huge risk.
As our clients have discovered, a real estate inspection can reveal tens of thousands of dollars of difference in the actual value of the property compared to the list price, as well as unexpected future costs.
Some common things a property inspection will identify:
Get a full picture of the level of detail and expertise that goes into our property inspections by reading an unabridged report from our PhD Doctor of Civil Engineering:
From ~$400 USD:
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The final quote depends on the size and status (black frame, white frame, or finished) of the property. The lowest price is based on black frame, less than 100m2.
Is the “Lite” package sufficient?
The Lite package includes background checks on the seller and an analysis of the purchase agreement to let you know potential problems that may undermine your interests.
Is this package legally sufficient? All our legal work is to the highest possible standard, but the Lite package has many important exclusions, so it depends on how much of the process you feel confident to do yourself.
Whether you consider the Lite package sufficient will come down to, amongst other things:
* The complexity of the purchase (if there is no negotiation to be done, for example).
* Your willingness to DIY the purchase (If you are happy to do all the negotiations, purchase process, and arrangements, and are comfortable with Georgian language).
* Your own risk preference (Do you trust the seller 100% and do you think there is any possibility that their lawyers/translators could have made errors in the English translation?)
If you would feel more comfortable having an expert protect your purchase, the Lite package is probably not for you. Consider the Standard package or higher.
We cover all our real estate legal services and why you may or may not need them, here.
Getting additional assistance is easy, so long as we know what you need, we can provide you an estimate for the additional work.
In terms of fixed package upgrades though, our packages, when purchased in advance, normally offer the best value for money, over custom requests and additions. Depending on which stage of the process you are in, upgrading from one fixed package to another may be possible.
Our quote estimates are based on the services you require. Our packages are designed to make it easy to select the common options that most clients need. If you need extras, or do not need all parts of the package, let us know in your quote request and we will factor that in.
This depends entirely on the complexity of the work and the current demand for our services. Analysis of a purchase agreement, as an example, may take 2 to 5 business days, on average.
We can provide the appropriate PoA document, meeting Georgian legal requirements. If you will be in Georgia, the process is simpler and we can accompany you to the notary to get the document notarized. Once notarized, we can represent you.
If you will not be coming to Georgia, we can email you the PoA, then you will be responsible for getting it apostilled in your own country, and then couriered to us. Upon receipt, we will get it translated and notarized in Georgian, after which, we can represent you.
The PoA service is included for free with the Buy-Side Concierge package.
This depends entirely on the complexity of the work and the current demand for our services. Analysis of a purchase agreement, as an example, may take 2 to 5 business days, on average.
However, you should allow 2 weeks on average, from the date of making your intention to purchase the property clear to the seller, through to transfer of the title to you. If the seller is particularly difficult to deal with, or a lot of revisions to the purchase agreement need to be negotiated, additional time may be required.
Once all the legal work is done, and the extract has been renewed and checked, the actual purchase duration to transfer the title can be done the same day, the next business day, or within 4 business days (differing fees apply). This is done at the Public Service Hall. From the Standard package or higher, one of our team will join you for the appointment to assist with the transfer of the title.
VAT must be applied to all real estate services and agent services (including buy-side) when the real estate in question is located on the territory of Georgia. The only exception would be a general real estate consultation that is not related to a specific purchase (i.e., initial consulting for general information about the real estate market and taxes) providing the customer does not normally reside in Georgia and does not plan to imminently.
If you think you will not owe VAT, ask us in your quote request and explain your circumstances.
Any work outside the scope and the fair use amounts for each package. No one likes surprise invoices, so our policy is to inform you in advance that we expect additional work to take place that is not covered in your package, and to give you an estimate of what that work may cost.