Why Georgia as your second home?

Most visitors to Georgia fall in love…  with the country, our people, our culture, our dramatic landscape (from seaside to ski slopes), our delicious food and wine.   We understand this very well!  Most Georgians also feel a passionate love for our homeland, and we are glad to make our visitors feel welcome and at home.  We love to share, Georgian style, our hearts and our traditions with friends new and old.

Whether driven by their hearts, their minds, or their keen investment instincts, numerous visitors now are choosing to set up a second home in Georgia. Between personal visits, many investors also decide to rent out their flat, taking part in Georgia’s vibrant and evolving tourism sector. For them, Second Home Georgia is here to help. 

In today’s Georgia, the ghosts of a bureaucratic past have been pretty much vanquished.  Georgia’s updated regulations and practices make this an attractive place to invest in property:

• Simplified investment policies make it easy to invest and register property ownership
• Ranked 7th in the world for overall “Ease of Doing Business”, Georgia is recognized as a global leader – it’s also ranked 2nd globally for ease in starting a business (only New Zealand ranked higher), and 5th for ease of registering property.   
• Georgia also provides tax benefits for larger-scale investors, which is drawing tech startups and other entrepreneurs to the market in increasing numbers 
• All of this reflects a sustained effort to reform Georgia’s regulatory and practical environment for investors
• (Mariam -- could add here bullet on how many years it might take to achieve 100% Return on Investment?   Or a statement of expected ROI timeframe for some of your current investors?)

Vibrancy and growth in Georgia’s tourism sector is driving growth:

• Annual tourism revenues have quintupled in the past decade, and in 2018 tourism revenues were almost 20% of GDP.
• Over 2/3 of all international visitors to Georgia come as tourists
• Both winter and summer tourism seasons are vital and have been experiencing significant year-over-year growth.
• A low tourist-to-resident ratio (in comparison to similar emerging markets) means that there’s healthy tourism growth potential for the future