Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia: Sources Guide (2026)

Sioni Reservoir shore, Tianeti area, Sioni, Georgia
  • ARSL3019
  • Property ID
  • Apartment, Studio
  • Property Type
  • 32.8 - 118.3
  • sq. m.
For Sale
Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia: Sources Guide (2026)
Sioni Reservoir shore, Tianeti area, Sioni, Georgia

Description

Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia is a resort complex on the Sioni Reservoir in the Tianeti area of Mtskheta-Mtianeti that Archi describes as five apartment hotels with fully furnished studios and larger apartments, and whose three sales blocks, A, B and C, show 56 percent construction progress and 271 units in total on the developer’s pages.

Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia aerial render on the reservoir shore

This guide to Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia reads archi.ge as shown on 12 November 2026 and sets beside it what the design studio, the press and one broker print about units, hotel branding, price and handover. The developer prints no price, handover date or payment plan, and the guide shows each source side by side without choosing between them. It adds sourced background on the reservoir and the road to Tbilisi, and on buying, taxes and residence in Georgia.

Overview of Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia

The developer’s project page describes the scheme as a resort complex on the Sioni Reservoir, about 50 km from Tbilisi and 1,100 m above sea level, made up of five apartment hotels with studios and larger apartments that are sold fully renovated and furnished. Its sales pages cover three blocks, A, B and C, each shown as ongoing at 56 percent construction progress on 12 November 2026.

Sunrise aerial render of the resort peninsula and lake

The same pages list 271 units across the three blocks: 104 marked sold and 167 for sale. The public flats feed lists those 167 units with areas from 32.8 to 118.3 m², in four room-count types, and every price field in it reads zero, so the developer prints no price. It also prints no handover date and no payment plan for the project.

Around that core, the page lists a long set of shared facilities: 2,500 m² of indoor and outdoor pools, a water park, a 3,000 m² spa and fitness area, a banquet hall for 550 people, five restaurants, an outdoor cinema, a helipad, a 3 km lakeside boulevard and sports courts. In 2024 the developer and the architect also used a hotel name for the complex, which the current page leaves out; section 2 tabulates the naming evidence and section 5 discusses it.

Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia key facts As published (archi.ge, 12 November 2026, unless stated)
Name on the developer’s page Sioni Lake Resort & Spa (share title: Lake Sioni Resort & Spa – Archi.ge)
Location Sioni, on the Sioni Reservoir; page coordinates 42.01766 N, 44.980419 E; Tianeti area, Mtskheta-Mtianeti region (Georgian National Tourism Administration)
Developer Archi (Archi Group; hospitality arm Archi Hospitality)
Structure as the page describes it Five apartment hotels with studio and larger apartments; the developer’s 2024 news and the architect’s pages also mention a hotel and villas
Blocks with sales data A, B and C; each shown as Ongoing at 56 percent; no completion date field filled in
Units on archi.ge 271 across A, B and C (104 sold, 167 for sale); the complex record itself shows 0 and 0
Unit types in the public feed 1-room, 2-room, 3-room and one 5-room unit; 32.8 to 118.3 m²
Price from Not printed by the developer; one broker prints AED 466,000 (28 April 2026), see section 2
Handover Not printed by the developer; third-party prints differ (section 2)
Payment plan Not printed by the developer
Furnishing Apartments are described as fully renovated and furnished, with modern appliances
Designer Chapman Taylor, Madrid studio (masterplan and architecture), per the developer and the studio’s own pages
Facilities listed Pools, water park, spa, fitness, banquet hall, restaurants, outdoor cinema, helipad, lakeside boulevard, sports courts, fishing area, zip line

What each source prints about the name, units, price and handover

Public information on the project comes from the developer, from the design studio, from press and from one broker, and the figures do not always agree. The tables below set them side by side. Each cell gives the value, the source and the date, and the guide does not choose between them. The developer’s page is quoted as “per the developer (archi.ge, checked 12 November 2026)”; every other figure is “per” the named source on the date shown.

Layout of a 65.2 m2 two-room unit with room areas
Layout of an 85.6 m2 three-room unit with room areas
Item Per the developer (archi.ge) What other sources print
Total units or keys 271 units in blocks A, B and C: 104 sold and 167 for sale. The text speaks of five apartment hotels, but only A, B and C carry sales counters. 450 keys in five aparthotel blocks plus 25 villas, area 60,000 m² (Chapman Taylor). 126 hotel rooms, a 410-room hotel-style residential complex and 25 villas (Caucasus Business Week, undated). About 400 apartments (Gulf News, 23 October 2025). 400 apartments in five aparthotels plus a 132-room hotel (Oplus Realty, 28 April 2026).
Distance from Tbilisi About 50 km, about a one-hour drive (project page) 50 km (Chapman Taylor; Georgia Today, 4 October 2024). About 60 km (Caucasus Business Week). A little over an hour from Tbilisi to the village (Georgian National Tourism Administration).
Altitude 1,100 m above sea level 1,086 m (Caucasus Business Week)
Site size Not printed 60,000 m² (Chapman Taylor, project area); a 15-hectare plot (Caucasus Business Week)
Investment amount GEL 200 million, in the ibis Tbilisi City news item of 17 February 2025 A total investment commitment budget above 100 million GEL (Caucasus Business Week, undated)
Handover or opening No date printed on the project page or on any of the three block pages First guests expected by the end of 2026 (Caucasus Business Week, undated, quoting the hotel management company). Handover 2028 (Oplus Realty, 28 April 2026).
Price None printed; all 167 listed units carry a price of zero AED 466,000, about USD 126,900 (Oplus Realty, 28 April 2026)

Two cautions apply to reading the table. The Caucasus Business Week item speaks of when the hotel would receive its first guests, while the broker speaks of handover of apartments, so the two dates may not describe the same event. And the unit counts describe different things: the developer counts apartments for sale in three blocks, the architect counts keys across five blocks, and the press items add hotel rooms or villas.

The distance figures are an example of the same effect. A route of 50 km, 60 km or a little over an hour can all be correct for different start points, and section 6 adds a calculated straight-line figure and a routing estimate from the coordinates the developer prints, with their limits.

Name printed Source and date
Sioni Lake Resort & Spa Page title on archi.ge (12 November 2026)
Le Meridien Lake Sioni Resort & Spa Archi news, 16 October 2024
Le Meridien Sioni Lake Resort & Spa by Archi Georgia Today, 4 October 2024; Oplus Realty, 28 April 2026
Le Meridien Sioni Lake Resort & Spa Chapman Taylor project page and news item (9 October 2024)
Le Meridien Sioni Lake Resort & SPA by Marriott Caucasus Business Week (undated)

The brand wording is handled in section 5. For now it is enough to note that the page the developer maintains today, the one that carries the sales counters, uses the shorter name.

Price indications by source and date

The developer prints no price for any unit, so there is no developer figure to quote. The flats feed lists 167 units, each with a price of zero, and the project record’s price flag, hasFlatsPrice, is false. The only price figure found for the project is a broker’s, in an article dated 28 April 2026, and it is reported here as a broker indication and not as an Archi price.

Price item Figure as printed Source and date Calculated here
Developer price list None; all feed prices are 0 archi.ge, 12 November 2026 –
Starting price AED 466,000, “approximately USD 126,900” Oplus Realty (broker), 28 April 2026 AED 466,000 at the 3.6725 peg is USD 126,889, which at GEL 2.5933 per USD is about GEL 329,061
Unit range the broker attaches Studios to three-bedroom units, 32.8 to 118.3 m² Oplus Realty, 28 April 2026 The broker does not say which unit the starting price refers to
Payment options 20/80 (20 percent at booking, 80 percent on handover) or 80/20 Oplus Realty, 28 April 2026 Not a developer plan; none is printed on archi.ge
Handover with the broker’s price 2028 Oplus Realty, 28 April 2026 –

The exchange figure comes from the National Bank of Georgia’s official rate page, which showed USD 1 = GEL 2.5933 for 12 November 2026. The broker’s dirham figure is converted at the 3.6725 peg only to compare it with the USD 150,000 rule in section 8; the broker’s own conversion, about USD 126,900, matches the peg result.

Set against that rule, the broker’s starting figure of about USD 126,889 is below USD 150,000 (GEL 388,995 at the same rate). A unit at or above the threshold would be a different unit from the one the starting price describes, and the sources print no price for the larger types, so no unit-by-unit comparison can be made. The threshold is also about the assessor’s valuation, not the contract price.

Return, rental-income and appreciation figures appear on the developer-linked and broker pages for the project. They are projections by their publishers, they are not verified by any source in this guide, and they are not reproduced here. The terms that matter for a buyer, who rents the apartment, who keeps what share, and for how long, would sit in a management agreement that has not been published.

Unit types, sizes and what the flats feed lists

The developer’s public flats feed, read on 12 November 2026, lists 167 units in blocks A, B and C. The feed gives each unit a total area, a living area and a separate “summer area” figure, and the total equals living plus summer area for every one of the 167 units.

Top-down render of the resort buildings, pools and courts

It names the types by room count, so a “1-room” unit is not described further: the feed does not say whether it is a studio or has a separate bedroom, and it gives no bedroom or bathroom numbers. No unit is flagged sold or booked, which is consistent with the feed showing only the units still for sale.

Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia unit types (flats feed, 12 November 2026) Units listed Total area, m² Where listed (A / B / C) Floors
1-room 82 32.8 to 66.3 8 / 5 / 69 1 to 7
2-room 39 64.2 to 73.0 12 / 4 / 23 1 to 7
3-room 45 85.5 to 95.7 18 / 11 / 16 2 to 7
5-room 1 118.3 0 / 1 / 0 4
All types 167 32.8 to 118.3 38 / 21 / 108 1 to 7

Block C holds most of what is still for sale: 108 of the 167 listed units, or 64.7 percent, and the 1-room type is concentrated there with 69 of 82. Block A lists 38 units, all of them 1-room, 2-room or 3-room types between 32.8 and 88.8 m², and block B lists 21, including the single 5-room unit of 118.3 m² on floor 4.

Counted with the sold units, the developer’s own counters give a different picture of the whole: A has 37 sold and 38 for sale, B 57 and 21, C 10 and 108.

The next table is calculated from the feed and is labelled that way: every figure is a mean or share of the listed units and is not a published average. The mean total area of the 167 units is 59.8 m², and the summer area makes up 25.1 percent of the combined total area of 9,980 m².

Calculated from the flats feed Mean total area, m² Mean living area, m² Mean summer area, m² Summer area as share of total
1-room (82 units) 39.8 31.1 8.7 21.9 percent
2-room (39 units) 67.2 51.5 15.8 23.5 percent
3-room (45 units) 88.4 63.0 25.4 28.7 percent
5-room (1 unit) 118.3 84.2 34.1 28.8 percent
Block A (38 units) 70.4 – – –
Block B (21 units) 74.8 – – –
Block C (108 units) 53.1 – – –

Three readings follow from the arithmetic without any claim about the market. First, the larger the unit, the larger the summer-area share: from about 22 percent for the 1-room type to about 29 percent for the 3-room and 5-room units.

Second, the blocks differ in what they still offer, with block C’s mean at 53.1 m² against 70.4 and 74.8 m² in A and B, because C lists so many 1-room units. Third, a buyer comparing unit prices later should ask which of the two areas a quoted price per m² uses, since living area and total area differ by a quarter.

The feed has two oddities that are recorded and not repaired. A 66.3 m² type appears as a 2-room unit in block A (four units on floors 2, 3, 4 and 6) and as a 1-room unit in block B (one unit on floor 6), with the same living area of 52.3 m² and summer area of 14 m².

And the project text says “five apartment hotels”, while only three blocks carry sales data. The unit plans published on the project page include a 65.2 m² two-room layout and an 85.6 m² three-room layout with room areas, which a buyer can match to a unit number in the reservation papers.

Construction progress: the block-by-block log on archi.ge

The most detailed information the developer publishes on Sioni is not about price but about construction. Each block page carries a progress gallery with dated posts, and the three sales blocks show the same figure on 12 November 2026: constructionStatus Ongoing and 56 percent. The complex record, which has no status of its own, shows 0 percent. The latest post, dated 13 October 2026, is the same text on all three block pages, so it describes the complex and not one block.

Render of the six-storey timber-clad block A

That post names the work by block number and not by the sales letters A, B and C. It covers a “Hotel 1st block” and blocks 1 to 5, with a “Hotel Block 3” and a “Hotel Complex Block 4” as well. The page does not say which numbered block is which sales block, and a buyer should ask for that mapping in writing, together with the permit for each block.

Block as named in the 13 October 2026 post Work reported (developer’s wording condensed)
Hotel 1st block Floor slab laying completed
Block 1 Temporary roof waterproofing in the process of completion; fastening the block with metal details from floors 1 to 6 in progress; stained-glass window installation in progress
Block 2 Temporary roof waterproofing completed; fastening from floors 1 to 6 in progress; window installation in progress; internal partitions start
Block 3 Floor slab on the 7th floor completed; perimeter blockwork floors 1 to 7 completed; fastening from floors 1 to 7 in progress
Hotel Block 3 Floor slab on the 1st floor completed
Block 4 Roof parapet arranged; floor slab laying completed; perimeter blockwork floors 1 to 7 completed; parapet screeding completed; fastening floors 1 to 7 in progress
Hotel Complex Block 4 Cutting and removing soil completed
Block 5 Perimeter blockwork floors 1 to 7 completed

One reading of that list is possible from the floor numbers alone. Blocks 1 and 2 are described to the 6th floor and blocks 3, 4 and 5 to the 7th, while the flats feed lists floors up to 6 for blocks A and B and up to 7 for block C. The match is suggestive but it is not published, so it is not stated here as fact.

The earlier posts show the order in which the developer reported the work. They are condensed in the next table, with the dates as stored in the page data.

Post date (page data) Page Work reported
30 September 2025 Block B Aparthotel blocks N1 and N2: reinforced concrete and facade blockwork completed. N3: 4th-floor slab completed, 5th-floor walls and columns in progress. N4: walls and columns floors 1 to 7 completed. N5: 7th-floor slab completed.
30 November 2025 Block B N1 and N2 as before. N3: 5th-floor slab completed. N4 and N5: 7th-floor ceiling slab completed, lift shaft and stair treads on the roof in progress.
8 January 2026 Block B Roof slab placement in the process of completion; 6th-floor slab in progress; 1st-floor slab started.
10 February 2026 Blocks A and B Hotel 1st block roof slab in progress; 3rd block 6th-floor slab in progress; 4th block roof slab in progress; 5th block roof slab completed.
6 March 2026 Blocks A and B 3rd block 6th-floor slab completed and 7th-floor slab started; 4th block roof slab in progress.
3 April and 10 May 2026 Blocks A and C Roof slab placement in progress; block C: 1st- and 7th-floor slab placement in progress.
15 June to 7 August 2026 Blocks A, B and C Block reinforcing floors 1 to 6 in progress in A and completed in B; block C: 7th-floor slab and perimeter blockwork floors 1 to 7 in progress; 7 August: roof parapet works completed and excavation and soil removal in the pit in progress.
8 September 2026 Blocks A and C Hotel 1st block slab placing in progress; block C: 7th-floor slab in the process of completion; hotel 3rd block 1st-floor slab in progress.
13 October 2026 Blocks A, B and C As in the previous table.

The log supports one clear statement: by the developer’s own account, roof-slab work on blocks 4 and 5 was reported in progress or complete in February 2026, and the October 2026 post is about the building envelope, windows and partitions for blocks 1 and 2, while the hotel blocks show earlier-stage work such as a first-floor slab and soil removal.

What the log does not do is convert 56 percent into a date. The percentage is a figure the developer prints for each block, and its basis, whether cost, time or physical quantity, is not stated, so a handover date has to come from the contract.

Hotel and brand wording, shared facilities and the materials the developer lists

The hotel-brand question is the part of the Sioni story where the sources differ most, so the guide states only what each one prints. On 3 October 2024 the developer presented the complex at an event in Sioni.

Render of the timber-clad block C at dusk

Archi’s news item of 16 October 2024 says the developer is collaborating on the project with Le Méridien by Marriott International and that the complex will unite a 5-star Le Méridien hotel, apart-hotels, residential villas and infrastructure. That is the developer’s wording about the plan as of that date.

Georgia Today of 4 October 2024 reports a Marriott representative among the speakers, and the design studio’s own news item says the project is developed in partnership with Le Méridien, part of the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio. No Marriott page about Sioni was found in a search on 12 November 2026; the Marriott Georgia pages that came up concerned other hotels, including Le Méridien Batumi. The brand owner’s own pages are therefore not a source for this project.

The project page the developer maintains today does not use the brand name, and none of its text says whether the apartments in blocks A, B and C are branded, operated by a hotel company or managed by the developer.

The 2024 news item states that Archi itself will provide rental services for the apart-hotel apartments, and no terms for any such service are published on the project or block pages. This guide makes no statement about branding or management of the sold apartments; the questions to ask are in section 9.

Facility Per the developer (archi.ge) Per Chapman Taylor (news item of 9 October 2024 and project page)
Pools 2,500 m² of indoor and outdoor pools; water park; winter outdoor hot pool 2,500 m² of indoor and outdoor pools; aquapark; outdoor hot spring pool
Spa and fitness 3,000 m² spa, wellness centre and fitness room 3,000 m² spa, wellness centre and fitness gym
Events Banquet hall for 550 people, conference rooms, terrace Banquet hall for 550 people, conference rooms, terrace
Food and drink Five restaurants, a bar, a lounge, cafes Five restaurants, a bar, lounges, cafes
Leisure Outdoor cinema and amphitheatre, children’s area, winter garden, helipad, zip line, fishing area Open-air cinema and amphitheatre, children’s area, winter garden, helipad, zip line, fishing area
Sports Tennis, basketball and football fields; padel courts Tennis, basketball, beach volleyball and soccer fields; paddle courts
Lakeside 3 km boulevard with walking and cycling paths 3 km boulevard with walking and biking paths

The two lists agree on almost everything and differ in the sports line, where the architect adds beach volleyball. The developer’s amenity icons add a concierge, a generator, a water reservoir, parking, a lobby and a stadium, and its building-material list names Heidelberg concrete, low-emission glass and Ytong blocks; the text adds decorative wood panels, decorative plaster and glass balustrades. These are listed as the developer states them and are not independent checks of what will be built.

Two further points keep the reading straight. The design is credited to the Madrid studio of Chapman Taylor for the masterplan, architecture and apartment interiors, and the hotel interiors are credited to the British firm De Salles Flint in the news items. And the project’s own record types differ: the complex record carries the accommodation tag Hotel, while the three block records carry the tag Residential, which is how the developer’s system files them and is not a legal classification.

Location of Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia: the Sioni Reservoir, Tianeti and the road to Tbilisi

The project is in Sioni, a village on the Sioni Reservoir in the Tianeti area of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, north of Tbilisi by the coordinates. The Georgian National Tourism Administration calls Lake Sioni a resort distinguished by its natural conditions, climate and proximity to the capital, says that travelling from Tbilisi to Sioni village takes a little over an hour, and describes a reservoir where people swim in summer.

Render of the hotel building with outdoor pool

The same page gives the reservoir’s hydrology: it is fed by the Iori River, which regulates its discharge, the level is highest in the second half of July and lowest in March, and locals use the water for irrigation.

For a lakefront buyer the practical meaning is that the shoreline changes through the year, and the sources give no figure for it. The developer describes Sioni as a climatic resort for all four seasons and says the project is near the National Park of Tbilisi; both are the developer’s words.

The region has a small population. Geostat puts the population of Mtskheta-Mtianeti at 93.2 thousand on 1 January 2026, of whom 70.9 thousand, 76 percent, live in rural settlements, against 1,369.4 thousand in the city of Tbilisi, of which 60.3 thousand is rural. The regional total is therefore about one fifteenth of the capital’s population. Municipality-level figures for Tianeti are not in that publication and are not used here.

The distances below are shown in three kinds, and the kind is named in every row. “Printed” means a figure from a source.

“Straight line” is calculated here with the haversine formula from coordinates: the project coordinate printed on archi.ge and landmark coordinates from OpenStreetMap or, for the national park, Wikipedia. “Road estimate” is the OSRM routing service run on 12 November 2026 from the nearest mapped road to the project coordinate, which lay 310 m away, and it is a model of an ordinary car trip without traffic, not a timetable.

Nearby place from Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia What it is Distance and kind Source
Tbilisi Capital About 50 km, printed Archi, Chapman Taylor, Georgia Today
Tbilisi Capital About 60 km, printed Caucasus Business Week (undated)
Freedom Square, Tbilisi Central reference point 39.0 km straight line; 61.6 km by road, about 95 minutes by the routing model Calculated; OpenStreetMap; OSRM
Tbilisi International Airport Airport 38.9 km straight line; 77.6 km by road, about 103 minutes by the routing model Calculated; OpenStreetMap; OSRM
Tianeti town Nearest town named in the sources 10.3 km straight line; 20.6 km by road, about 47 minutes by the routing model Calculated; OpenStreetMap; OSRM
Tbilisi National Park Protected area, established 1973 17.2 km straight line to the centre point given by Wikipedia; the park is large, so this is not a distance to its edge Calculated; Wikipedia

Reading the table, the printed 50 km and 60 km sit between the 39 km straight line and the 61.6 km road estimate, and the developer’s “about a one-hour drive” is shorter than the 95 minutes the routing model returns.

A routing model uses assumed speeds and cannot say how the road is in winter, so the conclusion is that the time depends on the route and the season and that a buyer who plans regular use should drive it. The sources print nothing on winter road maintenance, public transport, shops or medical care nearby.

Two further cautions are practical. The altitude of 1,100 m (developer) against 1,086 m (Caucasus Business Week) is a small gap and not a contradiction in kind.

And the reservoir itself is a working water body; the sources do not say which land-use, water or protected-area rules apply to plots on its shore, so the registry extract and the permits are where a buyer finds out what applies. The Georgia country page lists other Georgian locations for comparison, and the Tbilisi city page covers the capital.

The new Sioni city page will carry the listings for the area once published. For market context on the capital, the guide to Tbilisi real estate prices is the reference on this site.

Buying in Georgia: who may buy, the plot and the order of steps

A foreigner may acquire an apartment in Georgia on the same Civil Code basis as a citizen. Under Article 183 of the Civil Code the acquirer of an immovable thing needs a written transaction and registration of the acquirer’s ownership right in the Public Registry, so ownership arises on registration and not on payment or on receiving keys. The guides on whether foreigners can buy property in Georgia and on how to buy property in Georgia cover the general position.

Render of the outdoor swimming pool with cabanas

The nationality restriction in Georgian law is aimed at agricultural land: the Organic Law on Agricultural Land Ownership restricts its ownership in Article 4, and an apartment is not agricultural land. Whether any part of the Sioni plot is classed as agricultural is not stated by any source used here. The Public Registry extract for the plot gives the land category, and a buyer in a rural lakeside project can usefully ask for it before paying a deposit.

Registry fees depend on the term and not on the price. The NAPR fee page lists GEL 150 for registering a change of right in 4 working days, GEL 270 in 1 working day and GEL 350 on the day of filing; at GEL 2.5933 per USD these are about USD 57.8, USD 104.1 and USD 135.0.

The same page lists the same three fees for registering an obligation related to an ownership right, the category a contract on a unit not yet completed may fall under, and the contract and the registry confirm which applies.

A buyer abroad has two practical routes: a power of attorney legalised for Georgia, or the registry’s smart-contract service, which registers rights online through a booked virtual meeting. Georgia’s accession to the Apostille Convention is recorded in the Hague Conference’s status table, which shows entry into force on 14 May 2007.

Step Who Time and fee Source
Ask for the unit number, price, area and plan in writing Buyer, developer Not published by the developer Project page
Get a registry extract for the plot Buyer, NAPR GEL 20 in 1 working day, GEL 13 online; GEL 26 extra for English NAPR informational services
Check land category, owner and any registered encumbrance in the extract Buyer, lawyer Not published Registry extract
Sign the written agreement Buyer, developer Date and terms set in the contract; none published Civil Code art. 183
Pay under the contract’s schedule Buyer No schedule published by the developer Project page
Register the right or the obligation Buyer, NAPR GEL 150 in 4 working days; GEL 270 in 1; GEL 350 on the day NAPR fee page
Sign remotely if needed Buyer, NAPR Booked virtual meeting; apostille in force for Georgia since 14 May 2007 smart-contract service; status table

None of these steps is specific to Sioni, and none of them is published by the developer. They are included because a buyer who reserves a unit in a project that is still being built, in a rural area, and with a hotel-type structure, needs to know that the registry record is what proves title, and that the sale contract should name the unit, the block and the plot.

Taxes, residence and financing for a foreign buyer

Property tax on individuals changed on 30 September 2026. The consolidated Tax Code on matsne.gov.ge records Law No. 1874 of that date, and its text now reads as follows: Article 202(5) sets the rate on a natural person’s taxable property other than land at not less than 0.8 percent and not more than 1 percent of the market value at the end of the previous year, and Article 206(1)(a) exempts it if the family’s income in the previous year did not exceed GEL 100,000.

Aerial render of tennis, padel and basketball courts and a pool

The EY Georgia Tax and Law Brief for July to September 2026 reports the change and gives the earlier exemption threshold as GEL 40,000. Older guides, including some on the open web, still carry the old bands and do not match the Code. Article 205 sets the return date for an individual at 1 November, and the Revenue Service publishes a 2026 property tax calculator page. The guide on property tax in Georgia covers filing in practice.

Rental income of an individual from residential space is taxed at 5 percent where no deductions are made (Article 81(2)), and the general rate is 20 percent (Article 81(1)).

The surplus on selling a residential apartment is taxed at 5 percent (Article 81(3)) and is exempt where the apartment was owned for more than two years (Article 82(1)(f.a)). Whether a hotel-type unit counts as residential space for these rules is a classification question for the tax adviser and the contract, not something the project pages settle.

For residence, the Public Service Development Agency lists a short-term residence permit for an alien who holds title to immovable property other than agricultural land with a market value exceeding USD 150,000 equivalent in lari, established by a certified assessor. The rule is Article 15(j) of the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens and Stateless Persons, and an investment residence permit applies above USD 300,000. The guide on the residence permit gives the process.

Printed price against the residence rule Value Against USD 150,000 (GEL 388,995)
Broker starting price, Oplus Realty, 28 April 2026 AED 466,000 = USD 126,889 at the peg Below
Developer prices Not published No comparison possible

The table compares a printed price with the statutory figure and does not predict an assessor’s valuation. On financing, the National Bank of Georgia’s PTI and LTV page sets a loan-to-value limit of 90 percent for lari loans and 70 percent for foreign-currency loans, and payment-to-income limits of 25 percent (lari) or 20 percent (foreign currency) for net monthly income under GEL 1,500, and 50 and 30 percent from GEL 1,500.

Each bank sets its own terms for non-residents, and the guide on mortgages for foreigners explains the usual route; whether a bank will lend against a hotel-type unit in a project under construction is a question for the bank.

Item Rule Source
Property tax, individual 0.8 to 1 percent of market value; exempt if the previous year’s family income did not exceed GEL 100,000; return by 1 November (art. 205) Tax Code arts. 202(5), 205, 206(1)(a): matsne.gov.ge; Revenue Service calculator page
Rental income, individual 5 percent on residential rent with no deductions; 20 percent general rate Tax Code art. 81(1)-(2)
Sale of an apartment Surplus taxed at 5 percent; exempt after more than two years’ ownership Tax Code arts. 81(3), 82(1)(f.a)
VAT 18 percent; whether a price includes VAT is a contract term Tax Code art. 166
Short-term residence permit Property other than agricultural land with market value exceeding USD 150,000 equivalent in GEL, set by a certified assessor SDA page; Aliens Law art. 15(j)
Investment residence permit Property exceeding USD 300,000 equivalent in GEL Aliens Law art. 15(h)
Mortgage limits LTV 90 percent (lari), 70 percent (foreign currency); payment-to-income by band NBG page
Exchange rate used USD 1 = GEL 2.5933, official rate for 12 November 2026 NBG rates

What to ask for in writing before reserving

The developer’s pages leave out price, handover, payment plan, contracting entity and the hotel and management structure. The list below turns each gap into a document or an answer that a buyer can request before paying a deposit, and it applies to any unit in the project.

Render of the resort shoreline with boats on the reservoir
  1. The price list with unit numbers, floors, total and living areas, the finish and furnishing package, and the date the list was issued.
  2. The handover date written in the contract, what counts as handover for a furnished unit, and the contract’s position if the date moves.
  3. The full legal name and registration details of the entity that signs the contract and of the entity that owns the plot.
  4. A Public Registry extract for the plot, showing the land category, the owner and any registered encumbrance, and the cadastral code of the unit once assigned.
  5. The construction permit for the block that contains the unit, and the mapping between the sales letters A, B and C and the block numbers used in the progress posts.
  6. The payment schedule, the account or escrow that receives each payment, and the rule for returning a deposit.
  7. Who operates the complex and, if a hotel company is involved, its name, its agreement’s term, and whether it covers the sold apartments.
  8. Whether the unit will be branded, and under whose standards, in writing, with the brand owner’s own confirmation where a brand is named.
  9. The management or rental agreement, if any: who manages, the fee, the term, whether it is optional, how costs and income are shared, and what the owner may do with the apartment.
  10. The service-charge schedule and the rules for owners’ use of the shared facilities, including the pools, spa and sports areas listed on the project page.
  11. The furnishing inventory by unit, and a written statement that the unit is delivered furnished.
  12. Year-round access: who maintains the road, utilities and water supply, and what the plan is for winter operation.
  13. If signing abroad: the form of the power of attorney or a booked registry meeting.

None of these items is a statement about the project. They are the normal documents of an off-plan purchase, with extra questions that follow from a hotel-type complex in a rural location.

How Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia compares with the other Archi projects

No other Archi listing is in Sioni, so the table below places the project beside the Archi listings of the other hotel-type schemes and the nearby capital, using only what archi.ge prints and what each listing page will carry. It makes no claim that one is better than another.

Resort masterplan numbered legend (Georgian and English labels)
Archi project City Status per archi.ge, 12 November 2026 Units as printed Price on archi.ge
Archi Ramada Batumi Batumi Ongoing, 75 percent 67 listed in the feed; counters elsewhere differ None
Archi Dialog Kokhta Bakuriani Bakuriani Completed, 100 percent 74 sold and 60 for sale in the project index None
Grand Avenue by Archi Tbilisi Tbilisi Under construction (early stage; blocks A and B at 1 and 4 percent) Counters by block; total not printed None
Archi Horizon Tbilisi Tbilisi Under construction (excavation and foundation stage) Counters by block; total not printed None
Archi Universe Tbilisi Tbilisi Under construction (blocks A and B at 65 and 67 percent) 257 per the developer’s description; block counters differ None
Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia (Sioni, this guide) Sioni Ongoing, 56 percent 271 in blocks A, B and C None

The projects differ in kind. Sioni is a lakeside resort scheme outside any city, Ramada Batumi is a 30-storey tower on the Batumi seafront, Dialog Kokhta is an operating apartment hotel in a ski resort, and the Tbilisi projects are urban apartment blocks. Beyond Archi’s own projects, Kobuleti Beach Resort on the coast is the subject of an Archi news item of June 2026 announcing a joint development with NEXT, and the Georgia country page lists the other Georgian projects on this site.

Archi (developer)

Archi presents itself as a Georgian development group. On its About page the developer says its history began in 2006, and its news item of 4 July 2021 gives the founders as Ilia Tsulaia, Meni Benish and Irakli Kapianidze. The same About page shows counters of 55 completed projects, 31 ongoing projects, 20 years of experience, 1,568,653 m² of completed construction and 1,238,468 m² of ongoing construction, as read on 12 November 2026.

Its news item of 17 February 2025 says ibis Tbilisi City, with 156 rooms, is the first joint project between Archi and Accor and is managed by Archi Hospitality, a company within the Archi Holding group, and the same item names Sioni as another branded hotel project under development. A news item of 13 June 2024 states that Deloitte was engaged to audit Archi’s consolidated financial statements.

The design studio credited for Sioni, Chapman Taylor, is named on the studio’s own pages as the project’s masterplanner and architect. The developer’s own scale figures change between its publications over time, so this guide uses only the dated About-page counters. It does not repeat the developer’s market-share or ranking statements, because no independent ranking was found.

Frequently asked questions

What is Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia?

Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia is a resort complex on the Sioni Reservoir, about 50 km from Tbilisi according to the developer. Archi’s project page describes five apartment hotels with fully renovated and furnished apartments and a long list of shared facilities. Its sales pages cover blocks A, B and C, each shown as ongoing at 56 percent on 12 November 2026.

How many units does Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia have?

The developer’s pages show 271 units in blocks A, B and C: 104 sold and 167 for sale. Chapman Taylor lists 450 keys in five aparthotel blocks plus 25 villas, and the press and one broker print other totals between about 400 and 536. The guide shows each figure with its source and the date it was printed, and it does not choose between them, because the developer’s pages do not say what the 271 units do or do not include.

What price does Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia start from?

The developer prints no price, and all 167 units in its public feed carry a price of zero. One broker, Oplus Realty, printed AED 466,000, about USD 126,900, on 28 April 2026. That is a broker indication and not an Archi price, and the broker does not say which unit it refers to. Larger types would cost more, and no source prints a figure for them, so a buyer should ask for the full price list with unit numbers.

When will Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia be handed over?

The developer prints no handover date on the project page or on any block page. Caucasus Business Week, in an undated item, reported that the hotel management company expected first guests by the end of 2026, and Oplus Realty printed 2028 as handover on 28 April 2026. The two statements describe different things, a hotel opening and an apartment handover, and the date in the contract is the one that counts.

Is the hotel brand part of the apartments?

The developer’s 2024 news says the complex would include a Le Méridien hotel in collaboration with Marriott International, and the architect repeats this. The current project page does not use the brand name, and it does not say whether the sold apartments are branded or operated by a hotel company. No Marriott page about Sioni was found, so the question should be put to the developer in writing.

What unit sizes are listed?

The public feed lists 82 one-room units from 32.8 to 66.3 m², 39 two-room units from 64.2 to 73.0 m², 45 three-room units from 85.5 to 95.7 m² and one five-room unit of 118.3 m². The feed gives no bedroom or bathroom numbers. Each total area equals living area plus a separate summer area, and the larger the unit, the larger the share of summer area, from about 22 to about 29 percent.

Are the apartments furnished?

Yes, according to the developer: the project page says the apartments are fully renovated and furnished and equipped with modern appliances. The page does not publish an inventory, so a buyer should ask for the furnishing list by unit and for written confirmation that the unit is delivered furnished. The finish package, appliances and any hotel-style services should be named in the contract.

Can a foreigner buy at Sioni Lake Resort and Spa Georgia?

A foreigner may buy an apartment in Georgia on the same Civil Code basis as a citizen, and ownership arises when it is registered in the Public Registry. Agricultural land is restricted, so the registry extract should show the land category of the plot. The registration fee is GEL 150, 270 or 350 depending on the term chosen. The developer’s pages publish no purchase steps, so the order above comes from the Civil Code and the registry’s own fee pages.

Would a unit qualify for a residence permit?

The rule is stated by the Public Service Development Agency: property other than agricultural land with a market value exceeding USD 150,000 equivalent in lari, set by a certified assessor. The only price indication found, AED 466,000, is about USD 126,889 and below the figure. The valuation, not the contract price, decides, and a unit priced above the threshold would need its own assessment.

Which taxes can an owner face?

Since 30 September 2026 a natural person’s property other than land is exempt from property tax if family income in the previous year did not exceed GEL 100,000, and above that the Tax Code sets 0.8 to 1 percent of market value. Rental income is taxed at 5 percent without deductions, and the sale surplus at 5 percent unless the apartment was held for over two years.

Sources and last check

Last checked: 12 November 2026. Sources:

This is not legal, tax or financial advice.

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