Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio: Furnished Studios Guide (2026)

Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio is a single-block complex of 576 furnished apartments that the Georgian developer NEXT is building directly on the beach at Gonio, south of Batumi, and sells under the Radisson Blu name with a handover that the developer states for May 2027.

This guide reads the developer’s project page as shown on 8 November 2026: a furnished studio from USD 149,500, one-bedroom apartments from USD 213,596 and a plan of 20% as a first payment, 40% in instalments and 40% in January 2028. It adds sourced context on Gonio and on buying in Georgia, and it marks each point where the page publishes nothing.

Overview of Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio

The developer’s page uses three names for one project. The browser title reads “Radisson BLU Residences”, the project menu and the home-page cards read “Radisson BLU Apartments” and “Radisson Blu”, and the body text speaks of “Radisson Blu Residences”. This guide calls the project Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio after the place and the product, and it follows the developer’s own spelling when it quotes.

Per the developer’s project page, the complex is one block with six elevators and 576 apartments: 360 studios, 192 one-bedroom apartments and 24 two-bedroom apartments (the three counts add up to 576). A fourth price tile, a “Front LUX” one-bedroom apartment of 66 m², has no count of its own. The page carries no PRESALE tag, and it says the project will be completed turnkey in May 2027.

The page prints no street address, no floor count, no plot number and no map pin. Its location text reads “in Gonio, Batumi”, on the beach, “15 minutes from the city center and 5 minutes from the Turkish border”, and the mode of travel is not stated. The page also lists rental-return and growth figures and tax statements. Those are marketing statements of the developer, and their terms would belong in the sale documents, so this guide does not restate them.

Unit types, prices and payment plan of Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio

The page shows each type on a layout card with a starting area, a starting price, and an “up to” area and price for the larger layouts of the same type. A separate summary block of the page prints other area figures: studio 27 m², one-bedroom 39 to 46 m² and two-bedroom 59 m². Those figures are not tied to prices, while the card areas are, so the tables below use the layout cards.

The developer states that the prices include furnishing: the English page labels the project “Fully furnished”, and the Studio tile reads “$149,500 Studio”. The page does not say whether the “up to” prices refer to a higher floor, a sea-facing position or a larger layout, and it publishes no availability by unit. Prices are as shown on 8 November 2026 and are not an offer.

The next table uses only the published numbers. A starting price and a starting area may describe different units, so every rate per square metre here is an arithmetic result and not a rate that the developer publishes.

The rate per square metre falls as the apartment grows: from USD 4,647 for the studio to USD 4,260 for the one-bedroom card and USD 4,081 for the two-bedroom apartment. The one-bedroom card has 1.56 times the area of the studio card (50.14 divided by 32.17) and 1.43 times the price (213,596 divided by 149,500). The two-bedroom apartment has 1.77 times the area of the one-bedroom card and 1.69 times its price.

The Front LUX type, at USD 4,415 per square metre, sits between the studio and the plain one-bedroom card in rate, and its starting and “up to” prices differ by 15.4% for the same 66 m². The page gives no reason for that spread. Moving from a studio to a one-bedroom apartment adds 17.97 m² and USD 64,096, which is USD 3,567 for each added square metre, below either average rate in the table.

Studios are 62.5% of the stated 576 apartments (360 divided by 576), and two-bedroom apartments are 4.2%. A buyer who wants a two-bedroom layout is therefore choosing from the smallest group by count, and the page publishes no floor-by-floor release of units.

The payment plan is shown as three tiles: “20% First Payment”, “40% In installments” and “40% in January 2028”. The page does not state the order, but the shares add up to 100% by calculation. The page gives no number of instalments for this project. Its site-wide wording says that a 0% instalment plan is available “from 12 and up to 45 months” depending on the project and the handover date, which is the developer’s statement and not a term of this project.

The last row is a division and not a published schedule: November 2026 to January 2028 is 14 months, and 40% divided by 14 gives the monthly figure shown. The page says only that payments are monthly or quarterly. January 2028 falls eight months after the stated May 2027 handover, so the plan runs beyond the handover date on the figures printed.

Reservation works as a deposit: the developer’s page states that a reservation deposit of USD 1,000 to 3,000 holds a unit for one week, or up to one month. It does not say whether the deposit counts toward the first payment. The site carries a switch between USD and GEL display, but the page does not state the currency in which instalments are invoiced.

Location: Gonio, Adjara and the Turkish border

Gonio is a coastal village on the Black Sea about 12 kilometres from central Batumi, on the left bank of the Chorokhi river, according to the Adjara tourism portal Visit Batumi, which the Department of Tourism and Resorts of Adjara owns. The national tourism administration’s page on nine sights in Ajara gives the same 12 kilometres for Gonio Fortress and calls Gonio one of the settlements in Batumi.

The same national page describes Sarpi as a village in Khelvachauri Municipality that borders Turkey, and it names the customs checkpoint there. The Visit Batumi page for the fortress is filed under Khelvachauri Municipality. The two official tourism pages therefore do not use one administrative label for Gonio, and the developer’s “Gonio, Batumi” follows the first. A Public Registry extract for the plot gives the address and cadastral code that settle the question for a specific unit.

The developer’s distances are minutes: 15 minutes to the city centre and 5 minutes to the Turkish border. The page does not say whether the minutes assume a car, a bus or a walk, and it prints no kilometres. The 12 kilometres above is the distance to the fortress in the village, not to the project, because the developer publishes no address that would allow a measurement. This guide labels none of the figures as straight-line or as road distance.

The region’s size is set out by Geostat. The population release puts Adjara A.R. at 413.2 thousand people on 1 January 2026, of whom 279.9 thousand live in urban and 133.3 thousand in rural settlements, which is about 10.5% of Georgia’s 3,941.1 thousand (calculated). The release says its figures rest on the 2024 census.

Geostat’s inbound tourism statistics for 2025 count 7.8 million arrivals of international non-resident travellers and 6.9 million visits by international visitors. Tbilisi and Adjara A/R were the most visited regions, with 3.8 million and 2.7 million visits. Russian citizens were the largest group of visitors, at 23.2%, followed by Turkey at 16.9% and Armenia at 11.9%. Those are national and regional statistics, and they say nothing about occupancy in a particular building.

Geostat’s residential property price index covers new residential property in Tbilisi, as its third-quarter 2026 release states, so it is not a measure of apartment prices on the Adjara coast. A buyer who wants a comparison of Batumi-area prices has to rely on listing pages and private reviews; the guide on Batumi apartment prices per square metre lists the rates that can be derived from the pages of other projects.

On climate, the Adjara tourism portal’s weather page describes a humid subtropical coast with an average temperature of 13 to 14.5 degrees over the year, +6.5 in January and +24.5 in August, and it notes that heavy rain is frequent. The developer states that its pool is heated to 28 °C all year, which is a building feature and not a climate figure. For the wider coastline see the guide to property on Georgia’s Black Sea coast.

Branded and furnished: the Radisson Blu wording, services and inventory

The brand is the main thing that sets this page apart from other NEXT listings, so it helps to read exactly what is printed. The concept text says the project “offers branded apartments” and is “backed by the Radisson Blu name”. Elsewhere the page speaks of services that include daily housekeeping, 24-hour reception, concierge assistance and security, and of “professional international management” and “an international hotel brand”.

The developer’s history page places Radisson Blu Residences in its 2021 entry beside NEXT Collection, and names Radisson Hotel Group among its hotel partners. None of those pages names a licence, a franchise or management agreement, an operator company, a contract term or the owner’s obligations under it. A buyer therefore has no published basis to say who runs the services, who is paid for them or what an owner may be asked to pay.

The guide takes the wording as the developer’s description of the product. It does not state that the brand owner endorses the building, and the project page links to no brand-owner page that could be read for the branding terms.

The furnished state is stated more plainly. The English page labels the whole project “Fully furnished”, and a section on materials says that fully furnished apartments use damage-resistant materials. The layout cards list the spaces of each unit: terrace, bedroom, kitchen, sitting area, closet, bathroom and main entrance, with floor-to-ceiling windows and sea and mountain views. The page does not list the furniture, the appliances or their makes, and its interior pictures are renderings.

Two numbers on the page deserve a plain reading. The apartment height of 2.95 m and the architectural ceiling height of 3.15 m appear under different headings, and the page does not explain the difference. A buyer who cares about the clear height of a studio can ask for it in the specification attached to the sale agreement. The same section prints a parking space dimension of 3.6 m, without saying whether it is a width or a length, and a commercial space height of 7.00 m.

The pool figures are 24 m by 1.2 m, heated, at 28 °C “year-round”, open “7 days/week, 24 hours”. The page also lists a rooftop lounge bar, but its text does not say on which level the pool is, so a reader should not assume a rooftop pool.

The timeline matters as much as the inventory. The headline states “Handover status in May 2027”, and the text says that the project “will be fully completed turnkey in May 2027”. The purchase steps on the same page say that the buyer becomes the official owner within one business day after construction is completed and full payment is made.

The tile “40% in January 2028” then raises a sequence question. On the printed numbers, the last 40% falls due eight months after the stated completion. The page does not say whether keys are released before that payment, whether the furnished apartment can be used in the interval, or when title is registered, so those points belong in the sale agreement.

The same developer’s Wyndham Residences page prints the same total of 576 apartments with a different mix, and, by its renders, a different tower. The two Gonio projects should therefore be read as separate buildings with separate prices and dates, and each unit count should be checked against its own sale documents.

For a building sold with hotel-style services, the checklist below collects the points that the page leaves open. It is a list of documents and answers to request in writing, not a statement that any of them is missing.

1. The text of the brand arrangement as it affects owners: who holds the licence, what services it covers and for how long.
2. The company that provides reception, housekeeping and security, with the contract term and the scope of services.
3. The service-charge schedule and the basis on which it changes.
4. The furniture and appliance inventory, with makes, and the condition on delivery.
5. The clear ceiling height and the finished area of the unit, stated on the same basis as the price.
6. The rules for using the pool, beach, restaurant and fitness centre as an owner.
7. Whether the unit may be let, and under what rules, in writing and without reference to the developer’s marketing figures.
8. The handover protocol, the date of key release and the date of registration of the buyer’s right.

Buying in Georgia in brief: the registry, the fees and the steps

Georgian ownership of an apartment is built on the Public Registry. The Civil Code’s Article 312 presumes that register entries are accurate until proved incorrect, and Article 183 requires a written transaction and registration of the acquirer’s right. That is why a registry extract for the plot and, later, for the unit is the first document a buyer can collect independently of the developer.

The National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) publishes its fees. An extract costs GEL 20 for one working day (GEL 13 if requested online), and an English version adds GEL 26. Confirming the parties’ signatures at the registry costs GEL 7. Registering a change in the right to immovable property costs GEL 150 in four working days, GEL 270 in one working day or GEL 350 on the day of filing, per the registration fee page.

At the NBG rate of USD 1 = GEL 2.5949 on 8 November 2026, the GEL 150 fee is about USD 58 and the GEL 350 same-day fee is about USD 135 (calculated). NAPR also offers an online route: its smart-contract service says that immovable property rights can be registered online after booking a virtual meeting.

The foreign-ownership limit that buyers most often meet concerns agricultural land, in Article 4 of the Organic Law on Agricultural Land Ownership. An apartment is not agricultural land. The developer’s page says nothing on tenure for the plot, so the extract is the place to confirm whether the land belongs to the developer, and whether any mortgage or other burden is registered against it.

A buyer who signs from abroad needs foreign papers, such as a power of attorney, to be recognised. Georgia acceded to the Hague Apostille Convention on 21 August 2006, and the convention entered into force for it on 14 May 2007, per the HCCH status table. The guides on buying from abroad and on how to buy property in Georgia describe the order of steps in more detail.

Residence permit, mortgage limits and taxes for a foreign buyer

Residence comes first, because the published starting prices sit on both sides of the figure. The Public Service Development Agency page says that a short-term residence permit goes to an alien who holds title to immovable property, other than agricultural land, with a market value exceeding USD 150,000 equivalent in GEL, as established by a certified assessor of an accredited body. The permit extends to a spouse and children, and the fee is GEL 300, 450 or 600 by processing day.

The same page sets the investment residence permit at property with a market value exceeding USD 300,000 equivalent. The Law on the Legal Status of Aliens uses the USD 150,000 figure for a D5 category visa. A value of exactly USD 150,000 does not exceed it, and USD 150,000 equals GEL 389,235 at the NBG rate of 2.5949.

Against the published starting prices, the studio at USD 149,500 is USD 500 below USD 150,000. The one-bedroom apartment at USD 213,596 is above USD 150,000 and below USD 300,000, as is the Front LUX apartment at USD 291,413, and the two-bedroom apartment at USD 361,202 is above both.

The test uses an assessor’s market value, which can differ from a contract price. The developer’s page quotes USD 150,000 as a residence-permit figure, and the official wording above is the reference. See also the guide on the residence permit in Georgia.

On financing, the developer publishes no mortgage arrangement for this project. The National Bank of Georgia’s PTI and LTV page sets a loan-to-value limit of 90% for lari loans and 70% for foreign-currency loans. Payment-to-income limits depend on monthly net income and currency: for income below GEL 1,500, 25% on lari loans and 20% on foreign-currency loans, and for GEL 1,500 or more, 50% and 30% (the lower foreign-currency figures apply unless the income is in the same currency).

Whether a bank lends against an unfinished unit to a non-resident is the bank’s policy, and the mortgage guide covers the practice.

On taxes, the English text of the Tax Code sets the rules in the table. Property tax on an individual’s real estate is 0.8% to 1% of market value, with an exemption when family income in the previous year did not exceed GEL 100,000, and unfinished construction is within the taxable real estate of an individual. Which date makes a buyer under an instalment contract the taxpayer is a question for the contract and the registry record. The guide on property tax in Georgia covers the filing steps.

Rental income and a later sale have rules of their own in the table. The Code names the fixed tax on short-stay letting as a transitional provision with an end date, so an owner should read the version of the Code in force when income is earned. The guide to short-term rental in Batumi explains the provision in detail. This guide makes no statement about rental income from the building.

What to prepare when reserving

The developer’s purchase steps and the registry rules point to the same set of papers, and a buyer can have them ready before the first payment.

1. The reservation form and the preliminary purchase agreement, stating the unit, its area on the same basis as the price, and the handover date.
2. The payment schedule with amounts, dates and the currency of each instalment, including the payment dated January 2028.
3. A registry extract for the land plot, and for the unit after its registration.
4. The escrow or payment-account details, in writing, for every payment.
5. The full legal name and registration details of the contracting entity (the developer’s site names the NEXT brand and does not name the contracting entity).
6. The written scope of the Radisson Blu name and of the hotel-style services, with the service-charge schedule.
7. The furnishing specification and inventory that the contract refers to, and the ceiling height of the unit.
8. A buyer who signs abroad needs a power of attorney or other foreign paper that carries an apostille.

How Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio compares with the other NEXT listings

The table lists all 13 NEXT projects on this site, side by side, as the developer’s own project pages publish them. Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio is one of two NEXT towers on the Gonio coast, the other being Wyndham Residences. Prices are the developer’s “from” figures for the unit type shown, with the finish stated on the page, and the columns do not share one basis.

Inside the range, two details stand out for this project. Its handover date is about six months after the date of this check, and its starting price of USD 149,500 has six lower and six higher starting prices around it among the 13 rows. The finish labels differ across the table (fully furnished, with renovation, white box) and so do the unit types, so the starting prices are not like-for-like.

For context, two other listings on this site carry hotel or resort branding in the same region or city: Wyndham Gonio Aqua and Novotel Living. The Tbilisi project Mira Verde Tbilisi is a different product in a different city. None of these is better or worse than the others, and each page publishes its own basis for status and price. The Georgia country page, the Batumi city page and the off-plan Batumi guide list the rest of the Georgian portfolio.

NEXT, the developer

The developer’s about page describes NEXT as an international developer from Georgia, founded in Batumi, with projects in Georgia, the United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Spain and Zanzibar. Its home page carries a figures block that includes “8 years” in real estate development, and the offices listed on its site are in Batumi, Tbilisi, Dubai and Warsaw, plus Tatu City in Kenya. The site gives its name as NEXT, also written NEXT Group and Next Property.

The company history on the about page begins in 2018 with NEXT Apartments, NEXT Green and NEXT White. The 2020 entry adds NEXT Hotels, Wyndham Residences, described as the company’s first global hotel brand partnership, and Villa Park. The 2021 entry names Radisson Blu Residences and NEXT Collection, and the 2022 entry names NEXT Address, NEXT Coral and NEXT Gardens. Later entries cover NEXT Amani in Kenya, NEXT Oriental and Villa Perla in Spain.

The about page names Radisson Hotel Group and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts as its hotel partners. The home page lists NEXT Orange, White, Apartments, Green and Villa Park as sold out. The site publishes no figure for units delivered.

All statements in this section are the developer’s, as read on 8 November 2026, and have not been checked against a company register. Award and project-count figures on its pages are left out, because the pages name no award body, year or category for most of them.

Frequently asked questions

What is Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio?

Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio is a single-block residential complex of 576 apartments that NEXT is building on the beach at Gonio, in the Batumi area of Adjara. The developer sells studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments fully furnished, with hotel-style services under the Radisson Blu name, and it states a handover of May 2027. The page publishes no address, floor count or legal entity, and it gives the brand arrangement only as wording.

Where is the project and how far is Batumi?

The developer places the project in Gonio, on the beach, 15 minutes from the Batumi city centre and 5 minutes from the Turkish border, without naming the mode of travel. The Adjara tourism portal puts the village of Gonio, with its fortress, about 12 kilometres from Batumi. The developer prints no address or map pin, so the distance from the building itself cannot be measured from the page.

What prices does the developer publish for Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio?

The page shows starting prices of USD 149,500 for a 32.17 m² furnished studio, USD 213,596 for a 50.14 m² one-bedroom apartment, USD 291,413 for a 66 m² Front LUX one-bedroom apartment and USD 361,202 for an 88.5 m² two-bedroom apartment. Each type also has a higher “up to” card. The figures are as shown on 8 November 2026 and are not an offer, and the page publishes no availability by unit.

When is the handover, and what is the payment in January 2028?

The page states “Handover status in May 2027” and completion turnkey in May 2027. A separate tile reads “40% in January 2028”, which is a payment date and not a handover date. On the printed shares of 20%, 40% and 40%, that payment falls eight months after the stated completion. The page does not say when keys are released or when title is registered, so the sale agreement should state both.

How does the payment plan work?

The page shows 20% as a first payment, 40% in instalments and 40% in January 2028, which add up to 100%. It says instalments are monthly or quarterly and prints no instalment count for this project; the site-wide wording of a 0% plan “from 12 and up to 45 months” is the developer’s statement. On the USD 149,500 studio, the first payment is USD 29,900 and each 40% share is USD 59,800.

Are the apartments furnished, and what does the Radisson Blu name cover?

The English page labels the project “Fully furnished” and describes damage-resistant materials, fitted kitchens and a sitting area in each layout card. It says the apartments are “backed by the Radisson Blu name” with housekeeping, reception, concierge and security services. It names no licence, operator company or contract term, and it lists no inventory, so those documents should be requested before signing.

Can a foreigner buy an apartment at Radisson Blu Apartments Gonio?

The Georgian restriction on foreign ownership concerns agricultural land under the Organic Law on Agricultural Land Ownership, and an apartment is not agricultural land. Ownership is acquired by a written agreement and registration of the buyer’s right in the Public Registry, run by NAPR. The developer’s page does not state the tenure of the plot, so a registry extract is the way to confirm it.

Does an apartment qualify for a Georgian residence permit?

The Public Service Development Agency issues a short-term residence permit for property with a market value exceeding USD 150,000 equivalent in GEL, set by an accredited assessor. The starting price of the studio, USD 149,500, is below that figure, and the other three starting prices are above it. The assessor’s valuation, not the contract price, decides, and an investment permit needs a value above USD 300,000.

Which taxes can a foreign owner face?

The Tax Code sets property tax on an individual’s real estate at 0.8% to 1% of market value, with an exemption when family income in the previous year did not exceed GEL 100,000. Residential rent is taxed at 5% without deductions, a fixed regime exists for short-stay letting until 1 January 2028, and a sale surplus is taxed at 5% unless the apartment was owned for more than two years.

How does this tower differ from the other Gonio listings?

The Radisson Blu tower is a NEXT project with 576 apartments and a May 2027 date. NEXT’s Wyndham Residences page prints the same total of 576 with a different mix, a December 2026 date and a different tower, and the Wyndham Grand Residences listings already on this site are separate pages with their own developer and facts. Each page carries its own prices, dates and brand wording, and a buyer should compare them on the documents of each building.

Sources and last check

Last checked: 8 November 2026. Sources:

• NEXT: Radisson Blu project page (English, read 8 November 2026)
• NEXT: about page and company history
• NEXT: home page
• NAPR: immovable property registration fees and terms
• NAPR: informational services fees
• NAPR: smart-contract registration service
• Civil Code of Georgia, Articles 183 and 312 (matsne.gov.ge)
• Tax Code of Georgia, English text (matsne.gov.ge)
• Law on Aliens and Stateless Persons, matsne.gov.ge
• Organic Law on Agricultural Land Ownership (matsne.gov.ge)
• Public Service Development Agency: residence permits
• Revenue Service of Georgia: property tax
• National Bank of Georgia: official exchange rates (8 November 2026)
• NBG: payment-to-income and loan-to-value requirements
• Geostat: population release for 1 January 2026
• Geostat: Inbound tourism statistics, 2025
• Geostat: Residential Property Price Index, III quarter 2026
• HCCH: Apostille Convention status table
• Visit Batumi: Gonio-Apsaros Fortress
• Visit Batumi: weather and climate
• georgia.travel: nine sights in Ajara
• georgia.travel: customs

This is not legal, tax or financial advice.