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Some evenings go as planned. Others exceed expectations in almost every respect. The Wednesday gathering at 16 boulevard Haussmann was firmly in the second category.
Around fifty people had made their way there to spend the evening with the FFI team, around a topic that is capturing the attention of a growing number of French-speaking investors and entrepreneurs: how to build international wealth diversification, and why Georgia deserves a serious place in that thinking.
What we had not anticipated was the speed at which conversations shifted from interest to decision. Prospects became clients during the evening itself. And a significant portion of the room expressed a clear intention to move forward within the coming weeks. That is not a result attributable to a good buffet or a polished slide deck. It is a sign that something deeper is happening in the way French-speaking investors are reading their own wealth situation.
The FFI team was genuinely glad to welcome everyone, and we thank each person who made the journey, whether they left as a client or simply with a sharper lens for reading international markets.
The profile of the people in the room that night is worth noting. This was not an audience of the vaguely curious, mildly interested in exotic destinations. It was a room of entrepreneurs, senior executives, business owners and investors who had taken the time to travel mid-week, in the evening, to hear about one specific subject: how to make wealth work intelligently beyond French borders.
That decision to show up says something. In 2026, with French public debt exceeding 118% of GDP, a fiscal pressure on wealth that intensifies with each Finance Bill, and a regulatory instability that makes ten-year wealth planning genuinely difficult, the best-informed investors are no longer debating whether international diversification is legitimate. They are asking how to execute it correctly.
That is precisely the question we set out to answer that evening. The room's response showed that the timing was right, and the need is real.
Georgia is not at the centre of our offer by coincidence. Nor is it the product of a passing trend or a marketing wave. It is the result of several years of market presence, relationships built with the strongest operators in the sector, and continuous analysis that allows us to say with conviction: this market deserves the attention it is receiving, and it deserves it for the right reasons.
An economy whose figures speak for themselves
Georgia posted GDP growth of 8.8% in the first two months of 2026, bringing the Q1 average to 8.4%. Moody's raised its full-year growth forecast to 6%. The current account deficit stands at a historic low of 2.6% of GDP. Public debt is stabilising at 34.5% of GDP. Sovereign eurobonds issued in early 2026 were oversubscribed 5.5 times.
Georgia — key macroeconomic indicators (2026)
These are not optimistic projections produced by a local think tank. They are figures published by Geostat, Georgia's national statistics agency, and validated by the IMF, the Asian Development Bank and international rating agencies. Placing these numbers alongside France's or Europe's trajectory is enough to understand why investors who read economic data seriously are paying attention to this country.
A tax framework that reshapes the wealth equation
Georgia has made deliberate, consistent fiscal choices since the mid-2000s, and those choices now produce an environment that few countries can match.
Georgia — investor-relevant tax summary
For an investor coming from a high-tax environment who compares these conditions with what they pay at home, the differential is striking. And unlike certain jurisdictions that offer theoretical fiscal advantages that are difficult to activate in practice, the Georgian framework is straightforward, well-documented, and applied with a consistency that enables genuine long-term wealth planning.
A structurally sound real estate market
The Georgian real estate market has not experienced the speculative excesses that many emerging markets go through during acceleration phases. It has grown steadily, with an average annual price increase of 8% in Tbilisi over the past seven years, according to TBC Capital data. It is supported by solid domestic fundamentals: an urbanisation rate still below the European average, a housing stock where 77% of units predate 1990, and an expanding middle class generating structural residential demand.
Real estate market snapshot — Tbilisi and Batumi
One of the points we made that evening, and that we repeat at every opportunity because it is fundamental: when you look at Georgia, you are not looking at a market where a handful of solo adventurers have placed a bet.
Institutional validation — Georgia
These operators do not make investment decisions on intuition. They do so after rigorous risk analysis, conducted by teams whose entire job is to get it right. Their simultaneous presence in this market is the strongest institutional validation a destination can receive.
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This is a question we receive regularly, and one we answer plainly.
Georgia is an accessible market, legally open to foreign buyers, with straightforward acquisition rules and clear property rights. Technically, anyone can buy in Tbilisi or Batumi without an intermediary. That is not the question.
The real question is: which property, which developer, which neighbourhood, at what price, through which acquisition structure, and with which rental management operation? These are the decisions that determine whether a Georgian investment delivers as expected. And they require ground-level knowledge that only regular physical presence and established local relationships can provide.
We are based in Tbilisi. We know which developers have delivered what they promised and which have run late. We know which Tbilisi neighbourhoods attract year-round tenants and which depend too heavily on short-term tourism. We were invited to TBC Wealth Management's WM Forum 2026 alongside Archi Group's and TBC Bank's leadership. We know which banking contacts handle foreign client files efficiently and which create unnecessary friction.
That network and that knowledge are what we put to work for our clients. Not to sell a product. To structure a decision.
This Paris evening confirms what we had already observed at our Geneva event in April: there is genuine demand for high-quality information formats on international real estate investment, well away from mass-attendance conferences and overly generic webinars.
We will build on this. New events are being planned across different cities. Dates and venues will be announced in due course. If you would like to be notified first, the simplest approach is to contact us directly or book a first conversation with our team.
Places will be, as they were last Wednesday on boulevard Haussmann, deliberately limited.
Whether you would like to attend one of our upcoming events or speak directly about your wealth situation and the opportunities in Georgia, our team is available.
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