Subtropic City in Batumi

Subtropic City is a residential building by the developer Gumbati Group at 1 Sherif Khimshiashvili Street, in the south of Batumi. According to the descriptions in listings, the building has 19 floors (20 in some sources), a monolithic reinforced concrete frame, a facade with tinted glazing and 3-metre ceilings. The building is completed, around 2016 according to listings. The beach is about 100 metres away.

Subtropic City: the building and the developer

Gumbati Group has been building in Adjara and Tbilisi for more than twenty years. Subtropic City lists entrances finished in natural granite, two lifts per entrance, parking, a pool, a gym, a playground, security and CCTV, commercial premises on the ground floor and a landscaped courtyard. Some owners let their apartments to tourists, and on booking sites the building appears as an apart-hotel. For a buyer this means many guests in the entrances in summer, and it is worth finding out the building's rules on daily letting in advance.

The building stands at the start of Khimshiashvili Street, in the high-rise blocks by New Boulevard. Shops, cafes and the promenade are nearby. How this part of the city works is described on the page about the Khimshiashvili Street area.

A building about ten years old

In a building of this age you buy an apartment from an owner, and besides the documents we look at the building itself. On site we check the facade and the glazing joints, the roof, how the lifts work, and the basement and car park for traces of water. With the management company we find out the monthly charge, any debts on the apartment and plans for repairing common areas. How we handle a purchase on the resale market is described on the page about resale property.

The developer sold apartments in black frame, and each owner renovated in their own way. So the same building has good renovations, hasty renovations for letting and apartments that are still unfinished. A renovation about ten years old usually needs updating: wiring, plumbing, ventilation and bathroom windows wear out first. How deep the update will be we decide after the inspection, and the buyer learns the cost of the work before the deal.

Renovation and letting

If the apartment has no finishing, we renovate from scratch according to the estimate: screed, plaster, wiring, bathroom, floors, doors, kitchen. The procedure is described on the page about black frame renovation. If the renovation is old, we assess what can stay and what must be redone, as in any resale apartment renovation.

By the sea, apartments are let by the day in season and long term in winter. We take the apartment into full management: letting, paying the utilities, minor repairs, reports to the owner. More on the page about apartment management.