---
title: "Real Estate Development"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/real-estate-law-en/real-estate-development-en"
field: "Real Estate Law"
description: "Real estate development: works contracts, land mortgage, written form and registry registration of units. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-11"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Real Estate Development

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/real-estate-law-en/real-estate-development-en

## Real Estate Development — the Legal Framework for the Developer

A development project consists of three legal blocks: construction, financing and the disposal of the result. The construction block rests on the works contract — Article 629: the contractor undertakes to perform the work provided by the contract, the client is obliged to pay the agreed remuneration; and where the contractor makes the thing from his own materials, he transfers to the client ownership of the thing made. Drawing up a cost estimate is not reimbursed unless otherwise agreed. For the developer this means: every construction relationship is framed by this structure, and the scale of the project changes only the number of contracts.

With the growth of scale grows the hierarchy of contracts: the developer often contracts with a general contractor, while subcontractors build their own relationships beneath it. In this chain each claim finds its basis in its own contract, and exactly therefore the documentary architecture of the project — who with whom, for what and on which terms — is the legal map of the development.

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### Which contract covers the construction?

The works contract (Article 629): the contractor performs the work and the client pays the remuneration; ownership of a thing made from the contractor's own materials passes to the client.

### How does the law protect the value of construction?

Under Article 635, when a building or its parts are constructed, the contractor may demand a mortgage over the construction land plot for his claims.

### How is ownership of an immovable acquired?

Under Article 183 — by concluding the transaction in written form and registering the ownership with the acquirer in the public registry (Article 311).

### What rule governs apartment sales?

Article 208: acquiring an apartment or non-residential space requires the written form of the transaction and registration of ownership in the public registry.

### Why do I need a lawyer in a development project?

Because the chain of title, construction contracts, mortgage and sales must be correct together — and the price of an error is measured on the scale of the project.