Does Rent Control Exist in Georgia?
The honest answer to the question in the title is: state-imposed rent control does not exist in Georgia. Under a lease agreement the lessor must transfer the thing to the lessee for use for a defined term and the lessee must pay the agreed rent, while the amount of the rent, its increase and indexation are matters for the parties’ agreement. In this field, compliance therefore does not mean administrative capping, but the correct application of the contractual rules.
Contractual freedom is not absolute, however. The Civil Code chapter on lease contains several active restrictions that genuinely constrain rent-related relationships: the cap on the lessee’s security in the lease of a dwelling, the time limit for demanding continuation, the termination notice period, and the grounds for terminating the lease of a dwelling. Knowledge of these rules is precisely the „control“ that applies in a rent dispute.