Background and credentials
2025
In 2025, the international property market continued to cool after demand peaked in 2022–2023, while Tranio continued to grow. Across most markets, we believe broad-based growth can no longer offset a poor choice of development. For investors, careful selection at every level — from the city and neighbourhood to the development and its concept — has therefore become increasingly important.
Local expertise was therefore a major focus for Tranio. We strengthened our analytical capabilities and expanded our in-house research in four key markets: the UAE, Cyprus, Greece, and Thailand. We analyse each country’s macroeconomic environment, supply and demand by area, the economics of individual developments, and how closely each concept matches local demand. This allows us to explain our recommendations to clients and show the evidence behind them.
Tranio Capital moved from one-off co-investments to a repeatable model for large-scale development projects. During the year, the team worked with one of Dubai’s major developers to launch five projects in the emirate. We created a consistent framework for partnering, structuring deals, and raising capital during the early stages of construction. This put the investment business on a more institutional footing: one-off investments gave way to a repeatable model applied across several major transactions.
We also set up a dedicated in-house immigration team. Until then, residence and citizenship services had been secondary to our core business, with most enquiries handled through partners. Our team now manages key programmes directly, from identifying a suitable route and reviewing each client’s circumstances to preparing documents and coordinating the application.
We also strengthened post-purchase support in our key markets, launching concierge services in Thailand, Cyprus, the UAE, and Greece. Our local teams remain available after a purchase to help with documents and day-to-day matters, arrange tax consultations, and connect clients with suitable local professionals and service providers.
2024
In 2024, despite a general downturn in the demand for overseas property, Tranio achieved a remarkable 36% increase in annual revenue, setting a new record in our history. This year marked a pivotal moment: succeeding in the real estate market now requires outperforming broader trends, as the rapid growth seen in previous decades has come to an end. To adapt, we focused on deepening our local expertise and welcomed 38 new professionals to our team.
Our sales managers, product specialists, and analysts travelled extensively, visiting Cyprus, Spain, France, Greece, Oman, Thailand, and other key markets. They met with leading developers and evaluated locations for high-quality, profitable projects. We also strengthened our presence in priority regions, securing 134 new developer partners in Thailand, 87 in Cyprus, 25 in Greece, and 35 across the Middle East countries.
We continued to innovate by developing investment products tailored to our clients’ needs. This included launching a new residential project in Athens, featuring income-generating apartments eligible for “golden visa” schemes. Additionally, we closely monitored the progress of Tranio’s investment project in Dubai — The Central Downtown complex in the Arjan district.
Expanding our post-sale services in key regions was another priority. This ensured we not only delivered a service but also addressed our clients’ broader needs, including property management, relocation, capital investment, and overseas business support.
Thanks to these strategic efforts, both our in-house and partner projects now consistently deliver above-market returns, simplifying property management for our clients. As a result, client trust in us has grown significantly. In 2024, one in three clients returned to us for repeat transactions, with one client setting a record by completing seven deals with us.
We continued to analyse market trends and shared our insights through leading business media outlets such as Forbes, RBC, RIA, Kommersant, TASS, and Vedomosti. For the second year running, we were ranked among the top five most cited sources in the construction and real estate industry.
We also actively participated in client events across Russia, Switzerland, the UAE, and Thailand, hosting five of our own conferences and 15 webinars for the first time. Our experts took part in 21 partner webinars and organised business tours across Russian cities, meeting with clients from major banks and attending industry events.
To cap off the year, we held the largest corporate gathering in our company’s history, bringing together colleagues from over 10 countries for several days of team-building and collaboration.
2023
In 2023, Tranio made significant strides in every aspect of the business, strengthening local teams to ensure the delivery of the finest real estate opportunities as the team grew by 36 members.
Transaction volumes surged by 40%, with key markets spanning Europe and Asia, including the UAE, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, France, Turkey, Thailand, and Indonesia. Altogether, real estate transactions were facilitated across 27 countries.
The portfolio broadened to include properties in promising new regions such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, and Egypt. Indonesia stood out as the fastest-growing market, where Tranio received an award from a leading developer for securing the second-highest sales volume among all brokers.
A renovation of the Gounari project in Athens was undertaken, while progress on Tranio’s investment project in Dubai — The Community in Motor City — was closely monitored, with completion expected in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Further investments were made in The Central Downtown, a large-scale development by Aqua Properties in Dubai’s Arjan district, alongside the launch of the PLAP and Kedrinou projects in central Athens.
Research on international real estate trends remained a priority, with findings shared through leading business and financial media such as Forbes, RBC, Kommersant, TASS, and Vedomosti. These collaborations reinforced Tranio’s position among the top five most cited sources in the construction and real estate industry in 2023.
Engagement with clients and industry professionals took centre stage through participation in events across Russia, the UAE, China, and Thailand. The launch of Tranio’s first-ever investment tours, alongside 33 webinars featuring in-house and guest experts in real estate, law, medicine, and education, further enriched industry dialogue. These efforts culminated in the debut of a YouTube podcast series, offering in-depth interviews with leading experts.
2022
In 2022, we became active in the markets of Dubai, Turkey and Thailand, while also expanding our presence in Cyprus.
We have strengthened our team and hired dozens of new first-rate specialists.
We invested in the construction of a residential complex with a rich infrastructure in Dubai Motor City and offered our clients apartments with a favourable price-performance ratio.
We launched sales in our own redevelopment project in Greece, a premium residential complex in the north of Athens. We found a way to legally sell apartments in the complex to our clients from Russia.
We closed major deals in the German and UAE markets worth millions of dollars.
We held exhibitions and meetings for clients in Russia and Kazakhstan, hosted webinars, and made expert presentations at various events.
We launched Telegram channels, which gained more than 10,000 subscribers.
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2021
In 2021, we closed 138 residential and commercial real estate transactions. Almost half of them were done remotely.
We closed several mezzanine deals worth more than €40 million. The projected yield for clients is about 10% per annum.
We sold all the flats in two of our own redevelopment projects in Athens. Simultaneously we started two new redevelopment projects in Greece.
New development projects in Berlin with a total volume of almost €20 million.
We conducted data studies and international surveys of the real estate market. We completed a total of 8 surveys in 2021 and received around 300 mentions in the media.
We created Facebook pages about investments in Germany and Greece with almost 6,000 followers.
We increased the traffic of the Russian version of the site by 11%, and the conversion rate by 50%. For the English version the figures were 7% and 26%.
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2020
In spite of the pandemic, we managed in 2020 to make our biggest deal yet, helping a Swiss investment firm acquire a four-star hotel in the heart of Dresden. Over the course of the year, our team invested in four new development projects worth a combined total of more than €4 million.
Despite closed borders and other pandemic-era obstacles, we helped clients complete real estate transactions remotely. We closed 114 residential and commercial real estate transactions during the year.
It was also a big year for residency and citizenship-related real estate transactions; we sold a flat package for a residence permit programme in Portugal and closed our first Montenegrin citizenship transaction.
We expanded our operations into the educational sphere, having launched a free international property investment course, which we made available to anyone wishing to develop a better understanding of the real estate market, and to bolster their ability to evaluate the profitability of a given project.
In Spring 2020, we carried out a large-scale COVID impact survey. We also conducted research with Big-4 professional services firm EY on the financial habits of wealthy Russians. Our analytical heavy lifting paid off; in 2020, we received 268 mentions in the media.
We also dramatically increased our website traffic: on average, more than 600,000 people visited our websites each month.
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2019
In 2019, we closed our 1,000th transaction.
In 2019, Tranio’s team successfully worked on products that generated annual euro -denominated average yields of 8–10% for investors.
These included bonds in Greece, renovation projects in Bavaria, constructing apartment buildings in Barcelona and Hamburg, and mezzanine loans.
We closed a total of 171 transactions in 2019. Several commercial transactions were closed fully in-house through Tranio's infrastructure.
We closed three mezzanine transactions over the last year and the clients involved invested more than €1M remotely. They can expect project euro-denominated yields of about 10% per annum.
In 2019, we created an automatic investment vehicle selection model to give our investors a clearer picture of what goals they can achieve with Tranio.
We have also launched an education project to train young, talented professionals interested in property investment. We plan to employ several programme graduates in the future while helping others to find jobs with major Russian and foreign property companies.
In 2019, Tranio.com topped Google’s English language search results for requests featuring real estate and investments. Our websites attract half a million visitors every month.
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2018
In 2018, Tranio has offered its customers new ready-made solutions for investment: our own projects for the reconstruction and construction of real estate across the world.
During 2018, the Tranio team helped clients acquire around 200 properties, 78 of them being commercial, providing a stable income in foreign currencies.
Tranio’s revenue increased by 1.5 times in comparison to 2017.
A new direction of the company — our own, 12 value-added projects.
During 2018, 35 new employees joined Tranio — specialists in sales, analytics and marketing. We have opened three new offices in Samara (Russia), Athens and Berlin.
In 2018, Tranio was published and was mentioned 286 times in international media. Comments from our experts were published by leading business publications: Financial Times, Forbes, Business Insider Germany, Die Welt.
Throughout 2018, we participated in EXPO REAL exhibitions in Munich (Germany), Prodexpo and MR&H in Athens and MIPIM in Cannes (France).
The number of visitors to the Russian and English versions of the Tranio website increased by a quarter. We launched the Turkish, Greek and Chinese versions of the site — the Tranio portal is now available in 8 languages.
The number of applications for the purchase of real estate abroad has increased from 7 to 9 thousand in comparison to 2017.
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2017
Tranio’s website has been growing in popularity. Over 2 million people visited the website in 2017 — twice more than in 2016.
The company’s revenue grew by 18% in the past year.
In 2017, 26% of all our transactions involved foreign clients. In particular, we closed several large commercial real estate transactions in Germany to nationals of Pakistan, Turkey and South Africa.
In autumn, we launched our second development project in Barcelona.
We updated the design of our website and improved the advertising section to enable our customers to create property listings. We also enabled geotagging of property locations and made searching for real estate more user-friendly. In addition, we created a fully mobile version of the website in Russian and English.
Tranio was mentioned or referred to 290 times in the media, including Bloomberg, Huffington Post, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
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2016
In 2016, we went truly global. We launched Persian, German, and Spanish language websites to supplement the English and Russian versions, and we worked with clients based in Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.
In December, we signed a deal with a client who invested in a redevelopment project in Barcelona. In 2017, we are planning to launch this project with the help of a local developer. Soon, we will be ready to offer apartments from our joint project.
We began facilitating bank financing, providing legal
Our application-to-transaction conversion rate increased by 30%, and the amount of transactions per 100 clients increased by about
In 2016, 255 international print and online media outlets, including The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Sunday Times, mentioned Tranio.com on a total of 362 occasions.
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2015
The number of closed deals reached 450, 200 of which in 2015.
We have opened new branches in Spain (Torrevieja) and Germany (Freiburg). More of them are coming soon in Europe.
We have improved and are actively promoting the international version of our website. Today at least 5% of our audience are clients from Europe, Asia, America and the Middle East. Their share is still growing.
We have closed 10 commercial property sales. We are now focusing our attention on this area.
Our experts have conducted the fifth analytical study of Russian-speaking buyers on foreign property markets.
We regularly publish news and analysis on commercial property investments, risk assessment and recommended strategies to maximise secure profits.
Tranio remains the biggest Russian-language source of information on foreign property markets. The largest media in Russia and abroad publish and quote our texts. The Independent, The Move Channel, Global Property Guide, Inman and Opp.today are among those.
We have moved to a beautiful new office.
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2014
Tranio opens its first foreign office in Barcelona.
Our catalogue has over 90,000 listings. Tranio gets over 5,000 unique visitors per day and is 1.5 times faster than before.
Tranio is among the top three most-cited media in the real estate and development sector.
Through our affiliate program we collaborate with such well-established leaders as VTB, EY, Otkritie, Azimut Yachts, Alfa Capital, the International Financial Club, PrimeConcept etc., whose managers trust us to serve their clients.
The 4th Unofficial Forum for Foreign Real Estate Stakeholders is held.
Tranio publishes major analytic studies Russian Overseas Property Buyers and Russian Investment in Overseas Property.
We develop the international version of our website.
Our employees now number over 35.
2013
We close around 100 foreign sales and lease deals. All clients report satisfaction with the service they have received.
Tranio gets over 3,500 unique visitors per day and the overall traffic in 2013 is over 1.2 million visitors.
The Tranio catalogue grows to more than 100,000 listings.
We launch Tranio Partnership Program and gain over 400 new partners.
The 3rd Unofficial Forum for Foreign Real Estate Stakeholders is held.
Tranio is one of the top five most-cited media in the real estate and development sector.
The company employs about 20 people.
2012
The first deal is closed.
The Tranio catalogue has 40,000 properties from 70 countries.
The website gets a user-friendly search engine for fast and reliable results.
An analytic study, Russian Buyers of Overseas Property — Who Are They? by Tranio is published.
We hold two Unofficial Forums for Foreign Real Estate Stakeholders in Moscow.
Tranio now has a team of 15 people.
2011
Tranio, a website dedicated to foreign property, is launched.
An analytic study “Foreign Property — 2011” by Tranio is published.
2010
The project kicks off.