Houses for sale in Bizerte Nord

The lifting bridge cuts the town in two, and the market with it. North of the canal you have the Medina, the old port, the corniche and the estates climbing towards Ain Mariam. South of it, Zarzouna and Rimel, where prices are gentler but the sea is not under your windows. When people look for a house for sale in Bizerte, it is nearly always the north side they have in mind, and that is where listings are fought over hardest.

On houni.tn, the houses of Bizerte Nord are posted directly by their owners or by agencies in town. The houses for sale in Bizerte governorate page widens the search to Menzel Bourguiba, Ras Jebel or Zarzouna if the budget is tight.

Why the corniche pulls Bizerte prices up

A house for sale in Bizerte with a sea view is the number one request from buyers coming from Tunis and from the diaspora. The Corniche road, between the old port and the beach, lines up 1970s and 1980s villas on large plots, often with a self-contained upper floor. Many are sold needing renovation, but the land alone is worth a good share of the price. A house on the Bizerte corniche rarely trades below what a new villa in Menzel Jemil would cost, and that stands to reason: the view over the bay and Cap Blanc cannot be rebuilt.

Medina patios, town-centre garages

A house for sale in the centre of Bizerte takes very different forms depending on the street. Around the old port, in the Kasbah and the Ksiba, these are Arab courtyard houses, sometimes on two levels, with title deeds to check carefully (undivided ownership is common). Towards Avenue Habib Bourguiba and Place des Martyrs, you move on to colonial-era houses with a garage and a town garden, easier to finance with a bank loan.

Selling a house in this perimeter attracts two profiles: families who want to stay within walking distance of the central market and the secondary school, and investors converting them into guest houses.

Cite Bougatfa, Habib Haddad, Ain Mariam: the family market

This is where most transactions happen. A house for sale in Bizerte in Cite Bougatfa, near the hospital, or in Cite Habib Haddad, is generally a 1990s or 2000s build, S+3 or S+4, meaning three or four bedrooms plus a living room, with a garage, on 150 to 300 m2 of land, sometimes with an upper floor let separately. Ain Mariam, higher up, offers newer houses and more air, with views over the lake on the well oriented plots. It is also towards Ain Mariam and the Bechateur road that most of the plots for sale in Bizerte Nord are found, for those who would rather build.

The Bhira district, on the shore of Lake Bizerte, deserves a word of its own. A house for sale in Bizerte Bhira costs clearly less than an equivalent house on the corniche, with the advantage of quiet and the drawback of the smell of silt on some summer evenings. View it in July before you sign.

What to check before buying in Bizerte Nord

A house in Bizerte is often paid for on a fifteen or twenty year loan, and the bank will be fussier about the paperwork than you are.

• The title: an individual blue title, meaning fully registered land, or a land title held in undivided ownership are two different worlds for the notary and for the bank.
• The building permit for extensions, very often missing on storeys added in the estates.
• Exposure to wind and salt for anything near the corniche: visit on a north wind in winter, the window frames will tell you everything.

Torn between a Bizerte house to renovate and something new? The apartments for sale in Bizerte Nord built by the corniche developers are a serious alternative.