Houses for sale in Mahdia

A house for sale in Mahdia can be a summer villa two streets from the beach, a dar arbi with a patio in the Medina, a family floor in Zouila or a single storey house surrounded by olive trees near Sidi Alouane. The governorate has almost no villa developers: most houses were built by their owners, in stages, and they often come back onto the market a generation later.

The listings gathered here cover the whole governorate, from Chebba to Bou Merdes and from Mahdia to El Djem, and come from private sellers and a few agencies. Their number varies from week to week, with a clear lead for the delegation of the capital. You contact the seller directly, and it is the seller you ask the questions that follow.

By the sea: Hiboun, Rejiche, Salakta, Chebba

A house for sale in Mahdia's Hiboun is the most sought after in the governorate, and one of the most expensive. These holiday villas are often thirty or forty years old, with a garden and a roof terrace, and their value rests mainly on the distance to the beach. Rejiche, south of the capital, offers more recent houses on medium sized plots, in neighbourhoods that families now live in all year round. The page for houses for sale in Mahdia delegation details these sectors, the Medina included.

Further down the coast, Salakta and Chebba sell the sea at a gentler price, to summer visitors from Ksour Essef, Sfax or abroad. A seafront house for sale in Mahdia always calls for the same caution: check that the building respects the limit of the maritime public domain, look at the corrosion of the steel in the slabs and balconies, and ask how many weeks it really lets for in summer if the seller puts forward that income.

Town houses: Zouila, Ksour Essef, El Djem

To live locally all year round, the town house remains the best buy. In Zouila and Erremal, two storey houses with a garage resell easily because local demand does not weaken. In Ksour Essef, the budget drops markedly for a house of comparable size, with a lively centre and quieter recent neighbourhoods. El Djem, to the west, attracts those who work between Sousse and Sfax thanks to the railway station and the national road.

An often overlooked advantage in these towns is the independent upper floor. A house whose upper floor can be let to a civil servant or a young couple repays part of the loan, provided the meters are separate and the staircase has its own entrance.

Rural houses and unfinished builds

Inland, in Essouassi, Bou Merdes, Sidi Alouane or Chorbane, you buy a house with its land: a courtyard, a water tank, sometimes a few dozen olive trees. This is where the cheap house for sale in Mahdia is found, in the literal sense, at the cost of a daily drive and services further away. For those who want the land first, the land and farms for sale in Mahdia governorate bring together olive groves and building plots.

Unfinished builds are common: walls up, slab poured, no finishing. They sell for low prices, but rendering, joinery, tiling and utility connections often cost more than expected. Have a local tradesman price the remaining work before you make an offer.

What a house's file must contain

Insist on the land title or the deed of ownership, the certificate of no mortgage, the building permit and, for an upper floor or an extension, proof that they were authorised. In the governorate, a large share of houses belongs to several heirs: all of them sign, including those living in Europe, by certified power of attorney. A foreign buyer must also obtain the governor's authorisation, which adds several months.

If the choice between a house and an apartment is not yet made, the full range of property for sale in Mahdia governorate puts the two side by side, and the houses for sale in Tunisia give an idea of prices elsewhere on the coast.