Houses for sale in El Ouardia

A house for sale in El Ouardia is almost always a house with several floors. The neighbourhood was built on modest plots, 80 to 150 m² on the ground, and each family added its levels one after another: the parents' ground floor, the eldest son's floor, the younger son's, and a roof terrace where the washing dries. When the house comes onto the market, it is because the children have left for Ben Arous, El Mourouj or abroad, and the heirs would rather sell than manage from afar.

Buyers come in two kinds: families from the neighbourhood or nearby delegations who want to house several generations under one roof at a price still within reach in the municipality of Tunis, and investors who buy the house to let the floors one by one, a stone's throw from the light rail. On Houni supply is limited, a few listings online, posted by private sellers and a few agencies in the south of the capital, whom you call directly. All the houses for sale across the Tunis governorate widen the search to Jebel Jelloud, El Kabaria or Sidi Hassine if the choice is too short.

Bellevue, El Ouardia 1: you pay for proximity

The top of the delegation, Bellevue and El Ouardia 1, almost touches the city centre. A house for sale in Bellevue, Tunis, goes for more per square metre than in the rest of the area, because Bab Alioua and place de Barcelone are a few minutes away and street-level ground floors easily turn into shops. The houses are old, often on two or three levels, with steep stairs and narrow yards. The structure generally holds up, but the wiring and plumbing are dated, and renovation budgets need to be planned for.

For a house for sale in El Ouardia 1, look at the street before the house: width, parking, shops on the neighbours' ground floors. That is what decides the rental value of the floors if you buy to let, and your peace and quiet if you buy to live there.

El Ouardia 2 to 5 and Cite Mohamed Ali: more space, gentler prices

Towards the Ben Arous road, the El Ouardia 2, 3, 4 and 5 estates have slightly larger plots and straighter streets. The typical house, two finished levels and a slab ready for a third, often sells for between 300,000 and 500,000 DT depending on size and condition, markedly less than a villa in the southern suburbs for a comparable living area. Cite Mohamed Ali, the densest, also offers small rental blocks of three or four levels, raised by owners on their original plot; listings for the area are grouped on the page of houses for sale in Cite Mohamed Ali.

These houses appeal to investors because rental demand is constant: workers, employees, families from the interior, all looking for a cheap floor near the light rail. A house for sale in Ouardia, Tunis, with three independent floors, each with its own meter, lets more easily and resells better than a house in one piece. As bare plots are practically non-existent in the delegation, buying an old house to demolish and rebuild is also an option; the page of land for sale in El Ouardia explains what to check in that case.

Joint ownership, permits, added floors

The first obstacle to buying a house in El Ouardia is joint ownership. Many houses belong to six or eight heirs, some of whom live in France or Italy; until all of them have signed or given power of attorney, the sale does not move. Ask from the first call who the owner is and whether all the heirs agree. A seller who answers frankly saves you months.

The second is the building permit. Floors added over the years did not all obtain one, and a bank will not finance a level that does not exist on the plan. Compare the land title, the original permit and what you see on site. Check the municipal tax too and, if a floor is let, the current lease: a sitting tenant does not leave on the day you sign. To compare with flats and the delegation's other properties, the page of properties for sale in El Ouardia brings every category together.