Houses for sale in La Marsa

A villa in La Marsa is priced on its land far more than on its walls. On the corniche or up in Gammarth Superieur, a 500 sqm plot with a view is already worth more than whatever has been built on it, and the one million dinar mark is crossed without much argument. In Marsa Erriadh or Sidi Daoud you can still find 1980s family homes whose price says more about their condition than about their address.

This page gathers the listings for houses for sale in La Marsa published on Houni by owners and by agencies based in the northern suburbs. Prestige villas in Gammarth sit alongside terraced houses in Bhar Lazreg, so read the location carefully before you fall for a photograph. To put La Marsa prices in context, browse houses for sale across the Tunis governorate.

What does a view cost in Gammarth Superieur?

Gammarth village and the heights of Gammarth Superieur hold the most expensive properties in the delegation. A villa for sale in Gammarth with a pool and a view over the gulf routinely passes 2 million dinars, and some properties near the hotels go well beyond that. Buyers are often Tunisians living abroad or business owners looking for quiet fifteen minutes from Lac.

The typical 2000s Gammarth villa is built over two levels, with a mature garden and a self-contained upper floor that owners sometimes rent out. Check whether that floor has its own STEG electricity meter, because it changes the rental yield completely.

A sea view house in La Marsa is not limited to Gammarth. The sloping streets of Sidi Daoud and a handful of addresses in Marsa Cap also look straight out to sea, at prices that are a little less dizzying.

The family houses of Marsa Erriadh and Sidi Daoud

This is where you find the most common house for sale in La Marsa: built in the 1980s or 1990s, ground floor plus one storey, garage, small garden, often still lived in by parents whose children have settled elsewhere. These sell between 900,000 and 1.8 million dinars depending on plot size and the state of the facades.

Many buyers take them on to transform them: add a floor, split the house into two dwellings, or knock it down for a four to six apartment building where planning rules allow it. Ask La Marsa town hall about the site coverage ratio before you make an offer, because a plot that can be built up to R+2 is not worth the same as one capped at R+1.

Sidi Daoud has moved fast since Berges du Lac 2 opened, and a house bought there ten years ago has gained a great deal of value. The trend continues, more slowly now.

Deeds, permits and rights of way: what the notary will not always mention

Insist on an individual land title, the so called blue title deed (titre bleu), which is the fully registered freehold document, plus a recent certificate of ownership from the land registry. For a house in La Marsa coming out of an inheritance, ask for the deed of partition: undivided ownership between heirs is the number one reason a signing collapses. Have a surveyor re-mark the boundaries if the wall does not match the plan.

Look at the building permits for any extensions too. A covered terrace or an added floor put up without authorisation does not always block a sale, but it will complicate your own resale later. In Bhar Lazreg, add a visit on a day of heavy rain: some low lying streets have flooded repeatedly.

To live in or to invest?

A villa in La Marsa bought to rent to an expatriate family (Lycee Gustave Flaubert, the American school, the embassies) brings in a high rent, but with possible vacancy every summer and the garden and pool upkeep on your account. For a simpler investment, compare with apartments for sale in La Marsa, which are easier to resell. And if you are still weighing buying against renting, houses to rent in La Marsa show what rents the market actually bears.