Offices and shops for sale in Ezzouhour

Business in Ezzouhour is ground floor business. Grocers, bakeries, hardware stores, cafés, hairdressers, carpentry or aluminium workshops: nearly all occupy the bottom of a family house, on a street busy enough that an owner chose, one day, to turn the garage into a shop. Offices in the strict sense are rare; what you mostly find are doctors', lawyers' or accountants' practices set up on a house floor or in a small building.

Sales of premises are therefore few, and published supply stays very small, when it is not absent, with listings from private sellers. Many units change hands without a listing, between local traders. To compare, the offices and shops for sale in the Tunis governorate cover the whole capital.

Where the units for sale are

The most sought after spots are on the main streets crossing the cité and around the markets, where bus stops and schools are concentrated. A shop on these roads enjoys steady footfall from morning to evening, and sells for much more than a unit set back, even a larger one. In Ezzouhour Est, older and denser, units are small but lively; in Ezzouhour Ouest, around Ezzouhour 4, wider streets make deliveries and parking easier.

Cité Tayarane, more residential, offers few units, mostly everyday shops. A buyer aiming at a neighbourhood business there, a pharmacy, a grocery or a nursery, will find a loyal but limited clientele. In every case, the exact name of the cité and the street is worth more than the stated floor area. Ask for it before travelling, then walk around the block: the number of competing shops within a few streets says a lot about the real profitability of a unit.

Walls, business, let premises: three different purchases

A listing for commercial premises for sale can mean three things. The walls alone, empty, which the buyer will run or let. The walls occupied by a tenant, sold as an investment, with a rent already running. Or the business itself, meaning the clientele, the sign and the leasehold right, without the walls. Prices and risks have nothing in common, and you must ask on the first call what is really being sold.

A let unit interests investors, but the sitting tenant enjoys the protection of the commercial lease and a right to renewal: the buyer will not be able to replace them at will, nor freely revise the rent. Ask for the contract, the date of its last renewal and the regularity of payments.

Checks specific to Ezzouhour

Many shops in the cité are former garages. Check that the change of use was authorised by the municipality and that the business carried on fits the zoning plan: unregularised commercial premises resell poorly and can be closed. As with the area's houses, check the title, often a single one for the whole house: a commercial ground floor without its own title requires a division into co-ownership before the sale.

Look at the technical side too: a separate STEG meter and enough power for a workshop or a cold room, drainage for a café or a salon, a metal shutter in working order. And go by at different times, as a road that is very busy in the morning can empty in the afternoon.

Shop and home in the same purchase

A common solution in Ezzouhour is to buy the whole house, shop on the ground floor and homes above. The trader lives and works there, or lets the upper floors to pay off the purchase. This type of property mostly appears among the houses for sale in Ezzouhour. For a single residential floor above a shop, see the homes for sale in Ezzouhour. On houni.tn, every advertiser can be contacted directly, so you can ask all these questions before travelling.