Shared flats in Megrine

In Mégrine, flatsharing does not look like it does in Ariana or central Tunis. There is no big university campus at the foot of the buildings, and shared flats are set up mostly between young employees: two or three colleagues working in Tunis, in the industrial zone or towards Radès who would rather split the rent on a decent S+2 (two bedrooms plus a living room) than pay for a studio alone. Students come next, those with classes in Tunis or the southern suburbs who rely on the train to get around.

On this page, shared apartment listings in Mégrine are posted by owners and by tenants looking for someone for the spare room. You call the person who posted directly, with no middleman. If the week's supply is short, which often happens in a municipality of this size, all the shared apartments in Ben Arous governorate widen the search to Ben Arous, Radès, El Mourouj and Ezzahra.

Mégrine Chaker, the sector for flatmates who take the train

The first criterion for a flatmate in Mégrine is the distance to the station on the southern suburbs line. Mégrine Chaker, around the Sousse road, has most of the multi-storey buildings and so the S+2 and S+3 flats that lend themselves to sharing: bedrooms of similar size, a shared living room, a separate kitchen. It also has the cafés, grocery shops and shared taxis, which matters when nobody in the flat owns a car.

Sidi Rezig plays the same role with slightly lower rents. Many people searching for a flat to rent in Mégrine Sidi Rezig are looking precisely for a house floor to share between two, near the railway line and the factories where some work shifts. The noise of trains and lorries is part of the scenery: a room facing the courtyard is worth asking for.

Riadh and Mégrine Supérieure, quieter flatsharing

In Mégrine Riadh and on the heights of Mégrine Supérieure, supply is different. The small recent developments built on former villa plots offer better-finished flats, with a garage, but rarely more than two bedrooms. Sharing there is between two people, often managers or interns on assignments of a few months, and the shared rent stays higher than in Chaker. Here you need a car or must accept a walk to the Sousse road for the bus.

A studio remains a serious alternative: the search "studio to rent in Mégrine", typed a lot in Arabic, shows that many hesitate between a shared room and a small place of their own. Both can be compared on the page of apartments to rent in Mégrine, which also covers S+1 flats and studios.

When to look and at what price

Listings multiply at two moments: late August and September, when students and new autumn recruits get organised, then in January and February, at the start of internships and fixed-term assignments. In summer supply drops, and some owners prefer to wait until September to let again to a single household.

The price of a room depends mainly on the sector and the condition of the flat. In Chaker and Sidi Rezig, each person's share generally stays well below the rent of a studio in the same district; in Riadh, it can come close. Be wary of listings that state neither the number of bedrooms nor what the rent covers.

Lease, deposit and bills: what to settle before moving in

In most cases the lease is signed by a single tenant, who then sublets the rooms. Ask to see the contract and check that the owner agrees to the flatshare in writing: a landlord who finds three names on the letterbox can end the lease. The deposit, often one or two months' rent, must be split in black and white between flatmates, along with what happens when one of them leaves mid-year.

Settle the STEG (electricity and gas) and SONEDE (water) bills from day one too: who receives them, how they are shared, and what happens in summer when the air conditioning runs in a single room. Finally, if you are looking for a room in a family home rather than a flat between flatmates, the page for flatshare accommodation in Mégrine brings those offers together too.