Shared flats in Nabeul

In Nabeul governorate, flatsharing is mostly a story of two towns. Nabeul, because it is home to the higher education institutions, the regional hospital and the administrations, and therefore to students, junior doctors and young civil servants. Hammamet, because every spring hotels and restaurants take on hundreds of young people from other regions, who look to share a 2 or 3 bedroom flat (S+2 or S+3) for the season.

The listings on this page are posted by flatmates looking for someone to fill a free room, by owners letting to several tenants, and sometimes by agencies. You contact the advertiser directly. Supply is modest and varies from week to week, with two clear peaks: the start of the academic year and the beginning of the tourist season.

Nabeul: students and young civil servants

In Nabeul, flatshares are concentrated in the neighbourhoods with good links to the institutes and the centre: recent residences on the Hammamet road, buildings in the centre, villa floors converted into apartments. Groups are often formed before arriving, between students from the same home town, then topped up during the year when someone leaves. Many flatshares are single sex, and the listings say so. The page for shared flats in Nabeul town details the neighbourhoods and the customs.

Dar Chaabane El Fehri and Beni Khiar, a few minutes away, offer lower rents for larger apartments. It is an option when the group has a car or is happy to take shared taxis (louages) and buses into the centre.

Budgets follow the size of the group. Two people in a 1 bed flat each often pay a little more than three sharing a 3 bed, but keep more quiet for working. Final year students and hospital junior doctors in fact prefer small flatshares, even if it costs more. Furnished listings are the most in demand, since few flatmates want to buy furniture for one or two years.

Hammamet: seasonal flatsharing

In Hammamet, the calendar rules everything. From April, waiters, cooks, entertainers and receptionists arrive for the season and look for a place until October. The problem is well known: it is also when owners prefer to let by the week to holidaymakers. Seasonal workers' flatshares therefore fall back on the less touristy areas, Hammamet Nord on the town side, Bir Bouregba, or the inland part of the delegation. The listings of shared flats in Hammamet show this geography.

Some employers house their staff, others pay an allowance. If you are coming for a seasonal contract, ask about it before searching on your own. And if you sign for the whole season, have the move out date specified: an owner who lets from April to the end of September does not always keep the flatmates until the hotels close in October.

Grombalia, Soliman, Kelibia: a quieter supply

At the gateway to Cap Bon, Grombalia and Soliman take in workers and technicians from the industrial zones, who sometimes share an apartment between two or three to cut costs. Online supply is rare there and relies more on word of mouth, but a few listings appear when contracts start. In Kelibia, flatsharing mainly exists in summer, among young people working in restaurants or at the port.

In all these towns, a place in a flatshare costs much less than a studio on your own, often half, sometimes less when the apartment is shared by three.

Getting along before you sign

A successful flatshare is settled before you move in. Who holds the lease: a single flatmate, or everyone together? The first case is common, and leaves the others unprotected if the holder leaves. How are the deposit, electricity, water, internet and gas split? Who replaces someone who leaves the apartment during the year? Put these points in writing, even on a simple page signed by each person.

Always view before paying anything, and meet the flatmates already living there. If you are looking for another arrangement, a room in a family home or a shared house, flatsharing for all homes in Nabeul governorate brings everything together, and shared flats across Tunisia let you compare with Tunis or Sousse.