Homes for rent in El Mourouj

When people type "rent in Mourouj", or more often still in Arabic "منازل للكراء المروج 1", they are not necessarily after an apartment or a house: they want a roof in a specific cite, within walking distance of a metro station, the market or the children's school. That is the point of this page, which gathers everything to rent in the delegation, from Mourouj 1 to Mourouj 6 and out to Bir Kassaa: apartments in blocks, villa floors with their own entrance, whole houses, studios and ground floors with a courtyard.

The listings are posted by owners and agencies from the southern suburbs, and you call the advertiser directly on the number shown on the listing. The online supply stays modest at any given moment, a handful of listings some weeks, more at the start of the school year, and it turns over quickly. If nothing suits today, all the property to rent in Ben Arous governorate shows what is coming free in Ben Arous town, Ezzahra or Megrine, a few stations away.

Mourouj 1 and Mourouj 2: the metro, Carrefour and the original blocks

Mourouj 1 is the cite that comes up most in searches, and the query "apartment for rent Mourouj 1", like its Arabic cousin "houses to rent in El Mourouj 1", targets the same perimeter: the Carrefour sector and the light rail line 1 stations, with the market, the cafés and the buses to Tunis. What is let here is mostly S+2 flats (two bedrooms plus a living room) in the 1980s blocks and villa floors on the back streets, at rents that remain among the most reasonable in Greater Tunis for such a well connected spot.

Mourouj 2, the neighbouring cite, has a large share of blocks built by the SNIT and the SPROLS, the public housing bodies: three or four storey blocks, compact S+1 and S+2 flats, no lift, but rents often lower than in Mourouj 1 and the metro still within walking distance. A cheap rental in Mourouj 1 often turns out, in fact, to be an apartment in Mourouj 2.

Mourouj 3, Mourouj 4 and Mourouj 5: the family house

These three cites are where the search for a "dar", a house to rent, is concentrated: "دار للكراء في المروج 3", "house for rent Mourouj 5" or "منازل للكراء في المروج 4" are among the most frequent queries that lead here. The housing stock lends itself to it. These are 1990s AFH housing estates where each family built a ground floor plus one storey on 150 to 250 m², and where the upper floor, with its own kitchen and separate entrance, is let to a young household while the parents live downstairs. A house rental in Mourouj in these cites therefore most often means an S+2 or S+3 villa floor, more rarely the whole house, which comes free when the owners move in with their children or go abroad.

Mourouj 3 is the quietest, with its wide streets and the urban park close by; Mourouj 4 is similar, a notch cheaper; Mourouj 5, towards Fouchana and the M'hamdia road, mixes estate houses, social housing and recent developer blocks. For all three, count on the bus, the shared taxi or the car to reach a metro station.

Mourouj 6 and Bir Kassaa, the two extremes of the delegation

Mourouj 6 is the newest and most expensive sector: residences with a lift and a caretaker, 2000s villas with an independent upper floor, clean streets and few shops. People come here by car, to work at the Lac, in Ben Arous or in the industrial zone, and the rent for an S+2 here often exceeds that of an S+3 in Mourouj 1. Bir Kassaa, at the other end, lives to the rhythm of the wholesale market and the industrial zone: a few markedly cheaper houses and apartments, lorries from dawn, a good choice for anyone working on the spot.

Studios, furnished, daily lets and what to check

The studio to rent in El Mourouj, which many search for as "استوديو للكراء في المروج", remains rare: El Mourouj is a cite of families, not a student town, and the few studios are ground floors or independent rooms fitted out on the roof terrace of a house. Searches for an apartment by the day will find even less: nearly all the listings are yearly lets, rented unfurnished, and furnished is the exception.

On the contract side, insist on a written, registered lease, with a deposit of one or two months, and for a villa floor check that water and electricity have their own meters. In the older blocks of Mourouj 1 and 2, ask who manages the water tank and whether the pressure holds on the upper floors in summer; in the residences of Mourouj 6, have the caretaking charges spelled out. To narrow down, the listings for apartments to rent in El Mourouj and those for houses and villa floors to rent in El Mourouj each have their own page.