Homes for rent in Gabès Sud

Looking for a rental in Gabes usually means looking south of the wadi. The Gabès Sud delegation takes in Sidi Boulbaba, Zrig and its campus, then Teboulbou and El Medou, which stretch through the oasis along the Médenine road. It is the part of town that houses students, teachers posted for a year, workers and managers from the Groupe chimique and families who want a house with a courtyard without leaving Gabès. This page gathers everything let here: a house to rent in Gabes, an apartment, a villa floor or a studio, furnished or unfurnished.

Supply stays on a human scale, around ten listings online at any given moment, almost all posted by the owners themselves, who give their number and answer in the evening. If nothing in the delegation suits you, all the homes to rent in Gabès governorate also show Gabès Médina, Gabès Ouest and the coast towards Métouia.

Zrig: the student and studio district

Since the faculties and institutes settled in Zrig, the district has filled with two-storey houses whose ground floors are divided into studios and S+1 flats (one bedroom plus a living room). A studio to rent in Gabès is almost always found there, within walking distance of the campus, often furnished with a bed, a table and a hob, for a rent that rarely goes above 250 to 300 DT (Tunisian dinars) a month. Owners live upstairs, which reassures parents and explains certain rules on hours and visitors.

The calendar is that of the new academic year: studios go between late August and mid-September and come free in June, and many landlords ask for the academic year to be paid in two or three instalments. Outside the back-to-school period, Zrig Eddakhlania is also where the delegation's most recent apartments are found, in small blocks of three or four storeys. To see only this type of property, the page of apartments to rent in Gabès Sud isolates the S+1, S+2 and S+3 flats.

Sidi Boulbaba and family houses to rent

For a family, demand for a house rental in Gabes centres on Sidi Boulbaba and the streets climbing towards Zrig: single-storey or two-storey houses with a courtyard, two or three bedrooms, a garage or a carriage gate. They are often houses belonging to parents who have gone to live with their children or abroad, let by the year to civil servants, teachers or Groupe chimique managers posted to Gabès for a few years. Rents stay moderate for a coastal town: a three-bedroom house in good condition frequently lets for between 500 and 800 DT, more if it is new or has a self-contained upper floor.

Listings of this kind are rare: one or two at a time in the delegation, and they are taken within a few days, by word of mouth as much as online. The page of houses to rent in Gabès Sud exists to keep track of them, but you often have to widen the search to the rest of the town.

Teboulbou, El Medou and the seafront

In the oasis, in Teboulbou and El Medou, renting is another matter. People let a family house with its garden of palms and pomegranate trees, sometimes to a cousin, sometimes to a teacher posted nearby, rarely to a stranger. The roads are narrow, the houses old, and the garden's water is as much part of the contract as the walls. For someone who works in Gabès and wants peace and quiet, it is a serious option, provided you have a car: the Médenine road remains the only real link with the centre.

Searches for a house to rent by the sea in Gabès often land on this page. The delegation touches the gulf on the Zrig and oasis side, but the Gabès seafront is nothing like a beach resort: few holiday residences, a few private houses with a sea view, let by the year rather than by the week. In summer, families from Gabès living elsewhere look for a home for two months; furnished monthly rental listings then appear, and disappear in September.

Lease, deposit and checks in Gabès

A written lease, registered with the tax office, is the rule to insist on even when the owner is an acquaintance: it sets the term, the notice period and the deposit, usually one month, sometimes two for a furnished let. Check who pays for water and electricity and whether the STEG and SONEDE meters are separate, which is not always the case in a house split into floors or studios.

Two questions specific to Gabès. Smells from the plant: the southern districts are less exposed than the north of the town, but on a day with a north wind, go past the property before signing. Damp: in the oasis and near the sea, old walls mark quickly, so look at the bottom of the walls and the ceiling corners. And if the idea of renting finally leads you to buy, the houses for sale in Gabès Sud show the price level, still affordable in this part of town.