Homes for rent in Kasserine

Finding a home in Kasserine means accepting that housing does not always fit into a box. The same owner may let a whole house to a family or split it into two floors, a separate room with a shower serves as a studio, and a villa ground floor rents at the price of an apartment. This page gathers all these forms. It is often the most effective search when you arrive in the governorate without knowing anyone.

Listings are posted by private owners and a few agencies in the main town, and you contact the advertiser directly. Supply changes from week to week and is concentrated in Kasserine town; it is narrower in Sbeitla, Thala or Feriana, where many lets are still agreed through personal contacts, before they are even advertised.

Who is searching, and which option suits

The single person in a first job, the student or the trainee looks for a separate room or a studio, for a low rent and without a long commitment. A couple without children is happy with an S+1 or a two-room floor. A family on transfer wants space and a courtyard, and looks rather at single-storey houses, grouped on the page of houses for rent in Kasserine governorate. Those who only want S+1 and S+2 units save time with the apartments for rent in Kasserine.

Then there are special needs: a site crew housed for a few months, a locum doctor, an emigrant family renting a house for the summer for a wedding. They exist, but are negotiated case by case, often directly by phone with the owner, and at a higher monthly rent than a year-round let.

Choosing your delegation in the main town

Kasserine town is divided between three delegations, and the choice between them comes down to the daily commute as much as the rent. Ezzouhour, densely populated, offers the lowest rents, mostly house floors and studios in estates where everything is within walking distance; the homes for rent in Ezzouhour describe its estates one by one. Kasserine Nord is more residential, with whole houses on quiet streets, sought after by civil servants' families, and the page of homes for rent in Kasserine Nord goes into detail.

Kasserine Sud links the centre with a more rural fringe, where a house with a courtyard, sometimes a few trees, rents for less, at the cost of a car that is almost essential. The homes for rent in Kasserine Sud cover both faces. Before choosing, make the trip to your workplace or the children's school at the time you will make it every day: a few streets' difference changes daily life a lot.

Outside the main town

Sbeitla is the only other town in the governorate with a fairly regular choice. Rents there are slightly below those of Kasserine, commercial life is busy, and the town suits people who work locally or who split their week between Kasserine and Sidi Bouzid.

In Thala, demand comes from posted civil servants, mainly teachers and health workers, and a home there is judged first on how well it holds out against the cold. In Foussana and the rural delegations, renting almost always works by word of mouth: an online listing there is a pleasant surprise, to be snapped up quickly. In all these cases, a whole house often rents for the price of an S+2 in the main town.

Before signing

The market moves mostly from late August to late September, with postings and the start of the school year. Start as soon as your posting is known, because the best homes go within a few days. In midsummer, some floors are kept for the owner's children back for the holidays, and supply tightens.

Whatever the home, the same points come up. A written, registered lease, a deposit of one or two months, separate STEG and SONEDE meters, a tank against water cuts, a possible heating solution for winter. On a floor above the owner, raise roof access, parking and family visits during the viewing. When the property is still jointly owned by heirs, the lease must be signed by someone who has the agreement of the other heirs, otherwise a cousin may contest it the following year.