Homes for rent in Mahdia

Type rent Mahdia into a search engine and the first results are summer lets: villas by the week, furnished apartments by the night, studios near the beach. Yet most people looking for a home in the governorate want to live there: a teacher posted to El Djem, a nurse assigned to the hospital in the capital, a couple waiting to finish their house in Ksour Essef, a European retiree spending the winter in the sun. This page is for them.

It brings together all the homes for rent in the governorate, apartments, houses and villa floors, posted by owners and agencies that you call directly. The supply changes with the weeks and with the season, with a clear dip in high summer on the coast.

Finding a long term rental to match your budget

The budget often decides the delegation before the type of home. A long term rental in Mahdia's capital is the most expensive in the governorate, especially in Rejiche and in the recent residences. The Zouila and Erremal neighbourhoods offer more reasonable rents for an S+1, an S+2 or a villa floor, with the advantage of doing everything on foot. The page for homes for rent in Mahdia delegation details this urban market.

One step down, Ksour Essef offers houses and floors a quarter of an hour from the capital, with real neighbourhood life; the homes for rent in Ksour Essef also include Salakta. Further inland, in Bou Merdes, Essouassi or Sidi Alouane, the rent for a floor rarely exceeds a few hundred dinars, but a car becomes necessary. The homes for rent in Bou Merdes give an idea of this rural supply, made up of floors and self contained rooms.

El Djem, finally, serves as a base for those who work between Sousse and Sfax: the railway station and the national road count for more there than the sea. Homes are let by the year, at rents close to those inland, and demand rises at the start of the school year with the postings of teachers and health workers.

Yearly rentals and the coastal calendar

On the coast, from Hiboun to Chebba, the same house can earn in August what it earns over several winter months. Many owners therefore prefer to let it for the season, and a yearly rental in Mahdia is mostly negotiated from mid September, when the summer properties empty. Listings that specify by the year or long term are the ones to call first.

Two intermediate formulas exist. The October to May lease, common in Hiboun and Rejiche, suits an assignment or a winter stay, not a family. The ten or eleven month lease, with the house taken back by an emigrant owner in July and August, allows reasonable rents for a good quality home, provided the dates are written down.

Retirees and foreign residents

The governorate attracts a small number of Europeans, mainly Italians and French, who look for a yearly rental by the sea, often for the winter. They look at Rejiche, Hiboun or the Medina of the capital, and sometimes Salakta for the quiet. Their expectations are precise: a furnished apartment or house, reliable internet, an owner who can be reached in case of a breakdown. It is best to say so from the first call and to ask for a proper contract, which is also useful for residence formalities. Out of season, some owners of holiday residences accept a winter stay of four to six months: have them specify what the rent covers, electricity included, because the damp winters on the coast keep reversible air conditioners running.

The contract and the viewing

A home let by the year is signed with a written contract, registered at the tax office, and a deposit of one month, two if furnished. Check that the person signing is indeed the owner or holds a power of attorney: in the tourist zone, sublets of holiday properties are not rare. At the viewing, turn on the taps upstairs, look for the water tank on the roof, and check the ceiling corners after rain. For a whole house with a courtyard, the page for houses for rent in Mahdia governorate narrows the search, and the homes for rent in Tunisia let you compare with Monastir or Sfax.