Homes for rent in Chott Meriem

Renting in Chott Meriem means choosing between two markets that share the same walls. From June to September, villas and apartments are let furnished, by the week or the month, to families who come for the beach. The rest of the year, some of these properties go back onto long-term lets, at much calmer rents, for students, couples working in Sousse or staff from the nearby hotel zone.

This page brings together houses and apartments to rent in the area, posted by private owners and agencies, with the advertiser's direct contact. To widen the search to the town of Akouda and its housing estates, more present in yearly lets, see rentals across the whole Akouda delegation.

Yearly rentals in Chott Meriem

Yearly rentals in Chott Meriem do exist, but you need to time your search well. Owners who keep their property for the summer readily offer a lease from September or October to the end of May; those who want a tenant for twelve months are fewer and their listings go quickly. Applicants are mainly young couples, teachers on transfer, staff from the Kantaoui hotels and families who prefer the calm of a seaside village to the noise of Sousse.

In this setting, rents stay a little above those in the town of Akouda, without reaching Sahloul or Kantaoui levels. A car is almost essential: the main road has public transport, but the streets running down to the beach far less so. Local shops fit into a few streets and partly close in winter; for the weekly shop, most residents drive down to Kantaoui or Sousse, a quarter of an hour away outside summer traffic jams.

Houses, villa floors or apartments

Many searches are for a house to rent in Chott Meriem, Sousse, and that fits the housing stock: the area is mostly made up of two-storey villas, one floor of which is often let separately with its own entrance. A villa floor with two or three bedrooms and a terrace lets for roughly the price of a flat in town, with more space and fewer neighbours. Whole houses with a garden are rarer on yearly lets and command more; they are listed on the page of houses to rent in Chott Meriem.

For an S+1 or S+2 in a residence, often furnished, the page of apartments to rent in Chott Meriem is more precise.

Students, seasonal workers and holidaymakers

The Higher Agronomic Institute based in Chott Meriem brings in students every autumn looking for a room, a studio or a flat to share. For them, the right moment is the end of summer, before the homes near the campus are taken. In summer, demand changes completely: families from Tunis, Tunisians from abroad on holiday, groups of friends. July and August prices bear no relation to winter ones, and supply is wider but more expensive.

Lease, deposit, water and damp

Insist on a written contract, registered at the tax office, that sets out the term, the rent, the deposit, usually one or two months, and what the charges cover. If the lease ends in May, have that written down in black and white to avoid being forced out mid-year. When viewing, turn on the taps upstairs: water pressure sometimes drops in summer. Also look at the corners of the ceilings and the base of the walls, which sea air marks quickly, and ask whether there is a water heater and heating, because houses designed for summer can be cold in January.