Homes for rent in Sousse

In Sousse, almost every rental search revolves around one word: monthly. In Arabic, the most frequent queries ask for apartments and houses to rent in Sousse by the month, and that is no accident. The city runs at two speeds, with weekly or daily rentals for the summer, and yearly rentals in Sousse for students, healthcare staff, civil servants and families. This page is aimed mainly at the latter.

Here you find the apartments, studios, villa floors and whole houses of the entire governorate, published by private owners and agencies that you contact directly. The supply changes from one week to the next, richer in Sousse city and Hammam Sousse, sparser in the inland towns. Comparing one delegation with another often saves several hundred dinars a month.

Sousse Jawhara and Sousse Médina: the city on foot

The delegation of Sousse Jawhara is home to the faculties, the Farhat Hached hospital and a good share of the institutes. That is where studios and one bedroom flats rent fastest, often in houses divided into floors or small buildings without a lift. For a house to rent in Sousse Jawhara, expect older but well located properties, at rents that are still reasonable. The homes for rent in Sousse Jawhara detail these neighbourhoods.

Sousse Médina combines the centre, Bou Jaafar and the streets near the beach, with Khezama right next door. An apartment for rent in Sousse Khezama remains in high demand among young couples: recent residences, shops, the beach within reach. Be careful near Bou Jaafar, where many listings target daily rentals and do not suit a yearly lease.

Sahloul and Hammam Sousse: residences with a caretaker

A one bedroom flat to rent in Sousse Sahloul is the typical search of a junior doctor, a nurse or a transferred manager. Residences with a caretaker, a lift and parking rent for more there than elsewhere, often between 700 and 1,000 DT for a decent one bedroom flat, more for a furnished two bedroom flat in Sousse Sahloul. Hammam Sousse extends this market towards Kantaoui, with the same summer competition between yearly leases and seasonal lets.

The query for apartments to rent by the month in Hammam Sousse is in fact the most searched in the whole governorate. It targets one and two bedroom flats in small buildings, let by owners who often live on the ground floor. Studios remain rare and contested there, especially by hotel trainees and students from the nearby institutes. In the residential streets of Sahloul, villas are also let floor by floor, an arrangement that suits families willing to share the entrance with the owner.

Erriadh, Sidi Abdelhamid, Msaken: more space for the same rent

Families who want a house or a villa floor often look to the south and west. In Cité Erriadh, estate houses are let level by level, with a separate entrance, and rents there are noticeably lower than in Sahloul. The page of homes for rent in Sousse Riadh also covers Zaouiet and Ksibet Sousse.

Sousse Sidi Abdelhamid, on the industrial zone side, houses many workers and technicians who want to be near the factory: small apartments, studios in houses, modest rents. The homes for rent in Sousse Sidi Abdelhamid give a picture of it. Further out, Msaken, Kalaa Kebira and Akouda offer whole houses for the price of a two bedroom flat in the city, in exchange for a daily commute by car or shared taxi. The homes for rent in Msaken gather the supply of the largest inland town.

Lease, deposit and timing

A long term rental in Sousse is best negotiated between late August and October, when summer properties come back onto the yearly market. In spring, many owners on the coast hesitate to sign for twelve months and prefer to wait for the season. If you sign in May, have it stated in black and white that the lease covers the summer.

Insist on a contract registered at the tax office, a dated inventory and a deposit of one or two months, no more. Read the water and electricity meters when you receive the keys and ask who pays the building charges. On a student budget, sharing a home often costs less than a studio: flatsharing in the Sousse governorate has its own page.