Homes for rent in Sousse Médina

There are two rental markets in Sousse, and they cross paths every year in June. On one side, yearly rentals in Sousse: families, civil servants, teachers, staff from the hospitals and private clinics who sign for twelve months. On the other, summer letting, by the week or the month, which takes part of the supply off the market during the season. The delegation of Sousse Médina, between the Medina, Boujaafar and Khezama, is at the heart of this tension.

This page brings together everything let to live in: flats, villa floors, whole houses, studios. The listings are posted by private individuals and agencies, and you call the advertiser directly. Supply varies from week to week; to widen the search to Sahloul, Hammam Sousse or Akouda, see all the rentals in Sousse governorate.

Finding a long-term rental before summer

Long-term rentals in Sousse are easiest to find between September and May. From April, some owners near the sea state clearly that they will only let out of season, or that they will take the property back in July for their own family returning from abroad. Read the listing carefully: "by the year" and "out of season" do not mean the same thing, and the second often ends in June.

If you arrive in summer on a transfer, plan a temporary solution for a few weeks and look on the spot from late August, when the summer properties come back onto the yearly market. It is also when the asking rents are easiest to negotiate.

What is let, district by district

Khezama mainly offers flats in residential developments and villa floors, from S+1 to S+3 (one to three bedrooms plus a living room), sought by couples and families working towards Sahloul or in the centre. Boujaafar and avenue Habib Bourguiba offer large older flats, often without a lift, at more reasonable rents for the floor area, with the railway station and the Sahel metro within walking distance.

Around the ramparts, Ali Belhouane, Mohamed Maarouf and Bou Jaafar mix family houses, floors let by owners who live on the ground floor and small buildings. In the Medina itself, dars are rarely let by the year and more often as furnished seasonal lets. To target a specific type, the apartments to rent in Sousse Médina and the houses to rent in Sousse Médina sort the supply.

Studios and small budgets

Studios and S+1 flats are the properties that go fastest in the delegation. Junior doctors at the Farhat Hached university hospital, young teachers and call centre staff compete for the small units close to the centre. A furnished studio costs noticeably more than an unfurnished one, and the difference is mainly worth it for a stay of a few months. For an even tighter budget, a room in a flatshare is still a common first step.

Apartments to rent in Sousse in these small sizes are mostly found in the buildings of the centre and on floors fitted out by Khezama owners. A listing posted one evening is often reserved the next day: prepare in advance a copy of your ID, a certificate of employment or enrolment and the deposit, so you can confirm at the viewing.

The contract and the inventory

Insist on a written contract, registered at the tax office: it is needed to enrol children at school, for a bank address or for a residence permit file. The norm is still a deposit of one or two months plus the first month's rent on moving in; beyond that, ask why.

Draw up a dated inventory, with photos of the walls, taps and joinery, especially in the old Boujaafar buildings where damp marks the corners in winter. Check who pays the service charges, whether the water and electricity meters are individual and whether the water heater runs on mains gas or a bottle. Over a year, these details weigh as much as the rent.