Homes for rent in Cité Mohamed Ali

Cité Mohamed Ali lies in the southern part of the El Ouardia delegation, towards the Ben Arous road. It is a dense working-class district of owner-built houses extended over the years, where you rarely rent a developer flat and far more often a floor, a ground floor or part of a house. People come here for a low rent and to stay within reach of central Tunis without changing their way of life.

This page brings together every rental offer in Cité Mohamed Ali, houses and flats alike, posted by private owners you call directly. To widen the search to El Ouardia 1, 2 or 5, go through accommodation to rent across the El Ouardia delegation, which covers the whole area.

A district of houses shared between families

The pattern is almost always the same: a house on a small plot, the owner on the ground floor, one or two floors added for the children, one of which ends up being let. A floor to rent in Cité Mohamed Ali therefore often has its own staircase, two or three rooms, a kitchen and a shower room, sometimes access to the roof terrace. It is the product that best suits a family.

Small buy-to-let buildings, three or four storeys raised by an owner on his old plot, complete the offer with more standard S+1 and S+2 units. Furnished lets remain an exception. Those who want a whole house with a courtyard should rather look at houses to rent in Cité Mohamed Ali, a rarer offer.

Who rents here, and at what price

Tenants are mainly households working in Tunis or in the business areas of Ben Arous and Jebel Jelloud: employees, factory workers, craftsmen, young local couples settling two streets from their parents. You also meet families from the interior of the country looking for a first foothold south of the capital.

Rents match this profile. They sit at the low end of the El Ouardia range, itself one of the most affordable delegations in Tunis: an S+2 house floor often rents for between 450 and 700 DT depending on condition and floor, an S+1 a notch lower. A whole house in good condition goes above these amounts. The offer varies from week to week, a little fuller at the end of summer, when families move before the school year.

Practical life and checks before signing

The district lives to the rhythm of its local shops: grocers, bakeries, greengrocers, small workshops. The inner streets are narrow and parking gets tricky in the evening. To reach the centre, people combine the buses on the Ben Arous road with the light metro that crosses the delegation; check this against the exact address, as walking distances vary from one street to the next.

Before signing, get three points clarified. The contract first, written and registered at the tax office, stating the rent, the deposit (one or two months) and the term. Then the meters: in a shared house, STEG and SONEDE are often in the owner's name, and the split of the bills must be put in writing. Finally damp, common on ground floors and in rooms facing an enclosed courtyard: look at the base of the walls and the ceiling corners. To compare with other southern districts, the page of accommodation to rent in the Tunis governorate groups every delegation.