Homes for rent in La Goulette

This page gathers everything you can rent to live in in the delegation of La Goulette: apartments, whole houses, villa floors, ground floors with a courtyard. It is the page to check when you are looking for a house for rent in La Goulette, or when you do not yet know whether you want a building in the centre or a neighbourhood house in Khereddine. The delegation is small, squeezed between the Lake of Tunis, the canal and the sea, and each sector has its own type of housing.

The rental market here is mostly in the hands of private owners: someone letting the floor above their own home, an emigrant family renting out the house while they are away, an heir letting the family dar. On Houni, each one posts their listing and you call them directly. To compare with the rest of the capital, all the accommodation for rent in Tunis governorate can be browsed on a single page.

Khereddine: the house to rent near the sea

The most frequent search for this sector is simple: a house to rent in Khereddine. The neighbourhood, served by the TGM and next to Le Kram, is made up of detached houses and small villas on one or two levels, often with a small garden or a terrace. Many have been extended over the years, which explains how often independent floors with a separate entrance are listed.

A house for rent in Khereddine, La Goulette, appeals to families who work at Les Berges du Lac, the airport or the port and want a larger home than a city-centre apartment. Supply is limited and turns over slowly: a well-located house finds a tenant within a few days, often before it has been listed for long. Keep a regular alert and call without waiting.

Goulette centre, Taieb Mhiri, Cité Essalama

In the centre of La Goulette, around the port and Petite Sicile, the typical home is an apartment in an old building or a floor of a town house. You live on foot, near the market, the beach and the TGM station, at the cost of difficult parking. Apartments alone have their own page: the apartments for rent in La Goulette, studios and S+2 included.

Cité Taieb Mhiri and Cité Essalama are working-class neighbourhoods of family houses, further from the beach. You will find ground floors with a courtyard and floors to rent at gentler rents than in Khereddine. This is often where a family on a tight budget finds a house for rent in Cité Taieb Mhiri or a three-room home without paying for proximity to the sea.

Yearly lets, summer lets

La Goulette lives two seasons. From June to September, demand for short-term rentals soars: families from Tunis and the interior coming for the beach, returning emigrants, visitors arriving by ferry. Some houses then switch to weekly or monthly summer lets, at prices unrelated to the yearly rent.

To rent by the year, search from September to May. Owners who let over the summer are then looking for a stable tenant, and rents become negotiable again. A house floor or a small family house generally rents for less than an equivalent apartment in La Marsa, with large gaps depending on the condition of the property.

What to check before signing

In a house let by the floor, have the meters clarified: water and electricity separate or shared with the owner, roof access, use of the courtyard and the garage. On the seaward side, inspect damp in the corners and the condition of the window frames, which salt damages quickly.

Insist on a written, registered lease stating the rent, the term, the deposit (often one or two months) and the inventory of fixtures. If you are thinking of buying in the delegation instead, the property for sale in La Goulette shows what sells in the same streets.