Apartments for rent in Essouassi

In Essouassi, a block of flats is almost a curiosity. The town was built as individual houses, and what a listing calls an "apartment" is most often a floor of a house: an S+1 or S+2 built above the family ground floor, with an outside staircase and a separate entrance. Anyone typing apartment for rent essouassi should therefore expect that form rather than a development with a lift.

The supply is very thin: online apartment listings for the delegation on Houni are few and change from one week to the next. The properties exist, but they are often let by word of mouth before being posted. When a listing does appear, a private owner has placed it, and you call them directly. To have a choice right away, all the apartments for rent in the Mahdia governorate also cover El Jem and the coast.

The house floor, Essouassi's typical apartment

The pattern is the same everywhere. A family builds the ground floor, lives in it, then adds a floor for a son who will marry later, or to let in the meantime. That floor usually has two or three rooms, with a kitchen and shower room, and a roof terrace. It is the most common apartment rental in Essouassi, and often the cheapest in the region, far from the rents asked in Mahdia or Sousse.

The upside: space and neighbours who keep an eye out. The downside: you live above the owner. Settle from the start access to the roof terrace, use of the courtyard and parking the car in front of the gate.

These floors also often belong to emigrants: the family lives abroad or in a big city, comes back in summer and lets the rest of the year. In that case, state in writing whether the home must be vacated in July and August, or whether the let really runs for twelve months.

S+1 and S+2 in the town centre, and who they suit

In central Essouassi, a few small buildings of two or three storeys line up shops on the ground floor and homes above. An s+1 for rent in Essouassi in this area mainly interests single civil servants: a teacher posted for the year, a nurse, a bank or post office employee. They want to be within walking distance of services, and a furnished flat, even basically furnished, saves them moving furniture for a posting that may last only a year.

For a family, an s+2 for rent in Essouassi on an upper floor remains a decent option, but many end up preferring a whole house with a courtyard: the houses for rent in Essouassi are a little more numerous and sometimes barely more expensive. The El Kesasba sector mostly offers this type of house, rarely flats.

When to look and what to check

The right time is the end of summer. Transfers come through in July and August, flats vacated by those leaving are re-let to those arriving, and everything is settled before the school year starts. Outside that period, the supply is close to nil, but owners with an empty floor are more willing to negotiate.

When viewing, check that the ceiling is watertight, because the top floor takes the rain directly under the slab, and that there are separate water and electricity meters. Without its own meter, bills are split informally, which often ends in disagreement. Ask for a written lease, with the term, the deposit and the rent, and have it registered. Finally, go up to the roof terrace in mid-afternoon if you visit in summer: inland, a floor under an uninsulated slab turns into an oven, and an air conditioner already fitted is worth the difference in rent.

To see at once everything let in the delegation, houses and floors together, the homes to rent in Essouassi page gathers the listings from both categories.