Houses for rent in La Soukra

Renting a house in La Soukra means first of all looking for a garden a quarter of an hour from Lac 2 and Tunis-Carthage airport. The delegation has kept large plots from its farming past, and many villas built in the 80s and 90s are now let by owners who have gone to live elsewhere, in Tunis or abroad. Alongside these whole villas, the market also has plenty of villa floors, with their own entrance, let like flats.

Supply remains measured: a few listings of houses to rent in La Soukra, posted by private owners and a handful of agencies in the northern suburbs. You call the advertiser directly, with no middleman imposed by the site. If nothing fits, all the houses for rent in the Ariana governorate widen the search to Ennasr, Raoued and Ariana Ville.

Dar Fadhal and Chotrana: the family villa

Dar Fadhal is the sector with the most spacious villas in the delegation: ground floor and upper floor, garage, a garden with trees, sometimes a pool. Tenants are often families of managers working at Les Berges du Lac or in La Marsa, and foreign families posted to Tunis who want outdoor space for the children. A villa to rent in La Soukra of this standard frequently goes above 2,500 DT a month, and large houses with a pool are negotiated well above that.

Chotrana 1, 2 and 3 offer more recent villas, often semi-detached or terraced, on smaller plots. They suit a family of four or five who want a house without the upkeep of a big garden. Access to the motorway and the ring road is quick, which matters when both parents work in opposite directions.

Borj Louzir, Ettaamir, Ennasim: villa floors and neighbourhood houses

Closer to Ariana Ville, Borj Louzir lines up two-storey family houses. The owner often lives on the ground floor and lets the upper floor, with a separate entrance and meter when the house was well designed. It is the most affordable way to get three bedrooms and a terrace: the rent for a villa floor generally stays below that of a whole villa in Dar Fadhal, sometimes by half.

Ettaamir and Ennasim offer the same type of housing, with simpler houses and streets still being equipped in places. This is where the cheapest house rental in La Soukra is found, sought after by local families and employees of La Charguia or the airport.

A useful clarification: the "route de Soukra" also exists in Sfax, and many searches for villas to rent concern that Sfax road. This page covers only the delegation of La Soukra, in the Ariana governorate.

The calendar of a house rental

Houses come free mostly at the start of summer, when yearly contracts expire and families move before the school year starts. A search launched in May or June leaves time to view several properties; by September, what remains is mostly what has not found a taker. Emigrants who let their villa while they are away sometimes keep it for their own stay in July and August: ask clearly whether the let is for the whole year, with no summer break.

Lease, deposit and inventory

Insist on a written contract, registered at the tax office, stating the term, the rent, the annual review and the amount of the deposit, often the equivalent of one or two months. Carry out a dated inventory of condition, with photos, especially for the garden, the pool and the pump, whose upkeep must be split in black and white between tenant and owner. Check the STEG and SONEDE meters too: in a villa floor, a meter shared with the ground floor is a classic source of conflict.

If a whole house is beyond your budget, the rentals in La Soukra also include the flats of Chotrana and Ennasim. And to compare with buying, the houses for sale in La Soukra give the prices charged in the same neighbourhoods.