Houses for rent in La Nouvelle Medina

The query that brings the most people to this page is written in Arabic: Ben Arous families looking for a house to rent in La Nouvelle Medina, with a courtyard, a garage and walls of their own rather than a residence corridor. Demand is strong, supply is not: the delegation was built for owners who live in their house, and those who let most often let the upper floor and keep the ground floor. A whole house to rent in La Nouvelle Medina therefore remains a rare listing.

On Houni, these listings for a house to rent in Nouvelle Medina Ben Arous are posted almost exclusively by private owners, and you call the owner directly. There are a few online at a time, rarely more. If nothing matches, widen first to the floors and apartments of the delegation, then to all the houses to rent in Ben Arous governorate, where Mornag, Mohamedia and Fouchana offer more houses and gardens for the same rent.

Errabta and Sidi Mosbah: where houses are let

Houses to rent are found mainly in Errabta and Sidi Mosbah, the two sectors of detached houses. In Errabta, they are terraced two-storey town houses whose owner has moved elsewhere or built a second house; the house is let whole, with its garage, to a family that wants two or three bedrooms and a roof terrace. In Sidi Mosbah, towards the Mornag countryside, the lots are larger and the houses sometimes come with a garden; rents are lower there, but you need a car for everything.

El Yasminet, more recent, offers a few semi-detached villas to rent, generally from owners who have gone to work abroad or in another town; these are the highest rents in the delegation. In the Nouvelle Medina 1 and 2 sectors, the house to rent is rare: the stock there is mostly apartment blocks, and what is let is first generation house floors, presented as "S+2 with independent entrance".

Villa floor or whole house: read the listing carefully

Many listings filed under houses are in fact floors: the owner occupies the ground floor, the tenant goes up an outside staircase and has an S+2 or S+3 (two or three bedrooms plus a living room) with its terrace. It is a good compromise for a couple with children who do not want an apartment block: rent often between 600 and 850 DT (Tunisian dinars), no service charges, a neighbour who is also the landlord. A whole two-storey house, for its part, generally exceeds 900 DT and can go well beyond for an El Yasminet villa with a garage and garden. These ranges are for reading the listings, not for negotiating in the owner's place.

If the choice is too narrow, the apartments to rent in La Nouvelle Medina page has S+3s in residences offering the same floor area, and the property to rent in the delegation page brings together houses, floors and apartments.

Timing and checks

Houses come free to the rhythm of families: the end of the school year and September above all, and a well placed house is re-let before the listing is even taken down. An owner letting a whole house generally wants a stable, year-round tenant, often a family with a steady job in Ben Arous or Tunis; come to the viewing with that profile clear.

On the contract side, insist on a written, registered lease, specify who maintains the garden, the water tank or the water heater, and check that the water and electricity meters are in the name of the rented home and not shared with the ground floor. Look at the state of the terrace and the drains: in houses built in stages, the waterproofing of the slab is the weak point, and an autumn rain reveals it quickly. Finally, ask whether the house is truly free of any other occupant; it happens that a garage or a ground floor room stays in use by the owner's family.