Houses to rent in Sfax Ville

A Sfaxian who can lives in a house, and keeps it. That is the first thing to know when you type house for rent in Sfax with the centre in mind: in the Sfax Ville delegation, the supply of whole houses to rent is small, with very few listings, almost all published by private owners. The large villas people associate with Sfax lie further out along the roads to Gremda, Teniour or El Aïn, in the delegations of Sfax Sud and Sfax Ouest.

This page shows what exists within the urban perimeter: town houses in Bassatine, Sidi Abbes and Cité Mohamed Ali, dars in the medina and Errbadh, independent villa floors on the first kilometres of the main roads. If the list is short, widen it to all the houses to rent in the Sfax governorate, where the route de Gremda and the route de Teniour appear with their kilometre markers.

The Sfax town house and its upper floor

What you rent in Sfax Ville when you rent a house is most often the ground floor or the upper floor of a family house: living room, separate kitchen, two or three bedrooms, a closed garage, a courtyard or a roof terrace. The owner frequently lives on the other level, which reassures both parties but means agreeing on the entrance, the meter and the garage. Arabic searches for a "dar to rent in Sfax" target exactly this product, and it is also what the families of transferred civil servants and doctors arriving at the university hospitals are after.

For a house rental in Sfax of this type in the centre, rents frequently exceed 1,000 DT (Tunisian dinars), and a whole villa with a garden in the delegation goes for well above that, often between 1,500 and 2,500 DT when renovated. These ranges move with the year: the listings dated 2026 that people search for show the rise compared with pre-2020 rents.

Route de Gremda, route de Teniour: the right delegation

The strongest query leading to this page comes from Arabic: houses to rent in Sfax, route de Gremda. The road starts at Bab Jebli, north of the medina, and its first kilometre stays within Sfax Ville, with a few houses and many apartment buildings; from km 2 or 3, the large family houses with gardens that people look for belong to Sfax Sud. The same logic applies to a house to rent in Sfax on the route de Teniour, which falls under Sfax Ouest. In both cases, the governorate page mentioned above gathers all the delegations, and that is where you find these properties.

This administrative split explains the low stock on this page, not a lack of interest: demand for a house to rent in Sfax is one of the strongest on the site, and the few properties published here are let within days at the start of the academic year.

Medina and Errbadh: the dar to rent

The Sfax medina has lost a large share of its residents to warehouses and workshops, but a few dars are still let by the year, sometimes to students who share them, sometimes to craftsmen. These are courtyard houses, cool in summer, damp in winter, with no possible garage and car access limited to the area around the gates. The rent is low, maintenance rarely done. Errbadh, just outside the walls, offers low houses in the same spirit with easier access.

Before signing for a dar, check the condition of the roof terrace and the drains: winter seepage is the curse of these houses, and an absent owner often discovers it after you do.

Lease, deposit, meters

Even with very few listings, the reflexes are the same as with three hundred. A written contract registered at the tax office, a deposit of one to two months whose use is specified, separate water and electricity meters if the owner occupies one level, and an inventory with photos. In the large Sfax families, the house often belongs to several heirs: the one who lets it must have the others' mandate.

If no house comes up, a large apartment often does the job: the apartments to rent in Sfax Ville offer S+3 and S+4 flats in the centre, and all categories together, every home to rent in Sfax Ville is on a shared page.