Houses for rent in El Ouardia

In El Ouardia, "renting a house" seldom means renting a villa. The delegation, wedged south of Tunis between Jebel Jelloud, Montfleury and the Ben Arous road, grew up on working-class housing estates: terraced houses on small plots, to which families added one, two, sometimes three floors as the weddings came. What you find among house rentals in El Ouardia is therefore most often a house floor with its own entrance, a ground floor with a yard, or more rarely the whole house when the owner has settled elsewhere.

Demand comes from local families who want to stay close to their relatives, from workers at the Jebel Jelloud workshops and depots, and from employees in the city centre, a quarter of an hour away by light rail. On Houni, supply stays limited: very few listings, posted by private owners who give their number and deal without a middleman. If nothing fits, all the houses to rent across the Tunis governorate widen the search towards Jebel Jelloud, Sidi El Bechir or El Kabaria.

El Ouardia 1 and Bellevue, the names everyone types

The search "house rental Bellevue Ouardia 1" comes up more often than any other, in French as in Arabic, and that is no accident. Bellevue and El Ouardia 1 form the oldest part, the one closest to town, a few minutes from Bab Alioua and its coach station. The streets are narrow, the houses packed close, but you reach avenue de Carthage or place de Barcelone without changing trains. Tenants here look for a house floor with two bedrooms and a terrace; rents are a little higher than in the rest of the delegation because of that proximity.

For a house rental in El Ouardia 1, visit on a weekday in the late afternoon: that is when the neighbourhood is at its busiest and you can judge street noise and parking. Many houses have no garage, and the ground floor has often been turned into a shop or a workshop, which changes the atmosphere from one house to the next.

El Ouardia 2 to 5 and Cite Mohamed Ali

Heading down towards Ben Arous, El Ouardia 2, 3, 4 and 5 were laid out later, with slightly wider streets and somewhat more regular plots. The typical house covers 100 to 150 m² on the ground, with one floor per generation. A tenant finds S+2 and S+3 house floors there, sometimes with a back yard and a roof terrace. Cite Mohamed Ali, on the Ben Arous road side, is the densest part of the delegation; the light rail and the bus lines running to Ben Arous make it a handy base for anyone working on either side. Listings for the area are grouped on the page of houses to rent in Cite Mohamed Ali.

This is also where rents stay among the most affordable in the municipality of Tunis. An unfurnished S+2 house floor often lets for between 500 and 800 DT; a whole house with a yard rarely goes above 1,200 DT, unless recently renovated. Furnished properties are rare: people rent unfurnished, and the tenant brings the furniture. A house to rent in Ouardia, Tunis, often comes free at the end of summer, when a family moves before the new school year; that is the time to check the listings every day.

Lease, deposit, meters

In a neighbourhood where people rent between neighbours, a written contract is not always offered unprompted. Ask for one anyway, registered at the tax office, stating the rent and the deposit, most often one to two months. Check that the floor you rent has its own STEG and SONEDE meter: in houses split between heirs, a shared meter is a source of disputes when the bill arrives. Ask too who pays the municipal tax and the upkeep of the water tank or pump, where there is one.

Finally, look at who lives on the other levels. In El Ouardia, a house floor is let above or below the owning family, which has its advantages, security and a quick response if there is a leak, and its constraints, hours and visits. If you would rather have an apartment block, the flats to rent in El Ouardia and, across all categories, the homes to rent in the delegation are on separate pages.