Looking for an equestrian gîte for sale in France? This page brings together properties that combine holiday accommodation with facilities for horses: gîtes with stables and paddocks, bed and breakfasts with boxes, former farms converted into overnight stops for trail riders, and estates with several lets and an arena. To be clear, these are properties to buy, not holidays to book. Most listings state the guest capacity, the number of boxes, the grazing area and, where the business already trades, its level of bookings. This page belongs to our wider selection of equestrian properties, stud farms and stables on ma-propriete.fr.
Buying a gîte with stables means investing in a home, a tourism business and a setting for your own horses at the same time. Below you will find house and land prices by region, asking prices for the equestrian gîtes currently for sale, what makes accommodation for riders succeed, the formalities involved and answers to common questions. Our article on buying an equestrian gîte in France and our white paper “Créer un gîte rural” (in French) go further.
An equestrian gîte is priced first on its living space (the owner's home and the letting units), then on its grazing and equestrian facilities. The rural house market therefore gives the first benchmark, with land second.
In 2025, the median French country house sold for €189,200 (up 4.0% on the year), or €1,830 per m², across more than 150,000 sales; 80% of transactions fell between €90,000 and €340,000. Large buildings of over 300 m², common among group gîtes and estates with several lets, form a separate segment: 981 sales in 2025 at a median of €822,000. For grazing, our DVF statistics (vineyards excluded) show a median of €5,307/ha in 2025 across 14,328 sales, and the SAFER group's 2025 figures give €6,460/ha for land and pasture with vacant possession.
| Region | Farmland: DVF median price 2025 (€/ha) | SAFER land and pasture with vacant possession (€/ha) | Country house: median price 2025 | Country house: median price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 4,538 | 5,770 | €170,000 | €1,656 |
| Occitanie | 7,015 | 7,260 | €210,000 | €1,987 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 3,887 | 5,100 | €230,000 | €2,200 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 2,773 | 2,740 | €157,000 | €1,525 |
| Pays de la Loire | 3,267 | 4,100 | €190,000 | €1,875 |
| Brittany | 5,500 | 6,540 | €210,000 | €2,026 |
| Normandy | 8,305 | 9,610 | €189,000 | €1,871 |
| Centre-Val de Loire | 5,480 | 6,260 | €150,000 | €1,519 |
| Grand Est | 5,611 | 6,510 | €150,000 | €1,400 |
| Hauts-de-France | 7,976 | 10,890 | €175,000 | €1,686 |
| Île-de-France | 7,465 | 8,190 | €280,000 | €2,603 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur* | 13,518 | 12,260 | €360,000 | €3,465 |
| Corsica* | 5,012 | — | €398,800 | €3,688 |
DVF 2025 used by ma-propriete.fr for houses and land; pasture benchmark: SAFER 2025. * Few sales, indicative value.
On 24 September 2026, the 30 equestrian gîtes listed on this page had a median asking price of €852,000, half of them between €595,000 and €1,250,000, with a median land area of 9.5 hectares. Few are below €500,000: several letting units, stables and paddocks put them well above an ordinary country house, and over a third are priced above €1 million. In absolute terms, regional gaps weigh mostly on the house, the largest item for a gîte: in Provence or Corsica, a country house costs more than twice as much as in Centre-Val de Loire or Grand Est.
To estimate letting potential, try our holiday rental simulator; for building values, see our country house observatory and prestige property observatory; for grazing, our farmland price observatory. Our financial calculators help you complete your financing plan.
An equestrian gîte welcomes riders and their horses alike. For guests, that means self-contained gîtes, bed and breakfast rooms or a group gîte for trail riders, with shared living space, a dining area and sometimes a table d'hôtes. For horses, it means secure boxes or overnight paddocks, water, hay on hand, a tack room for riders' equipment and easy access for horseboxes and trailers. An arena lets you add lessons or clinics, and well-fenced fields take in livery horses when the trekkers have moved on.
Much of a gîte's success depends on its position on long-distance riding trails and in tourist areas. The south-west, the Massif Central, Burgundy, the Pays de la Loire and Brittany offer networks of waymarked routes and a steady flow of trail riders, while mountain and coastal areas also attract non-riding families who fill the calendar outside the riding season. Specialist labels, such as Cheval Étape, identify accommodation equipped for riders and their horses.
Letting a gîte requires registering it on the national online register, compulsory since 20 May 2026, and displaying its number on every listing, collecting the tourist tax and, if you wish, having it officially classified from one to five stars; minimum energy-performance ratings also apply and tighten until 2034. Bed and breakfasts are limited to five rooms and fifteen guests, and a group gîte sleeping more than fifteen falls under the rules for premises open to the public. Taking in visiting horses means declaring the premises to the IFCE (French Horse and Riding Institute). Our articles on the formalities for opening a gîte, gîte classification and quality labels go into detail.
Before buying, examine the accounts of the existing business: occupancy rate, nightly prices, the share of riders among guests, online reviews and bookings already taken. Separate the value of the property from that of the business, which depends heavily on the owner's personality and rarely transfers well without a handover period. Check that the accommodation complies with regulations, especially private drainage systems, common in the countryside, which must have been inspected within the three years before a sale, and that conversions of former farm buildings were authorised. Our article on gîte profitability helps build a realistic forecast.
If the equestrian side dominates, the property is closer to an equestrian tourism centre; if accommodation dominates, it resembles the gîtes for sale in our tourism category, where some of these listings also appear. Our gîte buying guide runs through the steps of a successful purchase.
On 24 September 2026, equestrian gîtes listed on ma-propriete.fr had a median asking price of €852,000 and a median area of 9.5 hectares. Price depends on the number of letting units, the condition of the buildings and the region, which more than doubles house prices from one end of France to the other.
Yes. There is no restriction on foreign owners letting holiday accommodation, but you will need to register the business, declare the income in France and, for UK nationals living here, hold a residence permit that allows self-employed activity, which a visitor visa does not.
It can be if it combines several types of guest: trail riders, holidaying families, riding clinics and livery. The seasonality of horse trekking means the quieter months must be filled too.
No diploma is required to let a gîte. However, leading rides or giving lessons for payment requires a riding instructor or trek leader qualification recognised in France.
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