In Eure-et-Loir, a chateau for sale in Eure-et-Loir most often stands between the open grain plains of the Beauce and the more wooded landscapes of the Perche and Thymerais, close to Chartres and its cathedral. The department has classical eighteenth-century chateaux with slate roofs, remodelled Renaissance residences and smaller Perche manor houses, often linked to former farming estates. Browse every chateau for sale listed by the private owners, agencies and notaries active in the department.
This page presents real price benchmarks for large residences in Eure-et-Loir, the areas where they cluster, the character of local buildings and the checks worth making before a purchase, whether a plain chateau in the Beauce or a manor house in the Eure-et-Loir Perche. To plan a full heritage acquisition, read our guide to buying prestige property in France.
DVF land registry data does not identify chateaux as such: the benchmarks below cover sales of houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha, above €1,000/m², tracked by our observatory. They frame the market for large residences without describing it entirely: an estate with 30 ha of parkland or a listed monument sold with its farmland falls outside this scope.
In Eure-et-Loir, 59 sales were recorded from 2021 to 2025, with a median price of €650,000*, a floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) of €400,000 to €1,108,800 and a median of €1,634/m² of living space, for an average of 391 m² of living space and 17,942 m² of land. Across the Centre-Val de Loire region, the 2025 median stands at €591,500* (52 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eure-et-Loir (2021-2025) | 59 | €650,000* | €400,000 – €1,108,800 | 1,634 |
| Centre-Val de Loire (2025) | 52 | €591,500* | €400,000 – €1,098,900 | 1,570 |
| France (2025) | 981 | €822,000 | €428,000 – €3,100,000 | 2,308 |
The breakdown by stratum (coastal, rural tourist, ordinary rural) and the five-year trend are in our observatory of prestige property prices in France (in French). Before making an offer, work out purchase costs and borrowing capacity with our financial tools and calculators.
Source: DVF (DGFiP), transactions from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025, processed by ma-propriete.fr; prices rounded to the nearest €100. * Fewer than 100 sales: read as an indication only.
The Beauce, an open farming plain, holds eighteenth and nineteenth-century chateaux with a central block and symmetrical pavilions, often built in local cut stone and topped with slate. The Eure-et-Loir Perche, hillier, keeps manor houses in pale stone and timber-framed residences, while the Thymerais and Drouais to the west mix fortified farmhouses with small chateaux linked to former estates, some still bearing the name of the family that built them. Some residences retain a stair tower or moat remnants, evidence of a remodelled medieval origin. Nineteenth-century model farms, attached to some Beauce estates, add a strongly agricultural dimension to this built heritage.
Outbuildings frequently include farm service wings, an orangery or a chapel, inherited from estates long supported by grain farming. The condition of slate roofs, limestone façades and old joinery weighs heavily on the renovation budget, particularly on residences left unoccupied for long periods. Grain silos and farm sheds sometimes kept on these estates deserve a separate assessment from the residential buildings, since their condition and any tenancy arrangement can affect both value and future use, particularly where the land is still actively farmed under a long-standing lease that predates the current ownership and cannot easily be terminated.
Properties are spread across the Beauce around Chartres and Châteaudun, the Eure-et-Loir Perche around Nogent-le-Rotrou and La Loupe, the Drouais around Dreux, and the Dunois further south. The Eure valley, between Chartres and Maintenon, holds properties valued for their greener setting compared with the open Beauce plain. To the north, the Thymerais around Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais keeps a more scattered pattern of settlement, between woodland and small valleys, with smaller estates that rarely reach the scale of the grand Beauce properties.
Eure-et-Loir has no TGV station; connections to Paris run on Intercités and TER trains from Chartres, Dreux or Nogent-le-Rotrou. Areas near the Eure valley and Maintenon are generally more sought-after than the farming Beauce or the more remote Perche, further from the routes towards Paris.
Some chateaux in the department are listed or registered historic monuments, particularly near Chartres and its cathedral, whose protected surroundings govern projects visible from the site; exterior works then require the opinion of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France. Also check farming easements attached to surrounding land, common in a department where grain farming still dominates, along with any rural leases still running on let parcels and the boundaries these leases set for future use of the land.
Technically, have the slate roofs and limestone façades inspected, along with the drainage system on isolated Beauce properties, often on a private system. The heating cost of older volumes and the state of networks in rural areas deserve pricing before an offer, as does the quality of road access outside the summer season, when narrow Beauce lanes can be exposed to winter fog and standing water after heavy rainfall.
Chateau listings in Eure-et-Loir come from private owners, specialist agencies and notaries; they can be filtered by price, living space, land area, outbuildings and attached farmland, with an e-mail alert for new properties coming to market. Large Beauce estates sit alongside the smaller manor houses of the Perche. To widen your search, browse the chateaux for sale in Centre-Val de Loire.
