A luxury property for sale in Saône-et-Loire ranges from the south-facing Mâconnais vineyards to the hedgerow country of the Charolais, home to the famous white cattle, taking in the hills of the Cluny district shaped by its former abbey. The department mixes master houses in golden Mâconnais stone, Charolais farms turned into large estates, and Burgundian residences around Chalon. Further west, the Autunois and the first rises of the Morvan add a third, more forested face to a territory already split between vines and hedgerows. Browse every luxury property for sale listed by private owners, agencies and notaries in Saône-et-Loire.
This page gathers real price benchmarks for the department's large residences, a tour of wine and cattle-country areas, the character of local buildings and the checks to make before buying a wine or livestock property, whether the project is a family home, a heritage purchase or a working estate. To prepare your purchase, use our guide to buying luxury property in France.
Our observatory tracks, in the DVF land registry data published by the French tax administration, sales of houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha of land, above €1,000/m²: chateaux, manor houses, master houses, villas and large rural residences. The benchmarks below are based on these actual sales, after removal of outliers; an estate of more than 10 ha or a listed monument sold with its farmland is excluded.
In Saône-et-Loire, 61 sales of luxury properties were recorded between 2021 and 2025. The median price stands at €512,000*, with an average of €566,800; the floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) runs from €348,600 to €825,000. The median price per square metre of living space reaches €1,437/m², for properties averaging 371 m² of living space on 13,807 m² of land. The department therefore sits 13% below the regional median (€590,000 in 2025) and below the 2025 national median (€822,000).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Average price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saône-et-Loire (2021-2025) | 61 | €512,000* | €566,800 | €348,600 – €825,000 | 1,437 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2025) | 43 | €590,000* | €658,100 | €385,000 – €1,004,000 | 1,714 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2021-2025) | 222 | €520,000 | €589,700 | €367,200 – €863,000 | 1,438 |
| France (2025) | 981 | €822,000 | €1,321,400 | €428,000 – €3,100,000 | 2,308 |
| Year | Sales | Median price | €/m² living space |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 65 | €521,400* | 1,439 |
| 2022 | 48 | €487,500* | 1,373 |
| 2023 | 34 | €511,800* | 1,400 |
| 2024 | 32 | €515,700* | 1,490 |
| 2025 | 43 | €590,000* | 1,714 |
These benchmarks place an asking price within its market; they do not replace a valuation of the property itself, whose worth depends on condition, architecture, outbuildings and setting. The breakdown by stratum (coastal, rural tourist, ordinary rural) and the full methodology are in our observatory of luxury property prices in France (in French). Then work out purchase costs and borrowing capacity with our financial tools and calculators, and prepare your project with our guide to buying luxury property in France.
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 Mâconnais builds in golden limestone under flat-tile roofs, with winegrowers' houses and vaulted cellars set against the hillside. The Charolais, cattle country, favours large farms in grey stone or rubble, with an enclosed courtyard and wide farm buildings, now often converted into residences with guest cottages. Around Cluny, whose former abbey shaped the whole district, houses in golden stone stand near restored priories and canons' houses. Flat Burgundian roof tiles, sometimes finished with terracotta genoise eaves, and carved lintels on some Cluny façades reveal a local craft tradition still called on for restoration work.
Outbuildings vary markedly by area: cellars and presses in the Mâconnais, cattle sheds and barns in the Charolais, monastic or farm buildings around Cluny. A Mâconnais property is often sold with appellation vines valued separately, while a Charolais estate frequently comes with pasture for livestock, whose quality and leases need examining. In the Autunois, estates more often pair the residence with working woodland, with forestry buildings set apart from the main house, sometimes including a woodshed and a small sawmill shelter.
The Mâconnais, around Mâcon, Solutré and Pouilly-Fuissé, holds the most sought-after wine properties, extended north by the Chalon Côte and its villages such as Mercurey or Givry. The Charolais-Brionnais, around Charolles and Paray-le-Monial, brings together cattle farms and hedgerow estates, with dense Romanesque heritage in the Brionnais. Autun, a former Roman city, and its district offer more discreet residences on the edge of the Morvan, valued by buyers for their wooded setting, their relative quiet and their distance from the busier wine roads. The southern part of the department, around Cluny and Tournus, a river town on the Saône, keeps a dense Romanesque heritage that still shapes the area's building identity, from carved capitals to rounded arches echoed in later farmhouses.
Saône-et-Loire is served by the Le Creusot and Mâcon-Loché TGV stations, just over ninety minutes from Paris, along with the A6 and A40 motorways, which also serve Chalon-sur-Saône. The most sought-after areas remain the wine Mâconnais and the Chalon Côte; the Charolais and Autun district offer comparable properties at more accessible levels.
On a Mâconnais or Chalon Côte property, check the appellation classification of parcels, SAFER's pre-emption right and current vineyard leases before making an offer. On a Charolais estate, farm leases held by a third-party operator can limit immediate access to the land, and compliance of livestock buildings with environmental rules deserves close checking, especially where farming is set to continue after the sale.
Technically, Mâconnais vaulted cellars need checking for damp-proofing and ventilation. In the Charolais, the large converted farm buildings often need roof and timber work. In the Autunois, forestry management records and the health of the stands after recent dry spells should be checked before committing to a wooded estate, together with any access easements serving the more remote plots.
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