Facing the Gulf of Ajaccio as in the Taravo and Sartenais valleys, a maison de maître for sale in Corse-du-Sud is read in granite, schist and pale render: nineteenth-century houses of the notables of Ajaccio, sea captains' houses, large village mansions under tiled roofs, villas at Porto-Vecchio or Bonifacio opening onto the maquis and the sea. This section does not stop at these references: it gathers all the fine residences of the southern half of the island, contemporary villas and architect-designed properties included, provided the living space exceeds 300 m² or the price nears a million euros and the property belongs neither to the chateaux, nor the manor houses, nor the historic monuments. Browse the maisons de maître and fine residences for sale offered by private sellers, agencies and notaries.
This page provides real prices, a portrait of the houses currently for sale, the traits of island buildings, the micro-regions where offers cluster and the precautions to take on titles, the shoreline and fires. Our guide to buying prestige property in France covers the rest of the process. Because many buyers arrive from mainland France or abroad, we also explain the practicalities of ferry and flight access.
Maisons de maître form the core of the segment tracked by our observatory: houses with more than 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha, sold above €1,000 per m², recorded in the DVF database of the French tax administration. These benchmarks frame the market for large residences without describing it entirely: a small village bourgeois house or a chateau sold with 30 ha of parkland fall outside this scope.
The local market is too thin to publish a reliable department-level benchmark (28 sales in five years): we give the figures for the Corsica region. Across the Corsica region, the 2021-2025 median stands at €3,752,800* (33 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corsica (2021-2025) | 33 | €3,752,800* | €830,000 – €5,000,000 | 8,183 |
| 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.
As of 28 September 2026, the section lists 267 properties in France (the section does not yet have enough listings in Corse-du-Sud for a reliable calculation) at a median asking price of €978,000 (average €1,520,334); 80% of properties are offered between €485,000 and €2,750,000, for a median living space of 372 m² on 1.0 hectare of land, or €2,864 per m² of living space. These are asking prices, before negotiation; they compare with the actual sale prices in the previous section, which are generally lower.
| Asking price | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| under €500,000 | 33 | 12 % |
| €500,000 to €800,000 | 58 | 22 % |
| €800,000 to €1.2M | 70 | 26 % |
| €1.2M to €2M | 67 | 25 % |
| €2M to €5M | 31 | 12 % |
| over €5M | 8 | 3 % |
Statistics calculated on the listings published in the section on 28 September 2026; they change daily with new listings and withdrawals.
The pink and grey granite of the Alta Rocca and the Sartenais, the schist of the interior and the limestone of Bonifacio make thick façades, pierced by few openings, under tile or stone-slab roofs. In the villages, the maison de maître rises three or four tight storeys, with a balcony, an arched gateway and an inner courtyard; in Ajaccio, the Quartier des Étrangers keeps nineteenth-century winter villas with gardens of palms and citrus. Around Porto-Vecchio, Bonifacio, Propriano and Cargèse, the contemporary villa, often signed by an architect, opens onto the sea through large terraces.
The outbuildings evoke rural life of old: a bread oven, a chestnut drying house, a sheepfold, a dry-stone retaining wall, a cistern, a terraced garden, olive trees, holm oaks and maritime pines. Recent properties add a pool, a pool house and guest accommodation, with granite fireplaces, beams and old tiles in the renovations. The tile roofs and simple genoises sometimes cover chestnut or Corsican pine frames that should be checked.
The Gulf of Ajaccio, with the Sanguinaires, Alata, Appietto and Porticcio, brings together villas and maisons de maître close to the city. The south, from Porto-Vecchio to Bonifacio and as far as Figari, concentrates the most expensive villas, facing beaches and the Lavezzi islands. Sartène, Propriano and the Rizzanese valley offer large character houses at gentler prices; the Alta Rocca, with Zonza and Levie, offers stone houses in a forest setting. On the west coast, Piana, Cargèse and Sagone play on views and maquis, and the interior, around Cauro or the Taravo, remains the most affordable.
Corse-du-Sud has no TGV station: you reach it through Ajaccio Napoléon-Bonaparte and Figari-Sud Corse airports, or the ports of Ajaccio, Porto-Vecchio and Propriano, with crossings to Marseille, Toulon and Nice. Expect long road journeys between the valleys. Tourist seasons strongly mark local life: outside summer, some coastal villages empty out, while Ajaccio keeps up a continuous activity.
In Corsica, the chain of ownership calls for particular vigilance: old joint ownerships, unsettled estates, deeds never registered with the land registry. A notary must reconstruct the chain of titles before the preliminary agreement, and the buyer will require clear boundary surveys of the plots. The PADDUC, the island's development plan, and the Loi Littoral strongly restrict extensions and new building near the shore, while remarkable natural areas and Conservatoire du littoral land are protected. Do not rely on verbal promises about boundaries: only a surveyor's plan attached to the deed protects you.
Maquis fires make brush clearance mandatory, and insurers check it. Aged granite requires monitoring of renders and joints, salt corrosion affects joinery near the sea, and terrace walls must be sound. For a recent property, verify that the pool and annexes are regular and check the state of the autonomous sewage system, very common on the island. Ask the notary about any pre-emption rights held by the commune or by the coastal conservancy before committing.
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