A maison de maître for sale in Finistère tells of the linen trade of the Léon, of fishing and of the ports of Brest, Morlaix and Roscoff: granite, kersanton stone, slate from the Monts d'Arrée, front steps and ironwork mark out the merchants and shipowners. The section goes beyond this: it groups the fine residences of the department, villas around the bay of Douarnenez or in Cornouaille, architect-designed houses on the heights of the Élorn, contemporary properties and prestige longères, when the living space exceeds 300 m² or the price brushes a million euros, excluding chateaux, manor houses and historic monuments. The maisons de maître and fine residences for sale presented here come from private owners, agencies and notaries.
You will find price benchmarks, the profile of the residences now on offer, the materials of the Léon, Cornouaille and the Monts d'Arrée, the districts in which to search and the precautions to take against the sea, the wind and the granite. Our guide to buying prestige property in France then sets out how to go about buying under good conditions. We recommend reading it before your first viewing.
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.
In Finistère, 61 sales were recorded from 2021 to 2025, with a median price of €800,000*, a floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) of €509,000 to €1,237,000 and a median of €2,347/m² of living space, for an average of 356 m² of living space and 14,969 m² of land. Across the Brittany region, the 2025 median stands at €987,500* (44 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finistère (2021-2025) | 61 | €800,000* | €509,000 – €1,237,000 | 2,347 |
| Brittany (2025) | 44 | €987,500* | €469,100 – €2,273,100 | 2,607 |
| 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 7 properties in the Brittany region, on which this page falls back for lack of enough listings in Finistère, at a median asking price of €978,000 (average €908,299); 80% of properties are offered between €509,600 and €1,239,000, for a median living space of 352 m² on 1.0 hectare of land, or €2,848 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 |
|---|---|---|
| €500,000 to €800,000 | 3 | 43 % |
| €800,000 to €1.2M | 3 | 43 % |
| €1.2M to €2M | 1 | 14 % |
Statistics calculated on the listings published in the section on 28 September 2026; they change daily with new listings and withdrawals.
Grey granite, dark kersanton stone, carved into the buildings around the Brest roadstead, and slate from Commana and the Monts d'Arrée give Finistère its colours. In Morlaix, the lantern houses, timber-framed with an internal staircase, recall the trade; in Roscoff, Landerneau and Quimper, the houses of shipowners and linen merchants display dressed-granite façades, dormers and front steps. On the coast, from Bénodet to Fouesnant, from Crozon to Locquirec, holiday villas and architect-designed houses multiply picture windows, terraces and flat roofs behind an enclosing wall. Lime plaster, ochre paint and blue-grey shutters complete the palette of the older houses.
Outbuildings often include a bread oven, an annexe longère, a caretaker's cottage, a greenhouse, a large garage or a boat shed; the gardens, sheltered by low walls and screens of cypress or pine, welcome palms, rhododendrons and magnolias thanks to a mild climate. Many Léon properties open onto a walled kitchen garden, inherited from the local market-gardening tradition, and sometimes onto an old drying shed or a cart house.
Around Brest, Plougastel-Daoulas, Landerneau, Daoulas and Le Relecq-Kerhuon offer villas and maisons de maître with views of the roadstead; the Léon, from Roscoff to Saint-Pol-de-Léon and Plouescat, offers houses of shipowners and enriched farmers. Morlaix and its bay attract lovers of urban architecture. In Cornouaille, Quimper, Bénodet, Fouesnant, Concarneau and Pont-Aven form the most sought-after hub, while the Bigouden country, Douarnenez, the Crozon peninsula and the centre of the department, towards Carhaix and Châteaulin, remain more affordable. The islands, such as Ouessant, Molène and Sein, form a separate and very small market.
Brest, Landerneau, Morlaix and Quimper have TGV stations, which put Paris between three and four hours away depending on the service; Brest-Bretagne and Quimper-Cornouaille airports, the RN165 and the RN12 organise the rest of the travel. Flights from Brest and Quimper ease the journeys of buyers living abroad, while the railway remains valued by second-home owners coming from Rennes and Paris.
Wind, sea spray and constant damp punish renders, joinery and ironwork: ask about the state of slates, flashings, gutters and granite joints, as well as of the roof timbers, where dry rot can develop in poorly ventilated attics. Radon, often present in the granite bedrock of the department, belongs in the risk statement. On the coast, the Loi Littoral, flood zones and marine flooding limit permits, and the islands obey even stricter rules.
Also check the rights of way along the coastal path, the access rights to the slipway or the foreshore, and the nature of the park boundaries. For a recent villa, verify the compliance of extensions, pool and drainage, then ask for the insurance and waterproofing certificates of the flat roofs. Finally, a survey of the electrical and heating installations is essential in large old houses, which often went a long time without renovation.
Private owners, specialist agencies and notaries publish their fine residences in Finistère on this portal; compare them by budget, living area and garden, then set up an e-mail alert so as to miss nothing. To widen the search to the whole peninsula, browse the maisons de maître and fine residences for sale in Brittany.
