In Lozère, the maison de maître for sale in Lozère is a house of grey or dark stone, with thick walls and a roof of stone slabs or slate, standing in a causse town, a Cévennes valley or on the Aubrac plateau: it belonged to merchants, jurists and the notables of Mende, Marvejols and Florac. Our section goes beyond this and presents all the fine residences of the department, Cévennes mas farmhouses, large architect-designed houses, characterful chalets, contemporary properties, where the living space passes 300 m² or the price nears a million euros and the property is neither a chateau, a manor house nor a historic monument. The maisons de maître and fine residences for sale offered by private owners, agencies and notaries are found here.
You will see real price benchmarks in a narrow market, the profile of current offers, the methods of construction, the areas of causse, mountain and valley, and the checks specific to altitude. To frame your approach, use the guide to buying prestige property in France.
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 (0 sales in five years): we give the figures for the Occitanie region. Across the Occitanie region, the 2025 median stands at €662,500 (126 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occitanie (2025) | 126 | €662,500 | €430,000 – €1,477,000 | 1,804 |
| 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.
As of 28 September 2026, the section lists 51 properties in the Occitanie region, on which this page falls back for lack of enough listings in Lozère, at a median asking price of €885,000 (average €1,036,635); 80% of properties are offered between €485,000 and €1,750,000, for a median living space of 400 m² on 0.9 hectare of land, or €2,111 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 | 9 | 18 % |
| €500,000 to €800,000 | 12 | 24 % |
| €800,000 to €1.2M | 15 | 29 % |
| €1.2M to €2M | 12 | 24 % |
| €2M to €5M | 3 | 6 % |
Statistics calculated on the listings published in the section on 28 September 2026; they change daily with new listings and withdrawals.
Building in Lozère follows three geologies: the granite of the Margeride, the Aubrac and Mont Lozère, the schist of the Cévennes and the limestone of the Grands Causses. The town maison de maître presents a dressed-stone façade, carefully cut window surrounds and a roof of stone slabs or slate; in the Cévennes, the silk farm and the silk merchant's house, with storeys, terraces and an outside stair, cling to the slope. Recent fine residences are found mainly in the valleys and around Mende, with chalets, architect-designed houses and timber buildings open to the landscape. Roof timbers, often chestnut or Scots pine, give the attics a fine depth.
Around the house lie vaulted barns, bread ovens, mills, dry-stone terraces, parks planted with chestnut and beech trees, springs and irrigation channels. Granite fireplaces, chestnut floorboards and stone stairs give value to interiors that are solid but demanding to heat. A wood stove or pellet boiler is readily installed in large volumes, provided the flue is suitable. Many houses have a vaulted ground floor that once housed animals and now suits a wine cellar, a workshop or a games room.
Mende and the Lot valley concentrate the bourgeois residences of the préfecture; Marvejols, Saint-Chély-d'Apcher and La Canourgue keep notables' houses in old towns. Florac, Meyrueis and the Cévennes national park, listed with the Causses as a UNESCO World Heritage site, attract buyers in search of nature. The plateaux of the Aubrac and the Margeride offer large houses at contained price levels; the Lozère side of the Cévennes, around Villefort and Sainte-Croix-Vallée-Française, keeps fine stone ensembles. Prices vary markedly between the busier Lot valley and the isolated plateaux of the Margeride.
The department has no TGV station: rail access is through Marvejols, Saint-Chély-d'Apcher or Langogne, and the TGV stations of Nîmes and Montpellier lie outside the department. The A75 motorway, which crosses Lozère from north to south, structures access. Lake Naussac near Langogne and the Tarn gorges around Sainte-Enimie complete the holiday areas that feed the second-home market.
At more than a thousand metres above sea level, frost, snow and wind test roofs, gutters and chimneys; check how the stone slabs are fixed, the roof frame and whether the approach is cleared of snow in winter. Large stone houses are cold and costly to heat: ask for the energy performance certificate and estimate what insulation is possible without spoiling the façades. Granite soils raise the question of radon, and private drainage and the water supply must be inspected. Chimney flues, in particular, should be swept and tested, since old stone stacks may be cracked or blocked.
Within the Cévennes national park, exterior works and extensions need special authorisation; elsewhere, mountain planning law restricts new building. Cévennes storms can trigger violent floods in the valleys, and landslide risk affects some schist slopes. On a recent house, check the permits, the declaration of the pool or spa and the builders' warranties. A land surveyor can confirm the boundaries of plots often broken up by inheritance shares.
Owners, agencies and notaries in Lozère entrust their maisons de maître and fine residences to ma-propriete.fr; narrow the selection with the filters for price, floor area, land and outbuildings, then set up the e-mail alert. To look further afield, browse the maisons de maître and fine residences for sale in Occitanie. Photographs and plans in each listing help you compare houses before a long journey.
