A maison de maître for sale in Seine-Maritime takes, depending on the district, the look of a merchant's mansion in red brick in Rouen, a residence with a chequerboard of flint and brick in the Caux country, a seaside villa with timber balconies at Dieppe, Le Tréport or Étretat, or a notable's house on the banks of the Seine, built in the age of the spinning mills and the shipowners. This section reaches well beyond the maison de maître: it gathers all the fine residences of Seine-Maritime, seaside villas, clos-masures, architect-designed houses and contemporary properties, once the living space exceeds 300 m² or the price approaches a million euros and the property is neither a chateau, a manor house nor a historic monument. Explore the maisons de maître and fine residences for sale offered by private sellers, agencies and notaries.
On this page you will find real price benchmarks, the profile of the properties currently online, the building materials, the districts and towns where these houses cluster, and the precautions to take with cliffs, cavities and floods. To follow a complete method, consult 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.
In Seine-Maritime, 89 sales were recorded from 2021 to 2025, with a median price of €670,000*, a floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) of €448,100 to €1,053,000 and a median of €1,849/m² of living space, for an average of 370 m² of living space and 13,289 m² of land. Across the Normandy region, the 2025 median stands at €760,000* (57 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seine-Maritime (2021-2025) | 89 | €670,000* | €448,100 – €1,053,000 | 1,849 |
| Normandy (2025) | 57 | €760,000* | €432,600 – €1,627,300 | 2,017 |
| 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 Normandy region, on which this page falls back for lack of enough listings in Seine-Maritime, at a median asking price of €720,000 (average €1,049,143); 80% of properties are offered between €320,000 and €2,980,000, for a median living space of 270 m² on 0.8 hectare of land, or €2,865 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 | 2 | 29 % |
| €500,000 to €800,000 | 3 | 43 % |
| €1.2M to €2M | 1 | 14 % |
| €2M to €5M | 1 | 14 % |
Statistics calculated on the listings published in the section on 28 September 2026; they change daily with new listings and withdrawals.
The Caux country marries brick and flint in chequerboard, half-timbering fills the houses of the Bray country and the Bresle valley, and limestone ashlar dresses the townhouses of Rouen. In the Caux, the clos-masure, a rectangular courtyard planted with beeches and edged with banks, shelters the master's house, the barn, the cider press and the dovecote. The nineteenth-century residences of merchants and industrialists, with an ordered façade and a slate roof, continue that tradition. These regional building traditions explain why two houses of similar size can differ widely in maintenance needs.
On the Alabaster Coast, at Dieppe, Varengeville-sur-Mer, Étretat, Fécamp and Le Tréport, Belle Époque seaside villas combine brick, stone and cut timber, with conservatories and turrets. In Le Havre and Sainte-Adresse, shipowners' residences stand beside twentieth-century architect-designed houses. Outbuildings vary: service buildings, a caretaker's cottage, a dovecote, a park planted with beeches, a pool and pool house in recent properties. Fireplaces, panelling and parquet floors distinguish the old interiors.
The Alabaster Coast, from Dieppe to Le Tréport, from Étretat to Veules-les-Roses, concentrates seaside villas and sea-view residences, at a price level clearly above that of the interior. Rouen and its residential suburbs, Bois-Guillaume, Mont-Saint-Aignan and Bihorel, hold urban maisons de maître. The Seine valley, from Duclair to Caudebec-en-Caux, inside the Boucles de la Seine normande regional nature park, offers residences with views of the river. Rouen offers the most complete range of services, hospitals and schools, which supports demand for its urban residences.
The Caux country, around Yvetot and Bolbec, and the Bray country, around Neufchâtel-en-Bray and Forges-les-Eaux, offer more affordable country houses, as does the Bresle valley, towards Eu. There is no TGV station in Seine-Maritime; direct services link Rouen and Le Havre with Paris-Saint-Lazare, and the A13, A29 and A28 motorways cross the territory. Ferries and bridges over the Seine shape daily journeys in the west of the department, so test them before deciding.
On the coast, cliff retreat and the Littoral law govern construction: some communes appear on the list of exposed territories, which changes the planning rules and the information owed to the buyer. In the Caux country, marnières, old marl quarries, cause sudden collapses; check the communal register and the deed. Violent rain produces runoff that floods houses built at the foot of a dry valley, with no link to any watercourse.
In the industrial Seine valley, technological and flood risk prevention plans limit certain projects. At Étretat, Varengeville-sur-Mer or Rouen, classified sites and protected surroundings require the opinion of the architect of the Bâtiments de France for any change to a façade. For a seaside villa, inspect the condition of timber exposed to sea spray, the corrosion of ironwork and the compliance of the extension with the permit issued. Ask a surveyor to check chimneys and roof carpentry, which suffer in the wind and rain of the Caux plateau.
Seine-Maritime listings are placed by private owners, specialist agencies and notaries; filter by price, living space, land and outbuildings, then create an e-mail alert to receive each new arrival. To widen the comparison, browse the maisons de maître and fine residences for sale in Normandy.
