A maison de maître for sale in Somme follows a very readable pattern: red brick and white stone in the suburbs of Amiens and Abbeville, flint and chalk in the Santerre, cob and timber framing in the Vimeu, almost always with front steps, a garden at the back and an avenue of lime trees. This section does not stop at that pattern: it groups all the fine residences of the department, villas of the Bay of Somme, architect-designed houses, large contemporary properties, when their living space passes 300 m² or their price nears a million euros and they are neither chateaux, nor manor houses, nor historic monuments. See here the maisons de maître and fine residences for sale entrusted to us by private owners, agencies and notaries in the Somme.
You will find real price benchmarks, the nature of the houses currently offered, Picardy building materials, the areas of the Somme valley, the bay and the plateaux, as well as the checks to make on waterlogged ground and the coast. The guide to buying prestige property in France completes this page with the method to follow, from shortlisting listings to the preliminary sales agreement.
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 Somme, 41 sales were recorded from 2021 to 2025, with a median price of €520,000*, a floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) of €400,000 to €650,000 and a median of €1,458/m² of living space, for an average of 357 m² of living space and 9,479 m² of land. Across the Hauts-de-France region, the 2025 median stands at €756,800* (79 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somme (2021-2025) | 41 | €520,000* | €400,000 – €650,000 | 1,458 |
| Hauts-de-France (2025) | 79 | €756,800* | €399,800 – €1,602,000 | 2,131 |
| 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 5 properties in the Hauts-de-France region, on which this page falls back for lack of enough listings in Somme, at a median asking price of €1,199,000 (average €1,115,800); 80% of properties are offered between €795,000 and €1,360,000, for a median living space of 468 m² on 0.5 hectare of land, or €2,671 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 | 1 | 20 % |
| €800,000 to €1.2M | 2 | 40 % |
| €1.2M to €2M | 2 | 40 % |
Statistics calculated on the listings published in the section on 28 September 2026; they change daily with new listings and withdrawals.
Amiens has left elegant nineteenth-century maisons de maître in the Henriville district and along its boulevards, in red brick and stone, with Mansard roofs and wrought-iron balconies. Abbeville, Péronne and Doullens add bourgeois town houses rebuilt or restored after wartime destruction, while the Ponthieu and the Vimeu line up notables' houses in brick and flint, sometimes with a timber-framed upper storey. On the bay, from Cayeux-sur-Mer to Le Crotoy, by way of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Ault and Mers-les-Bains, the fine residence appears as a seaside villa with timber balconies, polychrome brick and turrets.
The most common outbuildings are the coach house, the stable, the caretaker's cottage, the glasshouse and the garden pavilion, often at the end of a park enclosed by walls or beech hedges. Inside, buyers look for wrought-iron stair rails, cement tiles, parquet floors, fireplaces and ceiling height. Contemporary buildings, rarer, settle near the valley's ponds or facing the bay, with large openings, a pool and a jetty. The hortillonnages of Amiens, market gardens crossed by canals, form a rare setting that shapes the gardens of nearby houses.
Amiens and its surrounding belt, with the neighbouring hortillonnages, Salouël, Camon and Dury, attract buyers looking for a large house with a garden close to services. The Somme valley, from Abbeville to Péronne via Corbie, Picquigny and Amiens, lines up fine residences on the slopes and beside the ponds. The Ponthieu, with Abbeville, Rue and Saint-Riquier, and the Vimeu offer more affordable town houses. Around Albert and Doullens, prices stay contained, while Montdidier and the Santerre offer bourgeois houses on large plots.
On the bay, Le Crotoy, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and Cayeux-sur-Mer form the tightest market, villas being sought there for their views. The Haute-Picardie TGV station, on the high-speed line, serves the south-east of the department, while Amiens has direct regional trains to Paris-Nord; the A16 and A29 motorways connect the valley, the bay and the plateau. Ask which side of the department fits your life: the valley for river landscapes, the bay for the sea, the plateau for space.
The Somme valley is prone to rising groundwater: the great flood of the valley left its mark, and the risk statement, the claims history and the state of the cellars should be examined before any purchase. Chalk and flint, the basic materials of foundations, call for checks on footings, damp and renders, and the cob of old houses tolerates cement repairs poorly. In the bay, the Loi Littoral, the marine flood prevention plans and the retreat of the shoreline, noticeable at Ault and Cayeux-sur-Mer, govern extensions as well as rebuilding.
Seaside villas and houses within the bay's perimeter, which holds the Grand Site de France label, face strict appearance rules for roofing, joinery and fences. For a recent property, verify that extensions and the pool were declared, and the ten-year guarantee; for an old one, have the roof timbers, covering and services surveyed before you make an offer.
On ma-propriete.fr, the maisons de maître and fine residences of the Somme are offered by private owners, agencies and notaries: refine by budget, floor area, land or outbuildings, then switch on the e-mail alert to follow new properties coming to market. To place your search in a wider context, open the maisons de maître and fine residences for sale in Hauts-de-France. Each listing states the location, the plot and the outbuildings.
