A manor house for sale in Indre-et-Loire is almost always built of Touraine tuffeau, the white stone also used for the grandest Loire valley châteaux, but on a more modest scale: simple dormers, a stair turret, an enclosed courtyard. From the Véron and Bourgueil areas in the west to the Loches area in the south, by way of the Amboise area, the department retains a large number of these residences, often tied to wine estates. Properties range from restored manors with a vaulted cellar to residences awaiting complete renovation. Browse the manor houses for sale listed by the department's private owners, agencies and notaries.
This page gives real price benchmarks for large residences in Indre-et-Loire, the most sought-after areas, what sets tuffeau building apart and the checks specific to a limestone subsoil riddled with cellars. To approach the purchase of a character property as a whole, read our guide to buying prestige property in France.
DVF land registry data does not identify manor houses as such: the benchmarks below cover sales of houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha, above €1,000/m², tracked by our observatory. They frame the market for large residences without describing it entirely: an estate with 30 ha of parkland or a listed monument sold with its farmland falls outside this scope.
In Indre-et-Loire, 89 sales were recorded from 2021 to 2025, with a median price of €690,000*, a floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) of €416,600 to €1,164,000 and a median of €1,944/m² of living space, for an average of 356 m² of living space and 17,149 m² of land. Across the Centre-Val de Loire region, the 2025 median stands at €591,500* (52 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indre-et-Loire (2021-2025) | 89 | €690,000* | €416,600 – €1,164,000 | 1,944 |
| Centre-Val de Loire (2025) | 52 | €591,500* | €400,000 – €1,098,900 | 1,570 |
| 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.
The Touraine manor stands out for its walls of dressed white tuffeau, simple pedimented dormers and steeply pitched slate roofs, in a style directly inspired by the great neighbouring Loire valley residences, though on a smaller scale. Many houses have a projecting stair turret and a courtyard closed by a low wall or a gate. Mullioned windows and carved-hood fireplaces point to building campaigns of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a prosperous period for the region.
Outbuildings frequently include a vaulted cellar cut into the tuffeau hillside, sometimes converted into a wine store, along with barns, a dovecote and a press house. Many manors remained tied to a vineyard or orchard business until recently, which explains extensive outbuildings and well-preserved storerooms. Recent renovations favour lime renders and the preservation of cellars, valued for wine storage. Some converted wine stores remain let to a neighbouring winegrower, a situation worth clarifying before making an offer.
The Véron and Bourgueil areas, between Bourgueil and Chinon, hold a concentration of wine-estate tuffeau manors within the UNESCO World Heritage zone of the Val de Loire. The Amboise area, around Amboise and Montlouis-sur-Loire, offers residences close to the river that are much sought after. To the south, the Loches area, around Loches and Montrésor, and the Richelieu area hold quieter and more affordable houses, in a landscape of valleys and forests. Saint-Pierre-des-Corps and Tours stations are served by the TGV, a little over an hour from Paris.
The A10 and A85 motorways cross the department and ease travel towards Paris, Poitiers and Angers. The most sought-after areas lie in the Loire valley and the Bourgueil area, while the Loches and Richelieu areas further south remain markedly more affordable for a comparable size. Buyers interested in running a wine-growing activity alongside the house should check any existing farm tenancy well in advance.
The tuffeau subsoil, widely quarried underground to build the neighbouring residences, exposes many municipalities to a risk of cavities: always request a survey before purchase, especially for a property with a cellar or set on a hillside. Within the Val de Loire World Heritage zone, works visible from the river may be subject to specific requirements, in addition to historic-monument protection for registered properties.
On the technical side, have the ventilation of cellars checked, as they are often poorly aired, and look for possible dry rot (mérule) in old roof timbers. Also check the private drainage system, common in scattered rural housing, and the condition of renders, which must stay vapour-permeable on a porous tuffeau base.
Manor house listings in Indre-et-Loire are published by private owners, agencies specialising in character properties and notaries; filter them by price, living space, land and outbuildings, and set an e-mail alert to follow new listings. To compare with Loir-et-Cher and Indre, browse the manor houses for sale in Centre-Val de Loire. Several notaries near Chinon and Bourgueil regularly handle estates tied to a working vineyard. Checking the exact boundary of any vineyard parcel attached to the house is worth doing before signing a preliminary contract. It also helps to ask whether the outbuildings carry any listed status of their own, separate from the main house.
