A manor house for sale in Yonne usually belongs to one of three local building traditions: the pale limestone of the Auxerre area and the Chablis district, the sandstone and half-timbering of the Puisaye, or the more austere stone of the Sénonais and the Avallonnais on the edge of the Morvan. Along the Yonne valley and the Bourgogne canal, these noble residences have often kept their original farming or wine-growing outbuildings, including barns, dovecotes and wine presses. You will find both a manor with outbuildings already brought up to date and a manor to renovate sold in its original state. Browse the manor houses for sale listed by the department's private owners, agencies and notaries.
This page presents real price benchmarks for large residences in Yonne, the most sought-after areas, what sets the local building style apart from one district to the next and the checks specific to an old residence built on limestone or flint clay. It also looks at how these houses are lived in today, from year-round family homes to weekend retreats within reach of Paris. To prepare 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 Yonne, 42 sales were recorded from 2021 to 2025, with a median price of €462,500*, a floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) of €371,100 to €693,200 and a median of €1,375/m² of living space, for an average of 351 m² of living space and 9,938 m² of land. Across the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, the 2025 median stands at €590,000* (43 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yonne (2021-2025) | 42 | €462,500* | €371,100 – €693,200 | 1,375 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2025) | 43 | €590,000* | €385,000 – €1,004,000 | 1,714 |
| 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.
In the Auxerre area and the Chablis district, the old residence is typically built of golden limestone, under flat-tile or small mechanical-tile roofs, sometimes with a corner turret attached to the main body of the house. In the Puisaye, to the west of the department, local sandstone and half-timbering with cob infill dominate, in a tradition close to that of the neighbouring Sologne, with steeper roofs covered in brown tile. Mullioned windows and round-arched doorways also survive on several facades dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Outbuildings vary with the estate's purpose: a wine press and vaulted cellar in the wine-growing Chablis district, barns and byres in the grain-farming Sénonais, and a bread oven and dovecote almost everywhere. Many of these houses kept a farming use until the twentieth century, leaving substantial outbuildings that often need renewal, sometimes with a second dwelling created inside a converted barn. Recent restoration work keeps lime renders, oak joinery and original stone floors wherever they still survive intact.
The Auxerre area, around Auxerre and the Yonne valley, and the wine-growing Chablis district, around Chablis and Tonnerre, hold particularly sought-after manors close to the vineyards and the Bourgogne canal. The Sénonais, around Sens and Joigny, opening onto the Île-de-France, draws Parisian buyers looking for quick access to the capital. The Puisaye, around Saint-Fargeau, Toucy and Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, offers timber-framed houses within a landscape of ponds and bocage, while the Avallonnais, on the edge of the Morvan, offers more secluded residences bordering forest.
Yonne has no TGV station; Sens, Joigny and Auxerre benefit from regular Intercités and TER services to Paris-Bercy and Paris-Gare de Lyon, and the A6 motorway crosses the whole department from north to south. The Sénonais and the wine-growing Chablis district remain the most expensive areas; the Puisaye and the Avallonnais, more rural, offer comparable floor areas at noticeably more accessible levels.
Some houses in the department are listed in the Burgundy heritage inventory or protected as historic monuments, particularly in the Chablis district and the Auxerre area: confirm the exact status, since exterior works on a protected building require the approval of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France. In the Puisaye, ponds and wetlands strictly regulate drainage and bank works, and some plots carry a right of way tied to former farm tracks that predate the current registered ownership.
On the technical side, have the property checked for dry rot, encouraged by damp conditions in the clay-rich Puisaye, and inspect vaulted cellars in the wine-growing Chablis district, sometimes affected by rising groundwater. Check the private drainage system, the stability of clay soils that can crack foundations during long dry spells, and the status, municipal or private, of the rural tracks serving the property.
Manor house listings in Yonne come from 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 as they are published. To compare with neighbouring Côte-d'Or, Nièvre or Saône-et-Loire, browse the manor houses for sale in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
