A manor house for sale in Yvelines is generally found away from the built-up corridors, on the plateau of the Vexin français, in the Eure valley or near the Rambouillet forest. The department retains an old rural building stock, in limestone or meulière stone depending on the area, often linked to former seigneurial farms or hunting lodges tied to the royal court at Versailles. Properties on offer range from restored residences with working outbuildings to fortified farmhouses awaiting renovation. Browse the manor houses for sale listed by the department's private owners, agencies and notaries.
This page gathers real price benchmarks for large residences in Yvelines, the areas where manors survive, what sets their building apart and the checks specific to a gentleman's residence close to the Paris conurbation. To approach this kind of purchase 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 Yvelines, 211 sales were recorded from 2021 to 2025, with a median price of €1,524,000, a floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) of €865,000 to €2,750,000 and a median of €4,141/m² of living space, for an average of 384 m² of living space and 10,726 m² of land. Across the Île-de-France region, the 2025 median stands at €1,445,000* (90 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yvelines (2021-2025) | 211 | €1,524,000 | €865,000 – €2,750,000 | 4,141 |
| Île-de-France (2025) | 90 | €1,445,000* | €700,000 – €3,496,500 | 4,247 |
| 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.
Two building traditions meet in Yvelines: dressed limestone from the Vexin français and the Versailles plateau, used for the main house and window surrounds, and brick or wattle-infill half-timbering around Houdan, on the edge of the Perche and Normandy. Steeply pitched slate roofs, pedimented dormers and massive fireplaces mark these residences, often built in a U or L shape around a courtyard closed by a carriage gateway. Farm buildings, barns, dovecotes and, further west, cider presses, frequently complete the ensemble, sometimes alongside a small chapel or a walled kitchen garden that once fed the household.
Many of these houses kept their farming role until the mid-twentieth century, which explains outbuildings still in use and interiors sometimes plain and in need of modernising. Manors to renovate sit alongside already restored residences, with lime renders, oak joinery and roof timbers repaired piece by piece. Walled gardens, orchards and ponds fed by a stream or spring often complete the property, and a number of estates still include several hectares of pasture or woodland once attached to the working farm.
The Vexin français, from the edge of Magny-en-Vexin in neighbouring Val-d'Oise to Rosny-sur-Seine and Bonnières-sur-Seine, offers an open farming plateau suited to isolated houses with parkland and attached land. The Houdan area, around Houdan, Septeuil and la Queue-les-Yvelines, keeps a half-timbered rural stock close to the Perche. To the south, the Rambouillet forest and its edges, near Montfort-l'Amaury, Méré or Gambaiseuil, hold wooded properties valued for their quiet, while the Seine valley, between Mantes-la-Jolie and Meulan, retains a few old residences amid market-garden land and orchards planted along the river terraces.
The department has no TGV station; rail links run on Transilien services to Paris-Montparnasse and Paris-Saint-Lazare, and Massy TGV, in neighbouring Essonne, remains reachable by road for the high-speed network. The A13, A12 and A10-A11 motorways serve the whole territory, and Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Paris-Orly airports are both within reach by car. The most sought-after areas lie around Montfort-l'Amaury and the Rambouillet forest; the Houdan area and the western Vexin remain more affordable for comparable size.
The proximity of Versailles and several listed towns brings fairly extensive heritage protection easements: check whether the property lies within the surroundings of a historic monument, since exterior works then require the approval of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France. In the Vexin français, part of the territory is covered by the regional nature park, which restricts extensions, boundary walls and the conversion of farm outbuildings; check the local rules before any project, since some parish councils apply them more strictly than others.
On the technical side, have the private drainage system checked, common outside the town centres, along with the condition of old roof timbers and rising damp in limestone or meulière walls. Development pressure around Paris means some attached land can border planned neighbouring schemes; check the local development plan and access by rural tracks, whose municipal or private status must be confirmed before purchase, along with any right of way granted to a neighbouring farm.
Manor house listings in Yvelines are placed 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 as they are published. To compare with Essonne, Val-d'Oise or Seine-et-Marne, browse the manor houses for sale in Île-de-France.
