A farmhouse for sale in Aveyron (12), a smallholding or a barn to convert: this vast Rouergue department, spanning the Causses, the Aubrac and the Ségala, has kept a very distinctive limestone or granite farm heritage. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Aveyron published on ma-propriete.fr: a high-pasture buron awaiting restoration, a Ségala farmhouse with a cowshed and barn, a Causses farm with land and grazing for sheep or horses.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Aveyron rural market, an overview of where to look, from the Rouergue to the Causses, and the points to check before buying a former farm building. For a tourism project, our white paper on setting up a rural gîte will help you cost it. This market attracts both livestock farmers looking for a working base and tourism project developers drawn to the wide open spaces of the Aubrac or the Causses.
There are no statistics dedicated to farmhouses and barns: a renovated farmhouse sells like a country house with outbuildings and land, whereas a bare barn or a farm to renovate often sells well below. The most useful benchmark therefore remains the price of country houses.
How much does a country house cost in Aveyron (12)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Aveyron (12) stood at €162,300 in 2025, with an average price of €169,155 and a median price of €1,606/m² of living space (1,149 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €77,240 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €266,360 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 107 m² of living space on an average plot of 5,012 m², i.e. around 0.5 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Occitanie: €210,000) and below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €139,900 to €162,300, i.e. +16.0%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +2.7%.
| 2025 indicator | Aveyron | Occitanie | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €162,300 | €210,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €169,155 | €220,462 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €77,240 | €107,500 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €266,360 | €347,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,606/m² | €1,987/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 107 m² | 111 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 5,012 m² | 4,162 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,149 | 14,163 | 150,313 |
A departmental average hides large gaps. A smallholding to renovate, a restored longère with its outbuildings, a farmhouse on several hectares of land or a manor house with parkland do not sell at the same price, and the location matters as much as the building: coastline, tourist area, peri-urban countryside close to a job market or deep countryside. The table below shows the median price of country houses in Aveyron (12) by type of municipality (cumulative sales from mid-2020 to 2025) and its change between 2021 and 2025.
| Type of municipality | Median price 2020-2025 | Median price per m² | Change 2021-2025 | Sales 2020-2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourist coastline | €120,000 | €1,214/m² | +45.9% | 205 |
| Residential coastline * | €120,000 | €1,294/m² | +4.2% | 39 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €136,225 | €1,360/m² | +15.4% | 1,380 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €185,000 | €1,790/m² | +7.5% | 2,051 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €143,000 | €1,434/m² | +12.5% | 3,084 |
* Between 30 and 99 sales: indicative value.
Note: in Aveyron (12), the municipalities classified as "coastline" have no access to the sea. They are municipalities bordering lakes of more than 1,000 hectares (or, in Eure, the Seine estuary) covered by the 1986 Loi Littoral, which also applies to such inland lakes and estuaries.
These benchmarks help you assess a listing, estimate a property before putting it up for sale, or set your budget for a holiday home or a permanent move to the French countryside. To go further, see our observatory of country house prices in France (national, regional and departmental analysis, downloadable annual report) and work out the full cost of your purchase, including French notary fees, with our notary fees calculator.
On the Aubrac plateau, the buron, a small stone building once linked to cheese-making, stands alongside massive granite farmhouses. In the Ségala and Rouergue areas, farms are arranged around a closed courtyard with a cowshed, a hay barn and outbuildings in limestone or schist. On the Causses further south, farms often include a vaulted sheepfold. There is no mas in Aveyron; only its southern edge, towards the Larzac, sometimes borrows the term by extension.
These buildings, together with hectares of pasture or grazing land, lend themselves to conversion into a home, a rural gîte or livery for horses, subject to zoning. The generous size of many Ségala barns allows for larger-scale projects. Some Ségala farm complexes still have an original pigsty or chestnut-drying room, remnants of a mixed farming tradition now abandoned but which add to the building's heritage value.
Around Rodez and in the Ségala area, the supply of farmhouses and barns to renovate is wide and varied. Towards Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in the Aveyron valley, farm buildings sit within a hedgerow landscape. The Aubrac plateau, around Laguiole and Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac, offers more isolated high-altitude burons and farms. Towards Millau and Saint-Affrique, on the Causses, farms open onto vast sheep-grazing land. Rodez railway station and the upgrade of the RN88 to a dual carriageway make links to Toulouse and Clermont-Ferrand easier, an advantage for buyers coming from further afield.
The most affordable areas lie in the Ségala and the north of the department, away from main roads. Around Rodez and Millau, better connected, renovated farmhouses trade at firmer levels.
Check the permitted use of the building under the local planning zoning: in an agricultural zone, a change of use is only possible if the barn or buron is identified as convertible into housing. Examine the roof (lauze stone, slate or corrugated sheeting, sometimes asbestos-cement on sheds), the timber frame and the drainage, frequently absent on high-pasture buildings.
Where farmland or grazing land is included, ask about any current farm lease and about the pre-emption right of the Safer. Renovating an isolated buron or barn, without direct water or electricity connections, can weigh heavily on the overall budget. On the Aubrac, winter snow and distance from utility networks often require a connection budget to be factored in from the start of the project.
On ma-propriete.fr, filter Aveyron farms and barns by budget, built area and land area, set up an email alert to follow new listings, and extend your search to all farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Occitanie. Agricultural fairs and local chambers of agriculture are a further useful source of information on properties sold together with a working farm.
