A farmhouse for sale in Cantal (15), a buron or a barn to convert: this volcanic Auvergne department, dominated by the Monts du Cantal and the Planèze plateau, has kept a massive farm heritage built of dark volcanic stone under lauze stone roofs. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Cantal published on ma-propriete.fr: a high-pasture buron awaiting restoration, a Cantal farmhouse with a cowshed and hay barn, a farm with pasture and land for livestock or a horse project.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Cantal rural market, an overview of where to look, from the Cère valley to the Saint-Flour Planèze, 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 cattle farmers looking for a working base and tourism project developers drawn to the volcanic landscape of the Cantal.
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 Cantal (15)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Cantal (15) stood at €130,000 in 2025, with an average price of €135,684 and a median price of €1,394/m² of living space (767 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €61,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €218,440 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 99 m² of living space on an average plot of 3,256 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: €230,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €114,520 to €130,000, i.e. +13.5%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +0.2%.
| 2025 indicator | Cantal | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €130,000 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €135,684 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €61,000 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €218,440 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,394/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 99 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 3,256 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 767 | 16,528 | 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 Cantal (15) 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 | €112,500 | €1,241/m² | +54.7% | 130 |
| Residential coastline | €138,500 | €1,319/m² | -0.5% | 148 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €105,000 | €1,089/m² | +6.8% | 1,286 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €150,000 | €1,563/m² | +3.4% | 1,676 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €113,000 | €1,171/m² | +10.0% | 1,229 |
Note: in Cantal (15), 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.
The Cantal farmhouse, built of dark volcanic stone under a lauze stone or slate roof, brings together the house, the cowshed and the hay barn, sometimes under a single roofline in the tradition of high-altitude single-block farms. On the high pastures, the smaller buron was once used for summer cheese-making. There is no mas in Cantal; the term is never used there, even by extension.
These often isolated buildings come with hectares of natural high-altitude pasture suited to cattle farming, but also to lower-altitude horse or permaculture projects. Conversion into a gîte remains common, particularly around the department's resorts and tourist sites. Some single-block farms still have an original cheese room or ripening cellar, a legacy of the farmhouse cantal cheese production still practised in the department.
Around Aurillac and in the Cère valley, the supply of farmhouses to renovate is the widest in the department. Towards Saint-Flour and the Planèze, single-block volcanic-stone farms dominate an open plateau landscape. The Murat area and the Monts du Cantal, at higher altitude, offer typical but isolated burons and high-pasture farms. Towards Mauriac and the Châtaigneraie in the north-west, buildings are more modest and the climate milder. Aurillac railway station and the gradual upgrade of the RN122 make links to Clermont-Ferrand easier, an advantage for buyers coming from further afield.
The most affordable areas are at higher altitude, around Murat and on the high pastures, where isolation and winter snow weigh on prices. Around Aurillac and the Cère valley, better connected, renovated farms trade higher.
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 lauze roof, often heavy and costly to repair, any asbestos-cement sheeting on more recent sheds, the timber frame and the drainage, frequently absent on high-pasture burons.
Where farmland is included, ask about any current farm lease and about the pre-emption right of the Safer. Winter access and utility connections, sometimes costly at altitude, should be checked before any purchase. At altitude, winter snow clearance and the upkeep of access roads need to be planned for before any permanent-residence project.
On ma-propriete.fr, filter Cantal farms and burons 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 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Cheese cooperatives and local chambers of agriculture are also a useful source of information on farms sold together with a working operation.
