A farmhouse for sale in Deux-Sèvres (79), a Gâtine or plain farm building with its outbuildings: between granite bocage and open limestone plain, the department shows two quite distinct farming landscapes. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Deux-Sèvres published on ma-propriete.fr: Gâtine longhouses with a barn and cowshed, limestone plain farms, farm buildings with outbuildings and pasture for horses.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Deux-Sèvres rural market, an overview of where to look, from the hedgerow country of Gâtine to the Niort plain, and the points to check before buying a former farm building. If your project is tourism-related, our white paper on setting up a rural gîte will help you cost it.
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 Deux-Sèvres (79)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Deux-Sèvres (79) stood at €144,065 in 2025, with an average price of €146,778 and a median price of €1,316/m² of living space (2,410 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €74,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €225,640 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 112 m² of living space on an average plot of 3,102 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Nouvelle-Aquitaine: €170,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €127,000 to €144,000, i.e. +13.4%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +2.9%.
| 2025 indicator | Deux-Sèvres | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €144,065 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €146,778 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €74,000 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €225,640 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,316/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 112 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 3,102 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 2,410 | 26,126 | 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 Deux-Sèvres (79) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) * | €115,900 | €1,182/m² | -18.0% | 75 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €165,000 | €1,530/m² | +7.9% | 5,451 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €121,000 | €1,138/m² | +13.2% | 9,583 |
* Between 30 and 99 sales: indicative value.
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.
In Gâtine, the traditional farmhouse is a low granite or schist longhouse, roofed in tile or slate, with a cowshed, a barn and a shed set along the main building, within dense hedgerow country. In the Plaine area, around Niort, larger limestone farms open onto flat open fields and large farmyards. There are no mas in Deux-Sèvres; the term is not used in the region.
These buildings, whose size varies by area, can be converted into a home or rural gîtes, subject to planning zoning. The surrounding land, from a few hectares of hedgerow pasture in Gâtine to wider open farmland on the plain, suits livestock, horses or a permaculture project depending on the setting.
The Gâtine area, around Parthenay, Secondigny and Coulonges-sur-l'Autize, has the largest supply of hedgerow longhouses to renovate. Around Bressuire and the Bressuire bocage, farm buildings also remain plentiful. In the Thouars area, around Thouars, limestone farms border the neighbouring Saumur vineyards.
Near Niort and the cereal-growing plain, renovated farmhouses are scarcer and more expensive. Around Melle and the Mellois area, between plain and valleys, prices generally stay more affordable than near the Marais Poitevin wetland, where rural properties reach levels clearly above the departmental average.
Check the change of use of the building: in an agricultural zone of the local plan, a barn or cowshed only becomes habitable if it is identified for that purpose, a rule applied strictly in this farming department. Check the roof (tile, slate, sometimes asbestos-cement on newer sheds), the timber frame and the drainage, which is often a private system in hedgerow country.
If farmland is attached, ask about any current farm lease, common on large plain farms, and about the pre-emption right of the Safer. Renovating a Gâtine longhouse, often modest in size, generally costs less than renovating a large plain barn.
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