A farmhouse for sale in Doubs (25), a barn to convert or a Franche-Comté farmhouse with a few hectares of pasture: this mid-mountain department, spanning plateaus and the Haut-Doubs, holds a stock of massive farm buildings built for harsh winters and a strong cheese-making tradition. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Doubs published on ma-propriete.fr: a Comtoise block farmhouse with barn and hayloft, a former cheese cooperative building to convert, a farm with land, buildings set on the plateaus and in the valleys.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Doubs rural market, an overview of where to look, from the Besançon area to the Haut-Doubs, 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 Doubs (25)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Doubs (25) stood at €224,920 in 2025, with an average price of €231,971 and a median price of €2,097/m² of living space (1,307 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €120,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €351,981 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 112 m² of living space on an average plot of 1,535 m², i.e. around 0.2 ha.
This market is well above the regional median (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: €157,000) and well above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €197,000 to €224,920, i.e. +14.2%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +3.1%.
| 2025 indicator | Doubs | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €224,920 | €157,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €231,971 | €168,680 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €120,000 | €74,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €351,981 | €279,670 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,097/m² | €1,525/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 112 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 1,535 m² | 2,805 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,307 | 11,450 | 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 Doubs (25) 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) | €304,375 | €3,005/m² | -5.5% | 146 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €206,850 | €1,923/m² | +2.9% | 4,147 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €240,000 | €2,192/m² | +11.9% | 3,256 |
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 Doubs farmhouse is a massive single-block building known locally as the ferme-bloc: dwelling, cowshed and barn under one wide, overhanging roof with a steep pitch to shed snow. The timber frame, built of heavy timber, supports a large hayloft above the cowshed. There is no mas in Doubs: this southern-French term has no equivalent in the mid-mountain farm buildings of Franche-Comté.
These imposing buildings, often completed by a more recent shed, lend themselves to conversion into a home or gîtes for the Haut-Doubs tourist trade, subject to the local plan's zoning. The attached land, from a few hectares to wide upland pasture, suits dairy farming, horses or a permaculture project in a cool climate.
Around Baume-les-Dames, Rougemont and the Doubs valley, supply of farms and barns to renovate stays steady. Around Montbéliard and its surrounding area, farm buildings sit alongside a nearby industrial fabric. In the Haut-Doubs, around Pontarlier, Morteau and Mouthe, large, typical Comtoise block farmhouses remain numerous, in a pronounced mountain climate. Around Ornans and the Loue valley, farms sit closer to gorges and waterfalls.
Near Besançon and its urban area, renovated farmhouses are scarcer and more expensive. In the Haut-Doubs, around Métabief and the Swiss border plateau, proximity to cross-border employment also pushes prices up compared with the rest of the department.
Check the buildings' permitted use under the local plan: a barn in an agricultural zone can only become a home if a change of use is explicitly allowed. Inspect the roof (tile or sheet metal, but also asbestos-cement on some sheds), the timber frame, sized for snow loads, and the drainage, which needs adapting to the terrain and climate.
If farmland comes with the buildings, ask about any current farm lease and about the pre-emption right of the Safer, active in this dairy-farming department. Finally, budget the renovation carefully: insulating and restoring a large Comtoise block farmhouse is often a substantial investment.
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