A mountain farmhouse for sale in Hautes-Alpes (05), an alpine barn to convert or a former farmhouse with a few hectares of pasture: this alpine department, between the Champsaur, the Queyras and the Briançonnais, has kept rustic farm buildings suited to a mountain climate. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Hautes-Alpes published on ma-propriete.fr: a stone mountain farmhouse with a hay barn, a former sheepfold to renovate, a farmhouse with outbuildings and land, a Queyras chalet-farmhouse.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Hautes-Alpes rural market, an overview of where to look, from the Gap area to the Briançonnais, 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. Many of these mountain farmhouses still have a bread oven and a captured spring, evidence of an old self-sufficiency well suited to winter isolation.
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 Hautes-Alpes (05)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Hautes-Alpes (05) stood at €305,225 in 2025, with an average price of €311,428 and a median price of €2,850/m² of living space (390 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €147,697 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €491,050 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 108 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,619 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: €360,000) and well above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €258,000 to €304,450, i.e. +18.0%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +3.8%.
| 2025 indicator | Hautes-Alpes | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €305,225 | €360,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €311,428 | €401,500 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €147,697 | €215,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €491,050 | €650,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,850/m² | €3,469/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 108 m² | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,619 m² | 3,324 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 390 | 4,532 | 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 Hautes-Alpes (05) 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 | €351,550 | €3,153/m² | +26.0% | 148 |
| Residential coastline * | €338,650 | €3,220/m² | +37.8% | 75 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €260,000 | €2,647/m² | +24.0% | 975 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €279,650 | €2,666/m² | +20.3% | 742 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €245,500 | €2,434/m² | +15.9% | 396 |
* Between 30 and 99 sales: indicative value.
Note: in Hautes-Alpes (05), 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 Hautes-Alpes farmhouse combines local stone walls with timber upper floors, with a ground-floor cowshed and a hay loft or barn above, reached by an outside ramp. In the Queyras, buildings stand out for their carved wooden balconies and shallow roofs covered in stone slabs or metal sheeting. There is no Provençal mas at this altitude: here people speak of a mountain farmhouse, a chalet-farmhouse or an alpine sheepfold.
These buildings offer substantial volumes, and the hay barn can be converted into a home or into mountain gîtes, subject to planning zoning and a building permit. The adjoining farmland, often hay meadows measured in hectares, suits sheep or cattle farming, keeping horses, or more rarely a valley-floor permaculture project.
The Gap area, around Gap, Tallard and Veynes, offers the most abundant choice of farms and barns to renovate, on gentler terrain. The Champsaur and Valgaudemar valleys, around Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur, keep a dense traditional farm architecture. The Queyras, around Guillestre and Château-Ville-Vieille, and the Embrun area complete the choice at mid-altitude.
Near Briançon and in the Briançonnais, proximity to ski resorts pushes renovated farmhouses clearly above the departmental average. In the Gap area and the Buëch valley, around Serres and Veynes, away from tourist zones, farmhouses in need of work remain more affordable. The Dévoluy area, around Saint-Étienne-en-Dévoluy, also offers a few isolated alpine farms, at prices that vary widely depending on winter accessibility.
Check the permitted use of the buildings: a barn or sheepfold in an agricultural zone of the local plan can only be converted into a home if it is identified as eligible for a change of use. Look at the roof (stone slabs, metal sheeting or slate depending on altitude, sometimes asbestos-cement sheets on more recent sheds), the timber frame, which must carry heavy snow loads, and the drainage, which often needs to be created on isolated properties.
If hay meadows or alpine grazing land come with the property, ask about any current farm lease and the pre-emption right of the Safer. Finally, cost the renovation: altitude access and climate constraints often push the works well beyond the purchase price itself. Finally, check winter road access and snow clearance for the track serving the property, a decisive factor for year-round living in Hautes-Alpes.
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