A farmhouse for sale in Ille-et-Vilaine (35), farmhouse built of granite or schist, a barn to convert or a former manor farm with outbuildings: this department, spanning the Rennes area, the Fougères area and the historic Marches of Brittany, still holds a dense stock of rural buildings. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Ille-et-Vilaine published on ma-propriete.fr: longère farmhouses with a cowshed, stone barns to restore, farm complexes with land and pasture.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Ille-et-Vilaine rural market, an overview of where to look, from the Fougères area to the Redon area, 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.
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 Ille-et-Vilaine (35)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Ille-et-Vilaine (35) stood at €215,000 in 2025, with an average price of €221,534 and a median price of €2,054/m² of living space (2,996 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 €331,450 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 109 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,992 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is close to the regional median (Brittany: €210,000) and above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €177,000 to €215,000, i.e. +21.5%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +2.4%.
| 2025 indicator | Ille-et-Vilaine | Brittany | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €215,000 | €210,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €221,534 | €223,474 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €120,000 | €110,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €331,450 | €355,291 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,054/m² | €2,027/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 109 m² | 107 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,992 m² | 3,041 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 2,996 | 13,579 | 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 Ille-et-Vilaine (35) 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 | €266,370 | €2,626/m² | +33.2% | 147 |
| Residential coastline | €260,000 | €2,531/m² | +1.5% | 918 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €213,500 | €2,005/m² | +12.5% | 13,396 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €163,329 | €1,627/m² | +14.4% | 4,138 |
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 Ille-et-Vilaine farmhouse is usually organised around a longère dwelling built of granite or schist depending on the area, extended by the cowshed and the barn, sometimes arranged in an L shape around a courtyard. In the Fougères area, on the border with Normandy, a few farms still show timber-frame elements, rarer here than in neighbouring Lower Normandy. There are no mas in Ille-et-Vilaine: the word remains a purely commercial reference to a renovated farm complex.
These buildings offer worthwhile space: a barn of 150 to 300 m² at ground level can become a home or gîtes, subject to the local planning zoning. The adjoining land, from a few thousand square metres to several hectares of pasture, allows a horse-keeping project or a permaculture approach.
The Fougères, Vitré and Antrain area, on the border with Normandy and Maine, has the widest and most affordable choice of farms and barns to renovate. Towards Montauban-de-Bretagne and Montfort-sur-Meu, west of Rennes, farm complexes attract Rennes commuters. The Redon area, to the south, on the edge of Morbihan and Loire-Atlantique, still has affordable rural buildings along the Vilaine river.
Near Rennes, Cesson-Sévigné and the ring road, renovated farm complexes are rare and expensive; towards Dol-de-Bretagne and Mont-Saint-Michel, they also sell above the average. Around Combourg and Tinténiac, the Ille-et-Rance canal offers a compromise between affordability and setting.
Make sure of the permitted use of the buildings: a barn 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. Check the roof (slate, but also asbestos-cement sheets on farm sheds), the timber frame, the drainage and utility connections, and any tanks or manure pits to be cleaned up.
If farmland is included, ask about any current farm lease and about the pre-emption right of the Safer. Finally, cost the renovation precisely: converting a barn into a home frequently costs as much as the purchase itself.
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