A farmhouse and barn for sale in Lozère (48), a schist mas in the Cévennes or a stone barn to convert under a lauze roof: this sparsely populated Massif Central département has kept an exceptional stock of farm buildings, from the Causse Méjean to the Margeride uplands. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Lozère published on ma-propriete.fr: a causse farmhouse with a vaulted sheepfold, a summer-pasture buron, a Cévennes mas with dry-stone terraces, a farm on the Aubrac plateau with its high-altitude pastures.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Lozère rural market, an overview of where to look, from Gévaudan to the Cévennes, 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 Lozère (48)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Lozère (48) stood at €166,850 in 2025, with an average price of €174,916 and a median price of €1,726/m² of living space (326 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €85,620 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €281,785 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 102 m² of living space on an average plot of 5,277 m², i.e. around 0.5 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Occitanie: €210,000) and below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €132,640 to €166,500, i.e. +25.5%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is -2.1%.
| 2025 indicator | Lozère | Occitanie | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €166,850 | €210,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €174,916 | €220,462 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €85,620 | €107,500 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €281,785 | €347,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,726/m² | €1,987/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 102 m² | 111 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 5,277 m² | 4,162 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 326 | 14,163 | 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 Lozère (48) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential coastline * | €156,750 | €1,538/m² | -16.4% | 55 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €140,500 | €1,540/m² | +11.4% | 1,043 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €174,000 | €1,700/m² | +8.4% | 747 |
* Between 30 and 99 sales: indicative value.
Note: in Lozère (48), 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.
On the Causses plateaux and in the Margeride, the local farmhouse combines a dwelling, a vaulted cowshed and a barn under a lauze roof of limestone or schist, all built from local dry stone. On the Aubrac plateau, the farm buildings often include a former stable for summer-grazing cattle and a buron, a small pastoral building once used for cheesemaking. In the south of the département, towards the Gard-side Cévennes, the mas genuinely appears: a schist building with a low-pitched roof and dry-stone terraces.
These often-isolated buildings offer generous volumes but sometimes limited access, and land that mixes pasture, scrubland and woods. The barn lends itself to conversion into a home or a gîte, subject to local planning zoning; several hectares of grazing land can support extensive livestock farming, horses or a sheltered valley permaculture project.
Around Mende, Marvejols and Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, on the Margeride and Aubrac plateaux, the supply of farms and burons to renovate remains the widest. Towards Langogne and the upper Allier valley, farm buildings mix with conifer forests. On the Causse Méjean and around Meyrueis, lauze-roofed buildings are rarer and sought after for their character.
In the south, around Florac and the Tarn valley in the Cévennes, mas and former silk-worm buildings often sell well above the départemental average, owing to the national park and tourist appeal. Towards Villefort, the area stays more affordable despite the rugged terrain.
Check the change of use status in the agricultural zone of the local plan: a sheepfold or buron classed as agricultural can only become a dwelling if the planning document allows it. Inspect the lauze roof (its weight on the timber frame, costly upkeep) or, on more recent sheds, any asbestos-cement sheeting. Standalone drainage, often old in isolated areas, deserves a proper survey.
If summer pastures or farmland come with the property, ask about any current farm lease and about the pre-emption right of the Safer (the French rural land agency). The cost of restoring an isolated mas or buron, with access and utilities to create, frequently exceeds initial estimates.
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