A farmhouse for sale in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), Basque or Béarn farm building, barn to convert: shared between the Basque Country, Béarn and the Pyrenees, this department has strongly distinctive farm buildings, from the Basque etxe to Béarn farms built in stone and river pebbles. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Pyrénées-Atlantiques published on ma-propriete.fr: red-timbered Basque farms, pebble-built Béarn barns to restore, former farms with Pyrenean pasture, buildings near summer grazing land and mountain villages.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques rural market, an overview of where to look, from the inland Basque Country to Béarn and the mountains, 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 Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64) stood at €237,400 in 2025, with an average price of €254,839 and a median price of €2,095/m² of living space (1,557 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €132,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €407,140 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 121 m² of living space on an average plot of 3,853 m², i.e. around 0.4 ha.
This market is well above the regional median (Nouvelle-Aquitaine: €170,000) and well above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €200,750 to €237,000, i.e. +18.1%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +3.0%.
| 2025 indicator | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €237,400 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €254,839 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €132,000 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €407,140 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,095/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 121 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 3,853 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,557 | 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 Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64) 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 * | €430,000 | €4,027/m² | +21.9% | 53 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €195,000 | €1,867/m² | +15.8% | 341 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €241,120 | €2,095/m² | +8.4% | 5,556 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €199,500 | €1,769/m² | +8.4% | 3,464 |
* 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 the Basque Country, the traditional farmhouse, the etxe, brings the dwelling, cowshed and barn together under one very steep roof, with a timber-framed façade often painted Basque red. In Béarn, farms are more often built in river pebbles and stone, sometimes organised around a bastide, a medieval planned town — a form that does genuinely exist here, unlike the mas, absent from this department. Béarn mountain farms often include a sheepfold linked to pastoral farming. The etxe's name, carved into a lintel, traditionally identifies the family that has lived there for generations.
These generously sized buildings convert well into a home or several gîtes, subject to local planning zoning. The attached farmland, valley-floor pasture or high-altitude summer grazing, from a few hectares to several dozen hectares, suits traditional sheep farming, horses or, on flatter ground, a permaculture project. The local sheep breeds, tied to Ossau-Iraty cheese production, mean pasture quality is often decisive when choosing a property.
The inland Basque Country, around Mauléon-Licharre, Saint-Palais and the Soule area, offers a good supply of Basque farms to renovate, in the Bidouze and Saison valleys. In Béarn, the Vic-Bilh and Béarn des Gaves areas, around Orthez and Sauveterre-de-Béarn, along the gave d'Oloron, offer farmhouses and bastides at accessible levels. The Ossau and Aspe valleys, to the south, still have more remote mountain pastoral buildings, close to extensive summer grazing land.
On the Basque coast, around Bayonne, Anglet and inland towards Saint-Jean-de-Luz, renovated Basque farmhouses are rare and very clearly above the regional average. Around Pau, the capital of Béarn crossed by the gave de Pau, demand stays strong, while the Béarn des Gaves and the inland Basque Country remain noticeably more affordable. Proximity to the Landes, to the north, also creates a gradual price transition.
Check the permitted use of the buildings: a barn or sheepfold zoned as agricultural land under the local plan can only become housing if it is identified as eligible for a change of use. Look at the roof (canal tile or slate depending on altitude, and possible asbestos-cement on sheepfolds and sheds), the timber frame, often intricate on traditional etxe, and the drainage. In the mountains, winter snow and access to summer pastures can complicate building works, as can the steep terrain found in some Pyrenean valleys.
If land or summer-grazing rights are included, ask about any current farm lease and about the pre-emption right of the Safer, active in this livestock-farming department. Finally, cost the renovation precisely: restoring a stone Basque or Béarn farm often represents a budget comparable to the purchase price, particularly when an etxe's very steep roof needs full replacement.
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