A farmhouse for sale in Savoie (73), a mountain farm building or a former alpine chalet waiting to be restored: between the Bauges, the Beaufortain and the Maurienne and Tarentaise valleys, the department still holds a stone-and-timber farm heritage shaped by livestock grazing and summer pasture. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Savoie published on ma-propriete.fr: chalet-farms with a cowshed and hayloft, timber barns to renovate, former dairy cooperatives or farmhouses with a few hectares of meadow.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Savoie rural market, an overview of where to look, from the Val d'Arly to the Combe de Savoie, and the points to check before buying a mountain 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 Savoie (73)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Savoie (73) stood at €320,205 in 2025, with an average price of €336,636 and a median price of €3,100/m² of living space (888 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €180,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €523,018 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 109 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,520 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is well above the regional median (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: €230,000) and well above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €256,500 to €320,205, i.e. +24.8%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +6.8%.
| 2025 indicator | Savoie | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €320,205 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €336,636 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €180,000 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €523,018 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €3,100/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 109 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,520 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 888 | 16,528 | 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 Savoie (73) 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 | €395,500 | €3,719/m² | +9.2% | 379 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €280,900 | €3,018/m² | +17.3% | 1,108 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €300,970 | €2,833/m² | +12.1% | 2,491 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €262,250 | €2,569/m² | +17.7% | 1,230 |
Note: in Savoie (73), 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 traditional Savoie farmhouse combines a timber or stone chalet dwelling, a vaulted stone cowshed on the ground floor and a large hayloft above, roofed with larch shingles or sheet metal depending on altitude. In Maurienne and Tarentaise, agricultural sheds and outbuildings often complete the group around a small courtyard. There are no mas in Savoie; the term has no local use here.
These buildings offer interesting volumes constrained by the terrain: a mountain barn can be converted into a home or several altitude gîtes, subject to planning zoning and mountain-area building rules. The surrounding land, often steep hay meadows or former summer pastures, is counted in hectares but tends to be split between several owners.
The Beaufortain and the Arly valley, around Ugine and Flumet, still hold accessible chalet-farms to renovate. In Maurienne, from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Chambre and Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, farmhouses come up more often than in Tarentaise. The Bauges massif, around Le Châtelard and Lescheraines, keeps a preserved rural character, as does the Combe de Savoie around Albertville.
Near Chambéry and Aix-les-Bains, around Lake Bourget, renovated farmhouses are scarce and noticeably more expensive. In Tarentaise, close to the Moûtiers and Bourg-Saint-Maurice resorts, farmland is often priced closer to leisure property.
Check the change of use of the building: in an agricultural zone of the local plan, a barn or cowshed can only become a home if it is listed among the buildings identified for that purpose, and mountain-area regulations strictly limit extensions. Check the roof (shingles, sheet metal, sometimes asbestos-cement on newer sheds), the timber frame under snow load, and the drainage, which is often non-mains at altitude.
If summer pastures or meadows come with the property, ask about any current farm lease or multi-year grazing agreement, and about the pre-emption right of the Safer. Renovating a high-altitude chalet-farm, constrained by access and climate, frequently costs more than first budgeted.
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