A farmhouse & barn for sale in Vendée (85), a bocage tenant farm or a barn to convert with a few hectares: between the Vendée bocage, the marshland and the plain, this department has kept a varied farm building stock, long organised around tenant farming. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Vendée published on ma-propriete.fr: a tenant farm with a longère and outbuildings, a stone barn to convert, a marshland farm with a bourrine cottage, a farmhouse with pasture for horses.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Vendée rural market, an overview of where to look, from the Herbiers bocage to the Poitevin marsh, and the points to check before buying a former farm building. The contrast between bocage, plain and marsh explains the great variety of farm buildings from one area to another. 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 Vendée (85)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Vendée (85) stood at €210,000 in 2025, with an average price of €218,042 and a median price of €2,127/m² of living space (4,110 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 €330,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 104 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,093 m², i.e. around 0.2 ha.
This market is above the regional median (Pays de la Loire: €190,000) and above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €180,000 to €210,000, i.e. +16.7%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +2.9%.
| 2025 indicator | Vendée | Pays de la Loire | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €210,000 | €190,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €218,042 | €199,126 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €120,000 | €100,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €330,000 | €308,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,127/m² | €1,875/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 104 m² | 106 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,093 m² | 2,947 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 4,110 | 14,604 | 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 Vendée (85) 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 | €270,000 | €2,969/m² | +8.0% | 3,723 |
| Residential coastline | €197,990 | €2,094/m² | +5.3% | 1,158 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €192,000 | €2,010/m² | +11.1% | 315 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €209,100 | €2,072/m² | +6.2% | 8,367 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €184,000 | €1,850/m² | +6.2% | 11,279 |
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 Vendée tenant farm, typical of the bocage countryside, is organised around a low longère dwelling in granite or limestone depending on the area, extended by the cowshed, a fodder barn and sometimes a more recent shed, all enclosed by hedgerows. In the Poitevin marsh, the typical building is instead the bourrine, a small low cottage with a thatch or tile roof surrounded by poplars; this is not a mas, a term absent from local usage. The classic Vendée farmhouse remains the longère with its yard.
These buildings readily convert into a home with gîtes, where the local plan allows it, or stay in agricultural use. The hectares of bocage pasture, suited to cattle farming, also work for keeping horses or for permaculture projects on the most fertile farmland. The dense network of hedgerows and sunken lanes, typical of the Vendée bocage, also shelters pastures from the west wind.
The Vendée bocage, around Les Herbiers, Pouzauges and Chantonnay, has the widest choice of farms and barns to renovate, in a landscape of hills and hedgerows. Towards Fontenay-le-Comte and the Poitevin marsh, bourrine cottages and marsh farms appeal to buyers drawn to waterside landscapes. Around Luçon and Mareuil-sur-Lay, the Vendée plain still has large cereal farms. Towards Saint-Fulgent and the wider Chantonnay area, the bocage still holds scattered farm buildings away from main roads.
Near La Roche-sur-Yon and along the coast, from Challans to Les Sables-d'Olonne, renovated farmhouses are becoming rare and expensive, driven by proximity to the coast. Further inland, towards Mortagne-sur-Sèvre and neighbouring Cholet, prices stay more affordable.
Check the permitted use of the building under the local plan: a barn in an agricultural zone can only be converted into a home if it is listed as eligible for a change of use. Check the roof (tile, or asbestos-cement on farm sheds), the timber frame, the drainage and the water supply, sometimes limited in remote bocage hamlets.
If farmland comes with the property, ask about any current farm lease and the pre-emption right of the Safer. In the marsh, also check flood risk before buying. Finally, cost the renovation precisely: it is often underestimated for an old longère, particularly when the earthen or cob walls need complete rebuilding.
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