Looking for a country house for sale in Cantal (15)? Between the Cantal mountains, the Cère valley and the Puy Mary, the department offers an authentic volcanic rural housing stock: a house in basalt or trachyte under lauze stone slabs or slate, a Cantal farmhouse with an attached barn, a mountain-pasture buron waiting to be restored. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Cantal published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries.
To help you decide, we present the actual prices of country houses in Cantal (notarised sales 2020-2025), the areas worth knowing from Aurillac to Saint-Flour, and the criteria that determine the value of a mid-mountain country house. Our complete guide to buying a country house in France completes these benchmarks, from surveying an old building to financing.
How much does a country house cost in Cantal (15)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Cantal (15) stood at €130,000 in 2025, with an average price of €135,684 and a median price of €1,394/m² of living space (767 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €61,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €218,440 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 99 m² of living space on an average plot of 3,256 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: €230,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €114,520 to €130,000, i.e. +13.5%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +0.2%.
| 2025 indicator | Cantal | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €130,000 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €135,684 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €61,000 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €218,440 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,394/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 99 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 3,256 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 767 | 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 Cantal (15) 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 | €112,500 | €1,241/m² | +54.7% | 130 |
| Residential coastline | €138,500 | €1,319/m² | -0.5% | 148 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €105,000 | €1,089/m² | +6.8% | 1,286 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €150,000 | €1,563/m² | +3.4% | 1,676 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €113,000 | €1,171/m² | +10.0% | 1,229 |
Note: in Cantal (15), 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 Cantal country house is defined by its thick walls in grey basalt or trachyte, materials born of the local volcanic activity and of Europe's largest volcano, and its lauze roof, heavy and steeply pitched, emblematic of traditional buildings in villages such as Salers or Tournemire, though often replaced today by lighter, lower-maintenance slate. The typical Cantal farmhouse places living quarters next to a barn-stable under one roof, an arrangement inherited from cattle farming and the production of AOP cheeses such as cantal and salers. At higher altitude on the summer pastures, burons once used for cheese-making can also be found, often hard to reach and without a mains electricity connection, though many have since been restored as unique holiday retreats.
The land that comes with these houses is usually pasture, sometimes several hectares, with woodland of beech or fir and occasionally a spring or a small pond. Outbuildings (barn, cowshed, buron) make a rural gîte project a realistic option, provided you check winter accessibility, since snowfall can cut off some hamlets in the Cantal mountains for several days a year. Good south-facing exposure is particularly prized here, both for natural light in winter and for a longer grazing season, which also helps keep heating bills down over the long, cold Cantal winters.
Around Aurillac, a country house benefits from the department's main job market and its air link to Paris, a more accessible area for a move to the countryside in Cantal, particularly around Naucelles or Ytrac. Saint-Flour and the Planèze plateau, served by the A75 motorway, appeal for their easier access to Clermont-Ferrand and the south, without the toll of the old main road. The Cantal mountains, around Murat, Le Lioran and the Puy Mary, offer a mid-mountain setting with stone houses enjoying open views of the burons and summer pastures, popular for four-season tourism between hiking and winter sports.
The gentler, wooded Châtaigneraie area in the south-west, around Maurs and Montsalvy, and the Xaintrie area, around Mauriac and Pleaux, are the most affordable parts of Cantal for a large stone house with land, at the cost of steep terrain, winding roads and longer distances to the Saint-Flour or Aurillac stations. The Salers and Mauriac area, between volcanoes and deep valleys, adds remarkable built heritage to this picture, with houses of character still available at very reasonable prices.
Price depends above all on road access (proximity to the A75 motorway, distance to the Neussargues or Saint-Flour stations) and on altitude, which affects winter snowfall, the length of the heating season and heating costs, often high for a large, poorly insulated farmhouse. The condition of the lauze roof, where present, the timber frame that must support it, and the energy rating of uninsulated stone walls also weigh heavily on negotiations.
Check the private drainage system, the presence of a spring or borehole, essential where there is no mains water supply in isolated hamlets, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, increasingly requested in these isolated areas, and the local plan zoning for any project to renovate a buron or a barn, since some mountain areas fall under protected natural zoning. Winter snow-clearing of local roads and distance to a doctor or shops are also worth planning for before settling year-round in the more remote hamlets.
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