Looking for a country house for sale in Corrèze (19)? Between the Millevaches plateau, the Brive basin and the Dordogne gorges, the department offers rural buildings in granite and slate that are highly characteristic of the Limousin region. The variety of terrain, from high plateau to gentler valleys, translates into noticeably different house styles from one end of the department to the other. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Corrèze published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries.
We present the actual prices of country houses in Corrèze (notarised sales 2020-2025), the areas worth knowing from Brive to Tulle, and the criteria that determine the value of a house in the countryside, from the building itself to the size of the land. 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 Corrèze (19)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Corrèze (19) stood at €139,000 in 2025, with an average price of €144,076 and a median price of €1,409/m² of living space (1,320 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €65,940 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €232,685 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 101 m² of living space on an average plot of 4,969 m², i.e. around 0.5 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Nouvelle-Aquitaine: €170,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €123,080 to €139,000, i.e. +12.9%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +6.9%.
| 2025 indicator | Corrèze | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €139,000 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €144,076 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €65,940 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €232,685 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,409/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 101 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 4,969 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,320 | 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 Corrèze (19) 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 | €100,480 | €1,072/m² | +8.6% | 152 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €110,000 | €1,186/m² | +6.5% | 1,813 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €156,200 | €1,630/m² | +10.0% | 2,733 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €123,054 | €1,283/m² | +10.4% | 3,392 |
Note: in Corrèze (19), 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 Corrèze country house is first and foremost a granite farmhouse with massive stonework, under a slate roof in upper Corrèze, around Égletons and Neuvic, or a stone-slab (lauze) roof further south, towards the Lot border and the Dordogne valley. Around Brive and the Dordogne valley, limestone appears and the style already edges towards the Périgord-style houses, with flatter roofs and more generous openings, notably around Larche and Ayen. In the market towns, 19th-century manor-style houses also appear, while the Millevaches plateau has more austere, long, low farmhouses built to withstand a harsh climate and marked winters, with fewer north-facing openings to limit heat loss.
The land remains a constant asset: a garden, an orchard, a vegetable plot, often completed by stone outbuildings (barn, cattle shed, bread oven). On the plateau, properties can extend over several hectares of pasture and woodland of beech or conifers planted after the war, while around Brive plots are smaller but much sought after for their setting close to shops and the railway station, sometimes with a well or a spring feeding a vegetable garden. Chestnut trees, once grown for their nuts as a staple food, still line many of the older boundary walls in this part of the Limousin.
The Brive basin, the department's best-connected town thanks to its Intercités links towards Paris and Toulouse, sees the strongest demand, particularly around Objat, Donzenac and Varetz, an area also prized for its orchards of golden Chasselas grapes and early fruit. The Dordogne valley, around Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne and Argentat, with its riverside quays and corbelled houses, appeals for its scenery and heritage, as does the Vézère valley near Uzerche, nicknamed the 'pearl of the Limousin' for its turreted houses perched above the river. Tulle, the prefecture nestled on the banks of the Corrèze river, offers a more modest urban setting with convenient access to the surrounding valleys and to the railway line to Paris.
The Millevaches plateau, around Meymac and Ussel, remains the most affordable area for a stone house with a large plot, in a setting of peat bogs and forest well suited to a quiet second-home project, while the Brive basin and the Dordogne valley sell well above the departmental average.
Three factors dominate: proximity to Brive and its Intercités station, the condition of the building (roof, timber frame, damp and energy rating, often poor for uninsulated old farmhouses on the plateau) and the size of the land. A renovated house near Brive and a farmhouse to renovate on several hectares in upper Corrèze can show a very marked price gap, with energy-efficiency upgrades weighing heavily on the renovation budget, as does replacing oil heating with a wood-based system, widely available locally.
Also check the private drainage system, common in this scattered rural housing, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, often uneven on the plateau, the presence of radon, more common in the granite areas of upper Corrèze and a reason for good ventilation, and the local planning rules if you plan to convert a barn into living space.
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