Looking for a country house for sale in Essonne (91)? Between the Hurepoix, the Gâtinais français and the Essonne valley, this Île-de-France department, south of the Paris conurbation, has kept a rural building stock marked by millstone-grit houses, limestone ashlar and large plain farmhouses. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Essonne published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries.
We present the actual prices of country houses in Essonne, the areas worth knowing between Étampes, Milly-la-Forêt and Dourdan, and the criteria that determine the value of a country house less than an hour from Paris. 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 Essonne (91)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Essonne (91) stood at €284,600 in 2025, with an average price of €297,767 and a median price of €2,741/m² of living space (433 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €200,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €410,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 114 m² of living space on an average plot of 1,471 m², i.e. around 0.1 ha.
This market is close to the regional median (Île-de-France: €280,000) and well above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €275,000 to €284,600, i.e. +3.5%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +1.6%.
| 2025 indicator | Essonne | Île-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €284,600 | €280,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €297,767 | €295,207 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €200,000 | €171,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €410,000 | €435,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,741/m² | €2,603/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 114 m² | 116 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 1,471 m² | 1,590 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 433 | 3,611 | 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 Essonne (91) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €296,350 | €2,745/m² | -6.1% | 2,551 |
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 rural Essonne, the millstone-grit house, its facades marked by brick banding typical of the Paris inner suburbs, stands alongside the large plain farmhouses of the Gâtinais and Beauce regions, often built in limestone ashlar with an enclosed courtyard, a vaulted carriage porch and a dovecote recalling a former grain-growing estate. Around Milly-la-Forêt and the Gâtinais français, you also find miller's houses along the rivers and former mills converted into homes on the École or Juine, sometimes with their old millrace still visible and a wheel kept as a period feature. 19th-century manor-style houses, often built by Parisian notables as country retreats, punctuate the villages of the École and Juine valleys, sometimes with a park planted with cedar trees or an orangery, a legacy of a time when the area was a favoured weekend escape from the capital.
Land remains a decisive factor this close to Paris: an enclosed garden, an orchard, a vegetable plot, sometimes an old farmstead with outbuildings to convert into a gîte or an artist's workshop, popular with buyers drawn by the area's long tradition of hosting painters and writers. Properties in a hamlet or slightly set back from a village offer the peace sought by families looking for a move to the countryside without leaving the Paris region, provided they accept stronger land pressure than elsewhere in France and sometimes a longer search for the rarest properties.
To the north, in the Hurepoix (Dourdan, Saint-Chéron, the edges of the Chevreuse valley), the country house benefits from the proximity of Massy TGV station and main roads into Paris, while keeping landscapes of forest, ponds and open fields dotted with old windmills. The Gâtinais français, around Milly-la-Forêt, La Ferté-Alais and Malesherbes, offers a more wooded landscape between the Fontainebleau forest and the École and Essonne valleys, valued for its climbing boulders, orchards and watercress beds fed by the region's many springs. Further south, towards Étampes and the Essonne Beauce, large plain farmhouses dominate a more open, agricultural landscape, where country houses are scarcer but generally larger and set on bigger plots.
The most expensive areas are closest to the Chevreuse valley and the fast roads to Paris, particularly around Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse; the Gâtinais français and the area around Étampes, further from the capital, remain noticeably more affordable for an equivalent plot size, despite longer journeys to the nearest station and fewer local amenities.
Price depends first on travel time to Paris and access to stations (RER C, Massy TGV), then on the condition of the building - roof, damp in millstone-grit or ashlar houses, insulation and energy rating, often needing work in unrenovated, sometimes listed old buildings - and finally on the size of the plot, scarce and therefore highly valued in this peri-urban department where undeveloped land grows rarer every year.
Check the individual drainage system in the more isolated hamlets, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, local planning rules, often restrictive in the Gâtinais's protected natural areas or near the Fontainebleau heritage perimeter, and the risk of clay-shrinkage subsidence in certain areas, especially after a dry summer, before considering extending an outbuilding or converting a barn into living space.
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