Looking for a country house for sale in Haute-Vienne (87)? At the gateway to the Limousin, between the Ambazac hills and the Blond hills, the department keeps a sober, sturdy rural building stock in granite: a smallholding under a flat-tile or slate roof, a manor-style house in the market towns, a former farmhouse with a barn and a cowshed. This page brings together, area by area, the country houses for sale in Haute-Vienne 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 the Limousin, the areas worth knowing around Limoges and in the Nexon area, and the criteria that determine the value of a country house, from the plot to the condition of the building. Our complete guide to buying a country house in France completes these benchmarks, from surveying an old building to financing a renovation project.
How much does a country house cost in Haute-Vienne (87)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Haute-Vienne (87) stood at €130,000 in 2025, with an average price of €135,426 and a median price of €1,345/m² of living space (1,811 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €60,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €222,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 101 m² of living space on an average plot of 4,400 m², i.e. around 0.4 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 €117,000 to €130,000, i.e. +11.1%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +3.2%.
| 2025 indicator | Haute-Vienne | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €130,000 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €135,426 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €60,000 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €222,000 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,345/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 101 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 4,400 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,811 | 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 Haute-Vienne (87) 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 | €109,000 | €1,279/m² | +115.0% | 126 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €96,000 | €1,029/m² | +8.3% | 903 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €138,000 | €1,413/m² | +4.8% | 7,061 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €105,000 | €1,107/m² | +7.3% | 2,741 |
Note: in Haute-Vienne (87), 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 Haute-Vienne country house is massive and sober: walls in local granite, often covered with a pale render or left exposed as raw rubble, a roof in flat tile or slate in the higher areas towards the Ambazac hills, with door and window surrounds cut from the same granite, sometimes carved with a cross or a dated lintel. The traditional smallholding combines the dwelling and livestock buildings under one roofline or in an L-shape, with a barn, a cowshed and sometimes a chestnut dryer, a legacy of the local farming economy and chestnut growing on the plateau's acid soils. The grander 19th-century manor-style houses, often set in a park planted with cedars or sequoias, are found in market towns such as Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche or Bellac.
The land often includes grazing pasture for Limousin cattle, chestnut or oak woodland, and sometimes a pond with its dam, common on this granite plateau rich in water sources and springs. Stone outbuildings complete the property, in a quiet hamlet or out in open countryside, with open views over the wooded hills, a setting well suited to a move to the countryside, a smallholding, or a farm-stay gîte project drawing on the region's long agricultural tradition.
Limoges, the prefecture and main employment hub of the former Limousin region, anchors the market along the Vienne river valley and attracts buyers seeking remote working in the countryside, less than thirty minutes from the town centre. The Nexon and Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche area, to the south, offers stone houses with large plots in a hilly, wooded setting shaped by the local porcelain tradition. To the east, towards Eymoutiers and the foothills of the Millevaches plateau, buildings become more isolated, between conifer woodland and numerous ponds, in a harsher winter climate. To the north, Bellac and the Gartempe valley, at the gateway to Vienne (86), complete the offer, with a transitional building style between granite and limestone.
Communes close to Limoges, well connected and close to shops, remain the most sought-after, particularly along the ring road and the road to Saint-Yrieix. The south of the department, around Nexon, and the east, around Eymoutiers, more isolated and forested, offer smallholdings to renovate with large plots at noticeably more affordable prices, for buyers willing to trade off urban conveniences for space and quiet.
Proximity to Limoges and to the A20 motorway towards Paris weighs on the price, as does the condition of the building: roof, timber frame, damp common in uninsulated granite walls, and energy rating, often a weak point for old chestnut-wood-heated smallholdings. The size of the plot, woodland, pasture and any pond included, adds notable value, particularly for a gîte project or a livery stable.
Check the private drainage system, the condition of any pond, its dam, or a spring, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, the local planning zoning, the quality of insulation, and the risk of radon, naturally present in the Limousin's granite subsoil and worth testing before moving in, before considering converting a cowshed into living space.
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