Looking for a country house for sale in Landes (40)? Between the pine forests of the Landes de Gascogne, the Adour valley and the Atlantic coast, the department has a very distinctive rural style: a Landes-style timber-framed house on a brick base, an airial farmhouse tucked under oak trees, or a stone longère from the Chalosse hills. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Landes 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 Landes (notarised sales 2020-2025), the areas worth knowing from Dax to Mont-de-Marsan, and the criteria that determine the value of a house in the countryside. 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 Landes (40)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Landes (40) stood at €236,758 in 2025, with an average price of €253,532 and a median price of €2,250/m² of living space (2,208 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €136,874 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €400,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 111 m² of living space on an average plot of 3,628 m², i.e. around 0.4 ha.
This market is well above the regional median (Nouvelle-Aquitaine: €170,000) and well above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €200,000 to €236,670, i.e. +18.3%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +5.2%.
| 2025 indicator | Landes | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €236,758 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €253,532 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €136,874 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €400,000 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,250/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 111 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 3,628 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 2,208 | 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 Landes (40) 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 | €316,000 | €3,243/m² | +2.6% | 997 |
| Residential coastline | €365,000 | €3,679/m² | -1.9% | 475 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €300,000 | €3,039/m² | +9.9% | 496 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €220,000 | €2,045/m² | +11.9% | 7,010 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €210,000 | €2,033/m² | +5.9% | 4,753 |
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 traditional Landes house combines a brick or pebble base with a wooden half-timbered frame and a wide canopy roof that shields the facade from the weather, under a low-pitched tuile canal roof. The airial, a clearing planted with oak trees around a smallholding, is its most characteristic setting, particularly in the Born and Marensin areas. In Chalosse to the south, around Montfort-en-Chalosse and Amou, stone farmhouses and half-timbered buildings inspired by neighbouring Béarn are more common, while 19th-century manor-style houses line the spa and wine-growing market towns. The low-pitched roofs typical of the Landes house require a suitable frame, worth checking before buying any older building.
The land is a major asset: a pine-planted plot once tapped for resin and now used for forestry, a shaded garden, an orchard of kiwis or Ente plums, sometimes a hectare of workable woodland. Outbuildings (barn, maize drying shed, wine cellar) are common on former agricultural holdings, and some pine sheepfolds can be converted into a gîte, subject to local planning rules. Some airial clearings retain a central well and centuries-old listed oak trees, a landscape heritage worth preserving.
Around Dax and its TGV station, country houses benefit from direct access to Bordeaux and Paris, which keeps demand strong. Towards Mont-de-Marsan and Chalosse (Saint-Sever, Hagetmau), the rural market stays more affordable, amid farmed hills and rivers. The Mimizan–Biscarrosse–Hossegor triangle, together with Soustons and Vieux-Boucau, close to the coast and its lakes, has the highest prices in the department, driven by holiday homes. The Marensin and Born areas, deep in the forest, offer a balance between peace and proximity to the coast. Dax's spa and health-tourism economy, combined with nearby beaches at Léon or Vieux-Boucau, broadens demand beyond the coast itself. Surfers and second-home buyers increasingly compete for property around Hossegor and Seignosse, pushing prices well above the departmental average.
Further inland, around Gabarret, Villeneuve-de-Marsan or Roquefort, farmhouses to renovate with large plots sell for noticeably less than in the coastal areas, with open views over the Landes and Gascon countryside, a land of maize farming and label-certified poultry. Farmhouses in southern Landes, in Chalosse, also appeal to lovers of local food and wine, from foie gras to the Tursan vineyard.
Three factors dominate: proximity to the coast or to a TGV station, the condition of the timber structure (frame, roof, damp) and the size of the wooded plot, which can account for a large share of the price once it runs to several hectares, subject to its condition after storms Klaus (2009) and Martin (1999). A renovated Landes house near the ocean and a Chalosse smallholding to renovate on a large plot can differ considerably in price. Poplar and pine forestry remain common uses of the land, with a specific tax regime worth knowing for larger wooded plots.
Always check the private drainage system, common in rural areas, the energy rating of older timber-framed houses, wildfire risk in summer, which requires mandatory brush clearing, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, and local planning rules in forested zones, especially for any project to extend or convert an outbuilding into living space. Proximity to a forest also means checking the legal brush-clearing obligations, which vary from one commune to another. Termite risk is also worth checking in older timber-framed houses, since the pest is officially recorded across large parts of the department.
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