Looking for a country house for sale in Loir-et-Cher (41)? Between the wooded ponds of the Sologne, the listed Loire Valley and the grain plain of the Beauce, the department offers a wide variety of rural properties: a Sologne-style house with brick and timber framing, a manor-style house built of tuffeau limestone, or a Beauce farmhouse with imposing agricultural volumes. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Loir-et-Cher 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 Loir-et-Cher (notarised sales 2020-2025), the areas worth knowing from Blois to Vendôme, 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 Loir-et-Cher (41)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Loir-et-Cher (41) stood at €145,000 in 2025, with an average price of €152,715 and a median price of €1,485/m² of living space (1,924 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €80,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €240,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 102 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,895 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is close to the regional median (Centre-Val de Loire: €150,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €133,000 to €145,000, i.e. +9.0%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +2.5%.
| 2025 indicator | Loir-et-Cher | Centre-Val de Loire | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €145,000 | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €152,715 | €157,230 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €80,000 | €75,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €240,000 | €251,580 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,485/m² | €1,519/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 102 m² | 103 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,895 m² | 2,999 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,924 | 10,907 | 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 Loir-et-Cher (41) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €122,500 | €1,223/m² | +17.4% | 314 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €164,897 | €1,656/m² | +5.6% | 4,506 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €130,000 | €1,350/m² | +4.0% | 7,316 |
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 the Sologne, around Romorantin, Salbris or La Ferté-Saint-Cyr, the typical country house combines timber framing and brick under a flat tile roof, often low and discreet among the woods and ponds. In the Loire Valley, near Chambord, Cheverny or Chaumont-sur-Loire, white tuffeau limestone dominates, giving rise to manor-style houses near the region's châteaux, while the Beauce plain to the north, around Ouzouer-le-Marché and Marchenoir, reveals large brick or limestone farmhouses built around a closed courtyard for grain farming. Sologne timber framing, often painted red or brown, is a regional marker found even on the most modest outbuildings. Half-timbered outbuildings, once used as barns or stables, are increasingly converted into guest cottages for a bed-and-breakfast or gîte business.
The land varies greatly by area: a small enclosed garden around a Sologne longère, a large park planted with century-old trees around a manor-style house, or vast unfenced farmland in the Beauce. Outbuildings (barn, dovecote, old wine cellar, fruit store) remain common on rural properties, and a private pond in the Sologne is subject to specific fishery regulations worth checking before buying. A well-maintained pond, with its dyke and sluices in good order, adds real practical value, particularly for fishing or wildfowling.
Around Blois, the prefecture on the banks of the Loire served by regional trains from Orléans, Tours and Paris, and Vendôme with its direct TGV station to Paris, the country house market stays active, driven by remote working. The Sologne, around Romorantin-Lanthenay and Lamotte-Beuvron, attracts buyers for its wooded setting and ponds, with firm prices near well-known hunting grounds. Towards Montoire-sur-le-Loir and the Vendômois area, the Loir valley offers a more affordable and equally rural setting. Proximity to the royal châteaux, busy in the tourist season, can also bring traffic that is worth anticipating.
To the north, the Beauce plain (around Beaugency, Ouzouer-le-Marché) offers large farmhouses at noticeably more accessible prices than the Loire Valley, provided you accept a more open, less wooded landscape, typical of vast grain fields stretching to the horizon. The Vendômois Perche area to the west offers a more understated style, of stone and cob, at still-moderate prices. Buyers drawn to the Beauce plain often come from a farming background themselves, or plan to lease the land to a local grain producer.
Three criteria dominate: proximity to the Loire or to a TGV station, the condition of the old building (roof timber, tuffeau stonework, damp, energy rating), clay-shrinkage subsidence risk fairly present on Beauce soils, and the presence of a pond or a large wooded plot in the Sologne, highly sought after but subject to specific regulations. A renovated manor-style house in the Loire Valley and a Beauce farmhouse to renovate can show a marked price gap. Easements tied to a listed pond or a Natura 2000 zone can limit certain works, including the extension of an outbuilding.
Check the private drainage system common in rural areas, the energy rating of tuffeau or timber-framed buildings, damp in troglodyte cellars sometimes attached to tuffeau houses, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, and local planning rules, particularly in wetland zones or near a protected pond. Radon remains rare on the Loire Valley's limestone soils, unlike the granite massifs further east in the country. Termite risk is also worth checking in the region's older timber-framed buildings, since parts of the Loir-et-Cher fall within a declared infestation zone.
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