Looking for a country house for sale in Nièvre (58)? Between the granite Morvan hills, the Loire valley and the Nivernais plain, the department offers a varied rural housing stock: a Nivernais longère in rendered limestone, a manor-style house in a village centre along the Loire, a Morvan farmhouse in granite under a flat-tile roof, a village house with garden, orchard and outbuildings. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Nièvre published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries, from Nevers to the heart of the Morvan, via the Loire valley and the Nivernais canal.
To help you decide, we present the actual prices of country houses in Nièvre (notarised sales 2020-2025), the areas worth knowing from Nevers to the Morvan and the Loire valley, 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, taking into account the harsher climate of the Morvan.
How much does a country house cost in Nièvre (58)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Nièvre (58) stood at €100,000 in 2025, with an average price of €105,510 and a median price of €1,065/m² of living space (1,371 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €46,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €172,900 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 97 m² of living space on an average plot of 3,364 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: €157,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €85,000 to €100,000, i.e. +17.6%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +7.8%.
| 2025 indicator | Nièvre | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €100,000 | €157,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €105,510 | €168,680 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €46,000 | €74,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €172,900 | €279,670 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,065/m² | €1,525/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 97 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 3,364 m² | 2,805 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,371 | 11,450 | 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 Nièvre (58) 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) | €85,000 | €943/m² | +19.3% | 2,513 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €110,000 | €1,157/m² | -1.8% | 2,386 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €86,940 | €964/m² | +18.8% | 3,428 |
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 Morvan, a country house is built of local granite, with thick walls that can exceed fifty centimetres, under a flat-tile or slate roof depending on altitude and area, with narrow windows reflecting harsh, snowy winters. In the Nivernais and the Loire valley, you find more manor-style houses and farmhouses in rendered limestone, brighter in feel and easier to insulate, sometimes with an adjoining smallholding to renovate for a gîte project.
The land is often generous: a garden, an orchard of apple and pear trees, an adjoining meadow, sometimes a pond or a small lake inherited from the department's Charolais cattle-farming tradition, and outbuildings (barn, cattle shed, hay shed) to convert into a workshop, a gîte or a separate dwelling. Many properties sit in a hamlet, quiet and surrounded by woodland and bocage meadows, sometimes with an old spring or wash-house close by.
Around Nevers and the Loire valley, a country house benefits from direct access to the station and to the roads towards Paris and Lyon, an asset for a main home combined with work in town. Towards La Charité-sur-Loire and Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, the charm of the Loire valley and its slopes attracts buyers looking for a holiday home, often drawn by the light and the neighbouring Sancerre vineyards across the Loire. The central Nivernais, around Château-Chinon and Clamecy, mixes livestock bocage, the Nivernais canal and state forests, in a landscape that remains largely rural.
The Morvan, around Château-Chinon, Lake Pannecière and Lake des Settons, offers the most affordable prices for a stone house with a large wooded plot, an area sought after for a move to the countryside or a gîte project, less than an hour from the Le Creusot-Montceau TGV station in neighbouring Saône-et-Loire.
Three factors dominate: distance to Nevers or to nearby TGV stations, the condition of the building (roof, damp in granite walls, insulation and energy rating, often poor for Morvan farmhouses with a mediocre energy rating) and the size of the wooded or pasture plot. A renovated manor-style house in the Loire valley and a farmhouse to renovate deep in the Morvan can show a marked price gap for a comparable living area. A well, a spring or an old stone sheepfold can also work in favour of a property sought after for its authenticity.
Also check the private drainage system, the presence of a spring or well, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, still uneven in the most isolated parts of the Morvan, and the planning rules, particularly within the Morvan regional nature park, before converting a barn into living space or extending an existing smallholding.
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