Looking for a country house for sale in Nord (59)? Between Flanders, the bocage of the Avesnois and the Hainaut area, the department combines Flemish brick houses with steep roofs, farms built around a square grazing courtyard, manor-style houses in Avesnois blue stone, and village houses with a garden and outbuildings waiting to be renovated. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Nord published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries, from Flanders to the Avesnois.
To help you decide, we present the actual prices of country houses in Nord (notarised sales 2020-2025), the areas worth knowing from Flanders to the Avesnois and the Cambrésis area, 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 Nord (59)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Nord (59) stood at €192,000 in 2025, with an average price of €202,949 and a median price of €1,729/m² of living space (2,388 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €94,560 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €326,720 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 116 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,233 m², i.e. around 0.2 ha.
This market is above the regional median (Hauts-de-France: €175,000) and close to the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €180,000 to €192,000, i.e. +6.7%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is -0.4%.
| 2025 indicator | Nord | Hauts-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €192,000 | €175,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €202,949 | €183,979 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €94,560 | €90,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €326,720 | €290,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,729/m² | €1,686/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 116 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,233 m² | 1,942 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 2,388 | 11,950 | 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 Nord (59) 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) * | €189,500 | €1,501/m² | +53.6% | 34 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €207,000 | €1,855/m² | +0.1% | 9,758 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €157,837 | €1,447/m² | +2.7% | 3,733 |
* Between 30 and 99 sales: indicative value.
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 Flanders, around Cassel, Bergues and Hazebrouck, a country house is almost always built of exposed or rendered brick, with steep tile or slate roofs suited to the wind and rain that sweep the Flemish plain. In the Avesnois, in the east of the department, you find a bocage housing stock in blue stone combined with brick, with traditional farms arranged around an enclosed courtyard, and a few manor-style houses in the market towns around Avesnes-sur-Helpe and Le Quesnoy. Some houses in inland Flanders still show the stepped gables typical of traditional Flemish building.
Land often comes with these houses, especially in the Avesnois: a garden, orchard, adjoining pasture for cattle farming, sometimes a pond, and outbuildings (barn, blue-stone cattle shed) suited to a green gîte project. Many properties sit in a hamlet or small village, well away from the Lille conurbation, yet well connected by road, often with a school and local shops just a few minutes away.
Around Lille, served by the Lille-Europe and Lille-Flandres TGV stations, a suburban country house remains the most sought-after and most expensive in the department, particularly towards Pévèle and the Marque valley. The Douaisis and Cambrésis areas, around Douai and Cambrai, offer more affordable farming countryside, as does the Valenciennes area, shaped by the former mining basin and its gradual redevelopment into a residential area.
The Avesnois, around Avesnes-sur-Helpe and Le Quesnoy, and inland Flanders towards Cassel and the Mont des Récollets, offer the most affordable prices for a brick house with a large plot, suited to a move to the countryside away from the conurbation while staying in France. The Mormal area, around the state forest of the same name, adds further affordable, wooded countryside to this offer, as does rural Pévèle, less sought-after than its suburban fringe.
Three factors dominate: distance to Lille and its TGV stations, the condition of the building (roof, damp in old brick walls, insulation and energy rating, often needing work on unrenovated farmhouses) and the size of the plot with its outbuildings. A renovated manor-style house in Pévèle and a farmhouse to renovate in the Avesnois can show a significant price gap for a comparable living area. A well-preserved blue-stone barn or an old dovecote can also add value to an Avesnois farm.
Check the energy rating, non-collective drainage in rural areas, fibre-optic coverage for remote working and, in the former mining basin around Valenciennes and Denain, any constraints linked to ground-movement risk before buying, as well as flood-prone areas along the Scarpe and Deûle rivers.
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