Looking for a country house for sale in Orne (61)? Between the Perche area, the Orne bocage and the Alpes mancelles hills, the department combines an appealing rural housing stock: a timber-framed Perche manor house, a granite longère in the bocage, a manor-style house in the market towns around Alençon, a timber-framed farm combined with brick. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Orne published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries, from Alençon to the Perche.
To help you decide, we present the actual prices of country houses in Orne (notarised sales 2020-2025), the areas worth knowing from Alençon to the Perche and the bocage, 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 Orne (61)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Orne (61) stood at €139,000 in 2025, with an average price of €146,959 and a median price of €1,427/m² of living space (1,719 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €75,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €230,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 102 m² of living space on an average plot of 4,986 m², i.e. around 0.5 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Normandy: €189,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €125,000 to €138,900, i.e. +11.1%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +1.4%.
| 2025 indicator | Orne | Normandy | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €139,000 | €189,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €146,959 | €197,998 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €75,000 | €100,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €230,000 | €304,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,427/m² | €1,872/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 102 m² | 106 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 4,986 m² | 3,500 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,719 | 14,367 | 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 Orne (61) 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) | €150,000 | €1,450/m² | +27.7% | 683 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €132,000 | €1,315/m² | +10.0% | 2,586 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €130,000 | €1,354/m² | +8.0% | 7,965 |
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 Perche area, in the south-east of the department, a country house often takes the form of a manor house or a longère with timber framing combined with brick and cob infill, under steeply pitched flat-tile or slate roofs. In the Orne bocage further west, granite dominates, a more rustic and darker material, sometimes complemented by a manor-style house in dressed stone in the market towns around Alençon, Sées or Argentan. The Ouche area, to the east, also offers timber-framed houses close to the traditional Normandy style.
Land is a central feature of these houses: a garden, an orchard of apple trees for cider and calvados, adjoining pasture for horses, sometimes a pond, and outbuildings (barn, dovecote, stable) that recall the department's equestrian tradition, renowned for its stud farms. Many properties are found in a hamlet, at the heart of well-preserved bocage, away from main roads, with hedgerows marking the boundary of each plot and often a small adjoining wood.
Around Alençon, the county town linked to Paris and Le Mans, a suburban country house remains sought after for its peace and quiet and its road and rail links. The Perche area, around Mortagne-au-Perche and Bellême, attracts Parisian buyers looking for a holiday home amid a landscape of manor houses and stud farms, less than an hour from Le Mans TGV station in neighbouring Sarthe, an area where prices remain well above the regional average.
Towards Domfront and the Normandy bocage, on the edge of Mayenne, prices remain more affordable for a granite longère with a large plot, an area suited to a move to the countryside or an equestrian gîte project, amid ponds and steep valleys. The Argentan area and the Orne valley offer a compromise between affordability and proximity to the main roads.
Three factors dominate: proximity to the Parisian Perche or to Alençon, the condition of the building (roof, damp in timber frames or granite walls, insulation and energy rating, often needing work on old manor houses with a poor energy rating) and the size of the plot with its equestrian outbuildings. A renovated Perche manor house and a longère to renovate in the bocage can show a marked price gap for an equivalent living area. A functional stable or an existing riding arena are features valued by horse enthusiasts.
Check the energy rating, private drainage, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, still uneven in the most isolated hamlets, and the planning rules, particularly within the Perche regional nature park, before converting a barn or dovecote into living space, or adding an extension to a listed manor house.
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