Looking for a country house for sale in Puy-de-Dôme (63)? Between the Chaîne des Puys volcanoes, the Limagne plain and the Livradois-Forez hills, the department combines a distinctive volcanic housing stock: an Auvergne house in black lava stone, lava-slab roofs in the Livradois area, a manor-style house in Volvic stone in the plain's market towns, a smallholding to renovate in the mid-mountains. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Puy-de-Dôme published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries, from the Limagne plain to the Livradois hills.
To help you decide, we present the actual prices of country houses in Puy-de-Dôme (notarised sales 2020-2025), the areas worth knowing from the Limagne plain to the Livradois hills and the Sancy massif, 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 altitude into account.
How much does a country house cost in Puy-de-Dôme (63)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Puy-de-Dôme (63) stood at €159,850 in 2025, with an average price of €166,055 and a median price of €1,559/m² of living space (1,848 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €70,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €276,283 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 104 m² of living space on an average plot of 3,730 m², i.e. around 0.4 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: €230,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €140,000 to €159,700, i.e. +14.1%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +3.0%.
| 2025 indicator | Puy-de-Dôme | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €159,850 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €166,055 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €70,000 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €276,283 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,559/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 104 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 3,730 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,848 | 16,528 | 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 Puy-de-Dôme (63) 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 * | €103,000 | €1,199/m² | +11.5% | 66 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €111,565 | €1,200/m² | +20.2% | 1,846 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €200,750 | €1,946/m² | +5.9% | 4,903 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €123,500 | €1,246/m² | +7.5% | 4,088 |
* Between 30 and 99 sales: indicative value.
Note: in Puy-de-Dôme (63), the municipalities classified as "coastline" have no access to the sea. They are municipalities bordering lakes of more than 1,000 hectares (or, in Eure, the Seine estuary) covered by the 1986 Loi Littoral, which also applies to such inland lakes and estuaries.
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.
An Auvergne country house is recognisable by its walls of volcanic stone, often Volvic stone, with its characteristic dark grey colour, and by its heavy lava-slab roof in the Livradois-Forez area or slate elsewhere in the department. You will find bourgeois manor-style houses in the market towns of the Limagne plain, low, compact farmhouses in the mid-mountains, designed to withstand cold and wind, and smallholdings to renovate in the Combrailles hills west of Clermont-Ferrand.
The land is often sloping or used as summer pasture: a garden, an orchard, sometimes coniferous or beech woodland, and outbuildings (barn, stone cattle shed) to convert into a gîte or an artist's workshop. Many properties are found in an isolated hamlet, peaceful and with open views of the volcanoes or the Forez hills, a setting sought after for a genuine move to the countryside, away from urban bustle yet within reasonable reach of local services.
Around Clermont-Ferrand and the fertile, dark-soiled Limagne plain, a suburban country house is the most sought-after. The Chaîne des Puys, a World Heritage site, and the Besse and Sancy area attract buyers looking for a mountain holiday home, despite the department having no direct TGV station, the city relying mainly on road and air links towards Paris and Lyon.
The Combrailles hills to the west and the Livradois-Forez area, around Thiers and Ambert, offer the most affordable prices for a stone house with a large plot, an area suited to a move to the countryside or a rural gîte project, amid forests and steep valleys.
Three factors dominate: proximity to Clermont-Ferrand and the Limagne plain, the condition of the building (a lava-slab roof that is costly to maintain, damp in volcanic stone walls, insulation and energy rating, often poor in the mid-mountains) and the size of the plot, sometimes steeply sloped. A renovated manor-style house in the Limagne plain and a smallholding to renovate in the Livradois area can differ in price by a factor of three, for a comparable living area. A captured spring or a volcanic-stone cattle shed in good condition often adds value to these properties.
Check the energy rating, private drainage at altitude, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, still incomplete in some summer-pasture hamlets, and the planning rules, particularly within the Volcans d'Auvergne regional nature park, before converting a barn into living space or extending an existing smallholding.
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