Looking for a country house for sale in Seine-Saint-Denis (93)? The most urbanised and densest department of the inner Paris ring after Hauts-de-Seine, it has practically no rural areas: from Saint-Denis to Montreuil, via Bobigny and Aulnay-sous-Bois, apartment blocks and suburban houses dominate the landscape by far. This page nonetheless brings together the country houses for sale available in and near Seine-Saint-Denis, published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries.
Here we give you Île-de-France-wide price benchmarks, the department's few green pockets (the Bondy forest, the Courneuve park) and, above all, the neighbouring departments where a genuine country house with land can be found. Our complete guide to buying a country house in France details the key criteria, from surveying an old building to financing.
Seine-Saint-Denis has virtually no rural municipalities as defined by INSEE: the statistics below cover country houses across the whole Île-de-France region, where the closest properties to this department are located.
How much does a country house cost in Île-de-France? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Île-de-France stood at €280,000 in 2025, with an average price of €295,207 and a median price of €2,603/m² of living space (3,611 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). 10% of houses sold for less than €171,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €435,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house offers 116 m² of living space on an average plot of 1,590 m², i.e. around 0.2 ha.
The region is well above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the regional median price has risen from €274,325 to €280,000, i.e. +2.1%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +3.6%.
| 2025 indicator | Île-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|
| Median price | €280,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €295,207 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €171,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €435,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,603/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 116 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 1,590 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 3,611 | 150,313 |
Differences between departments are significant: the median ranges from €250,600 in Seine-et-Marne (77) to €346,650 in Yvelines (78). The table below compares 2025 prices and their change since 2020.
| Department | Median price 2025 | Average price 2025 | Median price per m² | Change 2020-2025 | Sales 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seine-et-Marne (77) | €250,600 | €259,889 | €2,368/m² | +2.3% | 2,149 |
| Yvelines (78) | €346,650 | €378,718 | €2,966/m² | -1.0% | 763 |
| Essonne (91) | €284,600 | €297,767 | €2,741/m² | +3.5% | 433 |
| Val-d'Oise (95) | €333,000 | €336,830 | €2,993/m² | +0.5% | 266 |
A regional average also hides large gaps between municipalities. 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 Île-de-France 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) | €250,000 | €2,369/m² | -1.3% | 135 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €289,000 | €2,645/m² | -5.6% | 22,270 |
These benchmarks help you assess a listing, estimate a property before putting it up for sale, or set your budget, whether you are looking for a holiday home, a permanent move to the French countryside or a property to turn into a rural gîte. 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.
Seine-Saint-Denis is almost entirely built up with apartment blocks and interwar suburban houses, many in millstone grit, in Aulnay-sous-Bois, Drancy, Le Blanc-Mesnil or Bondy. As elsewhere in the inner ring, the clay-and-limestone subsoil of the Plaine de France never supported a structured farming region across the department: you will find no longère, no manor-style house with grounds, no farmhouse to convert, as property pressure linked to Paris and the Grand Paris Express erased this kind of rural building long ago. Even the large social-housing programmes built around Bobigny and La Courneuve in the 1960s and 1970s left no room for detached houses with a meaningful plot.
A few bourgeois villas remain in Le Raincy or Gagny, on the edge of the Bondy forest, built in millstone grit or brick under slate roofs when the Paris bourgeoisie took country retreats there around the turn of the 20th century. They keep a wooded garden, but no orchard or agricultural outbuildings, on plots far smaller than a genuine country house; their energy rating often suffers from poorly insulated old walls and original joinery. Their small gardens are valued today mainly for the mature trees they still hold, rather than for any farming potential.
For a holiday home or a move to the countryside project with land, look beyond the inner ring. To the east, Seine-et-Marne, around Meaux, the Ourcq area or the Marne valley, retains Brie-style farmhouses in millstone grit and brick with land, sometimes a pond or a dovecote. To the north, Val-d'Oise and the Pays de France area offer a more classic rural housing stock around villages such as Dammartin-en-Goële or Othis, in limestone and half-timbering. Seine-Saint-Denis has no TGV station of its own: the high-speed network is reached via Paris-Nord station or Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, around thirty minutes away depending on the commune. Buyers who accept moving a little further from Paris typically gain several times the plot size for a comparable budget as soon as they cross the department boundary.
Within the department, the communes closest to green spaces - Le Raincy, Gagny, Coubron, Vaujours - remain noticeably more expensive than any country house further out, for a plot nothing like the scale of a Brie or Picardy farmstead. Even a modest increase in distance from central Paris can make the difference between a garden and genuine grounds.
Once outside Seine-Saint-Denis, the usual country house criteria matter again: the condition of the old building, roof and insulation quality, energy rating, a quiet hamlet setting, and the size of the plot available for a garden or outbuildings. Private drainage, common once you leave the towns of Seine-et-Marne or Val-d'Oise, should be checked, along with compliance with the local plan if a farm outbuilding is meant to become living space. A structural survey of the roof and foundations is particularly worthwhile on farmhouses that have stood empty for several years.
Also check travel time to Paris via RER B or D, or via Paris-Nord station and Roissy airport, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, and exposure to clay-shrinkage subsidence, common on the loamy plateaux of Brie and the Pays de France. Comparing two or three neighbouring departments against these criteria usually moves the search along faster than browsing listings one at a time. A quick call to the town hall usually confirms these points before a viewing.
On ma-propriete.fr, since the supply of country houses in Seine-Saint-Denis is almost non-existent, widen your search directly to all country houses for sale in Île-de-France, and filter by budget, living space and land area to target the best-suited neighbouring departments.
