Looking for a country house for sale in Vendée (85)? Between the Vendée bocage, the Poitevin marsh and the Breton marsh, the department keeps a sober, authentic rural building stock: a low longère in limestone or granite, a village house with a garden, a former farmhouse with a barn, a maize dryer and a farm shed. This page brings together, area by area, the country houses for sale in Vendée published on ma-propriete.fr by private sellers, estate agents and notaries.
To help you decide, we present the actual prices of country houses in Vendée, the areas worth knowing from the bocage to the coast, and the criteria that determine the value of a longère, from the plot to the condition of the roof. Our complete guide to buying a country house in France completes these benchmarks, from surveying an old building to financing a renovation project.
How much does a country house cost in Vendée (85)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Vendée (85) stood at €210,000 in 2025, with an average price of €218,042 and a median price of €2,127/m² of living space (4,110 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €120,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €330,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 104 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,093 m², i.e. around 0.2 ha.
This market is above the regional median (Pays de la Loire: €190,000) and above the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €180,000 to €210,000, i.e. +16.7%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +2.9%.
| 2025 indicator | Vendée | Pays de la Loire | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €210,000 | €190,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €218,042 | €199,126 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €120,000 | €100,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €330,000 | €308,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,127/m² | €1,875/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 104 m² | 106 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,093 m² | 2,947 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 4,110 | 14,604 | 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 Vendée (85) 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 | €270,000 | €2,969/m² | +8.0% | 3,723 |
| Residential coastline | €197,990 | €2,094/m² | +5.3% | 1,158 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €192,000 | €2,010/m² | +11.1% | 315 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €209,100 | €2,072/m² | +6.2% | 8,367 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €184,000 | €1,850/m² | +6.2% | 11,279 |
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.
The typical Vendée country house is the bocage longère: a low, elongated rubble-stone building in limestone or granite depending on the area, a roof in flat tile or slate on the higher bocage ground around Pouzauges, a regular facade with small windows and blue or green shutters typical of the region, often paired with a bread oven built into the gable end. In the Poitevin and Breton marsh, smaller, pale lime-rendered houses suited to the damp ground, some set on piles in the lowest-lying areas, are organised around the smallholding and its outbuildings: shed, maize dryer, former livestock building to renovate or already renovated into a gîte, sometimes with a flat-bottomed boat moored along a canal.
The land remains generous: a meadow or pasture enclosed by hedgerows and pollarded oaks, a cider-apple orchard, sometimes a small pond or a poplar- and ash-lined marsh ditch. These properties are often isolated or in a hamlet, with open views over the surrounding countryside, easy access to rural lanes, room for a vegetable garden or a few animals, and occasionally a right of way over a communal track worth checking before buying.
La Roche-sur-Yon, the central prefecture built on a grid plan commissioned by Napoleon, anchors the Vendée bocage market with good dual-carriageway and rail links to Nantes and La Rochelle. Towards Fontenay-le-Comte and the Poitevin marsh, criss-crossed by waterways and poplars and protected as a regional nature park, buildings sit lower and are more prone to damp, valued for their peace and quiet and their traditional flat-bottomed boats. The north-west, around Challans and the Breton marsh, combines livestock-farming countryside with proximity to the coast around Notre-Dame-de-Monts. The bocage proper, around Pouzauges, the department's highest point near the Mont des Alouettes, Mortagne-sur-Sèvre and Les Herbiers, keeps more moderate prices, in a landscape of live hedgerows and small chestnut woods.
Communes close to the coast, from Les Sables-d'Olonne to Saint-Jean-de-Monts and Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, push prices up through the second-home effect and summer tourist pressure that clogs the roads in July and August. The inland bocage, around Pouzauges or Mortagne-sur-Sèvre, offers longères with large plots at more affordable prices, in an unspoilt rural setting well served by road, less than forty-five minutes from La Roche-sur-Yon.
The distance to the coast remains decisive, ahead of the condition of the building: roof, timber frame, damp, common in marsh areas, insulation and energy rating, often in need of improvement in old longères with unlined rubble-stone walls and small original windows. The size of the plot, especially adjoining meadows and access to a ditch or marsh canal, also matters a great deal to buyers seeking a move to the countryside, as does room for animals, a vegetable garden or a chicken coop, and the presence of mature trees offering shade in summer.
Check the private drainage system, often needed outside town centres, flood or high-water-table risk in marsh areas, particularly on the lowest-lying plots of the Poitevin marsh, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, the local planning zoning and the condition of hedgerows, protected in some communes, before considering converting a shed into a workshop or a gîte.
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