Looking for a country house for sale in Vienne (86)? On the Poitou threshold, between plain and bocage, the department offers a sober, well-preserved rural building stock in golden limestone: a Poitou manor-style house, a smallholding with a barn, a village house under a flat-tile roof. This page brings together, area by area, the country houses for sale in Vienne 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 Vienne, the areas worth knowing from Poitiers to Montmorillon, and the criteria that determine the value of a Poitou country house, from the plot to the condition of the building. 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 Vienne (86)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Vienne (86) stood at €144,000 in 2025, with an average price of €149,834 and a median price of €1,414/m² of living space (2,311 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €72,900 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €237,777 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 107 m² of living space on an average plot of 3,411 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Nouvelle-Aquitaine: €170,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €132,000 to €144,000, i.e. +9.1%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +4.3%.
| 2025 indicator | Vienne | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €144,000 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €149,834 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €72,900 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €237,777 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,414/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 107 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 3,411 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 2,311 | 26,126 | 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 Vienne (86) 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) | €110,330 | €1,115/m² | +8.5% | 392 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €155,000 | €1,535/m² | +8.7% | 9,370 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €107,500 | €1,056/m² | +9.5% | 4,512 |
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 Vienne country house is recognisable by its golden limestone, notably Chauvigny stone, cut as rubble for farm buildings or ashlar for the manor-style houses of the market towns, with their carved cornices, painted shutters and sometimes a double-flight stone staircase leading to a raised ground floor. The roof, in flat tile or slate depending on the area, particularly towards the Loudun area near Touraine, tops buildings with regularly spaced openings and thick walls that keep the heat out in summer but are often prone to damp without perimeter drainage. The smallholding to renovate, with its adjoining barn, well and bread oven, remains common in the arable countryside around Civray and Loudun, land long devoted to cereal farming.
The land often combines hay meadow, a walnut or apple orchard, and sometimes a small oak wood or a watering pond fed by a spring. Stone outbuildings (barn, cowshed, the square dovecote typical of Poitou) complete the property, in a hamlet or just outside a village, guaranteeing peace and quiet and open views over the surrounding fields, well suited to a move to the countryside, a smallholding, or keeping horses on a few hectares of pasture.
Poitiers, served by the TGV station less than ninety minutes from Paris, anchors the market around the Clain valley and benefits from the local job market linked to the Futuroscope theme park. Châtellerault, to the north, also has a TGV station and sits close to the Vienne river and its former cutlery industry, now repurposed. To the east, the Montmorillon area, between Montmorillon and the Gartempe river, offers a more rural, wooded setting at the gateway to the Limousin and its granite bocage landscapes. To the south, the Civray area, and to the west the Loudun area with its old windmills, complete the range of country houses on offer, amid large cereal farms and the vineyards of the Haut-Poitou.
The outskirts of Poitiers and Châtellerault, well connected and close to employment hubs, remain the most sought-after areas, along with the Neuville-de-Poitou area around the Haut-Poitou vineyards. The Montmorillon and Civray areas, further from the TGV lines and more rural, offer stone houses with large plots at more affordable prices, in a quiet, wooded setting well suited to a gîte project or a change of pace away from the busier towns.
Distance to the TGV stations in Poitiers and Châtellerault strongly influences price, as does the condition of the building: roof, timber frame, damp in limestone walls and energy rating, often a weak point for uninsulated, single-glazed old buildings common in the Civray area. The size of the plot, pasture, woodland and any pond included, also plays an important role in setting the price, as does the presence of Haut-Poitou appellation vines or a well-preserved dovecote.
Check the private drainage system, the presence of a well or a pond, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, the local planning zoning, the condition of the timber frame, and the risk of clay-shrinkage subsidence on Poitou's cracked limestone soils, particularly after dry summers, before considering converting a barn into living space or a gîte.
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