Looking for a country house for sale in Vosges (88)? Between the Vosges plain and the Vosges mountain range, the department offers a distinctive, authentic mountain rural building stock: a farmhouse-block with a steep roof pitch, a pink-sandstone manor-style house in the market towns, a former farmhouse with a cowshed and a barn. This page brings together, area by area, the country houses for sale in Vosges 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 Vosges, the areas worth knowing from Épinal to the high valleys, and the criteria that determine the value of a mountain country house, from the plot to snow exposure. 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 Vosges (88)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Vosges (88) stood at €147,900 in 2025, with an average price of €151,368 and a median price of €1,411/m² of living space (1,654 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 €241,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 108 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,704 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is close to the regional median (Grand Est: €150,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €127,000 to €147,900, i.e. +16.5%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +2.4%.
| 2025 indicator | Vosges | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €147,900 | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €151,368 | €156,757 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €70,000 | €70,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €241,000 | €255,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,411/m² | €1,400/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 108 m² | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,704 m² | 2,025 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 1,654 | 7,886 | 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 Vosges (88) 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) | €168,000 | €1,692/m² | +13.3% | 1,010 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €147,228 | €1,420/m² | +13.0% | 3,918 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €127,000 | €1,214/m² | +10.0% | 5,173 |
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 Vosges country house is the farmhouse-block: dwelling, barn and cowshed combined under one steeply pitched roof to shed snow, covered in slate or machine-made tile, with a wide overhanging eave protecting the facade from bad weather and the harsh mountain winters. Local pink sandstone, cut as ashlar, adorns the manor-style houses and window surrounds of market towns such as Épinal or Remiremont, while fir or spruce wood often dresses balconies, gables and galleries higher in the mountains around Gérardmer. Smallholdings to renovate are mostly found in the high valleys, around Gérardmer, La Bresse and the Val d'Ajol, sometimes former farm-factories tied to the Vosges textile industry that once wove cotton and lace.
The land combines sloping hay meadow, fir, spruce or beech woodland, and sometimes a small pond in the narrow valleys, a legacy of former sawmills that once shaped the local economy and still dot the landscape today. Traditional outbuildings (barn, dryer, firewood shed) accompany the property, often standing isolated in a hamlet with open views over the ridges and the rounded Vosges summits, a setting popular for a mountain move to the countryside, cross-country skiing in winter or hiking in the warmer months.
Épinal, the prefecture served by a TGV station on the line to Paris, anchors the market on the Vosges plain along the Moselle river, amid meadows and orchards close to the state forest and its well-marked walking trails. Remiremont, also connected to the TGV network, opens onto the Moselotte and Moselle valleys towards the mountain resorts of Gérardmer and La Bresse. To the east, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and the Meurthe valley, at the gateway to Alsace and the Bonhomme pass, offer a more forested setting. To the west, Neufchâteau, Mirecourt, home of French violin-making, and the farming plain remain more affordable, in a gentler, more open landscape.
The high tourist valleys, around Gérardmer and La Bresse, show prices supported by second homes and proximity to the ski slopes and lakes, with demand peaking around the winter and summer holiday seasons. The Vosges plain, around Neufchâteau and Mirecourt, more agricultural and further from the peaks, offers stone farmhouses with large plots at more moderate prices, less than forty minutes from Épinal, for buyers happy to trade mountain views for easier year-round access.
Distance to the TGV stations in Épinal and Remiremont, as well as proximity to the mountain resorts, clearly influence price. The condition of the building matters just as much: roof, timber frame, damp common in the humid mountain climate, insulation and energy rating, a decisive criterion for old wood-heated farmhouse-blocks. The size of the plot, woodland and hay meadow included, adds value, as does year-round vehicle access.
Check the private drainage system, exposure to snow and frost for the roof and timber frame, fibre-optic coverage for remote working, the local planning zoning, winter road access, often dependent on communal snow-clearing schedules, and the risk of radon in the granite areas of the high valleys, before considering converting a barn into living space.
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