Looking for a country house for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine? From the golden stone of the Périgord to half-timbered Basque farmhouses and Limousin granite, France's largest region brings together an extraordinary diversity of rural buildings: Gironde chartreuses, Charente houses, Landes farmhouses, Creuse farm buildings. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine 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 Nouvelle-Aquitaine by department (recent notarised sales), the areas worth knowing from the Périgord to the Basque Country, 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.
How much does a country house cost in Nouvelle-Aquitaine? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Nouvelle-Aquitaine stood at €170,000 in 2025, with an average price of €188,636 and a median price of €1,657/m² of living space (26,126 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). 10% of houses sold for less than €83,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €315,785 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house offers 110 m² of living space on an average plot of 4,005 m², i.e. around 0.4 ha.
The region is below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the regional median price has risen from €157,000 to €170,000, i.e. +8.3%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +1.2%.
| 2025 indicator | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|
| Median price | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 26,126 | 150,313 |
Differences between departments are significant: the median ranges from €91,800 in Creuse (23) to €237,400 in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charente (16) | €138,000 | €145,132 | €1,336/m² | +6.2% | 2,105 |
| Charente-Maritime (17) | €214,000 | €230,241 | €2,027/m² | +13.2% | 3,219 |
| Corrèze (19) | €139,000 | €144,076 | €1,409/m² | +12.9% | 1,320 |
| Creuse (23) | €91,800 | €97,479 | €930/m² | +25.5% | 1,054 |
| Dordogne (24) | €162,300 | €176,682 | €1,650/m² | +8.7% | 3,105 |
| Gironde (33) | €231,000 | €247,827 | €2,231/m² | +2.7% | 3,405 |
| Landes (40) | €236,758 | €253,532 | €2,250/m² | +18.3% | 2,208 |
| Lot-et-Garonne (47) | €171,000 | €181,641 | €1,640/m² | +13.6% | 1,621 |
| Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64) | €237,400 | €254,839 | €2,095/m² | +18.1% | 1,557 |
| Deux-Sèvres (79) | €144,065 | €146,778 | €1,316/m² | +13.4% | 2,410 |
| Vienne (86) | €144,000 | €149,834 | €1,414/m² | +9.1% | 2,311 |
| Haute-Vienne (87) | €130,000 | €135,426 | €1,345/m² | +11.1% | 1,811 |
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 Nouvelle-Aquitaine 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 | €310,000 | €3,269/m² | +3.3% | 5,594 |
| Residential coastline | €235,000 | €2,328/m² | -4.0% | 4,184 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €133,000 | €1,312/m² | +3.8% | 8,860 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €189,000 | €1,788/m² | +5.2% | 74,824 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €142,000 | €1,364/m² | +5.1% | 68,913 |
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.
In Dordogne and Corrèze, the country house stands out for its golden limestone or granite stone, under a lauze stone-slab or brown tile roof, sometimes with a small tower or dovecote inherited from Périgord building tradition, as seen around Brantôme, Sarlat and Terrasson, along the Dordogne and Vézère rivers. In Charente and Charente-Maritime, the white dressed-stone Charente house with pastel shutters, and the long, low Gironde chartreuse under a canal-tile roof, dominate the wine-growing landscape around Bordeaux, Cognac and Saintes. In the Landes, the timber-framed and brick Landes farmhouse, often built around an enclosed courtyard, stands out near Mont-de-Marsan and Dax, while in the Basque Country (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), the Basque house with red or green timber frames, matching shutters and a steep, asymmetric roof is iconic around Espelette and Cambo-les-Bains. The Limousin area (Creuse, Haute-Vienne), with its more rolling terrain between the Vienne and Creuse valleys, has more austere granite farmhouses, often needing renovation, with dry-stone outbuildings.
The land around these country houses ranges from small vineyard gardens planted with vines or walnut trees to vast properties of several hectares with chestnut woodland, a pond and agricultural outbuildings (barn, tobacco-drying shed, dovecote), common in Dordogne, Corrèze and Deux-Sèvres. Along the Charente coast and in the Médoc, plots tend to be more modest, an enclosed garden with a few rows of vines, whereas further inland, in the Charente Limousine or the Périgord Vert, wooded parcels and hedgerow pastures of several hectares remain the norm, sometimes with a spring or stream at the bottom of the valley.
The Arcachon basin and the area around Bordeaux (Gironde), extending to the Médoc and the Libournais around Saint-Émilion, are among the most expensive parts of the region, driven by the vineyard and the Atlantic coast. The Basque Country, around Bayonne and Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), and the Périgord Noir around Sarlat, Domme and Beynac-et-Cazenac (Dordogne), along the Dordogne valley, are also highly sought after for their built heritage and quality of life. Around La Rochelle and Rochefort (Charente-Maritime), the country house benefits from proximity to the Atlantic coast and the Charente estuary, while the Landes pine forest, between Mimizan and Biscarrosse, appeals for its calm and large wooded properties.
Creuse, Haute-Vienne and inland Lot-et-Garonne, around Villeneuve-sur-Lot or Nérac, by contrast, offer noticeably more accessible prices for comparable stone buildings with a large plot, making them favoured destinations for a move to the countryside, a rural gîte project or a quiet holiday home. The Périgord Vert, around Nontron, and northern Charente, towards Confolens, follow the same pattern, with village houses or farm buildings to renovate offered on generous plots.
The TGV connection via the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique high-speed line (Bordeaux, Angoulême, Poitiers) strongly boosts rural communes within thirty minutes of these stations, much sought after for remote working towards Paris. Further south, towards Bayonne, Dax or Mont-de-Marsan, the line remains conventional and journeys are made by TER regional trains or Intercités, which does not stop these areas being attractive for their quality of life. Proximity to the Atlantic coast and the Basque Country also plays a major role, as does the condition of the building: an uninsulated old stone house with an unfavourable energy rating often needs roof, timber-frame and insulation work before it can serve as a year-round main home.
Check the drainage system, often non-mains in many rural hamlets, the presence of a well or spring, the risk of clay-shrinkage subsidence common in Charente and Charente-Maritime, fibre-optic availability for remote working, and the local plan rules if you intend to convert a barn, dovecote or tobacco shed into living space or a gîte.
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