Looking for a country house for sale in Île-de-France? Beyond the Paris metropolitan area, the Brie, Gâtinais and Vexin areas and the forests of the Yvelines retain genuine rural buildings: houses built of meulière millstone, Brie longères, former farmhouses in dressed stone. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Île-de-France 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 Île-de-France by department (recent notarised sales), the areas worth knowing from Brie to the Vexin, 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 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.
The Île-de-France country house is often recognisable by its meulière, the grey, pitted millstone typical of the Yvelines and Val-d'Oise, paired with slate or machine-tile roofs, as seen around Rambouillet or L'Isle-Adam. In Seine-et-Marne, the Brie longère built of dressed limestone dominates the vast grain plains, between Meaux and Coulommiers, while former farmhouses are converted into family homes with outbuildings around Provins. In the Yvelines, around Rambouillet and along the Chevreuse valley, you also find 19th-century manor-style houses on the edge of the forest, and in the French Vexin, in Val-d'Oise, limestone houses with blue shutters typical of the area's listed villages, some overlooking the Epte or the Aubette valleys, with courtyards enclosed by high stone walls.
The land around these houses often includes an enclosed garden, sometimes an orchard, and agricultural outbuildings (barn, press building, dovecote). The most rural properties in Seine-et-Marne and Val-d'Oise can have several hectares of arable land and a small woodland, while in the Yvelines, near the Rambouillet forest, a wooded plot or a pond often completes the garden. In the Vexin, the regional nature park sometimes sets rules on façade colour or roofing that are worth checking before any renovation project.
The western Yvelines, around Rambouillet and its forest, and the Vexin area in Val-d'Oise, around Marines and L'Isle-Adam, are among the most sought-after areas for a country house within an hour of Paris. In Seine-et-Marne, the Fontainebleau and Provins areas attract buyers for their forested and heritage setting, as does the more rural Grand Morin valley. The inner-ring departments (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne) offer very little rural building stock, with the market there concentrated in dense urban housing, with no real equivalent to a country house, so buyers looking for one are generally directed to the outer departments instead, particularly Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines and Val-d'Oise, where a genuine country setting is still within reach of a Paris commute, provided buyers are prepared to look beyond the more built-up inner suburbs and accept a somewhat longer commute into central Paris, a trade-off many find worthwhile for the extra space, the garden and the quiet that come with a genuine country house.
Rural Brie and the Gâtinais area, further from the routes to Paris, in Seine-et-Marne and southern Essonne, around Étampes or Milly-la-Forêt, offer noticeably more affordable prices for a longère or farmhouse with a large plot. Southern Val-d'Oise and parts of eastern Seine-et-Marne follow a similar pattern for village houses in need of renovation.
Distance to Paris and to RER or Transilien stations remains the number-one criterion, much sought after for remote working, as the region has no TGV station outside the Paris stations themselves. The condition of the old building also weighs heavily: an uninsulated meulière house or longère, with an unfavourable energy rating, often needs substantial insulation work before it can serve as a year-round main home.
Check the private drainage system, common in rural Île-de-France, fibre-optic availability, the risk of clay-shrinkage subsidence, fairly widespread on the Brie plateau, and the local plan rules, particularly in natural or agricultural zones, before considering converting a barn into living space. Heritage-body approval also applies near listed monuments, numerous in Seine-et-Marne and the Yvelines, which can limit certain façade or roofing changes, a point worth anticipating before any extension project.
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