Looking for a country house for sale in Pays de la Loire? Between the Anjou vineyards, the Mayenne hedgerow country and the Vendée marshes, the region offers a varied rural style: white tuffeau-stone Anjou houses under slate roofs, granite Mayenne longères, Nantes-area manor houses, and Vendée limestone farmhouses. This page brings together the country houses for sale in Pays de la Loire 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 Pays de la Loire by department (recent notarised sales), the areas worth knowing from the Loire valley to the Vendée coast, 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 Pays de la Loire? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Pays de la Loire stood at €190,000 in 2025, with an average price of €199,126 and a median price of €1,875/m² of living space (14,604 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). 10% of houses sold for less than €100,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €308,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house offers 106 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,947 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
The region is close to the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the regional median price has risen from €168,000 to €190,000, i.e. +13.1%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +2.7%.
| 2025 indicator | Pays de la Loire | France |
|---|---|---|
| Median price | €190,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €199,126 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €100,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €308,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,875/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 106 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,947 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 14,604 | 150,313 |
Differences between departments are significant: the median ranges from €145,000 in Mayenne (53) to €230,000 in Loire-Atlantique (44). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loire-Atlantique (44) | €230,000 | €238,421 | €2,302/m² | +9.5% | 3,119 |
| Maine-et-Loire (49) | €195,000 | €202,021 | €1,863/m² | +14.0% | 2,971 |
| Mayenne (53) | €145,000 | €149,484 | €1,395/m² | +20.8% | 1,662 |
| Sarthe (72) | €150,000 | €153,025 | €1,512/m² | +13.6% | 2,742 |
| Vendée (85) | €210,000 | €218,042 | €2,127/m² | +16.7% | 4,110 |
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 Pays de la Loire 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 | €280,000 | €3,056/m² | +8.6% | 4,523 |
| Residential coastline | €225,000 | €2,327/m² | +4.6% | 2,965 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €168,700 | €1,765/m² | -6.6% | 485 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €200,000 | €1,947/m² | +6.2% | 43,910 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €157,000 | €1,542/m² | +10.0% | 36,098 |
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 Maine-et-Loire, along the Loire and the Layon, the country house stands out for its tuffeau, a white stone characteristic of the Loire valley, under a steeply pitched slate roof, sometimes with a former mill, cider press or troglodyte cellar attached, as found around Doué-la-Fontaine or Saumur. In Mayenne and Sarthe, along the Mayenne and Huisne valleys, the granite or sandstone longère dominates the hedgerow countryside, its outbuildings aligned under a single roofline, while in Loire-Atlantique, around Nantes and the Muscadet vineyard, you find 19th-century manor-style houses and traditional stone farmhouses. In Vendée, the limestone farmhouse of the Vendée bocage, towards Fontenay-le-Comte or Pouzauges, sits alongside more modest smallholdings near the Poitevin and Breton marshes, where low tile-roofed houses withstand the westerly winds.
The land around these houses often includes a cider-apple orchard, an enclosed garden and outbuildings (barn, cider press, dovecote), sometimes with several hectares of hedgerow farmland, a small woodland or a pond, particularly in Mayenne and rural Maine-et-Loire. In Vendée, properties near the Poitevin marsh sometimes include damp meadowland or drainage channels, while around the Anjou vineyard and the Layon, the land may include a few rows of vines or a former walled enclosure.
The Anjou vineyard, around Saumur and Angers (Maine-et-Loire), along the Loire, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the Vendée coastline around Les Sables-d'Olonne and Saint-Jean-de-Monts are among the most sought-after areas, driven by tourism and holiday homes. Around Nantes and Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), the country house benefits from proximity to a substantial job market and the Loire estuary. Le Mans (Sarthe) has a direct TGV link to Paris, which boosts the surrounding rural communes, while Angers, also linked to Paris by TGV via the Atlantic line, pushes up prices in the neighbouring Saumur and Baugé areas.
Mayenne, around Laval and Château-Gontier, and inland Sarthe offer noticeably more affordable prices for comparable stone buildings with a large plot, making the area a favoured destination for a move to the countryside. Southern Vendée, more rural and further from the coast, follows the same pattern, with stone farmhouses offered on generous hedgerow plots.
Proximity to the vineyard, the Vendée coast and the TGV stations (Nantes, Angers, Le Mans) strongly boosts rural communes, much sought after for remote working towards Paris or Nantes; in Mayenne, which has no TGV station, connections run by TER to Laval with a change at Rennes or Le Mans. The condition of the building remains decisive: an uninsulated granite longère or tuffeau house, with an unfavourable energy rating, often needs roof and insulation work before it can serve as a main home. In Vendée and Loire-Atlantique, coastal flood risk and local coastal-zone planning rules strictly govern certain projects near the shore.
Check the drainage system, damp in tuffeau walls, particularly prone to rising damp, fibre-optic availability for remote working, and the local plan rules before converting a barn or press building into living space or a gîte, especially in flood-prone areas near the Poitevin marsh or the Loire. A pre-purchase timber survey is also worthwhile where an old cider press or dovecote is included, and it is worth asking whether any nearby vineyard parcels are still farmed under lease.
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