Set among navigable rivers, forests and the Mille Étangs plateau, a tourism property for sale in Haute-Saône serves visitors seeking nature, fishing and slow travel, many from Franche-Comté, Alsace, Lorraine and Switzerland. The Saône, navigable for pleasure boats from Corre, where the Canal des Vosges joins it, to well beyond Gray, and the Ognon wind through meadows and stone villages, while in the north-east much of the Vosges saônoises, from the Mille Étangs plateau to Ronchamp and Champagney, lies within the Ballons des Vosges regional nature park. Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp, a World Heritage Site, the spa town of Luxeuil-les-Bains, the old town of Pesmes and the museums of Champlitte add cultural visitors and spa guests.
Tourism properties follow this geography: spa hotels and small-town hotel-restaurants, riverside inns, Franche-Comté farmhouses with holiday lets, properties with a fishing lake suited to cabins, and riverside campsites. This page is for buyers taking over a running business, rural or river tourism projects and owners preparing a sale.
As of 25 September 2026, no tourism property in Haute-Saône is listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, 16 listings show a median asking price of €519,500.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Haute-Saône was €134,190 (average €137,321), or €1,220/m² of living space, for 113 m² on an average plot of 3,151 m², based on 1,286 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €60,000 and one in ten above €221,175. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €122,500 to €134,190 (+9.5%); over the last year the change is +3.2%. For comparison: €157,000 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Haute-Saône | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €134,190 | €157,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €137,321 | €168,680 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €60,000 | €74,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €221,175 | €279,670 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,220/m² | €1,525/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 113 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,151 m² | 2,805 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,286 | 11,450 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €98,500 (tourist inland) to €143,000 (peri-urban countryside). For a tourism business, coastal and tourist-inland municipalities are the relevant benchmark.
| Type of municipality | Median price 2020-2025 | Median price per m² | Change 2021-2025 | Sales 2020-2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €98,500 | €855/m² | -5.2% | 235 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €143,000 | €1,319/m² | +7.1% | 3,862 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €117,000 | €1,103/m² | +7.7% | 3,310 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the regional (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) benchmark is a median of €520,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €589,700, a P10–P90 range of €367,200 to €863,000 and 1,438 €/m² of living space, over 222 sales. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2025) | 43 | €590,000* | €658,100 | €385,000 – €1,004,000 | 1,714 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2021-2025) | 222 | €520,000 | €589,700 | €367,200 – €863,000 | 1,438 |
| France (2025) | 981 | €822,000 | €1,321,400 | €428,000 – €3,100,000 | 2,308 |
Sources: listings published on ma-propriete.fr on 25 September 2026 (asking prices, not sale prices); ma-propriete.fr observatories of country house prices in Haute-Saône and prestige property prices in Haute-Saône (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Haute-Saône is one of the most affordable departments in eastern France: a country house sold for a median €134,190 in 2025. Unusually, communes classed as tourist inland show the lowest median, €98,500 over 2020-2025, probably because many lie in hill and lake areas far from the towns, where buildings are often old. For larger estates, the regional median for large period homes, €520,000, gives the order of magnitude. Across the region, gîte complexes lead supply, followed by equestrian properties and manor houses; a hotel or campsite is valued mainly on turnover and profit.
Hotels here are mostly small independent businesses. In Luxeuil-les-Bains, the hotel follows spa treatments lasting several weeks and enjoys a loyal clientele. In Vesoul and Gray, the hotel-restaurant relies on business travel, stopovers between Nancy and Besançon and boaters on the Saône. In the valleys and at the foot of the Vosges, village inns keep a regional menu, and farm inns (fermes-auberges) serve their own produce. Separate the building, the business and any lease, then study operating profit (EBITDA), rooms, covers and compliance work. See hotels for sale in France and inns for sale.
Riverside and lakeside camping is well established here; taking over a classified site means checking its rating, development permit, pitches and flood zones. Listings appear under campsite businesses in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Around the Mille Étangs, stilt cabins, gypsy caravans and forest lodges are listed under glamping sites for sale and properties with a lake.
Farmhouses and village mansions often hold several holiday lets: see gîtes for sale in Haute-Saône, B&Bs for sale and event venues in Haute-Saône.
Two transactions run side by side: the building, through a notary, and the business (goodwill, name, contracts, equipment), with its own transfer formalities. For a hotel, a public-access building (ERP), ask for the latest fire safety commission report, check the 1 to 5 star rating, valid 5 years, and have the town hall confirm the licence transfer. Holiday lets fall under the Le Meur Act of 19 November 2024, which extends registration nationwide and strengthens the powers of local councils. The national online registration service provided for by the Act is not yet in place and is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2026: check the rules that apply with the town hall. Campsites and leisure parks require a development permit, and converting a barn needs planning consent. The risk report covers Saône and Ognon flooding; for a lake, check the administrative status of the water body and its dam.
Luxeuil-les-Bains has the longest season thanks to spa guests. Gray and the Saône valley benefit from river tourism, Vesoul from business travel. In the north, a small hotel costs less, for a shorter season.
Moderate prices improve yields, but the season is short outside spa tourism. Ask for three years of accounts and test your figures with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Add the building, the business based on operating profit, purchase costs, compliance work and winter cash.
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