A tourism property for sale in Lozère is a bet on upland France, where visitors come for nature rather than the sea. The department takes in the Aubrac and Margeride plateaus, Mont Lozère, the limestone causses cut by the Tarn and Jonte gorges and, to the south-east, the Cévennes valleys. The Aven Armand cave, the Gévaudan wolf park, the European bison reserve in the Margeride, the Naussac and Villefort lakes and the spa town of Bagnols-les-Bains add to the walkers on long-distance trails and the anglers. The season peaks in summer, stretched by hiking in spring and autumn and by cross-country skiing in winter.
This page covers the whole range of tourism real estate in Lozère: country hotels and village hotel-restaurants, upland inns, farmhouses converted for guests, holiday-let complexes, holiday villages and group centres, and glamping projects. It is meant for buyers of a tourism business, for those taking over a trading establishment and for owners preparing to sell.
As of 25 September 2026, 1 tourism property in Lozère is listed on ma-propriete.fr (1 B&B), with an asking price of €490,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Lozère was €166,850 (average €174,916), or €1,726/m² of living space, for 102 m² on an average plot of 5,277 m², based on 326 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €85,620 and one in ten above €281,785. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €132,640 to €166,500 (+25.5%); over the last year the change is -2.1%. For comparison: €210,000 in Occitanie and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Lozère | Occitanie | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €166,850 | €210,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €174,916 | €220,462 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €85,620 | €107,500 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €281,785 | €347,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,726/m² | €1,987/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 102 m² | 111 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 5,277 m² | 4,162 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 326 | 14,163 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €140,500 (tourist inland) to €174,000 (deep 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential coastline * | €156,750 | €1,538/m² | -16.4% | 55 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €140,500 | €1,540/m² | +11.4% | 1,043 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €174,000 | €1,700/m² | +8.4% | 747 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the regional (Occitanie) benchmark is a median of €640,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €747,000, a P10–P90 range of €410,000 to €1,208,500 and 1,735 €/m² of living space, over 723 sales. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occitanie (2025) | 126 | €662,500 | €856,900 | €430,000 – €1,477,000 | 1,804 |
| Occitanie (2021-2025) | 723 | €640,000 | €747,000 | €410,000 – €1,208,500 | 1,735 |
| 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 Lozère and prestige property prices in Lozère (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Prices in Lozère are among the lowest in Occitanie, which changes the maths of a takeover. In tourist-inland municipalities, including the gorges, causses and Cévennes, a country house sold for a median €140,500 over 2020-2025. A hospitality property with rooms, a restaurant or outbuildings quickly moves away from that level and can only be set against the regional benchmark for large homes, a median of €640,000. Such properties are rare here and are valued one by one, on capacity and accounts rather than on the local housing market.
Hotels in Lozère are mostly family-run: small hotels in Mende, Marvejols, Florac or Langogne, Aubrac inns serving aligot and Aubrac beef, riverside hotels in the Tarn gorges and stopovers along the A75, toll-free throughout Lozère, which carries through traffic between the Massif Central and the Mediterranean. Many pair around ten rooms with a restaurant, and the kitchen often carries the business out of season. A farm inn (ferme-auberge) serves produce from its own farm and suits buyers who want to combine livestock and hospitality. Tell apart buying the building of a closed hotel, costed in works, and taking over a trading business with goodwill, contracts and licence, valued on operating profit (EBITDA). See hotels for sale across France and inns and restaurants with rooms.
Vaulted causse farmhouses and granite or schist hamlet houses lend themselves to several holiday lets: see gîtes for sale in Lozère. Guest houses are listed under B&Bs in Lozère.
Riverside campsites in the Tarn gorges and near the lakes make up much of the summer capacity; judge them on their rating, authorised pitches and flood exposure. They are grouped by region: see campsite businesses in Occitanie. Lozère also has municipal gîte villages and group centres for school trips and walkers, sometimes put up for sale by local authorities or associations. Margeride forests and open Aubrac uplands suit treehouses, yurts and safari tents: browse glamping sites for sale. Stone barns also host weddings: see event venues in Lozère.
A hotel or inn sale covers two things: the building, transferred before a notary, and the business (goodwill, name, contracts, equipment), with its own formalities. As a public-access building (ERP), a hotel must show its latest fire-safety report; star ratings from 1 to 5 last 5 years. Serving alcohol requires a licence and an operating permit, whose transfer the town hall must confirm. Furnished holiday lets fall under the Le Meur Act of 19 November 2024, which extends registration nationwide and strengthens the powers of local councils. Its national online registration service is not yet available and is due to open in the fourth quarter of 2026: check the rules that apply with the town hall. Every commune in Lozère is classified as a mountain area, so the Mountain Act (loi Montagne) applies throughout the department and restricts extensions; converting a farm building needs planning consent for a change of use. Check the septic system (SPANC), exposure to Cévennes storms and flash floods, and heating costs through long winters.
The Tarn gorges and Causse Méjean have the busiest but shortest season. The A75 corridor brings passing trade all year, Mende adds business travellers, and the Aubrac and Mont Lozère combine summer and snow on a smaller scale.
It depends on season length, occupancy, average room rate and the weight of the restaurant. Ask for three years of accounts, booking records and energy bills, then test your figures with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Add the building, the business valued on operating profit, purchase costs, compliance works and cash to see you through winter.
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