A tourism property for sale in Nièvre, reached from Paris along the A77, combines three landscapes and three types of visitor. To the west, the Loire and its embankments, from Decize to Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, attract cyclists on the EuroVelo 6 and on La Loire à Vélo, whose km 0 lies at Cuffy just downstream of Nevers, Pouilly-Fumé wine lovers and visitors to La Charité-sur-Loire, whose priory church of Notre-Dame is a World Heritage Site as part of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela. In the centre, the Bazois and the Nivernais canal see hire boats pass all summer, while Nevers, with its faience and the shrine of Saint Bernadette, sustains cultural and religious tourism. To the east, the Morvan regional nature park, the Settons and Pannecière lakes and Mont Beuvray offer white water, forests and hiking.
Properties are often generous in size: large country houses with holiday lets and guest rooms, farm estates converted to hospitality, Loire and canal hotel-restaurants, Morvan inns, group accommodation centres and land suited to glamping. This page is for buyers taking over a business, creating a guest activity, investing at moderate prices or selling.
As of 25 September 2026, 2 tourism properties in Nièvre are listed on ma-propriete.fr (2 gîtes), with asking prices from €449,000 to €460,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Nièvre was €100,000 (average €105,510), or €1,065/m² of living space, for 97 m² on an average plot of 3,364 m², based on 1,371 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €46,000 and one in ten above €172,900. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €85,000 to €100,000 (+17.6%); over the last year the change is +7.8%. For comparison: €157,000 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Nièvre | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €100,000 | €157,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €105,510 | €168,680 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €46,000 | €74,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €172,900 | €279,670 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,065/m² | €1,525/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 97 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,364 m² | 2,805 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,371 | 11,450 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €85,000 (tourist inland) to €110,000 (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) | €85,000 | €943/m² | +19.3% | 2,513 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €110,000 | €1,157/m² | -1.8% | 2,386 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €86,940 | €964/m² | +18.8% | 3,428 |
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 Nièvre and prestige property prices in Nièvre (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Nièvre is one of the most affordable markets in France: a country house sold for a median €100,000 in 2025, and only €85,000 in tourist inland communes, led by the Morvan, over 2020-2025. A tourism property sits well above that level, since it combines a home, converted outbuildings and several hectares; the regional median for large period homes, €520,000, gives the order of magnitude. The mix confirms this: multi-unit houses and mixed-use estates dominate, while hotels and inns are rare. The gap between purchase price and renovation cost is decisive here.
Hotels here are independent, often housed in a former coaching inn or a town mansion. On the Loire, the hotel-restaurant attracts cyclists and wine tourists; along the Nivernais canal, lock and harbour inns serve boaters and walkers; in Nevers, business travellers and pilgrims ensure steady trade, boosted by major events at the Nevers Magny-Cours circuit. In the Morvan, village inns and farm inns (fermes-auberges) serving Charolais beef and Morvan ham live on hiking, fishing and white-water sports. A takeover may cover the building, the business or both; price rests on operating profit (EBITDA), rooms, covers and compliance costs. See hotels for sale in France and inns for sale.
Large estates often combine a main house, holiday lets and guest rooms on several hectares: see gîtes for sale in Nièvre, B&Bs for sale in Nièvre and event venues in Nièvre.
The Morvan still has group centres and holiday villages linked to outdoor sports; check approvals, capacity and building condition. Campsites are listed under campsite businesses in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, and cabins and lodges under glamping sites for sale.
The building is sold through a notary, while the business (goodwill, name, contracts, equipment) follows its own transfer formalities. A hotel is 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 transfer of the licence and operating permit. Holiday lets fall under the law of 19 November 2024 (loi Le Meur), whose energy requirements weigh on large old houses. Converting a barn requires planning consent for a change of use. In the Loire valley, check the flood risk plan and the embankments; outside villages, the SPANC inspects septic systems.
Nevers and the Loire towns offer the steadiest custom. Along the canal, the season follows boating. In the Morvan, trade is more seasonal but premises cost less.
Low purchase prices leave room for works, but the season is concentrated in spring and summer. Ask for three years of accounts and test your figures with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Add the building, the business, purchase costs and above all renovation: roofing, heating and insulation weigh heavily on large houses.
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