A tourism property for sale in Savoie benefits from something few French departments share: two genuine seasons. In winter, the ski areas of the Tarentaise and Maurienne valleys, from the Trois Vallées to Val-d'Isère, Tignes, La Plagne and Valloire, draw skiers from across Europe; in summer, the Vanoise national park, the Beaufortain and the high mountain passes bring hikers, climbers and cyclists. Lower down, Lake Bourget and the spa town of Aix-les-Bains, Chambéry, Lake Aiguebelette and the Combe de Savoie vineyards generate short breaks, spa stays and business travel that depend far less on snow.
Tourism real estate here takes forms rarely seen elsewhere: resort hotels and valley hotel-restaurants, chalets let by the week, holiday residences and holiday villages at altitude, mountain inns, and lakeside country houses turned into guest estates. This page is written for hoteliers looking for a business to take over, investors drawn by the two-season model, glamping project owners and sellers preparing to hand over their establishment.
As of 25 September 2026, no tourism property in Savoie is listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, 27 listings show a median asking price of €750,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Savoie was €320,205 (average €336,636), or €3,100/m² of living space, for 109 m² on an average plot of 2,520 m², based on 888 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €180,000 and one in ten above €523,018. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €256,500 to €320,205 (+24.8%); over the last year the change is +6.8%. For comparison: €230,000 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Savoie | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €320,205 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €336,636 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €180,000 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €523,018 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €3,100/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 109 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,520 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 888 | 16,528 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €262,250 (deep countryside) to €395,500 (residential coastline). 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 | €395,500 | €3,719/m² | +9.2% | 379 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €280,900 | €3,018/m² | +17.3% | 1,108 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €300,970 | €2,833/m² | +12.1% | 2,491 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €262,250 | €2,569/m² | +17.7% | 1,230 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €1,031,800* over 2021-2025, with an average of €1,185,100, a P10–P90 range of €521,700 to €2,293,700 and 2,632 €/m² of living space, over 30 sales. These homes average 378 m² of living space on 7,672 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savoie (2021-2025) | 30 | €1,031,800* | €1,185,100 | €521,700 – €2,293,700 | 2,632 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (2025) | 87 | €860,000* | €1,359,200 | €492,700 – €2,670,000 | 2,542 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (2021-2025) | 605 | €878,400 | €1,368,800 | €462,000 – €2,886,000 | 2,434 |
| 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 Savoie and prestige property prices in Savoie (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Savoie is a mountain market. A country house reached a median €320,205 in 2025, well above the regional level, while large period homes changed hands for a median €1,031,800 over 2021-2025, an indicative figure given the small number of sales. In ski resorts, where building land is scarce, a hotel or commercial chalet can exceed that upper benchmark; in the valleys and the Avant-Pays savoyard, prices move closer to those of period homes. Across Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, gîte complexes lead the tourism supply, ahead of B&Bs, equestrian properties and manor houses. Tourist inland communes, meaning resorts and valleys, are the relevant reference rather than the lake shores.
Hotels in Savoie fall into two groups. In the resorts, business follows the winter, with international guests staying a week, and often reopens in summer for hikers; half-board, a wellness area and a ski room matter as much as the number of rooms. In the valleys, in Chambéry, Aix-les-Bains, Albertville or Moûtiers, the hotel-restaurant relies on spa guests, business travellers and traffic on the A43 motorway. Village inns and mountain farm inns (fermes-auberges) serving Beaufort cheese and local sausages earn most of their turnover from food. Check what is being sold: the building alone, the building and the business, or the business with a commercial lease, a common arrangement in resorts. Price rests on operating profit (EBITDA), months of opening and the condition of equipment. See hotels for sale across France and inns and restaurants with rooms.
Chalets let by the week and Savoyard farmhouses with apartments in the barn make up much of the holiday let market: see gîtes for sale in Savoie and B&Bs for sale in Savoie.
Resorts have many holiday residences and holiday villages, often held in co-ownership: taking one over means studying the lease with the operator and the renovation plan. Former school ski-trip centres can also be converted. Mountain and lakeside campsites are listed regionally under campsite businesses in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; treehouses and lodges appear under glamping sites for sale.
Fortified houses and mountain barns host weddings and seminars: see event venues in Savoie.
A hotel sale has two parts: the building goes through a notary, while the business (goodwill, trading name, contracts, equipment) follows its own transfer formalities. As a public-access building (ERP), a hotel needs a recent fire safety commission report; star ratings from 1 to 5 last 5 years. Serving alcohol requires a licence and an operating permit, whose transfer the town hall should confirm. Holiday lets fall under the law of 19 November 2024 (loi Le Meur). The national online registration service it provides for is not yet in place and is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2026. The Mountain Act (loi Montagne) restricts development and subjects tourism projects above certain thresholds to the new tourism units (UTN) regime, planned in the SCoT or local plan, or failing that authorised by the prefect; the Coastal Act also applies on the shores of Lake Bourget, although a recent law lets the SCoT exclude some areas beyond the shoreline strip. Check the risk report for avalanches, torrential floods and landslides, and plan housing for seasonal staff.
The large Tarentaise resorts have the most international clientele, but premises are expensive and rarely sold. The Maurienne and Beaufortain, with family resorts, offer lower entry prices. Around Aix-les-Bains and Chambéry, hotels trade all year round.
It depends on weeks of opening, average nightly rate, payroll and snow dependence. Ask for three years of accounts, then test your figures with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Add the value of the building to that of the business, based on operating profit, plus purchase costs, safety upgrades, insulation work and cash for the off-season.
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