A tourism property for sale in Somme draws its value from three kinds of tourism spread over the year. The Bay of Somme, a Grand Site de France, attracts walkers, birdwatchers and families to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Le Crotoy, the Marquenterre bird park and the Picardy coast resorts from Quend-Plage to Fort-Mahon, while a heritage railway runs around the bay. Amiens, with its UNESCO-listed cathedral and floating gardens (hortillonnages), draws city and cultural visitors. The Circuit of Remembrance, between Albert, Péronne and Thiepval, welcomes British, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand visitors tracing the First World War, outside French school holidays.
Properties here reflect these landscapes: large group estates near the bay, brick and cob Picardy farms, seaside villas in Mers-les-Bains, hunting huts and cabins by the valley ponds, village hotels and inns. This page is for investors, buyers of an established business and owners planning to sell.
As of 25 September 2026, 1 tourism property in Somme is listed on ma-propriete.fr (1 gîte), with an asking price of €3,599,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Somme was €159,000 (average €166,279), or €1,565/m² of living space, for 105 m² on an average plot of 1,804 m², based on 2,315 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €84,700 and one in ten above €260,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €145,000 to €159,000 (+9.7%); over the last year the change is +6.0%. For comparison: €175,000 in Hauts-de-France and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Somme | Hauts-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €159,000 | €175,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €166,279 | €183,979 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €84,700 | €90,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €260,000 | €290,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,565/m² | €1,686/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 105 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 1,804 m² | 1,942 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 2,315 | 11,950 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €130,000 (deep countryside) to €200,150 (tourist 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourist coastline | €200,150 | €2,275/m² | +11.3% | 676 |
| Residential coastline | €165,000 | €1,811/m² | +8.7% | 172 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €150,000 | €1,667/m² | +5.3% | 144 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €163,000 | €1,595/m² | +6.2% | 7,655 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €130,000 | €1,333/m² | +12.0% | 4,895 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €520,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €529,400, a P10–P90 range of €400,000 to €650,000 and 1,458 €/m² of living space, over 41 sales. These homes average 357 m² of living space on 9,479 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somme (2021-2025) | 41 | €520,000* | €529,400 | €400,000 – €650,000 | 1,458 |
| Hauts-de-France (2025) | 79 | €756,800* | €909,200 | €399,800 – €1,602,000 | 2,131 |
| Hauts-de-France (2021-2025) | 477 | €644,600 | €758,900 | €393,600 – €1,292,800 | 1,797 |
| 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 Somme and prestige property prices in Somme (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Country houses set the floor: a median €159,000 in 2025, one of the lowest levels in the region. The more useful benchmark is the coastal tourist municipality, where the median reaches €200,150 over 2020-2025, driven by the bay. Large period homes sell rarely and stand at an indicative median of around €520,000. Large group estates with many rooms, a function hall and several hectares go well beyond these benchmarks and are valued on their trade. Gîte complexes dominate the mix by type, while coastal hotels change hands less often.
On the coast, a boutique hotel in Saint-Valery or Le Crotoy trades from the spring holidays to the autumn spring tides, with loyal guests from Paris, Lille and Belgium; the beach resorts depend more on summer. In Amiens, business, university and cultural visitors keep occupancy steadier. In the Santerre and upper Somme valley, village hotel-restaurants serve visitors to the battlefields, an English-speaking clientele that also travels in April and November. Food is usually a large share of turnover: produce from the bay, salt-marsh lamb, ficelle picarde. Tell apart a closed building bought on its own from a going concern sold with goodwill, name, staff and licence. Browse hotels for sale across France and inns to take over.
Fishermen's cottages and farmhouses with holiday lets are listed under gîtes for sale in Somme, guest houses under B&Bs in Somme.
The Picardy coast has classified campsites, leisure parks and holiday residences near the dunes: see campsites and leisure parks in Hauts-de-France. A few hunting huts around the bay, let outside the hunting season, gypsy caravans and stilt cabins by the ponds are glamping properties; read our guide to developing a glamping project (in French).
Some estates combine rooms, a function hall and grounds for weddings, seminars and group stays: see event venues in Somme.
A hotel sale involves two deeds: the building through a notary and the business with its own transfer formalities. As a public-access building, a hotel needs a favourable fire safety report; star ratings (1 to 5) last 5 years. Serving alcohol requires a licence and an operating permit, transferred via the town hall. Furnished lets fall under the law of 19 November 2024 (loi Le Meur). On the coast, the Littoral law and the protected bay strictly limit extensions. Check the risk report for sea flooding in the low-lying areas, cliff retreat at Ault, rising groundwater in the valley and underground cavities; in the east, First World War munitions may surface during earthworks.
The bay has the best occupancy, the highest prices and scarce supply. Amiens offers steady year-round demand, while the memorial sites allow a cheaper purchase if you target international visitors.
It depends on off-season bookings: seminars, school trips, weddings and remembrance tours. Review bookings and running costs, then model the business with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Add the value of the building, based on the local market, to that of the business, based on operating profit, plus purchase costs, upgrades and winter cash.
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