A gîte for sale in Charente puts you in a land of limestone slopes, vineyards and slow rivers. The Charente river links Angoulême, home to a major comics festival, to Jarnac and Cognac, where the cognac houses open their cellars to visitors. In the south, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne looks towards the Périgord, while the east is hedgerow and lake country.
Properties in this section are often Charentais stone houses with one or two gîtes in the outbuildings, several houses sharing one plot, or small estates with a pool and a pond. The page is for buyers looking for a house with gîte, for those taking over a trading business and for owners getting ready to sell. Widen your search to gîtes for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and set up an email alert (in French) to hear about new properties.
As of 25 September 2026, 9 listings of gîtes in Charente are published on ma-propriete.fr. The median asking price is €580,000; half of them are priced between €470,700 and €625,000, within an overall range of €142,500 to €892,500.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Charente was €138,000 (average €145,132), or €1,336/m² of living space, for 110 m² on an average plot of 3,522 m², based on 2,105 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €70,000 and one in ten above €230,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €130,000 to €138,000 (+6.2%); over the last year the change is -1.4%. For comparison: €170,000 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Charente | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €138,000 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €145,132 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €70,000 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €230,000 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,336/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 110 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,522 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 2,105 | 26,126 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €124,950 (deep countryside) to €160,000 (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) | €126,850 | €1,221/m² | +9.9% | 510 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €160,000 | €1,517/m² | +4.6% | 5,271 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €124,950 | €1,175/m² | +3.7% | 7,130 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €544,800* over 2021-2025, with an average of €573,400, a P10–P90 range of €369,900 to €804,400 and 1,545 €/m² of living space, over 90 sales. These homes average 360 m² of living space on 13,738 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charente (2021-2025) | 90 | €544,800* | €573,400 | €369,900 – €804,400 | 1,545 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine (2025) | 171 | €615,000 | €805,900 | €400,000 – €1,480,000 | 1,692 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine (2021-2025) | 1,105 | €629,400 | €814,400 | €395,000 – €1,517,600 | 1,704 |
| 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 Charente and prestige property prices in Charente (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
For a Charente gîte, the department median of €138,000 is only a starting point: look at the upper end of the rural market. One country house in ten sells above €230,000, while homes of more than 300 m² reach a median of €544,800, an indicative figure given the small number of sales. A property with several gîtes sits between the two. Tourist inland communes show a median of €126,850 but the strongest rise in the department, +9.9% between 2021 and 2025, as holiday demand supports prices.
In the west, the Cognac and Jarnac area, in the Grande and Petite Champagne crus, combines vineyards, cellars and pale stone villages along the river; guests come for cognac, pineau, gabare boat trips and the Flow Vélo cycle route. Around Angoulême, short breaks run all year. The south of the department, towards the Dronne valley, extends the Périgord landscape at gentler prices. In the east, the Charente Limousine around Confolens and the Haute-Charente lakes draws anglers and walkers over a shorter season. Angoulême station is on the high-speed line between Paris and Bordeaux, the N10 runs north to south and the N141 links Cognac, Angoulême and Limoges. Bordeaux, Limoges and La Rochelle airports serve foreign guests.
The traditional logis charentais is built of limestone rubble under curved clay tiles, with cellars, barns and old distilleries suited to a gîte conversion if you cost the roof and insulation. Our article on buying versus creating a gîte (in French) compares the two routes. The Charente and its tributaries flood in winter, so read the risk report attached to the compromis de vente, the preliminary sale contract. Outside villages, check that the private septic system, inspected by the local SPANC service, is sized for every bed. Each unit is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let): since the law of 19 November 2024, it is registered through a national online service that issues a number, and energy performance rules are being phased in (see the formalities for opening a gîte, in French).
In 2025 the median country house sold for €138,000, and one sale in ten went through below €70,000, so a house to convert is within reach. Finished gîtes cost far more. Add notaire fees (the notary who handles the sale), furniture and a works budget, then test your figures with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
The vineyards draw guests interested in cellar tours, tastings and Romanesque churches. Prices are higher there. With a wine property, separate clearly the home, the holiday business and the farm.
The process is standard: a compromis de vente, then the final deed signed before the notaire. If the website, customer base and booking contracts are included, part of the price may be a fonds de commerce (business goodwill) separate from the property. Ask for past bookings and accounts, each unit's registration and optional 1 to 5 star rating, the septic inspection and the mandatory surveys.
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