A gîte for sale in the Drôme serves very different guests depending on whether it stands among the lavender and hilltop villages of the south or below the Vercors cliffs. Provençal Drôme includes Grignan and its château, Nyons and its olives, Dieulefit and the Baronnies Provençales regional nature park, while the Diois, the Drôme valley and the Vercors attract walkers, climbers and river swimmers. Hermitage wines, Clairette de Die and Montélimar nougat complete the picture.
Typical properties for this business are stone farmhouses (mas) with several gîtes and a pool, Diois farms to renovate, village houses with a separate gîte. This page is for buyers looking for a house with gîte, for those taking over a trading business and for owners planning to sell. Also see gîtes for sale in Ardèche and set up an email alert (in French).
As of 25 September 2026, there are no gîtes for sale in Drôme listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, 20 listings show a median asking price of €837,250, ranging from €245,000 to €2,750,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Drôme was €283,800 (average €291,447), or €2,631/m² of living space, for 114 m² on an average plot of 3,508 m², based on 1,335 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €172,120 and one in ten above €420,880. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €255,141 to €283,800 (+11.2%); over the last year the change is +2.2%. For comparison: €230,000 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Drôme | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €283,800 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €291,447 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €172,120 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €420,880 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,631/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 114 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,508 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,335 | 16,528 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €257,585 (tourist inland) to €287,000 (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) | €257,585 | €2,491/m² | -0.3% | 874 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €287,000 | €2,611/m² | +3.9% | 4,634 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €265,760 | €2,574/m² | +7.1% | 2,680 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €760,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €839,600, a P10–P90 range of €456,500 to €1,320,000 and 1,997 €/m² of living space, over 53 sales. These homes average 389 m² of living space on 9,713 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drôme (2021-2025) | 53 | €760,000* | €839,600 | €456,500 – €1,320,000 | 1,997 |
| 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 Drôme and prestige property prices in Drôme (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
The Drôme is one of the region's pricier departments for country houses: a median of €283,800 in 2025, above the regional €230,000. For a gîte project, note that tourist inland communes (hinterland and mountains) sold for €257,585 over 2020-2025, with flat prices (-0.3% between 2021 and 2025) while remote rural areas rose by 7.1%. A mas with several gîtes and a pool is closer to the large-home market, where the Drôme's indicative median is €760,000, with eight sales in ten between €456,500 and €1,320,000.
Provençal Drôme, from Montélimar to Nyons and the Baronnies, has the strongest summer and foreign demand: hilltop villages, lavender fields, Côtes-du-Rhône vineyards and markets. Prices are high and the season long though the mistral wind and summer heat make shade and a pool essential. The Diois and the Drôme valley, around Die and Crest, rely on the river, walking and nature tourism. The Drôme side of the Vercors, with its plateaus and cross-country ski areas, offers two seasons but harsh winters. In the north, the Drôme des Collines and the Royans stay more affordable and close to Valence. The A7 motorway follows the Rhône, the A49 links Valence with Grenoble and Valence TGV station puts Paris within easy reach by train.
In the south, limestone farmhouses have curved clay tiles and decorative eaves (génoise); in the Vercors, farmhouses have stepped gables, a sign of a harsher climate. Both suit conversion if you budget for roofing, insulation and the private septic system inspected by the local SPANC service. Wooded hills in Provençal Drôme and the Baronnies are exposed to wildfires, and owners must clear scrub; flash floods on the Drôme, Eygues and Roubion affect valley floors, and the loi Montagne (mountain planning law) applies in the Vercors, Diois and Baronnies. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let): the law of 19 November 2024 provided for a national online registration service, not yet in place and due to open in the fourth quarter of 2026, and gave the mairie (town hall) more powers. Read our article on holiday-let taxation (in French) and ask an accountant to check your situation.
These properties often trade close to large-home prices, especially around Grignan, Nyons and the Baronnies. Ask for recent accounts, check each unit's registration and test your figures with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
The two face each other across the Rhône. The Drôme has better transport links and a Provençal image in the south; Ardèche relies on its gorges and rivers, with cheaper country houses on average. Our article on where to buy a gîte (in French) sets out the criteria.
Prepare accounts, bookings, each unit's registration number, any star rating, surveys and the septic inspection: a buyer is also buying a business. Our guide on selling a gîte (in French) explains the process, then list your property on ma-propriete.fr.
Continue your search with gîtes for sale in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, gîtes in Isère, which shares the Vercors with the Drôme, and all gîtes for sale in France.
