From Lake Geneva to Mont Blanc, a gîte for sale in Haute-Savoie serves an international clientele drawn by the mountains in winter and summer and by Geneva next door. Chamonix and the Arve valley, the Aravis around La Clusaz and Le Grand-Bornand, the Portes du Soleil, Samoëns in the Giffre valley, Lake Annecy and the Lake Geneva shore from Yvoire to Évian make up one of the busiest tourist areas in the Alps. Reblochon cheese, climbing, cycling and water sports keep it going almost all year.
Properties include traditional wooden chalets split into holiday flats, former farms with outbuildings and several hectares, and occasionally equestrian estates with self-contained cottages. This page is for buyers after a house with gîte, investors taking over a holiday-let business and owners planning a sale. Browse more gîtes across Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and an email alert (in French) will flag new chalets and farms.
As of 25 September 2026, 3 listings in Haute-Savoie are published on ma-propriete.fr, with asking prices from €1,190,000 to €2,750,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Haute-Savoie was €493,340 (average €515,721), or €4,377/m² of living space, for 120 m² on an average plot of 2,028 m², based on 1,095 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €298,500 and one in ten above €762,577. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €427,400 to €493,340 (+15.4%); over the last year the change is +3.9%. For comparison: €230,000 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Haute-Savoie | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €493,340 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €515,721 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €298,500 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €762,577 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €4,377/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 120 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,028 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,095 | 16,528 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €389,800 (deep countryside) to €610,000 (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 * | €610,000 | €4,950/m² | -22.3% | 61 |
| Residential coastline | €578,000 | €4,683/m² | +13.2% | 363 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €470,000 | €4,535/m² | +8.8% | 1,522 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €456,120 | €4,114/m² | +11.3% | 4,698 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €389,800 | €3,681/m² | +14.0% | 153 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €2,387,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €2,714,700, a P10–P90 range of €838,600 to €4,982,000 and 6,285 €/m² of living space, over 148 sales. These homes average 386 m² of living space on 4,072 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haute-Savoie (2021-2025) | 148 | €2,387,000 | €2,714,700 | €838,600 – €4,982,000 | 6,285 |
| 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 Haute-Savoie and prestige property prices in Haute-Savoie (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Haute-Savoie is the region's most expensive rural market: a median €493,340 for a country house in 2025, or €4,377/m², more than double the national median. Even tourist inland communes, which include mountain valleys, reach €470,000, and lakeside areas go higher. A property with several holiday units is therefore best compared with large homes, whose department median is €2,387,000 over 2021-2025. Land value often weighs more than rental income in the price.
The Annecy basin and lakeshore have the strongest summer demand and highest prices, with few rural properties. The Aravis and the Bornes offer traditional farmhouses, a double season and quick access from Annecy. The Mont Blanc area, from Chamonix to Saint-Gervais and Megève, targets an upmarket international clientele. The Chablais combines the lake in summer and skiing in winter around Thonon, Évian, Morzine and Châtel; the Giffre is slightly more affordable. The A40 and A41 motorways serve the department, Geneva airport brings foreign guests and the Léman Express rail link connects Geneva with the Chablais.
Chalets and large-roofed farmhouses need regular work on timber frames, cladding and roofs, and winter access adds costs at altitude. Avalanches, torrential floods and rockfall affect many valleys: read the risk prevention plan. Mountain planning law (loi Montagne) applies throughout, and coastal law (loi Littoral) also covers the shores of Lake Geneva and Lake Annecy. Several tourist towns now use the powers given by the law of 19 November 2024 to regulate meublés de tourisme (furnished holiday lets), so check local rules with the mairie (town hall). Specific insurance is essential; see our article on gîte insurance (in French).
Scarce mountain land, foreign demand and Geneva salaries push prices up: only one country house in ten sells under €298,500. Check the balance between price, works and income with our financial calculators (in French).
Yes, if planning rules allow and the units are registered as holiday lets; hosting trail riders is another option. See our equestrian gîtes section.
An offer is followed by a compromis de vente (preliminary contract), then the final deed signed before a notaire, the public officer handling property sales. Check each unit's registration, rating, forward bookings, surveys and septic inspection. Our complete gîte buying guide (in French) covers each step.
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