Sea, lagoons, vineyards and scrubland lie within easy reach of each other here, and a gîte for sale in Hérault can serve very different guests depending on whether it faces the coast or the hills. Montpellier, Sète and the Thau lagoon, Pézenas, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert and the Pont du Diable, the Navacelles cirque, Lake Salagou, Minerve and the Fonseranes locks on the Canal du Midi draw visitors for much of the year.
Listings are often wine properties or manor houses with several gîtes, older homes on the edge of vineyards with several dwellings, and larger holiday estates. The page is for buyers of a house with gîte, those taking over a running gîte complex and owners preparing to sell. An email alert (in French) flags new listings.
As of 25 September 2026, 5 listings of gîtes in Hérault are published on ma-propriete.fr. The median asking price is €1,225,500, within an overall range of €770,000 to €2,900,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Hérault was €294,425 (average €304,890), or €2,726/m² of living space, for 113 m² on an average plot of 1,916 m², based on 1,144 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €168,930 and one in ten above €459,220. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €267,250 to €294,425 (+10.2%); over the last year the change is -1.1%. For comparison: €210,000 in Occitanie and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Hérault | Occitanie | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €294,425 | €210,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €304,890 | €220,462 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €168,930 | €107,500 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €459,220 | €347,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,726/m² | €1,987/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 113 m² | 111 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 1,916 m² | 4,162 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,144 | 14,163 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €211,700 (tourist inland) to €390,500 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourist coastline | €325,200 | €2,937/m² | +0.5% | 195 |
| Residential coastline * | €390,500 | €3,445/m² | +2.4% | 90 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €211,700 | €2,092/m² | +2.1% | 759 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €316,250 | €2,812/m² | +1.1% | 4,325 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €255,596 | €2,412/m² | +6.5% | 1,798 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €1,050,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €1,195,200, a P10–P90 range of €556,800 to €1,977,800 and 2,879 €/m² of living space, over 95 sales. These homes average 386 m² of living space on 8,283 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hérault (2021-2025) | 95 | €1,050,000* | €1,195,200 | €556,800 – €1,977,800 | 2,879 |
| Occitanie (2025) | 126 | €662,500 | €856,900 | €430,000 – €1,477,000 | 1,804 |
| Occitanie (2021-2025) | 723 | €640,000 | €747,000 | €410,000 – €1,208,500 | 1,735 |
| 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 Hérault and prestige property prices in Hérault (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Hérault is the priciest market in this part of Occitanie, with a 2025 median of €294,425 for a country house on a relatively small plot (1,916 m²). Tourist coastal communes reach €325,200 and tourist inland communes €211,700, both nearly flat since 2021, while remote rural communes rose further (+6.5%). A gîte property sits at the top end: the department's large-home median is €1,050,000 over 2021-2025 (indicative), with eight sales in ten between €556,800 and €1,977,800. The hinterland remains the most realistic way in.
The coast, from La Grande-Motte to Cap d'Agde via Sète, has the busiest season but high prices, and the loi Littoral (coastal planning law) limits extensions. The wine hinterland, from Pic Saint-Loup to the Béziers area via Pézenas and the Hérault and Orb valleys, blends wine tourism, character villages and easy beach access. Further north and west, the Lodève area, the Haut-Languedoc, the Minervois and Saint-Chinian are cheaper, with walkers and a shorter season. The A9 follows the coast, the A75 serves Lodève, and Montpellier has a high-speed rail station and an international airport, plus Béziers airport. Our article on where to buy a gîte (in French) compares areas.
Farmhouses, winegrowers' houses and stone cellars convert well once structure, insulation and access are checked. The department faces Mediterranean storms and flash floods on the Hérault, the Orb and their tributaries, and wildfire in scrub and woodland, with mandatory brush clearing. On the coast, erosion and the loi Littoral constrain projects. Where there is no mains drainage, the SPANC service inspects the septic tank. Each gîte must be registered as a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let) under the law of 19 November 2024, and some coastal or city communes add stricter rules; see the new holiday-let rules (in French).
The coast brings strong summer demand but high prices and plenty of competing holiday lets. Inland, a gîte among the vines costs less and draws longer spring and autumn stays while remaining close to the beaches.
Yes, some properties combine vines, a cellar and accommodation. Farming and tourism then fall under separate regimes, so take advice from a notaire and an accountant. See our article on agritourism and wine tourism (in French).
Income from a meublé de tourisme generally follows furnished-letting rules, with options depending on rating and turnover. Read about gîte taxation and test your figures with our holiday rental simulator (both in French).
See also gîtes for sale in Occitanie and neighbouring Gard, Aude, Aveyron and Tarn, or all gîtes for sale in France. Selling a gîte in Hérault? List your property.
