Between the Emerald Coast and the old Breton marches, a gîte for sale in Ille-et-Vilaine can draw two kinds of guests: seaside holiday-makers and the year-round visitors Rennes attracts. Walled Saint-Malo, Cancale and its oyster beds, Dinard, the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Rance valley, the Paimpont forest linked by legend to Brocéliande and the castles of Fougères, Vitré and Combourg form a dense heritage, connected by greenways along the Ille-et-Rance canal and the Vilaine.
Gîte properties here are usually restored longères and farmsteads around Rennes or Fougères, manor-type houses with converted outbuildings, or groups of gîtes near the coast. This page is for buyers after a house with gîte, those taking over a trading business and owners preparing to sell. See also gîtes for sale in Brittany and set up an email alert (in French) for new listings.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no gîtes for sale in Ille-et-Vilaine listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Brittany region, 11 listings show a median asking price of €772,500, ranging from €132,900 to €1,199,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Ille-et-Vilaine was €215,000 (average €221,534), or €2,054/m² of living space, for 109 m² on an average plot of 2,992 m², based on 2,996 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €120,000 and one in ten above €331,450. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €177,000 to €215,000 (+21.5%); over the last year the change is +2.4%. For comparison: €210,000 in Brittany and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Ille-et-Vilaine | Brittany | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €215,000 | €210,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €221,534 | €223,474 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €120,000 | €110,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €331,450 | €355,291 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,054/m² | €2,027/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 109 m² | 107 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,992 m² | 3,041 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 2,996 | 13,579 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €163,329 (deep countryside) to €266,370 (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 | €266,370 | €2,626/m² | +33.2% | 147 |
| Residential coastline | €260,000 | €2,531/m² | +1.5% | 918 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €213,500 | €2,005/m² | +12.5% | 13,396 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €163,329 | €1,627/m² | +14.4% | 4,138 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €838,800* over 2021-2025, with an average of €1,145,100, a P10–P90 range of €468,400 to €2,350,900 and 2,370 €/m² of living space, over 89 sales. These homes average 359 m² of living space on 10,083 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ille-et-Vilaine (2021-2025) | 89 | €838,800* | €1,145,100 | €468,400 – €2,350,900 | 2,370 |
| Brittany (2025) | 44 | €987,500* | €1,118,500 | €469,100 – €2,273,100 | 2,607 |
| Brittany (2021-2025) | 297 | €809,300 | €948,100 | €448,800 – €1,552,000 | 2,326 |
| 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 Ille-et-Vilaine and prestige property prices in Ille-et-Vilaine (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Rennes shapes this market. Over 2020-2025, 13,396 country-house sales took place in peri-urban rural municipalities, at a median of €213,500, close to the department's 2025 median of €215,000. On the coast, the median in tourist municipalities reaches €266,370, up 33.2% between 2021 and 2025, though on few sales. Remote rural municipalities remain cheaper at €163,329. Large homes, the benchmark for a multi-gîte property, show an indicative median of €838,800 and Brittany's widest range, with a ninth decile of €2,350,900.
In the north, the Emerald Coast from Saint-Malo to Cancale and Saint-Briac, together with the Rance valley, is the most touristic area, with beach-goers and visitors to Mont-Saint-Michel. To the east, the Fougères and Vitré areas combine forests, castles and moderate prices. To the west and south, the Paimpont forest, the Vilaine valley and the Redon area, where the Nantes–Brest canal crosses the river, appeal to nature lovers and cyclists. Rennes has high-speed rail to Paris and an airport, as does Dinard; the A84 heads to Normandy, the N137 links Saint-Malo, Rennes and Nantes, and Saint-Malo has ferries from the UK and the Channel Islands.
Building materials vary: granite on the coast and around Fougères, purple schist near Montfort-sur-Meu, and cob (earth) houses around Rennes, which need breathable materials and specialist skills, so have the walls assessed before converting a barn. The polders of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel and low-lying coastal areas face coastal flooding, and the Vilaine valley river flooding; the Loi Littoral (coastal planning law) restricts building by the sea. The risk report attached to the compromis de vente, the preliminary contract, sets this out. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let), registered through the national online service created by the law of 19 November 2024; the star rating of gîtes (in French), from 1 to 5 stars, is optional.
Near Saint-Malo the season is long, but the tourist-coast median is €266,370 before any conversion. In remote rural municipalities the median country house is €163,329, leaving room to create or renovate a gîte. A greenway, a castle or Rennes nearby partly offsets the distance from the sea; compare both with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Around the city, demand is not limited to summer: business trips, trade fairs, students' families and visiting relatives. Stays tend to be shorter and more frequent, with more cleaning and changeovers. Check local rules, as municipal powers over holiday lets were strengthened in 2024, and read our article on gîte profitability (in French).
Gather each unit's registration number, recent accounts and bookings, the mandatory surveys and the SPANC report. Separate the property, sold before a notaire, the public officer handling property sales, from what can be sold separately: furniture, website, customer base. Our article on how to sell a gîte (in French) explains the process, and you can list your property on ma-propriete.fr.
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