With the Brenne, the Creuse valley and George Sand country, a gîte for sale in Indre appeals to guests who come for nature, fishing, birdwatching and literary heritage. The Brenne regional nature park, known as the land of a thousand ponds, George Sand's house at Nohant, the villages of Gargilesse and Saint-Benoît-du-Sault, Argenton-sur-Creuse, Lake Éguzon and the château of Valençay mark out the department.
Properties range from a manor house with gîtes and a pool to a home with two gîtes, estates of several hectares in the Brenne and farms that include a gîte. The page is for buyers after a house with gîte, investors in a gîte complex, those combining farming with hospitality and owners preparing to sell. An email alert (in French) will flag new properties.
As of 25 September 2026, 5 listings of gîtes in Indre are published on ma-propriete.fr. The median asking price is €599,000, within an overall range of €299,900 to €932,240.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Indre was €95,000 (average €103,640), or €1,042/m² of living space, for 98 m² on an average plot of 4,049 m², based on 1,345 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €45,328 and one in ten above €170,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €84,900 to €95,000 (+11.9%); over the last year the change is +3.3%. For comparison: €150,000 in Centre-Val de Loire and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Indre | Centre-Val de Loire | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €95,000 | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €103,640 | €157,230 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €45,328 | €75,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €170,000 | €251,580 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,042/m² | €1,519/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 98 m² | 103 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 4,049 m² | 2,999 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,345 | 10,907 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €81,818 (tourist inland) to €110,000 (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) | €81,818 | €909/m² | +14.4% | 679 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €110,000 | €1,133/m² | +6.3% | 2,423 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €86,200 | €949/m² | +5.9% | 5,032 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the regional (Centre-Val de Loire) benchmark is a median of €588,900 over 2021-2025, with an average of €669,600, a P10–P90 range of €400,000 to €1,048,700 and 1,639 €/m² of living space, over 314 sales. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre-Val de Loire (2025) | 52 | €591,500* | €676,000 | €400,000 – €1,098,900 | 1,570 |
| Centre-Val de Loire (2021-2025) | 314 | €588,900 | €669,600 | €400,000 – €1,048,700 | 1,639 |
| 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 Indre and prestige property prices in Indre (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Indre is the most affordable department in the region: the median country house sold for €95,000 in 2025, on an average plot of 4,049 m², the largest of the six departments. In tourist inland communes the median falls to €81,818 over 2020-2025, but it rose by 14.4% between 2021 and 2025 as green tourism areas gained appeal. A gîte property with a main house, rental units and sometimes several hectares is closer to the large-home market, where the regional median is €588,900 over 2021-2025; Indre has too few sales to publish its own.
In the west, the Brenne around Le Blanc, Mézières-en-Brenne and Rosnay combines ponds, heathland and meadows, drawing anglers, walkers and birdwatchers from spring to autumn. In the south, the Creuse valley from Argenton-sur-Creuse to Gargilesse and Lake Éguzon, and the Boischaut around La Châtre, form George Sand's Vallée Noire: hedged farmland, steep-sided rivers and old villages. In the north, the Champagne berrichonne cereal plain around Issoudun and the Valençay area reach the Cher valley. The A20 motorway crosses the department from Vierzon to Châteauroux and Argenton-sur-Creuse towards Limoges, and the Paris-Orléans-Limoges railway serves Issoudun, Châteauroux and Argenton.
Berry houses combine rendered rubble walls and flat clay tiles, and larger properties often come with barns, stables and cowsheds to convert. A property with a pond needs special checks: its legal status, the dam, water rights and maintenance duties, confirmed with the departmental land office (DDT). The Indre and Creuse valleys are prone to flooding, and the clay of the Champagne berrichonne to shrink-swell movement. Where the gîte belongs to a farm, our article on agritourism and rural tourism (in French) sets out the options. Each unit is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let) registered through the national online service since the law of 19 November 2024; the optional 1 to 5 star rating lasts 5 years (see our article on gîte ratings, in French).
Yes, if you accept works or a quieter area. One country house in ten sells for under €45,328 and the median is €95,000, so a house to convert is within reach of a modest budget. A fully equipped gîte complex with a pool and land is another matter: cost the upgrade before making an offer.
A gîte usually brings a second income rather than a main one. Returns depend on weeks let, the time you give to guests and running costs. Our article on gîte profitability (in French) gives benchmarks; have an accountant check the set-up, especially if tourism is attached to the farm business.
Once the price is agreed, you sign a compromis de vente (preliminary contract), then the final deed before a notaire. Check each unit's registration, labels, the SPANC septic inspection and mandatory surveys. If customers, website and contracts are transferred, part of the price may be a fonds de commerce (business goodwill).
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