Three landscapes share the ground for a gîte for sale in Loir-et-Cher: the Loire Valley and its châteaux, the forests and ponds of the Sologne, and the Loir valley with its cave-dwelling hillsides. Chambord, the royal château of Blois, Cheverny, Chaumont-sur-Loire and its international garden festival, Vendôme, Lavardin, Trôo and Montrichard give a rich cultural offer, backed by the Loire à Vélo cycle route, Cheverny and Touraine wines and the Sologne hunting tradition.
Properties range from a small house with one gîte to a property with a separate holiday business, character houses combining a gîte and chambres d'hôtes, mills and homes surrounded by woods and river. The page is for buyers after a house with gîte, those taking over a trading gîte and owners ready to sell. Set up an email alert (in French) to hear about new properties.
As of 25 September 2026, 6 listings of gîtes in Loir-et-Cher are published on ma-propriete.fr. The median asking price is €539,500, within an overall range of €211,000 to €2,100,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Loir-et-Cher was €145,000 (average €152,715), or €1,485/m² of living space, for 102 m² on an average plot of 2,895 m², based on 1,924 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €80,000 and one in ten above €240,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €133,000 to €145,000 (+9.0%); over the last year the change is +2.5%. For comparison: €150,000 in Centre-Val de Loire and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Loir-et-Cher | Centre-Val de Loire | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €145,000 | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €152,715 | €157,230 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €80,000 | €75,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €240,000 | €251,580 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,485/m² | €1,519/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 102 m² | 103 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,895 m² | 2,999 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,924 | 10,907 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €122,500 (tourist inland) to €164,897 (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) | €122,500 | €1,223/m² | +17.4% | 314 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €164,897 | €1,656/m² | +5.6% | 4,506 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €130,000 | €1,350/m² | +4.0% | 7,316 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €550,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €616,800, a P10–P90 range of €408,700 to €897,400 and 1,600 €/m² of living space, over 58 sales. These homes average 356 m² of living space on 16,168 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loir-et-Cher (2021-2025) | 58 | €550,000* | €616,800 | €408,700 – €897,400 | 1,600 |
| 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 Loir-et-Cher and prestige property prices in Loir-et-Cher (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
In Loir-et-Cher, the median country house sold for €145,000 in 2025, close to the regional figure. Tourist inland communes, at €122,500 over 2020-2025, rose by 17.4% between 2021 and 2025, far faster than remote countryside: tourist areas are drawing more interest. A gîte property with several units, outbuildings and grounds belongs rather to the large-home market, where the department median is €550,000 over 2021-2025, with eight sales in ten between €408,700 and €897,400.
The Loire Valley from Mer to Blois and Chaumont-sur-Loire, with Chambord and Cheverny nearby, has the château visitors: strong demand, higher prices. The Cher valley around Montrichard and Saint-Aignan extends this towards Touraine. In the south-east, the Sologne around Romorantin-Lanthenay, Lamotte-Beuvron and Salbris combines forests, ponds and hunting estates, with large wooded properties. In the north, the Loir valley from Vendôme to Montoire-sur-le-Loir, Lavardin and Trôo is more intimate, and the Perche vendômois quieter still. The A10 serves Blois and Mer, the A71 the Sologne and the A85 the Cher valley; Vendôme-Villiers-sur-Loir high-speed station brings the north within easy reach of Paris, and Blois has trains to Paris-Austerlitz. Our article on where to buy a gîte (in French) helps weigh these criteria.
Building styles vary: tufa stone and slate in the Loire and Cher valleys, brick, timber framing and flat tiles in the Sologne, stone and hillside caves along the Loir. In the Sologne, woodland or a pond means regular maintenance costs. In the Loire Valley, levees reduce but do not remove the flood risk: check the flood-prevention plan and the risk report attached to the compromis de vente (preliminary contract). The Loir and Cher hillsides may have underground cavities. Outside villages, the private septic system, inspected by the SPANC service, must cope with all units. Each gîte is a registered meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let). The national online service provided for by the law of 19 November 2024 is not yet in place; it is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2026. Finally, look at gîte insurance (in French), which differs from standard home cover.
Price depends first on distance from the major châteaux and the size of the grounds. The median country house sells for €145,000 in the department; a property with gîtes, outbuildings and grounds moves towards the €550,000 median for large homes. Plan your funding with our financing plan calculator (in French), including works, furniture and notaire fees.
Yes, for guests who come for nature, fishing, walking and hunting, in spring and autumn as much as in summer. Large properties leave room for several units in the outbuildings, but woods and ponds add to running costs.
Ask for bookings, accounts and guest reviews from recent seasons, and check each unit's registration, labels and rating. The sale ends with the final deed before a notaire; if the customer base, name and website are transferred, part of the price may be a fonds de commerce (business goodwill).
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