In the heart of the UNESCO-listed Loire Valley, a gîte for sale in Maine-et-Loire benefits from heritage and wine tourism that runs from spring to autumn. Anjou is home to Angers castle and its Apocalypse Tapestry, Saumur and its riding school, the royal abbey of Fontevraud, Montreuil-Bellay, the cave villages of the Saumur area and the Layon, Aubance and Savennières hillsides. The Loire à Vélo cycle route and the Loire-Anjou-Touraine regional nature park draw European visitors on touring holidays.
Listings here are often character properties with two gîtes and outbuildings, houses with grounds among the vineyards and large homes near Angers suited to a hospitality project. This page is for buyers after a house with gîte, for those taking over an established rural gîte and for sellers. Widen your search to gîtes in Pays de la Loire and Loire-Atlantique.
As of 25 September 2026, 3 listings in Maine-et-Loire are published on ma-propriete.fr, with asking prices from €480,800 to €1,508,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Maine-et-Loire was €195,000 (average €202,021), or €1,863/m² of living space, for 110 m² on an average plot of 2,950 m², based on 2,971 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €112,645 and one in ten above €300,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €171,000 to €195,000 (+14.0%); over the last year the change is +2.6%. For comparison: €190,000 in Pays de la Loire and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Maine-et-Loire | Pays de la Loire | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €195,000 | €190,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €202,021 | €199,126 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €112,645 | €100,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €300,000 | €308,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,863/m² | €1,875/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 110 m² | 106 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,950 m² | 2,947 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 2,971 | 14,604 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €161,850 (deep countryside) to €207,500 (peri-urban countryside).
| Type of municipality | Median price 2020-2025 | Median price per m² | Change 2021-2025 | Sales 2020-2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €207,500 | €1,962/m² | +6.2% | 11,877 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €161,850 | €1,583/m² | +9.6% | 6,164 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €634,100* over 2021-2025, with an average of €684,500, a P10–P90 range of €439,100 to €988,000 and 1,832 €/m² of living space, over 78 sales. These homes average 354 m² of living space on 18,444 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maine-et-Loire (2021-2025) | 78 | €634,100* | €684,500 | €439,100 – €988,000 | 1,832 |
| Pays de la Loire (2025) | 57 | €750,000* | €851,700 | €442,000 – €1,355,600 | 2,006 |
| Pays de la Loire (2021-2025) | 346 | €665,000 | €828,400 | €421,000 – €1,425,500 | 1,881 |
| 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 Maine-et-Loire and prestige property prices in Maine-et-Loire (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
The department has no coastline and no municipality classed as tourist inland, so the benchmark is peri-urban countryside, where the median country house sold for €207,500 over 2020-2025, against €161,850 in rural areas away from Angers, Cholet and Saumur, up 9.6% since 2021. A gîte property with several units and grounds moves towards the Anjou large-home market, with a median of €634,100 and eight sales in ten between €439,100 and €988,000: more affordable than Loire-Atlantique for buildings of similar quality.
The Saumur area, between the Loire and the Thouet, has the most visited sites, with caves, châteaux, abbeys and vineyards spreading visits over several seasons. Around Angers, the Loire banks, Béhuard and Savennières, then the Layon hillsides towards Chalonnes, suit gîtes aimed at wine tourism and cycling. To the south-west, the Mauges and Cholet area offer lower prices and family guests, with the Puy du Fou within reach. The Segré area in the north and the forested Baugeois in the east are quieter. The A11 links Angers with Paris and Nantes, the A85 with Tours and the A87 with Cholet; Angers has high-speed trains to Paris, and Nantes Atlantique airport serves British guests.
Tuffeau, a soft limestone, and Anjou slate give buildings their elegance but need regular upkeep. Work near listed monuments and within the Loire Valley heritage area is regulated. Cave dwellings need stability and ventilation checks before hosting guests. The Loire and Authion floodplains, protected by embankments, remain flood-prone: read the risk report attached to the compromis de vente, the preliminary sale contract. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let) registered through the national online service set up by the law of 19 November 2024; a 1 to 5 star rating, valid for 5 years, is optional, as our article on gîte ratings (in French) explains.
Yes, the Saumur area has many homes carved into the tuffeau, some already let as gîtes. They need good ventilation and a check of the hillside above. Such properties sometimes appear among unusual holiday lodgings for sale.
In 2025 the median country house in the department sold for €195,000, for 110 m² on average. A property with two gîtes, grounds and a pool costs well above that. Add works, furniture and buying costs, then test your income with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Ask for recent bookings and accounts and check each unit's registration and the SPANC septic inspection. The sale goes through a compromis, then a final deed signed before a notaire, the public officer handling property sales. Our gîte buying guide (in French) covers each step.
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