A gîte for sale in Mayenne appeals to guests looking for peace, fishing, walking and cycling rather than crowds, along a navigable river, through hedged farmland and small historic towns. The Mayenne river, with its locks and towpath, runs through the department from Mayenne via Laval to Château-Gontier. The medieval village of Sainte-Suzanne, the Gallo-Roman site at Jublains, Lassay-les-Châteaux and the Coëvrons hills form a low-key heritage, while the north-east borders the Alpes Mancelles and the Normandie-Maine regional nature park.
Properties here are often stone farmhouses and longères with one or two gîtes, waterside properties designed for anglers and houses with outbuildings to convert. This page is for buyers after a house with gîte, for those planning to create a rural gîte on a modest budget, for buyers of a going concern and for sellers. Widen your search to gîtes in Pays de la Loire or Maine-et-Loire to the south.
As of 25 September 2026, one listing in Mayenne is published on ma-propriete.fr, with an asking price of €535,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Mayenne was €145,000 (average €149,484), or €1,395/m² of living space, for 107 m² on an average plot of 4,713 m², based on 1,662 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €72,500 and one in ten above €234,900. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €120,000 to €145,000 (+20.8%); over the last year the change is +7.4%. For comparison: €190,000 in Pays de la Loire and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Mayenne | Pays de la Loire | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €145,000 | €190,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €149,484 | €199,126 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €72,500 | €100,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €234,900 | €308,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,395/m² | €1,875/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 107 m² | 106 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 4,713 m² | 2,947 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,662 | 14,604 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €89,250 (tourist inland) to €160,000 (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) * | €89,250 | €1,032/m² | +40.4% | 86 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €160,000 | €1,552/m² | +13.3% | 3,391 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €122,250 | €1,212/m² | +12.1% | 6,548 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the regional (Pays de la Loire) benchmark is a median of €665,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €828,400, a P10–P90 range of €421,000 to €1,425,500 and 1,881 €/m² of living space, over 346 sales. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Mayenne and prestige property prices in Mayenne (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Mayenne is the most affordable department in the region: the median country house sold for €145,000 in 2025, or €1,395/m², on an average plot of 4,713 m², the largest in Pays de la Loire. One sale in ten was under €72,500, so buying a farm to convert remains realistic. Yet the rise since 2020 (+20.8%) is the strongest in the region. Too few sales mean no department median is published for large homes; the regional figure of €665,000 is a ceiling few Mayenne gîte properties reach.
The Mayenne valley is the most sought-after area: a riverside gîte attracts anglers, boaters hiring licence-free boats and cyclists on the towpath. In the north, around Mayenne and Lassay, the countryside is hillier and borders the regional park, and the road to Mont-Saint-Michel brings passing visitors. The Coëvrons and Sainte-Suzanne in the east draw walkers, while the south around Château-Gontier offers large farms at modest prices. Laval, on the A81 and the high-speed line to Paris and Rennes, adds weekday business guests.
Local buildings combine granite, sandstone and schist under slate roofs. Barns convert well, but budget for insulation, heating and the private septic system, inspected by the local SPANC service. The Mayenne, Oudon and Erve valleys are flood-prone: read the risk report attached to the compromis de vente, the preliminary sale contract. For a waterside gîte, check fishing rights and bank access. The season relies on spring, autumn and weekends. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let); the national online registration service provided for by the law of 19 November 2024 is not yet in place and is due to open in the fourth quarter of 2026. Our article on buying versus creating a gîte (in French) compares both routes.
Entry prices are the lowest in the region: in remote rural municipalities the median country house sold for €122,250 over 2020-2025. A low price often means works or a gîte still to create; our white paper on creating a rural gîte (in French) helps you cost the project.
The river and the department's many ponds attract coarse, carp and predator anglers, often in groups and outside summer. A suitable gîte offers storage for gear, direct water access and short stays, and pairs well with cyclists and walkers.
You sign a compromis, then a final deed before a notaire, the public officer handling property sales. Ask for booking records, check the registration and labels, and estimate income with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
See also gîtes in Sarthe and Loire-Atlantique, or all gîtes for sale in France. An email alert (in French) flags new listings; selling a gîte in Mayenne? List your property.
