A gîte for sale in Orne belongs to inland Normandy, a land of state forests, Perche manor houses and horse paddocks, with no coastline but within reach of Paris. The Perche regional nature park, around Mortagne-au-Perche and Bellême, draws weekend guests looking for peace and fine old houses. To the west, the Normandie-Maine regional nature park links Domfront, the Andaines forests and the spa town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, while the Suisse Normande, around the Roche d'Oëtre, attracts walkers. The Haras National du Pin stud, Alençon and its lace, the village of Camembert and the Orne side of the Pays d'Auge complete a land of horses and good food.
Properties here are often large: manor houses with outbuildings, stud farms with gîtes on dozens of hectares, bocage longhouses to convert. The page is for buyers after a house with gîte, those taking over a trading gîte, riders combining horses and guests, and sellers. Set up an email alert (in French) to hear about new properties.
As of 25 September 2026, 2 listings in Orne are published on ma-propriete.fr, with asking prices from €1,990,000 to €3,000,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Orne was €139,000 (average €146,959), or €1,427/m² of living space, for 102 m² on an average plot of 4,986 m², based on 1,719 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €75,000 and one in ten above €230,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €125,000 to €138,900 (+11.1%); over the last year the change is +1.4%. For comparison: €189,000 in Normandy and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Orne | Normandy | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €139,000 | €189,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €146,959 | €197,998 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €75,000 | €100,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €230,000 | €304,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,427/m² | €1,872/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 102 m² | 106 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 4,986 m² | 3,500 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,719 | 14,367 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €130,000 (deep countryside) to €150,000 (tourist inland). 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) | €150,000 | €1,450/m² | +27.7% | 683 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €132,000 | €1,315/m² | +10.0% | 2,586 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €130,000 | €1,354/m² | +8.0% | 7,965 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €570,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €617,500, a P10–P90 range of €370,000 to €927,400 and 1,687 €/m² of living space, over 41 sales. These homes average 353 m² of living space on 27,111 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orne (2021-2025) | 41 | €570,000* | €617,500 | €370,000 – €927,400 | 1,687 |
| Normandy (2025) | 57 | €760,000* | €891,700 | €432,600 – €1,627,300 | 2,017 |
| Normandy (2021-2025) | 403 | €670,000 | €774,200 | €410,600 – €1,239,600 | 1,869 |
| 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 Orne and prestige property prices in Orne (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Orne has Normandy's lowest country-house prices: a median of €139,000 in 2025, with one sale in ten below €75,000. Tourist inland communes are moving fast, with a median of €150,000 and a 27.7% rise between 2021 and 2025, a sign of strong demand from city buyers. That is the benchmark for a gîte. Large estates with gîtes belong to another market: the indicative prestige median is €570,000, with eight sales in ten between €370,000 and €927,400. Beyond that, buyers are few.
The Perche, in the east, is the most sought-after area: rolling bocage, the Bellême and Réno-Valdieu forests, and manors and farms restored by Parisian weekenders. The Pays d'Ouche around L'Aigle and the Pays d'Auge around Vimoutiers extend this market into apple country. The centre, between Alençon, Sées, Argentan and the Haras du Pin, is the department's horse country. In the west, the Bocage and Domfrontais, with Flers, Bagnoles-de-l'Orne and the Andaines forests, offer lower prices and guests who come for spa cures, cycling and walking. The A28 links Rouen to Alençon and Le Mans, the A88 runs to Caen via Argentan, and the Paris–Granville line serves L'Aigle, Argentan and Flers.
Perche houses combine rendered limestone, a ferruginous sandstone called grison and flat tiles; the Pays d'Auge keeps its half-timbering and the Domfrontais its granite. These large barns, stables and main houses suit gîte conversions, but heating, insulation and roofs are costly; our guide to converting a barn into a gîte (in French) helps you budget. With no coast, the main hazards are local flooding along the Orne, Sarthe and Huisne and clay shrinkage. Outside villages, the private septic system, inspected by the local SPANC service, must match the number of beds. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let), with energy performance requirements being phased in, a real issue for old buildings. 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.
Buildings cost less, and a bocage longhouse to convert remains affordable. Restored gîte properties in the Perche, close to Paris, sell at much higher levels. A low price often signals major works or guests to win back.
Have the stables, arenas, fencing and pastures inspected, and keep the equestrian business separate from the letting: legal status, insurance and tax differ. If riders are at the heart of the project, see our equestrian gîtes for sale.
Banks look at your deposit, income and the gîte's accounts if it is trading. Build a plan covering the price, notaire fees (paid to the notary handling the sale), works and furniture with our financing plan calculator (in French), then follow our complete gîte buying guide (in French).
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