With Lyon close at hand, a gîte for sale in Rhône has a catchment of guests few rural areas can match. The Beaujolais and its golden-stone villages, the Lyonnais and Beaujolais hills, the Azergues valley and, in the south, the Condrieu and Côte-Rôtie slopes offer vineyards and hills city-dwellers love. Wine tourism, weddings and family events, business travel and Lyon's big events such as the Fête des Lumières keep demand going beyond summer.
Properties here have character: former mills with land, village houses combining a gîte and B&B rooms, and wine estates with a converted outbuilding. This page is for buyers seeking a house with gîte, for those taking over a trading gîte and for sellers. Many searches target the wider Rhône-Alpes area: see gîtes in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and set up an email alert (in French).
As of 25 September 2026, 2 listings in Rhône are published on ma-propriete.fr, with asking prices from €625,000 to €825,500.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Rhône was €285,700 (average €290,903), or €2,664/m² of living space, for 113 m² on an average plot of 2,430 m², based on 952 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €145,000 and one in ten above €441,728. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €253,000 to €285,700 (+12.9%); over the last year the change is +4.9%. For comparison: €230,000 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Rhône | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €285,700 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €290,903 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €145,000 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €441,728 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,664/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 113 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,430 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 952 | 16,528 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €139,800 (tourist inland) to €328,500 (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) * | €139,800 | €1,420/m² | +9.6% | 38 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €328,500 | €3,018/m² | -1.1% | 3,167 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €230,000 | €2,152/m² | +2.1% | 2,488 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €1,313,300 over 2021-2025, with an average of €1,463,000, a P10–P90 range of €714,000 to €2,345,200 and 3,774 €/m² of living space, over 109 sales. These homes average 364 m² of living space on 7,285 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhône (2021-2025) | 109 | €1,313,300 | €1,463,000 | €714,000 – €2,345,200 | 3,774 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (2025) | 87 | €860,000* | €1,359,200 | €492,700 – €2,670,000 | 2,542 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (2021-2025) | 605 | €878,400 | €1,368,800 | €462,000 – €2,886,000 | 2,434 |
| 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 Rhône and prestige property prices in Rhône (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Rhône is an expensive rural market: a median €285,700 for a country house in 2025, well above the regional figure. Peri-urban communes around Lyon reach €328,500 and have levelled off since 2021 (-1.1%); the tourist inland figure rests on very few sales. A property with a gîte quickly approaches the large-home market, with a department median of €1,313,300 over 2021-2025.
The southern, golden-stone Beaujolais around Oingt and Theizé is close to Lyon and priced accordingly. The northern Beaujolais of the crus, towards Fleurie, Juliénas and Morgon, draws wine lovers. The wooded Beaujolais hills and upper Azergues offer larger properties for less, and the Lyonnais hills combine farming, walking and quick access to the city. In the south, Condrieu pairs famous vineyards with the nearby Pilat. The A6, A7 and A89 motorways, Lyon Part-Dieu high-speed station and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airport give excellent access; see where to buy a gîte (in French).
Development pressure around Lyon means strict local plans: in farm or natural zones, converting a barn into a gîte requires the building to be listed for change of use in the PLU (local plan), so check with the mairie (town hall) before signing the compromis de vente. Buildings mix golden limestone, pisé (rammed earth) and granite, all needing careful upkeep, and the Azergues and Brévenne valleys are prone to flash floods. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let). The law of 19 November 2024 gave towns more power to regulate such lets and provides for a national online registration service, which is not yet in place and should open in the fourth quarter of 2026. Tax treatment depends on your situation: see our article on gîte taxation (in French).
Yes, and it is common in the Beaujolais. Chambres d'hôtes (B&B rooms) have their own rules, at most 5 rooms and 15 guests, declared at the mairie; the gîte follows holiday-let rules. For B&B-led properties, see guest houses for sale.
Harvests, open cellars and wine festivals bring visitors in spring and autumn, extending the season, but location, quality and marketing make the difference. Read our article on agritourism and wine tourism (in French).
Budget for notaire fees (the notaire is the public officer handling the sale) on the property price and, if a business is transferred, the formalities of selling a fonds de commerce (business goodwill), plus surveys, furniture and works. Estimate them with our notary fees calculator (in French).
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