Between the Bresse, the Charolais hills and the vineyards, a gîte for sale in Saône-et-Loire puts you in a rural department on the Paris-Lyon corridor. Visitors come for the Romanesque churches of Cluny, Tournus and Paray-le-Monial, the Rock of Solutré, Mâcon and Côte Chalonnaise wines, the Charolais hedgerows and the greenways along the Canal du Centre. To the north-west, the Autun area and part of the Morvan regional nature park add forests and lakes.
Properties here are often large rural estates: Bresse farmhouses with farm buildings, old mills with water rights, manor houses with a second dwelling, and holdings of several hectares partly let to farmers. This page is for buyers seeking a house with gîte, for those taking over an established gîte complex and for sellers. See also gîtes for sale in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and set up an email alert (in French).
As of 25 September 2026, 7 listings of gîtes in Saône-et-Loire are published on ma-propriete.fr. The median asking price is €525,000, within an overall range of €309,000 to €989,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Saône-et-Loire was €160,000 (average €168,705), or €1,564/m² of living space, for 108 m² on an average plot of 3,752 m², based on 2,691 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €80,000 and one in ten above €272,400. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €135,585 to €160,000 (+18.0%); over the last year the change is +5.3%. For comparison: €157,000 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Saône-et-Loire | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €160,000 | €157,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €168,705 | €168,680 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €80,000 | €74,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €272,400 | €279,670 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,564/m² | €1,525/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 108 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,752 m² | 2,805 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 2,691 | 11,450 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €129,900 (tourist inland) to €175,000 (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) | €129,900 | €1,314/m² | +17.3% | 904 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €175,000 | €1,695/m² | +12.4% | 6,619 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €135,050 | €1,374/m² | +12.0% | 8,903 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €512,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €566,800, a P10–P90 range of €348,600 to €825,000 and 1,437 €/m² of living space, over 61 sales. These homes average 371 m² of living space on 13,807 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saône-et-Loire (2021-2025) | 61 | €512,000* | €566,800 | €348,600 – €825,000 | 1,437 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2025) | 43 | €590,000* | €658,100 | €385,000 – €1,004,000 | 1,714 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2021-2025) | 222 | €520,000 | €589,700 | €367,200 – €863,000 | 1,438 |
| 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 Saône-et-Loire and prestige property prices in Saône-et-Loire (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
At a €160,000 median in 2025, country houses in Saône-et-Loire sell at the regional level, after an 18.0% rise since the second half of 2020. Tourist inland communes, the benchmark for holiday lets, remain the cheapest at €129,900, but gained 17.3% between 2021 and 2025, faster than the rest of the countryside. A gîte property with several units and land belongs rather to the large-home market: a €512,000 median in the department (indicative), for 371 m² on average, far below the €822,000 national median. Our article on what a gîte costs (in French) helps put an asking price in context.
The Mâconnais and Clunisois, between Mâcon, Cluny and Solutré, combine vineyards, Romanesque heritage and foreign visitors, with the firmest prices. The Côte Chalonnaise around Givry, Mercurey and Buxy draws wine lovers near Chalon-sur-Saône. The Bresse around Louhans offers timber-framed farmhouses and renowned food at lower prices. The Charolais-Brionnais, cattle country, appeals through its Romanesque churches and rolling hedgerows, while the Autun area and southern Morvan suit walkers. The A6 serves Chalon, Tournus and Mâcon, the RCEA crosses east to west, and two high-speed stations, Mâcon-Loché and Le Creusot-Montceau-Montchanin, link Paris and Lyon.
Bresse farmhouses, built of timber framing, cob and brick, sometimes with a distinctive Saracen chimney, need specialist upkeep; neighbouring barns suit conversion. For a mill, have the water rights, the mill race and river-continuity obligations checked with the state services. If land is let to a farmer, the rural lease continues with the new owner, so read it before signing. The Saône plain and Loire valley are prone to flooding, as the risk report attached to the compromis de vente, the preliminary contract, will show. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let), and since the law of 19 November 2024 local councils have wider powers. That law provides for registration through a national online service that will assign a number; the service is not yet in place and is due to open in the fourth quarter of 2026. See the new holiday-let rules (in French).
Isolation appeals to guests but has trade-offs: winter access, mobile and internet coverage (essential for bookings), water supply and a private septic system inspected by the SPANC service. Guests will also look at how far the shops and sights are before booking.
No return is guaranteed: it depends on location, weeks let, facilities and costs. A gîte near Cluny or the vineyards lets for longer than one deep in the hedgerows, but costs more to buy. Ask for accounts and bookings, then test your figures with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
A compromis is followed by the deed signed before a notaire, the public officer handling property sales. If the customer base, name and website are transferred, part of the deal may be a fonds de commerce (business goodwill). Check each unit's registration, rating and mandatory surveys; our gîte buying guide (in French) covers each step.
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