Set among chalk cliffs, wooded valleys and abbeys along the Seine, a gîte for sale in Seine-Maritime combines coast, heritage and easy access from Paris. The Alabaster Coast links Le Tréport, Dieppe, Varengeville-sur-Mer, Veules-les-Roses, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, Fécamp and Étretat, whose sea arches draw visitors from around the world. Rouen, with its cathedral and old town, Le Havre and its city centre rebuilt by Auguste Perret, a World Heritage site, and the abbeys of Jumièges and Saint-Wandrille in the Boucles de la Seine Normande regional nature park add a strong cultural draw.
Inland, the Pays de Caux and its tree-ringed farmsteads, the Pays de Bray and the Bresle valley offer countryside close to the sea. Typical properties are brick-and-flint manor houses with outbuildings, Caux farmhouses and longhouses to convert. The page is for buyers after a house with gîte, those taking over a trading gîte and owners planning a sale. Set up an email alert (in French) to hear about new properties.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no gîtes for sale in Seine-Maritime listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Normandy region, 10 listings show a median asking price of €783,550, ranging from €400,000 to €3,000,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Seine-Maritime was €201,000 (average €208,792), or €2,013/m² of living space, for 105 m² on an average plot of 2,568 m², based on 3,397 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €123,740 and one in ten above €303,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €180,000 to €200,950 (+11.6%); over the last year the change is +2.5%. For comparison: €189,000 in Normandy and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Seine-Maritime | Normandy | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €201,000 | €189,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €208,792 | €197,998 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €123,740 | €100,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €303,000 | €304,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,013/m² | €1,872/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 105 m² | 106 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,568 m² | 3,500 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 3,397 | 14,367 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €175,000 (deep countryside) to €215,600 (residential coastline). 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 coastline | €209,500 | €2,246/m² | +10.1% | 608 |
| Residential coastline | €215,600 | €2,117/m² | +5.2% | 1,454 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €183,300 | €1,970/m² | +17.9% | 155 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €205,000 | €2,000/m² | +8.3% | 11,523 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €175,000 | €1,784/m² | +4.5% | 6,475 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €670,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €721,200, a P10–P90 range of €448,100 to €1,053,000 and 1,849 €/m² of living space, over 89 sales. These homes average 370 m² of living space on 13,289 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seine-Maritime (2021-2025) | 89 | €670,000* | €721,200 | €448,100 – €1,053,000 | 1,849 |
| 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 Seine-Maritime and prestige property prices in Seine-Maritime (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Seine-Maritime ranks second in Normandy for country-house prices, with a median of €201,000 in 2025. Unusually, tourist coastal communes (€209,500 over 2020-2025) are barely above commuter communes around Rouen and Le Havre (€205,000): the Alabaster Coast remains affordable compared with other shorelines. Tourist inland communes, at €183,300, rose by 17.9% between 2021 and 2025, a catch-up that directly affects gîte projects. A property with several units and parkland belongs to the large-home market, with an indicative median of €670,000, level with the regional figure.
The Alabaster Coast, from Étretat to Le Tréport, sees the strongest demand, with stays from spring to autumn and British guests arriving through Dieppe; properties there are sought after and costly to maintain. The Pays de Caux, between Fécamp, Yvetot and Saint-Valery-en-Caux, offers farms a few minutes from the sea at lower prices. The Seine meanders between Rouen and Le Havre focus on heritage, with the abbey route and orchards. The Pays de Bray, around Neufchâtel-en-Bray and Forges-les-Eaux, and the Bresle valley offer bocage countryside popular with Parisian and Belgian visitors. The A13, A28 and A29 serve the department, Rouen and Le Havre have rail links to Paris-Saint-Lazare, and the Pont de Normandie leads to Honfleur.
The chalk cliffs are retreating through sea erosion and rockfalls: near the edge, check the risk report, planning restrictions and the loi Littoral (coastal planning law). The Caux subsoil has many marnières, old underground quarries, and the plateaux are prone to mudflows in heavy storms. Buildings combine brick, flint, half-timbering and slate; clos-masures, farmsteads enclosed by beech-planted banks, have outbuildings suited to gîtes, though the tree lines need upkeep. 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 scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2026. Ratings and labels remain optional. Our white paper on creating a rural gîte (in French) sums up the steps.
Beyond the price, look at the distance to the cliff edge, erosion exposure and the planning rules that follow. Wind and salt wear walls and windows. A gîte set slightly back, in a valleuse (dry coastal valley) or Caux village, can strike a better balance.
Paris, Rouen and Le Havre support weekend and school-holiday demand. Results still vary by area and standard: test your figures with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Gather recent accounts and bookings, registration records, surveys and the septic inspection, then set a price in line with DVF benchmarks. Our article on selling a gîte (in French) covers each step up to the compromis de vente, the preliminary contract signed before the notaire.
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