A gîte for sale in Seine-Saint-Denis is not a country cottage: this dense department north-east of Paris has no rural communes, so the typical property is a house with a self-contained unit, a millstone villa with a garden studio or a former workshop turned into a meublé de tourisme (registered furnished holiday let). Visitors are plentiful. The basilica of Saint-Denis, burial place of the kings of France, the Stade de France and the Olympic aquatic centre, the Saint-Ouen flea market, the Montreuil peach walls, the air and space museum at Le Bourget and the Ourcq canal draw tourists, fans, concert-goers and business travellers.
This page is for buyers of a house with gîte close to Paris and its airports, investors and owners ready to sell. If your plan needs land and outbuildings, also browse gîtes for sale in Île-de-France, where the outer ring offers more space. Set up an email alert (in French) to follow new listings in the 93.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no gîtes for sale in Seine-Saint-Denis listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Île-de-France region, 9 listings show a median asking price of €1,200,000, ranging from €285,000 to €2,200,000.
This department has almost no rural municipalities, so the figures below cover country houses across the region.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Île-de-France was €280,000 (average €295,207), or €2,603/m² of living space, for 116 m² on an average plot of 1,590 m², based on 3,611 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €171,000 and one in ten above €435,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €274,325 to €280,000 (+2.1%); over the last year the change is +3.6%. The national median is €189,200.
| Indicator (2025) | Île-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|
| Median price | €280,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €295,207 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €171,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €435,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,603/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 116 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 1,590 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 3,611 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €250,000 (tourist inland) to €289,000 (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) | €250,000 | €2,369/m² | -1.3% | 135 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €289,000 | €2,645/m² | -5.6% | 22,270 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the regional (Île-de-France) benchmark is a median of €1,263,100 over 2021-2025, with an average of €1,602,600, a P10–P90 range of €601,200 to €2,988,300 and 3,363 €/m² of living space, over 592 sales. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Île-de-France (2025) | 90 | €1,445,000* | €1,916,500 | €700,000 – €3,496,500 | 4,247 |
| Île-de-France (2021-2025) | 592 | €1,263,100 | €1,602,600 | €601,200 – €2,988,300 | 3,363 |
| 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-Saint-Denis and prestige property prices in Seine-Saint-Denis (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
With no rural communes here, the DVF figures above describe the Île-de-France countryside, not the urban house market of the 93. They still help anyone weighing the inner against the outer ring. Over 2020-2025, tourist inland communes show a median of €250,000, below peri-urban countryside at €289,000, which fell by 5.6% between 2021 and 2025. At the top end, a multi-unit property compares with the region's large homes, at an indicative 2025 median of €1,445,000. In Seine-Saint-Denis, you are paying for the building and its location, not for space.
In the west, the Plaine Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen, Aubervilliers and L'Île-Saint-Denis were reshaped by the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games: demand follows major events, trade fairs and business trips. The centre, from Pantin to Bobigny, runs along the Ourcq canal, popular with cyclists. Montreuil, Bagnolet and Les Lilas extend eastern Paris with townhouses and old workshops. Further east, the Avron plateau, the Bondy forest, the Poudrerie park, Coubron and the Marne banks offer the greenest setting, with larger plots. Le Bourget and Tremblay-en-France border the airports. The A1, A3 and A86 motorways, RER lines B, D and E and the metro provide access.
Millstone villas, brick workers' houses and converted workshops make up most of the stock: check the structure, soundproofing and separate meters. The eastern hillsides sit on old quarries and gypsum ground prone to dissolution, and the Seine and Marne banks can flood; the risk report attached to the compromis de vente (preliminary contract) sets this out. In the inner-ring departments, letting a home other than your main residence as a holiday let normally requires change-of-use permission: ask the mairie (town hall) before buying. The Le Meur law of 19 November 2024 also requires each unit to be registered, with energy rules phased in; the national online service it provides for is not yet in place and is due to open in the fourth quarter of 2026. See our articles on opening a gîte and gîte insurance (both in French).
Houses in the 93 fall outside the rural statistics above, so compare recent sales in your chosen area with a notaire, the public officer who handles property sales. Add purchase costs, fitting out and furniture; our notary fee calculator (in French) helps.
Big events fill some dates at high rates, but a sound business relies on regular guests: families visiting Paris, professionals, air travellers. Estimate occupancy outside events, platform fees and costs, then use our holiday rental simulator (in French).
The property is sold through a compromis then a final deed. Furniture, website, reviews and client base may form a separate fonds de commerce (business goodwill). Ask the mairie whether the change-of-use permission survives the sale; our guide on selling a gîte (in French) explains the seller's side.
To compare, see Seine-et-Marne, Val-d'Oise and Essonne, or all gîtes for sale in France. Own a property in Seine-Saint-Denis? List it on ma-propriete.fr.
