A gîte for sale in Tarn draws on varied heritage within reach of Toulouse: pink Albi brick, hilltop bastides, the Gaillac vineyards and the Montagne Noire forests. Albi's episcopal city and Sainte-Cécile cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Toulouse-Lautrec museum, Cordes-sur-Ciel, Puycelsi, the abbey school at Sorèze and the granite boulders of the Sidobre attract French, British and Belgian guests.
Listings mainly feature renovated stone farmhouses and sheepfolds with separate gîtes and a pool, country homes with a dovecote, pairs of houses on one or more hectares, and a few estates adding a function room or equestrian facilities. This page is for buyers of a house with gîte, business buyers and sellers. An email alert (in French) tells you about new properties.
As of 25 September 2026, 12 listings of gîtes in Tarn are published on ma-propriete.fr. The median asking price is €572,000; half of them are priced between €536,500 and €707,750, within an overall range of €365,000 to €799,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Tarn was €193,000 (average €194,538), or €1,799/m² of living space, for 113 m² on an average plot of 4,540 m², based on 1,018 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €97,000 and one in ten above €290,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €175,000 to €193,000 (+10.3%); over the last year the change is +6.3%. For comparison: €210,000 in Occitanie and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Tarn | Occitanie | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €193,000 | €210,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €194,538 | €220,462 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €97,000 | €107,500 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €290,000 | €347,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,799/m² | €1,987/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 113 m² | 111 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 4,540 m² | 4,162 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,018 | 14,163 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €130,000 (tourist inland) to €200,000 (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) | €130,000 | €1,319/m² | +8.2% | 686 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €200,000 | €1,849/m² | +2.8% | 4,402 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €177,500 | €1,667/m² | +0.5% | 1,921 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €568,900* over 2021-2025, with an average of €585,000, a P10–P90 range of €407,100 to €744,400 and 1,611 €/m² of living space, over 88 sales. These homes average 357 m² of living space on 15,196 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarn (2021-2025) | 88 | €568,900* | €585,000 | €407,100 – €744,400 | 1,611 |
| Occitanie (2025) | 126 | €662,500 | €856,900 | €430,000 – €1,477,000 | 1,804 |
| Occitanie (2021-2025) | 723 | €640,000 | €747,000 | €410,000 – €1,208,500 | 1,735 |
| 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 Tarn and prestige property prices in Tarn (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Tarn's market is upside down: the tourist inland, mainly the Montagne Noire, Lacaune hills and Sidobre, has the lowest median (€130,000 over 2020-2025), well below the peri-urban countryside around Albi, Castres and Toulouse (€200,000). Gîte demand therefore centres on the Gaillac, Cordes and Albi hillsides, which are both peri-urban and touristic. A property with gîtes, a pool and land belongs to the large-home market, with a department median of €568,900 over 2021-2025, an indicative figure.
The north-west around Cordes-sur-Ciel, the Grésigne forest and the Aveyron gorges, together with the Gaillac vineyards and Lisle-sur-Tarn, is the most sought-after area. The Albigeois and the Ségala towards Carmaux and the Viaur valley offer farms at gentler prices. To the south, the Pays de Cocagne around Lavaur and Lautrec recalls the woad trade. The Castres area, the Sidobre and the Lacaune hills, in the Haut-Languedoc regional nature park, attract walkers and anglers, while the Montagne Noire adds lakes and forests. The A68 motorway links Albi to Toulouse and its international airport, and trains run from Albi and Castres to Toulouse.
Building materials vary: brick and cobbles on the plain, limestone around Cordes and Gaillac, granite in the Sidobre and hills, timber framing in some bastides. Dovecotes, barns and drying sheds suit conversion if the restoration budget is realistic; see our guide to converting a barn into a gîte (in French). Clay hillsides shrink and swell, causing cracks, and the Tarn, Agout and Aveyron valleys flood: read the risk report attached to the compromis de vente, the preliminary sale contract. Private septic systems, inspected by the SPANC service, must cope with every unit. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let), with energy performance rules being phased in. The national online registration service provided for by the law of 19 November 2024 is not yet in place; it is due to open in the fourth quarter of 2026.
In 2025 the median country house sold for €193,000, slightly below the regional median. A house to convert in the hills stays affordable; a renovated farm with gîtes near Cordes or Gaillac costs far more. Add notaire fees, works and furniture.
Being close to Toulouse and Albi helps with weekend and business stays outside summer. Results still depend on weeks let and costs: test past accounts with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
A compromis de vente is followed by the final deed before a notaire, the public officer handling property sales. If customers and website are transferred, part may be a fonds de commerce (business goodwill); our gîte buying guide (in French) explains more.
See also gîtes for sale in Occitanie and neighbouring Tarn-et-Garonne, Aveyron and Aude, or all gîtes for sale in France. Selling a gîte in Tarn? List your property on ma-propriete.fr.
