Between the Seine and the Marne, a gîte for sale in Val-de-Marne serves guests who want a quiet night without leaving Paris behind. The department is almost entirely urban but keeps green breaks: the Marne riverside and its open-air dance cafés (guinguettes) at Nogent-sur-Marne and Joinville-le-Pont, the Château de Vincennes, the L'Haÿ-les-Roses rose garden, the Grosbois estate and, to the south-east, the villages of the Plateau Briard. The Rungis wholesale market, Orly airport, hospitals and universities at Créteil bring steady business demand.
Typical properties are riverside villas with a separate unit, millstone houses with a converted outbuilding or, more rarely, a Brie farmhouse. This page is for buyers of a house with gîte, those taking over a trading meublé de tourisme (registered furnished holiday let) and sellers. Widen your search to gîtes for sale in Île-de-France and set up an email alert (in French) for the 94.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no gîtes for sale in Val-de-Marne 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 Val-de-Marne and prestige property prices in Val-de-Marne (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
With almost no rural communes, the DVF benchmark is regional: €280,000 median for an Île-de-France country house in 2025, or €2,603/m². Neighbouring departments frame this level, with €250,600 in Seine-et-Marne and €284,600 in Essonne, up 2.3% and 3.5% since 2020. A house on the Plateau Briard or the Marne riverside sells above that, as it belongs to the urban market. A property combining a main house and gîtes is closer to the region's large homes: eight sales in ten between €601,200 and €2,988,300 over 2021-2025.
The north-east, from Vincennes to Nogent-sur-Marne, Le Perreux-sur-Marne and Bry-sur-Marne, combines period villas, the Bois de Vincennes and riverside walks: the area visitors like most. The Seine valley, from Ivry-sur-Seine to Choisy-le-Roi and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, is more urban and lives off Orly and Rungis. The centre, around Créteil and the Marne loops of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, is residential. The south-east, from Boissy-Saint-Léger to Villecresnes, Mandres-les-Roses and Santeny, feels almost rural, with the Notre-Dame forest and farms. The A4, A6 and A86 motorways, RER lines A, C and D, the metro and Orly airport provide access, with high-speed stations at Marne-la-Vallée and Massy nearby.
The Seine-Marne confluence and the Yerres valley at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges make several towns flood-prone; there are old underground quarries in the north-west, and shrink-swell clay affects the plateau. The risk report attached to the compromis de vente (preliminary contract) also flags aircraft-noise zoning near Orly. Millstone holiday villas often need roof and insulation work, and converting a Plateau Briard barn requires planning permission; see our guide to converting a barn into a gîte (in French). In the inner ring, a holiday let that is not your main residence normally needs change-of-use permission from the mairie (town hall), and each unit is registered through the national online service created by the Le Meur law of 19 November 2024; see the new holiday-let rules (in French).
Near Orly and Rungis, mostly business travellers on short weekday stays; on the Marne riverside and at Vincennes, families and Paris visitors at weekends and in summer. Ask the seller for the booking mix, then use our holiday rental profitability simulator (in French).
Houses here follow urban prices, above the rural benchmarks: ask a notaire, the public officer who handles property sales, for recent local sales. Our borrowing capacity calculator (in French) shows what a bank may lend.
A registered, booked unit earns from day one but costs more; converting an outbuilding is cheaper but needs works and permits. Our article on buying or creating a gîte and our gîte buying guide (both in French) compare the routes.
See also gîtes in Seine-et-Marne and Essonne, or all gîtes for sale in France. Selling a gîte in Val-de-Marne? List your property.
