A gîte for sale in the Var puts you in a department that pairs one of France's busiest coastlines with a hinterland of hills, vineyards and hilltop villages. From the Hyères islands to the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, and from the Maures hills to the Verdon gorges and Lake Sainte-Croix, guests come for the sea, walking and Côtes de Provence wine.
Properties listed here usually combine a single-storey main house, a pool and a group of outbuildings on one or more hectares, large inland estates with several buildings. The page is for buyers looking for a house with gîte in the Var, for those taking over a trading business and for sellers. An email alert (in French) keeps you posted on new Var properties.
As of 25 September 2026, 3 listings in Var are published on ma-propriete.fr, with asking prices from €599,000 to €997,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Var was €381,700 (average €434,635), or €3,693/m² of living space, for 114 m² on an average plot of 3,430 m², based on 1,617 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €250,000 and one in ten above €700,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €347,500 to €380,240 (+9.4%); over the last year the change is -2.0%. For comparison: €360,000 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Var | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €381,700 | €360,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €434,635 | €401,500 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €250,000 | €215,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €700,000 | €650,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €3,693/m² | €3,469/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 114 m² | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,430 m² | 3,324 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,617 | 4,532 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €343,500 (deep countryside) to €620,000 (tourist 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 | €620,000 | €4,933/m² | +1.7% | 1,262 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €424,000 | €3,664/m² | +0.5% | 1,323 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €380,000 | €3,621/m² | +5.3% | 5,005 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €343,500 | €3,258/m² | +4.7% | 3,238 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €2,700,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €3,010,200, a P10–P90 range of €1,017,100 to €5,511,100 and 7,742 €/m² of living space, over 329 sales. These homes average 369 m² of living space on 7,957 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Var (2021-2025) | 329 | €2,700,000 | €3,010,200 | €1,017,100 – €5,511,100 | 7,742 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (2025) | 151 | €2,520,000 | €2,997,000 | €1,002,000 – €5,800,000 | 6,914 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (2021-2025) | 1,050 | €2,475,500 | €2,811,700 | €994,400 – €5,324,000 | 6,623 |
| 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 Var and prestige property prices in Var (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
The right benchmark for a gîte in the Var is the tourist inland communes, where country houses sold for a median €424,000 over 2020-2025, almost flat (+0.5%) between 2021 and 2025. The tourist coastline plays in another league at €620,000: a gîte near the sea costs far more but fills its season more easily. A property with several units, a pool and land moves towards the large-home market, where the department median is €2,700,000 over 2021-2025.
The coast, from Bandol to Saint-Raphaël via Hyères, the Giens peninsula and the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, has the longest season and the most international guests, but land is scarce and prices high. In the centre, the Provence Verte around Brignoles and Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, and the Dracénie around Draguignan, offer stone farmhouses (mas) and country manors (bastides) at more accessible prices. In the north, the Haut-Var and the Verdon rely on Lake Sainte-Croix, the gorges and hiking, with a season focused on summer. The A8 motorway crosses the department, the A57 links Toulon to the Le Luc plain, and Toulon and Les Arcs-Draguignan have high-speed rail stations. Toulon-Hyères, Nice and Marseille airports help too. See our article on where to buy a gîte in France (in French).
Traditional houses are stone mas and bastides under Roman tiles: check that extensions were authorised, as the loi Littoral (coastal planning law) strictly limits new building outside built-up areas. Wildfire risk is high in the Maures, the Esterel and wooded hills, and the legal duty to clear scrub around buildings is a recurring cost. The Argens valley and its tributaries are prone to flash floods, so read the risk report attached to the compromis de vente, the preliminary sale contract. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let) that must be registered. The law of 19 November 2024 provides for this to be done 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. Our article on the new holiday-let rules (in French) explains more.
In 2025 the median country house sold for €381,700 in the Var, and one sale in ten went above €700,000. A property with a gîte and pool usually sits higher. Add notaire fees (the notary who handles the sale), furniture and compliance work, then check the figures with our financing plan calculator (in French).
That depends on weeks let, standard of accommodation and running costs such as the pool, scrub clearance, energy and platform fees. Ask the seller for recent bookings and accounts, then test your assumptions with our holiday rental profitability simulator (in French).
The property is sold through a compromis de vente, then a final deed before a notaire; if the website, bookings and trading name are transferred too, that part may be a fonds de commerce (business goodwill) with its own formalities. Registration, septic inspection and surveys all need checking. Every step is set out in our complete gîte buying guide (in French).
See also gîtes for sale in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur or the neighbouring departments: Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, or browse all gîtes for sale in France. Selling in the Var? List your property on ma-propriete.fr.
