Looking for a gîte for sale in Yvelines means buying where forests, châteaux and old villages begin just beyond the Paris suburbs. The Palace of Versailles draws visitors from around the world, the Rambouillet forest and the Haute Vallée de Chevreuse regional nature park attract walkers and cyclists, and Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Montfort-l'Amaury appeal to heritage lovers. In the north-west, the Seine valley, the Mantois and the Houdan area are more agricultural, towards Normandy and the Chartres plain.
Here a gîte is often a converted outbuilding beside a manor house, a plateau farm split into several units or a longhouse with a separate cottage, suited to short, upmarket stays. This page is for buyers after a house with gîte near Versailles, investors taking over a trading business and owners preparing to sell. An email alert (in French) tells you when a matching property is listed.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no gîtes for sale in Yvelines 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.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Yvelines was €346,650 (average €378,718), or €2,966/m² of living space, for 126 m² on an average plot of 1,840 m², based on 763 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €230,000 and one in ten above €575,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €350,000 to €346,650 (-1.0%); over the last year the change is -1.1%. For comparison: €280,000 in Île-de-France and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Yvelines | Île-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €346,650 | €280,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €378,718 | €295,207 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €230,000 | €171,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €575,000 | €435,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,966/m² | €2,603/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 126 m² | 116 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 1,840 m² | 1,590 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 763 | 3,611 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €362,912 (tourist inland) to €365,872 (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) * | €362,912 | €3,128/m² | +84.6% | 40 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €365,872 | €3,081/m² | -7.4% | 4,816 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €1,524,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €1,699,800, a P10–P90 range of €865,000 to €2,750,000 and 4,141 €/m² of living space, over 211 sales. These homes average 384 m² of living space on 10,726 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yvelines (2021-2025) | 211 | €1,524,000 | €1,699,800 | €865,000 – €2,750,000 | 4,141 |
| 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 Yvelines and prestige property prices in Yvelines (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Yvelines is the top of the Île-de-France market. Country houses sold for a median €346,650 in 2025, or €2,966/m², and large homes reached a median €1,524,000 over 2021-2025, with a P10 floor of €865,000. A property with one or more gîtes therefore starts from a higher base than in Seine-et-Marne or Essonne. Tourist inland (€362,912) and peri-urban countryside (€365,872) are almost level; the sharp rise shown for the former rests on few sales. Peri-urban prices fell by 7.4% between 2021 and 2025, which leaves room to negotiate on properties needing work.
In the south-east, the Haute Vallée de Chevreuse, with the Yvette and Rémarde valleys, Dampierre and Port-Royal des Champs, is the most expensive area, with guests all year. Further south, Rambouillet and its state forest offer isolated farms and houses on the woodland edge. To the west, Montfort-l'Amaury, Houdan and the Versailles plain remain rural, with lower prices and mostly weekend guests. In the north, the Seine loops, Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Mantois combine heritage and riverbanks. The A13 and A12 motorways, the N10 and N12, RER lines A and C and Orly airport serve the department; the nearest high-speed station is Massy, in neighbouring Essonne.
Millstone-grit houses, limestone plateau farms and 19th-century villas lend themselves to gîtes in outbuildings or barns. Many communes are protected sites or lie near a listed monument, especially around Versailles and in the Chevreuse valley, so the Architecte des Bâtiments de France, the state heritage architect, reviews the works. The Seine floods in its loops and the Mantois, the Mauldre and Yvette valleys also flood, and old underground quarries or clay shrink-swell affect some communes, as the risk statement in the compromis de vente (preliminary contract) will show. Each gîte must be registered as a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let) through the national online service created by the Le Meur law of 19 November 2024, which also gave communes more powers; see our pages on opening formalities and star ratings for gîtes (both in French).
In 2025, one country house in ten sold for over €575,000, with a median of €346,650. A property with a separate gîte, grounds and outbuildings usually sits higher, closer to the large-home market. Add purchase costs, which you can estimate with our notaire fees calculator (in French), plus furniture.
Yvelines offers affluent guests, famous sites and steady demand, but a high entry price. In Seine-et-Marne, where large homes sell for roughly half the Yvelines median, the same budget buys more space, with bookings more focused on weekends.
Gather the registration, any rating, recent bookings and accounts, surveys and the SPANC report if the house is off mains drainage. Your notaire, the official who handles the sale, drafts the contracts; our article on how to sell a gîte (in French) helps with pricing.
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