A gîte for sale in Grand Est can serve very different guests, from the Alsace vineyards and Vosges ridges to the Champagne hillsides and the Ardennes forest. Strasbourg, Colmar and the Wine Route, Haut-Kœnigsbourg castle, Place Stanislas in Nancy, the cathedrals of Metz and Reims, the cellars of Épernay, the Verdun battlefields and the lakes of Gérardmer, Der and the Forêt d'Orient draw visitors all year. Bordering Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland, the region also welcomes many foreign guests, and the Alsace Christmas markets create a genuine winter season.
Properties in this section include old farmhouses with one or more gîtes, gîte complexes in large buildings, spacious vineyard houses and estates where the main home sits alongside rental units. This page is for buyers looking for a house with gîte or a trading rural gîte, for those planning a takeover and for owners preparing to sell. Set up an email alert (in French) to follow new properties in the region.
As of 25 September 2026, 4 listings in Grand Est are published on ma-propriete.fr, with asking prices from €200,000 to €1,375,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Grand Est was €150,000 (average €156,757), or €1,400/m² of living space, for 112 m² on an average plot of 2,025 m², based on 7,886 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €70,000 and one in ten above €255,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €136,400 to €150,000 (+10.0%); over the last year the change is +4.2%. The national median is €189,200.
| Indicator (2025) | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|
| Median price | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €156,757 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €70,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €255,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,400/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,025 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 7,886 | 150,313 |
By department:
| Department | Median price 2025 | Average price 2025 | Median price per m² | Change 2020-2025 | Sales 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardennes (08) | €146,000 | €148,310 | €1,402/m² | +14.0% | 901 |
| Aube (10) | €140,000 | €145,120 | €1,360/m² | +2.9% | 1,043 |
| Marne (51) | €180,000 | €191,161 | €1,675/m² | +6.5% | 1,380 |
| Haute-Marne (52) | €105,000 | €107,545 | €968/m² | +13.5% | 803 |
| Meurthe-et-Moselle (54) | €186,000 | €194,026 | €1,685/m² | +9.9% | 1,219 |
| Meuse (55) | €125,750 | €128,849 | €1,121/m² | +9.8% | 886 |
| Vosges (88) | €147,900 | €151,368 | €1,411/m² | +16.5% | 1,654 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €125,500 (deep countryside) to €165,000 (peri-urban countryside). For a tourism business, coastal and tourist-inland municipalities are the relevant benchmark.
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), 149 sales were recorded in Grand Est over 2021-2025, at a median of €550,000. The table gives the breakdown by department.
| Department | Sales | Median price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardennes (08) | 13 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
| Aube (10) | 10 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
| Bas-Rhin (67) | — | Livre foncier | — | — |
| Haut-Rhin (68) | — | Livre foncier | — | — |
| Haute-Marne (52) | 6 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
| Marne (51) | 36 | €636,000* | €384,800 – €1,123,500 | 1,848 |
| Meurthe-et-Moselle (54) | 57 | €615,000* | €401,000 – €960,700 | 1,700 |
| Meuse (55) | 7 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
| Moselle (57) | — | Livre foncier | — | — |
| Vosges (88) | 20 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
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 Grand Est and prestige property prices in Grand Est (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
At a median of €150,000 in 2025, country houses in Grand Est remain below the national benchmark, after a 10.0% rise since 2020. For a gîte, the most telling line is tourist inland communes, covering mountain and hinterland areas: a median of €137,462 but +14.6% between 2021 and 2025, the strongest rise in the region, while communes on the shores of the large lakes, classed as coastal, have fallen. Departments range from €105,000 in Haute-Marne to €186,000 in Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Vosges shows the steepest rise since 2020 (+16.5%). A property with several gîtes compares with the large-home market, with a regional median of €550,000. Note that in Alsace and Moselle, sales are recorded in the Livre foncier (local land register) and do not appear in these figures.
The region falls into four areas. Alsace, between the Rhine and the Vosges, has the Wine Route with its half-timbered villages, Strasbourg, Colmar and the Northern Vosges regional nature park: demand is strong almost all year, driven by German, Swiss and Dutch guests, and prices follow. The Vosges mountains, shared by Vosges, Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin, run two seasons, walking and lakes in summer, skiing in winter, within the Ballons des Vosges regional nature park. The Lorraine plateau, from Metz and Nancy to the Moselle ponds and the Meuse, combines art cities, remembrance tourism around Verdun and lakes such as Madine. Champagne and the Ardennes offer listed vineyards, the Der and Orient lakes and the Ardennes forest, close to Paris and the Benelux. The high-speed LGV Est links Paris with Reims, Metz, Nancy and Strasbourg, and the airports of Strasbourg, Basel-Mulhouse and Metz-Nancy-Lorraine serve foreign guests.
Buildings vary widely: half-timbered houses in Alsace, long Lorraine farmhouses under curved tiles, massive Vosges farmhouses with large roofs, limestone and chalk in Champagne, schist and slate in the Ardennes. Renovating a gîte means budgeting for insulation, heating and compliance, as winters are cold. Check natural hazards commune by commune: flooding along the Meuse, Moselle, Marne or Ill, mudslides on vineyard slopes, mining subsidence in former Lorraine coalfields and iron basins. The loi Montagne governs building in the Vosges, the loi Littoral the shores of the large lakes. In Alsace and Moselle, ownership is recorded in the Livre foncier under local law, which the notaire (the notary handling the sale) builds into the timetable. Each gîte is a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let) registered through a national online service since the law of 19 November 2024, with more powers for the mairie (town hall); our article on the 2025 furnished holiday-let rules (in French) sums them up.
The most sought-after properties are along the Wine Route and in Vosges valleys such as Munster. The Northern Vosges, the Outre-Forêt and the Sundgau offer lower prices and nature-loving guests.
The median country house in the region sells for €150,000, with one sale in ten above €255,000. A house with one or two gîtes sits higher; a gîte complex in a large home approaches the prestige market. Test your project with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Renovating a barn or farmhouse costs less to buy but takes works, permits and several seasons to build a clientele. Taking over a trading gîte brings bookings, reviews and a rating, at a price that reflects them.
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