From the Alpilles to the Camargue and from Aix to the calanques, a B&B for sale in Bouches-du-Rhône draws on a Provence that visitors explore from April to October. The Roman monuments of Arles, Les Baux-de-Provence and Saint-Rémy, Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire, the Calanques national park near Cassis, and the lagoons, bulls and white horses of the Camargue attract Northern Europeans, Americans and Parisians alike. Aix and its opera festival, Marseille's museums, Baux valley olive oil and Aix wines extend the stay.
Typical properties are restored Provençal farmhouses (mas), bastides set in parkland and rural estates with horses or outbuildings already let. This page is for buyers of a running chambres d'hôtes business, for investors taking over an established guest house, and for sellers. Set up an email alert (in French) for new listings in the department.
As of 25 September 2026, 2 listings in Bouches-du-Rhône are published on ma-propriete.fr, with asking prices from €1,180,000 to €1,470,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Bouches-du-Rhône was €470,700 (average €516,457), or €4,310/m² of living space, for 118 m² on an average plot of 3,383 m², based on 545 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €300,000 and one in ten above €817,072. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €434,780 to €470,700 (+8.3%); over the last year the change is +0.1%. For comparison: €360,000 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Bouches-du-Rhône | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €470,700 | €360,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €516,457 | €401,500 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €300,000 | €215,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €817,072 | €650,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €4,310/m² | €3,469/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 118 m² | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,383 m² | 3,324 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 545 | 4,532 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €405,000 (deep countryside) to €552,070 (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 * | €552,070 | €5,900/m² | -9.8% | 33 |
| Residential coastline | €535,175 | €5,097/m² | -2.8% | 234 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €544,839 | €4,707/m² | +29.3% | 208 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €470,000 | €4,205/m² | +4.6% | 2,208 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €405,000 | €3,746/m² | -0.5% | 618 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €2,254,500 over 2021-2025, with an average of €2,434,200, a P10–P90 range of €1,097,500 to €4,000,000 and 6,077 €/m² of living space, over 184 sales. These homes average 381 m² of living space on 14,001 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouches-du-Rhône (2021-2025) | 184 | €2,254,500 | €2,434,200 | €1,097,500 – €4,000,000 | 6,077 |
| 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 Bouches-du-Rhône and prestige property prices in Bouches-du-Rhône (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Bouches-du-Rhône is the region's most expensive country-house market: a 2025 median of €470,700, with the bottom decile already at €300,000. A guest house needs extra rooms and land, so it often sits above the top-decile threshold of €817,072 and nearer the prestige market, where the department's 2021-2025 median is €2,254,500. The key benchmark is the tourist inland, led by the Alpilles and the Aix area: €544,839 and +29.3% between 2021 and 2025, while residential coastal towns slipped slightly. The hinterland has caught up with the coast.
The Alpilles, from Saint-Rémy to Maussane and Eygalières, draw the most international guests and the highest prices, inside the regional nature park. The Arles area and the Camargue offer large farmhouses and land suited to horses, for guests who come for nature, bull-running traditions and village fêtes. The Aix area, from Sainte-Victoire to the Durance valley, mixes business travellers and culture lovers. Cassis and La Ciotat face the calanques, where land is scarce, while the Côte Bleue and the Salon area are cheaper. TGV stations at Aix-en-Provence and Marseille Saint-Charles, nearby Avignon TGV, Marseille-Provence airport and the A7, A8 and A54 motorways make access easy.
Large farmhouses and bastides often come with Roman-tile roofs and outbuildings to restore, so cost roof, insulation and wiring before any offer. Flooding is the main risk in the Camargue and along the Rhône; wildfire and brush-clearing duties matter in the Alpilles, on Sainte-Victoire and in the hills behind Marseille. Rural homes often have a private septic system inspected by the SPANC service. A chambres d'hôtes business is capped at 5 rooms and 15 guests at a time, breakfast included, and declared at the mairie (town hall). If the estate also has holiday lets or stables, read our piece on holiday rental taxation (in French).
Land-registry data set the frame: €544,839 for a country house in tourist-inland municipalities and €2,254,500 for a home over 300 m². A guest house falls between the two depending on rooms, pool and land. Our guest house buying guide (in French) explains each step, from the compromis de vente (preliminary contract) to signing before the notaire.
The two cities bring business, conference and family visitors that complement the tourist season, though high purchase prices lengthen the payback period. Try several scenarios in our B&B profitability and tax simulator (in French) and have an accountant review them.
Check the flood zone, fencing, stables and grazing, and the rules for equestrian activities, which differ from those for B&Bs. For rider-focused projects, see our equestrian lodges for sale.
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