A B&B for sale in Calvados draws guests almost all year: Parisians driving up the A13 for the weekend, British visitors off the Ouistreham ferry, families on the Côte Fleurie and visitors to the D-Day beaches. Inland, the Pays d'Auge, with its half-timbered manor houses, orchards and stud farms, gives a table d'hôtes (evening meal with the hosts) its cider, pommeau and cheeses such as Pont-l'Évêque and Livarot.
Suitable properties range from stone farmhouses in the Bessin to Pays d'Auge manors and maisons de maître near the sea. This page is for buyers of a running chambres d'hôtes business, first-time hosts and owners planning to sell. Set up an email alert (in French) to hear about new Calvados properties.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no B&Bs and guest houses for sale in Calvados listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Normandy region, 2 listings show asking prices from €400,000 to €695,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Calvados was €225,400 (average €239,811), or €2,092/m² of living space, for 114 m² on an average plot of 3,985 m², based on 2,485 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €119,880 and one in ten above €388,532. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €194,300 to €225,000 (+15.8%); over the last year the change is +3.4%. For comparison: €189,000 in Normandy and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Calvados | Normandy | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €225,400 | €189,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €239,811 | €197,998 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €119,880 | €100,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €388,532 | €304,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,092/m² | €1,872/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 114 m² | 106 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,985 m² | 3,500 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 2,485 | 14,367 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €178,000 (deep countryside) to €297,790 (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 | €297,790 | €2,917/m² | +5.2% | 944 |
| Residential coastline | €220,000 | €2,075/m² | +2.3% | 560 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €297,750 | €2,775/m² | +15.0% | 624 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €220,000 | €2,048/m² | +10.0% | 9,393 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €178,000 | €1,677/m² | +9.5% | 3,889 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €800,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €988,200, a P10–P90 range of €420,000 to €1,716,000 and 2,271 €/m² of living space, over 133 sales. These homes average 360 m² of living space on 17,054 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calvados (2021-2025) | 133 | €800,000 | €988,200 | €420,000 – €1,716,000 | 2,271 |
| Normandy (2025) | 57 | €760,000* | €891,700 | €432,600 – €1,627,300 | 2,017 |
| Normandy (2021-2025) | 403 | €670,000 | €774,200 | €410,600 – €1,239,600 | 1,869 |
| 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 Calvados and prestige property prices in Calvados (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Calvados is the most expensive Normandy department for a country house: a median of €225,400 in 2025, against €189,000 for the region. A five-bedroom house quickly exceeds the top decile of €388,532 and moves into the prestige market, where the department median reached €800,000 over 2021-2025. Location matters as much as size: over 2020-2025, both the tourist coastline and the tourist inland sit around €297,750, far above the €178,000 of the deep countryside, where entry is cheaper but the season shorter.
The Côte Fleurie, from Honfleur to Cabourg via Trouville, Deauville and Houlgate, has the steadiest demand and the highest prices, with horse racing and festivals stretching the season. Just inland, the Pays d'Auge around Pont-l'Évêque, Beuvron-en-Auge and Lisieux appeals to lovers of countryside and cider. To the west, the Bessin links Bayeux, its tapestry and cathedral, with the D-Day beaches, whose visitors from North America and the UK often stay one or two nights. In the south, the Suisse normande around Clécy and the Vire bocage offer hiking and canoeing, with lower prices and a shorter season. Access is via the A13, the A84, Caen and Lisieux stations, Deauville airport and the Ouistreham-Portsmouth ferry.
The Pays d'Auge is timber-frame country: half-timbering, cob infill and flat-tile or slate roofs need their timbers checked for damp, while Bessin limestone is prone to rising damp. In the Touques, Dives, Orne and Vire valleys, check the flood risk; on the coast, marine flooding and cliff erosion affect several municipalities covered by the Loi Littoral (coastal planning law). Septic systems are checked by the SPANC service. A chambres d'hôtes business is limited to 5 rooms and 15 guests at a time, breakfast included, and must be declared at the mairie (town hall); serving cider at dinner requires at least a restaurant licence and a specific permit. Our article on opening chambres d'hôtes (in French) sets out the steps.
On the tourist coastline, an ordinary country house sold for a median €297,790 over 2020-2025. A house large enough for five bedrooms usually belongs to the prestige market, where only one sale in ten in the department fell below €420,000. Add purchase and renovation costs, then test your figures with our B&B profitability and tax simulator (in French).
Remembrance tourism runs from spring to autumn; the Côte Fleurie draws short breaks all year. Length of stay, room rate and evening meals make the difference: our article on B&B profitability (in French) helps you model them.
The property is sold through a notaire, the public official who handles conveyancing after a compromis de vente (preliminary contract). Furniture, website and bookings can be transferred if the contract says so; the new owner files a fresh declaration at the mairie. Each stage is explained in our guest house buying guide (in French).
To compare, browse B&Bs for sale in Normandy, including the Manche, the Orne and the Eure, or all guest houses for sale in France and tourism properties in Calvados. Selling a guest house in the Pays d'Auge or the Bessin? List your property with us.
