A B&B for sale in Charente-Maritime sits in a department where coast and countryside work together, from the Île de Ré and Île d'Oléron to the port of La Rochelle, the naval arsenal at Rochefort and the Romanesque churches of Saintonge. Holidaymakers in Royan, oyster lovers in Marennes-Oléron, visitors to Brouage and Saintes and cyclists on the Vélodyssée route fill rooms well beyond August. Further south, the Cognac and Pineau vineyards and the spa town of Jonzac bring a quieter, more loyal clientele.
Properties range from white-stone Charente houses to fine homes combining guest rooms and a large gîte (holiday cottage), and even 17th-century estates with event space. This page is for buyers of a running guest house, people changing career, and owners preparing to sell. Compare with B&Bs for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and create an email alert (in French).
As of 25 September 2026, 4 listings in Charente-Maritime are published on ma-propriete.fr, with asking prices from €399,000 to €1,366,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Charente-Maritime was €214,000 (average €230,241), or €2,027/m² of living space, for 112 m² on an average plot of 2,332 m², based on 3,219 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €113,960 and one in ten above €375,408. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €189,000 to €214,000 (+13.2%); over the last year the change is +0.9%. For comparison: €170,000 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Charente-Maritime | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €214,000 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €230,241 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €113,960 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €375,408 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,027/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 112 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,332 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 3,219 | 26,126 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €161,611 (deep countryside) to €307,820 (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 | €307,820 | €3,346/m² | +0.8% | 2,674 |
| Residential coastline | €246,852 | €2,432/m² | -1.7% | 2,406 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €220,000 | €2,016/m² | +4.7% | 8,993 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €161,611 | €1,497/m² | +4.4% | 6,433 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €652,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €799,700, a P10–P90 range of €412,500 to €1,444,500 and 1,807 €/m² of living space, over 154 sales. These homes average 369 m² of living space on 9,955 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charente-Maritime (2021-2025) | 154 | €652,000 | €799,700 | €412,500 – €1,444,500 | 1,807 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine (2025) | 171 | €615,000 | €805,900 | €400,000 – €1,480,000 | 1,692 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine (2021-2025) | 1,105 | €629,400 | €814,400 | €395,000 – €1,517,600 | 1,704 |
| 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 Charente-Maritime and prestige property prices in Charente-Maritime (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
This is one of the region's dearest departments for a country house: a median of €214,000 in 2025, against €170,000 across Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The gap widens on the coast, where tourist seaside communes reach a median of €307,820 over 2020-2025, nearly double the deep rural market. A guest house with several rooms quickly joins the market for larger homes, with a department median of €652,000 and a top decile starting at €1,444,500 near the sea. Coastal prices have barely moved since 2021 while inland keeps rising, so Saintonge still offers room to manoeuvre.
The coast runs from the Aunis around La Rochelle to the islands, the Marennes basin and the Côte de Beauté around Royan. Demand is strong, but land is scarce and costly, and the loi Littoral (coastal planning law) limits extensions. Inland, Romanesque Saintonge, from Saintes to Pons and Saint-Jean-d'Angély, offers roomy houses at lower prices within reach of beaches and vineyards; the wooded south around Jonzac is calmer still. The A10 motorway serves Saintes, La Rochelle has direct TGV trains to Paris and La Rochelle-Île de Ré airport has European flights.
The soft limestone of Charente houses dislikes damp, so check renders, rising damp and roof timbers. Near the coast, read the official risk statement carefully: sea flooding in low-lying areas, coastal erosion on some beaches, and flooding in the marshes. Seaside communes are also tightening rules on holiday lets. In the countryside, the private septic system, inspected by the SPANC service, must match guest numbers. A chambres d'hôtes business is capped at 5 rooms and 15 guests at a time, breakfast included, and must be declared at the mairie (town hall). For tax matters, see our article on B&B taxation (in French).
Mixed properties are common here. Make sure each activity is declared: rooms at the town hall, the gîte as a registered meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let). Ask for recent accounts and booking history, and cost the upkeep of the pool and grounds. Our guest house buying guide (in French) sets out each step.
On the coast, an ordinary country house already sells for around €307,820 at the median. A guest house with several rooms, a garden and a pool is closer to the prestige market, with a department median of €652,000. Add purchase costs and works, then run the numbers in our B&B simulator (in French).
Ré and Oléron bring plenty of guests, but purchase prices, scarce large plots and coastal planning rules weigh on returns. Many owners prefer the nearby hinterland, which catches coastal holidaymakers at a lower cost and attracts spring and autumn visitors.
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