From the Vercors cliffs to the lavender fields of Drôme provençale, a B&B for sale in Drôme draws on guests seeking southern light without the crowds of the coast. Grignan and its château, the hilltop villages of the Baronnies, the potters of Dieulefit, the tower of Crest, the Drôme valley and its sparkling Clairette de Die, the Hermitage slopes and Montélimar nougat make up a varied area. Walkers, cyclists, market lovers, visitors from Lyon and from abroad follow one another from spring to autumn.
Properties range from stone mas (farmhouses) to large village houses and multi-room homes among olive trees and lavender, often with a pool. This page is for buyers of a running guest house, for those comparing Drôme with Ardèche or Isère, and for owners preparing a sale. Set up an email alert (in French) to follow new properties.
As of 25 September 2026, one listing in Drôme is published on ma-propriete.fr, with an asking price of €840,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Drôme was €283,800 (average €291,447), or €2,631/m² of living space, for 114 m² on an average plot of 3,508 m², based on 1,335 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €172,120 and one in ten above €420,880. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €255,141 to €283,800 (+11.2%); over the last year the change is +2.2%. For comparison: €230,000 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Drôme | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €283,800 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €291,447 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €172,120 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €420,880 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,631/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 114 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,508 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,335 | 16,528 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €257,585 (tourist inland) to €287,000 (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) | €257,585 | €2,491/m² | -0.3% | 874 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €287,000 | €2,611/m² | +3.9% | 4,634 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €265,760 | €2,574/m² | +7.1% | 2,680 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €760,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €839,600, a P10–P90 range of €456,500 to €1,320,000 and 1,997 €/m² of living space, over 53 sales. These homes average 389 m² of living space on 9,713 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drôme (2021-2025) | 53 | €760,000* | €839,600 | €456,500 – €1,320,000 | 1,997 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (2025) | 87 | €860,000* | €1,359,200 | €492,700 – €2,670,000 | 2,542 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (2021-2025) | 605 | €878,400 | €1,368,800 | €462,000 – €2,886,000 | 2,434 |
| 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 Drôme and prestige property prices in Drôme (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
At a 2025 median of €283,800, a Drôme country house costs well above the regional figure, lifted by its Provençal appeal and the Rhône corridor. A five-bedroom guest house with outbuildings and a pool often exceeds the top-decile threshold of €420,880 and joins the prestige market, where the department's 2021-2025 median is €760,000. Notably, tourist-inland villages, at a €257,585 median, have been flat since 2021 (-0.3%), while the commuter belts of Valence and Montélimar keep rising: tourist areas have already priced in their premium.
Drôme provençale, from Grignan to the Baronnies and Dieulefit, is the most sought-after area: lavender, olives, truffles and hilltop villages bring a long season, but prices are highest. The Diois, around Die and Saillans, appeals through river swimming and outdoor sports, and the Drôme side of the Vercors offers mountain farmhouses with summer and winter trade. The northern hills between Romans and Tain-l'Hermitage benefit from Lyon and the vineyards. The A7 follows the Rhône, the A49 links Valence to Grenoble, Valence TGV station puts the valley within reach of Paris and Marseille, and Lyon and Marseille airports complete access.
Limestone mas under Roman tiles, river-pebble houses around Valence and steep-roofed Vercors farms each have their restoration issues. The scrubland south is exposed to wildfire, with mandatory brush clearance, while the Drôme, Roubion, Eygues and Rhône valleys flood, and clay slopes call for crack checks. A pool draws on water that may be restricted in summer. Private septic systems are inspected by the SPANC service. A chambres d'hôtes business is limited to 5 bedrooms and 15 guests at a time, breakfast included, declared at the mairie (town hall); serving wine at dinner requires at least a restaurant licence and a specific permit. See our article on buying chambres d'hôtes in the south (in French).
Land-registry benchmarks put a country house at €283,800 and a prestige home at €760,000 (medians). A five-bedroom mas with a pool in the south approaches the second figure; a farmhouse to renovate in the Diois or Vercors, the first. Add notaire fees, works and fit-out, and test the project with our B&B profitability simulator (in French).
The rules cap the business at 5 bedrooms; below that, income depends on room rate, season length and evening meals. Our article on how many rooms to plan (in French) explains the trade-offs.
Check the town hall declaration, accounts, bookings, surveys and septic system, then sign a compromis de vente (preliminary contract) before completion with the notaire, the public official who handles property sales. Sellers can list their property here.
To compare, browse guest houses for sale in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in neighbouring Ardèche or Isère, then all B&Bs for sale in France and tourism properties in Drôme.
