From Lake Annecy to the Mont-Blanc massif, a B&B for sale in Haute-Savoie draws on a heavily visited part of the northern Alps, active in winter and summer alike. Chamonix and the Arve valley, the Aravis resorts of La Clusaz and Le Grand-Bornand, Megève, the Portes du Soleil around Morzine, the Lake Geneva shore from Évian to Yvoire and Lake Annecy attract skiers, climbers, cyclists and families. Reblochon cheese, alpine pastures and Savoyard villages add appeal, and nearby Geneva brings steady business guests.
Expect large-roofed Savoyard farmhouses, timber-and-stone chalets and lakeside villas. This page is for buyers of a running chambres d'hôtes business, for people comparing Haute-Savoie with Savoie or Ain, and for owners preparing a sale. Set up an email alert (in French) so you miss nothing.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no B&Bs and guest houses for sale in Haute-Savoie listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, 10 listings show a median asking price of €576,500, ranging from €245,000 to €2,870,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Haute-Savoie was €493,340 (average €515,721), or €4,377/m² of living space, for 120 m² on an average plot of 2,028 m², based on 1,095 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €298,500 and one in ten above €762,577. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €427,400 to €493,340 (+15.4%); over the last year the change is +3.9%. For comparison: €230,000 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Haute-Savoie | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €493,340 | €230,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €515,721 | €246,927 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €298,500 | €98,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €762,577 | €410,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €4,377/m² | €2,200/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 120 m² | 109 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,028 m² | 3,243 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,095 | 16,528 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €389,800 (deep countryside) to €610,000 (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 * | €610,000 | €4,950/m² | -22.3% | 61 |
| Residential coastline | €578,000 | €4,683/m² | +13.2% | 363 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €470,000 | €4,535/m² | +8.8% | 1,522 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €456,120 | €4,114/m² | +11.3% | 4,698 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €389,800 | €3,681/m² | +14.0% | 153 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €2,387,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €2,714,700, a P10–P90 range of €838,600 to €4,982,000 and 6,285 €/m² of living space, over 148 sales. These homes average 386 m² of living space on 4,072 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haute-Savoie (2021-2025) | 148 | €2,387,000 | €2,714,700 | €838,600 – €4,982,000 | 6,285 |
| 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 Haute-Savoie and prestige property prices in Haute-Savoie (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Haute-Savoie sits far above the rest of the region: a country house sold for a median €493,340 in 2025, more than double the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes benchmark. Even the deep countryside reaches €389,800, lakeside municipalities €578,000 and tourist inland areas, resorts included, €470,000. A five-room guest house almost always exceeds the top-decile threshold of €762,577 and compares with prestige homes, whose department median is €2,387,000 over 148 sales. Cross-border demand around Geneva and Annecy explains much of this.
Around Lake Annecy, from Talloires to Menthon-Saint-Bernard, demand is strong from April to October, but prices are the highest in the department. The Chablais, between Thonon-les-Bains, Évian and the Portes du Soleil, pairs summer on the lake with winter skiing. The Aravis, the Val d'Arly towards Megève and the Mont-Blanc country from Saint-Gervais to Chamonix trade on two seasons with many international guests. The Genevois and Arve valley offer steady business guests in a more urban setting, while the Bauges, the Semnoz and the upper Chablais stay quieter and slightly cheaper. Access is via the A41 and A40, Annecy high-speed rail station, Saint-Gervais-Le Fayet station and Geneva airport.
The loi Montagne, France's mountain planning law, restricts building at altitude, and the shores of Lake Geneva and Lake Annecy also fall under the loi Littoral, the coastal law: check any extension or new rooms with the mairie (town hall). Risk plans map avalanches, torrential floods on the Arve and its tributaries, and landslides. Have timber frames, roofs, insulation and heating inspected. A private septic system inspected by the SPANC service must match capacity, capped at 5 rooms and 15 guests at a time, breakfast included, after a town hall declaration. High room rates make it worth understanding holiday-let taxation (in French).
Around the lake, prices run well above the €493,340 department median, and a five-room house often trades at prestige levels. Add works, fit-out and purchase costs, then build a realistic financing plan (in French).
Chambres d'hôtes are run in the owner's home, so the sale mainly covers the property, with furniture, website and future bookings negotiated separately. Ask the notaire, the official who handles property sales, and an accountant to check the arrangement, and try our B&B profitability and tax simulator (in French).
Prepare winter and summer accounts, bookings, reviews, the town hall declaration, surveys and risk plans. Then list your property with us.
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