A B&B for sale in Meurthe-et-Moselle draws first on the appeal of Nancy, whose Place Stanislas, listed by UNESCO together with Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance, and its Art Nouveau heritage bring visitors in every season. The wider department adds reasons to stay: the château of Lunéville, Toul cathedral and the Côtes de Toul vineyards, the Premonstratensian abbey at Pont-à-Mousson, the Baccarat crystal works and the lake at Pierre-Percée below the Vosges. Guests include travellers heading to Alsace, Benelux families, business visitors and students' parents.
Typical properties range from the deep, terraced Lorraine farmhouse of a street village to a maison de maître in its own grounds. This page is for buyers of a running guest house, for people looking for a building to convert, and for owners preparing to sell. To widen your search to guest houses in the Vosges or the whole Grand Est, set up an email alert (in French).
As of 25 September 2026, there are no B&Bs and guest houses for sale in Meurthe-et-Moselle listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Grand Est region, one listing is online, with an asking price of €200,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Meurthe-et-Moselle was €186,000 (average €194,026), or €1,685/m² of living space, for 118 m² on an average plot of 1,499 m², based on 1,219 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €92,000 and one in ten above €304,920. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €169,200 to €186,000 (+9.9%); over the last year the change is +4.7%. For comparison: €150,000 in Grand Est and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Meurthe-et-Moselle | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €186,000 | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €194,026 | €156,757 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €92,000 | €70,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €304,920 | €255,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,685/m² | €1,400/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 118 m² | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 1,499 m² | 2,025 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,219 | 7,886 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €127,500 (tourist inland) to €190,000 (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) * | €127,500 | €1,154/m² | -18.0% | 32 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €190,000 | €1,701/m² | +3.1% | 4,943 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €158,000 | €1,456/m² | +8.6% | 2,306 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €615,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €650,400, a P10–P90 range of €401,000 to €960,700 and 1,700 €/m² of living space, over 57 sales. These homes average 364 m² of living space on 6,084 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meurthe-et-Moselle (2021-2025) | 57 | €615,000* | €650,400 | €401,000 – €960,700 | 1,700 |
| Grand Est (2021-2025) | 149 | €550,000 | €600,800 | €371,900 – €892,000 | 1,475 |
| 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 Meurthe-et-Moselle and prestige property prices in Meurthe-et-Moselle (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Land-registry figures put a guest house above the ordinary market. The median country house sold for €186,000 in 2025 with 118 m² of living space and the top decile starts at €304,920: a four- or five-bedroom house with a lounge and breakfast room usually sits higher. Large homes in the department trade around a €615,000 median, an indicative value based on fewer than a hundred sales, above the Grand Est benchmark. The most reliable reference is the peri-urban countryside around Nancy, where most sales take place.
Greater Nancy and the Saintois, south around the hill of Sion, combine city guests with rolling countryside, and conferences fill weekdays. To the west, the Toul area pairs vineyards and wooded slopes with part of the Lorraine Regional Nature Park. To the east, the Lunéville and Baccarat areas lead towards the Vosges mountains, with lower entry prices and a hiking and lakes clientele. In the north, the Pays-Haut around Longwy, whose Vauban fortifications are UNESCO-listed, looks towards Luxembourg: cross-border and business guests, less leisure tourism. Nancy has TGV services to Paris, the A31 leads to Metz, the Lorraine TGV station and Metz-Nancy-Lorraine airport, and the A33 serves Lunéville.
The traditional Lorraine farmhouse runs in a line under a shallow tiled roof, with house, stable and barn behind the usoir, a strip in front that often remains public land: check boundaries before planning guest parking. In the Pays-Haut iron-ore basin, ask about subsidence linked to former mines; in the Meurthe, Moselle and Vezouze valleys, about flooding. 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); above that, public-building safety rules apply. Serving wine at the table d'hôtes requires at least a restaurant licence and a specific permit. See our guide to opening chambres d'hôtes (in French).
Two land-registry benchmarks frame the figure: €186,000 for a country house and €615,000 for a large home, with most guest houses in between depending on rooms, condition and land. Add purchase costs, which our notary fee calculator (in French) estimates, then compliance work and room fit-out. The notaire is the official who handles property sales.
Near Nancy, business stays fill part of the week out of season. These guests expect reliable internet, parking and an early breakfast, and usually book one or two nights. Before buying, compare declared turnover with actual bookings, test your assumptions with our B&B profitability simulator (in French) and have an accountant review them.
Gather the town hall declaration, recent accounts and bookings, guest reviews, mandatory surveys and, for a private septic system, the SPANC inspection report. State clearly what is included: the building alone, or furniture, website and forward bookings too. Then list your property with us.
To compare, browse guest houses for sale in Grand Est, including neighbouring Meuse and Moselle, every B&B for sale in France and all tourism properties in Meurthe-et-Moselle.
