Between Luxembourg, the Saarland and Alsace, a B&B for sale in Moselle serves a wider clientele than many expect. Metz draws visitors with its Saint-Étienne cathedral, stained glass and the Centre Pompidou-Metz; the lake country around the Étang de Lindre attracts birdwatchers and anglers; the Pays de Bitche, within the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park, combines pink-sandstone forests, a citadel and a glassmaking tradition. Add the Saint-Louis-Arzviller boat lift, the Maginot Line forts, the fortified village of Rodemack and the vineyards of the Moselle valley. Cross-border commuters, business visitors, cyclists and German or Dutch families make up the guests.
Buildings vary from Lorraine farmhouses in the west to sandstone and timber houses further east. This page is for buyers of a running guest house or a building to convert, and for owners preparing to sell. To compare with guest houses in the Vosges and hear about new listings, set up an email alert (in French).
As of 25 September 2026, there are no B&Bs and guest houses for sale in Moselle listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Grand Est region, one listing is online, with an asking price of €200,000.
DVF data does not cover this department: in Alsace-Moselle, sales are recorded in the Livre foncier (land register) and are not published in the DVF database, so the regional figures apply.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Grand Est was €150,000 (average €156,757), or €1,400/m² of living space, for 112 m² on an average plot of 2,025 m², based on 7,886 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €70,000 and one in ten above €255,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €136,400 to €150,000 (+10.0%); over the last year the change is +4.2%. The national median is €189,200.
| Indicator (2025) | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|
| Median price | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €156,757 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €70,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €255,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,400/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,025 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 7,886 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €125,500 (deep countryside) to €165,000 (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 coastline * | €145,000 | €1,282/m² | -23.7% | 32 |
| Residential coastline | €140,000 | €1,354/m² | -17.9% | 565 |
| Tourist inland (hinterland, mountains) | €137,462 | €1,350/m² | +14.6% | 1,622 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €165,000 | €1,529/m² | +6.2% | 22,855 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €125,500 | €1,178/m² | +7.4% | 23,366 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the regional (Grand Est) benchmark is a median of €550,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €600,800, a P10–P90 range of €371,900 to €892,000 and 1,475 €/m² of living space, over 149 sales. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Moselle and prestige property prices in Moselle (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Because Moselle uses its own land register, only regional benchmarks are available: a €150,000 median for a Grand Est country house in 2025, €255,000 for the top decile, and €550,000 for a large home. A four- or five-bedroom guest house sits between the two, closer to the upper market when it has grounds or converted outbuildings. Tourist-inland municipalities, up 14.6% between 2021 and 2025, are the reference for the Bitche and lake areas; the pricier peri-urban countryside matches the Metz area and the border corridor, where Luxembourg demand pushes prices up.
The Moselle corridor from Metz to Thionville holds most economic activity: year-round business guests and prices driven by Luxembourg. Further north, the Three Borders area around Sierck-les-Bains and Rodemack adds vineyards and characterful villages. To the east, the Pays de Bitche and the Saar valley offer forests, lakes and military heritage at lower prices, with a mainly summer season. In the south, Sarrebourg and the Donon massif, with the Marne-Rhine canal and Chagall's window in the Cordeliers chapel, draw walkers and boaters. The A4 and A31 motorways, Metz and Lorraine TGV stations, and Metz-Nancy-Lorraine and Luxembourg airports provide access.
As in Alsace, property titles in Moselle are recorded in the Livre foncier, a court-kept land register: your notaire, the official who handles property sales, builds its timescale into the purchase. In the former coal basin around Forbach and the iron-ore basin near Thionville, ask about mining subsidence; in the Moselle, Seille and Saar 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 Moselle wine at the table d'hôtes requires at least a restaurant licence and a specific permit. Our article on B&B taxation (in French) helps with the accounting side.
Cross-border workers and businesses create weekday demand, topped up at weekends by visitors to the vineyards and Metz. The trade-off is higher purchase prices than in the east of the department. Our guest house buying guide (in French) covers every step, from the compromis de vente (preliminary contract) to completion.
It depends on the number of rooms, real occupancy and whether you offer evening meals. Ask the seller for accounts and booking records, test your own assumptions with our B&B profitability simulator (in French), and have an accountant check the plan.
Prepare the town hall declaration, recent accounts, reviews, mandatory surveys and, off mains drainage, the SPANC septic inspection, and allow for land-register timescales with your notaire. Then list your property with us.
To widen your search, browse guest houses for sale in Grand Est, including neighbouring Meurthe-et-Moselle and Bas-Rhin, every B&B for sale in France and all tourism properties in Moselle.
