For buyers looking for space at a still affordable price, a B&B for sale in Nièvre opens onto the Morvan, the Loire and the canals. The Morvan regional nature park, its forests and the Settons and Pannecière lakes draw walkers, anglers and canoeists, and the Nivernais canal carries hire boats every summer. To the west, the Loire runs past the Pouilly-Fumé vineyards and La Charité-sur-Loire, whose priory church is a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Way of St James; Nevers, with its faience and the shrine of St Bernadette, and the Magny-Cours racing circuit add further visitors.
Properties range from townhouses to large estates with many rooms combining chambres d'hôtes and self-catering gîtes for sale. This page is for buyers of a running guest house, for newcomers planning a table d'hôtes (guest dinners), and for owners preparing to sell. Set up an email alert (in French) for Nièvre.
As of 25 September 2026, one listing in Nièvre is published on ma-propriete.fr, with an asking price of €449,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Nièvre was €100,000 (average €105,510), or €1,065/m² of living space, for 97 m² on an average plot of 3,364 m², based on 1,371 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €46,000 and one in ten above €172,900. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €85,000 to €100,000 (+17.6%); over the last year the change is +7.8%. For comparison: €157,000 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Nièvre | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €100,000 | €157,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €105,510 | €168,680 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €46,000 | €74,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €172,900 | €279,670 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,065/m² | €1,525/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 97 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,364 m² | 2,805 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,371 | 11,450 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €85,000 (tourist inland) to €110,000 (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) | €85,000 | €943/m² | +19.3% | 2,513 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €110,000 | €1,157/m² | -1.8% | 2,386 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €86,940 | €964/m² | +18.8% | 3,428 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the regional (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) benchmark is a median of €520,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €589,700, a P10–P90 range of €367,200 to €863,000 and 1,438 €/m² of living space, over 222 sales. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2025) | 43 | €590,000* | €658,100 | €385,000 – €1,004,000 | 1,714 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2021-2025) | 222 | €520,000 | €589,700 | €367,200 – €863,000 | 1,438 |
| 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 Nièvre and prestige property prices in Nièvre (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Nièvre is the region's most affordable department: country houses sold for a median €100,000 in 2025, for 97 m² on an average plot of 3,364 m², with the top decile at €172,900. A guest house with several bedrooms almost always goes beyond that market and nears the prestige segment, whose regional median is €520,000 over 2021-2025. Tourist inland municipalities, led by the Morvan, trade around €85,000 and have gained 19.3% since 2021, while commuter villages have edged down: demand for nature now supports the most remote areas.
The Morvan in the east, around Château-Chinon and Lormes, offers forests, lakes and granite villages, loyal nature lovers and the lowest prices, but mostly a summer trade. The Loire valley, from Pouilly-sur-Loire to Decize via La Charité and Nevers, combines vineyards, river and heritage, with steadier bookings and travellers on the Paris-Clermont route. In between, the Bazois follows the Nivernais canal through cattle country and châteaux, and Clamecy sits close to Vézelay. Guests arrive via the A77 and N7, by train to Nevers, or through Paris and Lyon airports.
Limestone maisons de maître, farmhouses with barns and Morvan granite houses offer generous volumes, but roofs, insulation and heating must be costed from the start. 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); beyond 15 guests, public-access safety rules apply. Serving wine at dinner requires at least a restaurant licence and a specific permit. Along the Loire, the Allier and the Yonne, check the flood-risk plan; scattered homes often rely on a private septic system inspected by the local SPANC service. See our guide to opening chambres d'hôtes (in French).
Prices start low: €100,000 for the median country house and €85,000 in tourist inland areas. A guest house costs more, as it needs space, en-suite bathrooms and outbuildings. Beware of low prices hiding roof, septic or compliance work. Our guest house buying guide (in French) helps you cost the project, from the compromis de vente (preliminary contract) to completion before the notaire.
The Morvan is busiest in summer; the Loire spreads bookings thanks to wine, Nevers and passing travellers. Evening meals and week-long stays offset a shorter season. Test your figures with our B&B profitability and tax simulator (in French) and have an accountant review them.
The town hall declaration, recent accounts, bookings, reviews, mandatory surveys and septic report, plus the registration of any gîte as a meublé de tourisme (furnished holiday let). Then list your property with us.
To compare, browse guest houses for sale in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, including Côte-d'Or, Yonne and Saône-et-Loire, or all B&Bs for sale in France and tourism properties in Nièvre.
