Set among belfries, Flemish taverns, the hills of French Flanders and the hedged farmland of the Avesnois, a B&B for sale in Nord serves guests who travel all year round, not just in summer. Lille, Cassel, Bergues and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux draw heritage and food lovers, Belgian, British and Dutch visitors, families coming for the Dunkirk carnival or the Lille flea market, and business travellers heading to the Lille metropolitan area. Two regional nature parks and the mining basin sites listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site widen the appeal.
Typical properties include brick Flemish farmhouses around a courtyard, village maisons de maître, blue-stone cottages in the Avesnois and a few larger estates with parkland. This page is for buyers taking over a running chambres d'hôtes, for newcomers starting from scratch, and for owners preparing a sale. Create an email alert (in French) and receive new Nord properties by email.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no B&Bs and guest houses for sale in Nord listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Hauts-de-France region, 3 listings show asking prices from €399,000 to €1,197,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Nord was €192,000 (average €202,949), or €1,729/m² of living space, for 116 m² on an average plot of 2,233 m², based on 2,388 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €94,560 and one in ten above €326,720. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €180,000 to €192,000 (+6.7%); over the last year the change is -0.4%. For comparison: €175,000 in Hauts-de-France and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Nord | Hauts-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €192,000 | €175,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €202,949 | €183,979 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €94,560 | €90,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €326,720 | €290,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,729/m² | €1,686/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 116 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,233 m² | 1,942 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 2,388 | 11,950 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €157,837 (deep countryside) to €207,000 (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) * | €189,500 | €1,501/m² | +53.6% | 34 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €207,000 | €1,855/m² | +0.1% | 9,758 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €157,837 | €1,447/m² | +2.7% | 3,733 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €732,200 over 2021-2025, with an average of €831,100, a P10–P90 range of €412,000 to €1,338,500 and 2,080 €/m² of living space, over 161 sales. These homes average 357 m² of living space on 5,031 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nord (2021-2025) | 161 | €732,200 | €831,100 | €412,000 – €1,338,500 | 2,080 |
| Hauts-de-France (2025) | 79 | €756,800* | €909,200 | €399,800 – €1,602,000 | 2,131 |
| Hauts-de-France (2021-2025) | 477 | €644,600 | €758,900 | €393,600 – €1,292,800 | 1,797 |
| 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 Nord and prestige property prices in Nord (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Nord sits above the regional average: the median country house sold for €192,000 in 2025, against €175,000 across Hauts-de-France, with an average of 116 m², the largest in the region. The gap between commuter villages, at €207,000 over 2020-2025, and the deep countryside, at €157,837, reflects the pull of Lille. A guest house with several bedrooms quickly joins the prestige market, where the department's median is €732,200 over 2021-2025 and the top properties reach €1,338,500.
Inland Flanders, from Cassel to Mont des Cats and Bailleul, combines hop fields, windmills and taverns with walkers, cyclists and Belgian weekenders. Maritime Flanders, around Bergues and Dunkirk, relies on the coast, the dunes and the carnival season. Around Lille, the Pévèle and Weppes areas serve business guests and visiting families, at the highest prices. The Scarpe-Escaut nature park offers forests and lakes, while the Avesnois, with its bocage, the Val-Joly lake and Maroilles cheese, has lower prices and a nature-minded clientele. Access is easy via the A1, A2, A22, A23 and A25 motorways, the Lille high-speed stations linked to Paris, Brussels and London, and Lille-Lesquin airport.
Brick buildings under Flemish tiles age well, but check pointing, rising damp and roof timbers; in the Avesnois, blue stone and slate need their own survey. In Maritime Flanders, low-lying land is drained by the wateringues network, so ask about flood risk. In the former mining basin, ask the mairie (town hall) about subsidence. 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; beyond that, public-access safety rules apply. Serving local beer at the table d'hôtes, the shared evening meal, requires at least a restaurant licence and a specific permit. Read our analysis of whether a table d'hôtes pays off (in French).
Start from two land-registry benchmarks: €192,000 for a country house in 2025 and €732,200 for a prestige home over 2021-2025. Most guest houses fall in between, depending on size, land and outbuildings. Add notaire fees (the public official who handles the sale), compliance work and room fit-out. Our article on the budget needed to open chambres d'hôtes (in French) breaks down the costs.
Business trips, family visits, cultural events, Christmas markets and weekend visitors from Belgium or Britain keep demand going in winter and midweek. Check the seller's booking history, then test your figures with our B&B profitability and tax simulator (in French).
Taking over brings guests, reviews and bookings, but the price reflects the work already done. Starting from scratch lets you choose the house and area, with more renovation and a slower ramp-up. Either way, have the septic system inspected and read our guest house buying guide (in French).
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