As a gateway to south-west France from Paris, Poitou gives a B&B for sale in Vienne a wider guest base than many expect. Families come for the Futuroscope theme park, lovers of Romanesque art for Notre-Dame-la-Grande in Poitiers and the painted abbey of Saint-Savin, a World Heritage site; Chauvigny and its keeps, Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Montmorillon and Loudun add old towns and villages. The spa town of La Roche-Posay, the Vienne, Gartempe and Clain valleys and the nearby Touraine and Brenne bring spa guests, anglers and walkers, while Poitiers supplies business travellers.
Properties range from five-bedroom family homes to compounds of several houses with a pool and character estates on the edge of Touraine. This page is for buyers of a running guest house or a new project, and for owners getting ready to sell. Create an email alert (in French) for new properties in Vienne.
As of 25 September 2026, 4 listings in Vienne are published on ma-propriete.fr, with asking prices from €184,400 to €682,500.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Vienne was €144,000 (average €149,834), or €1,414/m² of living space, for 107 m² on an average plot of 3,411 m², based on 2,311 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €72,900 and one in ten above €237,777. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €132,000 to €144,000 (+9.1%); over the last year the change is +4.3%. For comparison: €170,000 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Vienne | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €144,000 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €149,834 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €72,900 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €237,777 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,414/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 107 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 3,411 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 2,311 | 26,126 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €107,500 (deep countryside) to €155,000 (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) | €110,330 | €1,115/m² | +8.5% | 392 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €155,000 | €1,535/m² | +8.7% | 9,370 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €107,500 | €1,056/m² | +9.5% | 4,512 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €475,000* over 2021-2025, with an average of €529,200, a P10–P90 range of €362,500 to €807,400 and 1,400 €/m² of living space, over 61 sales. These homes average 350 m² of living space on 19,988 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vienne (2021-2025) | 61 | €475,000* | €529,200 | €362,500 – €807,400 | 1,400 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine (2025) | 171 | €615,000 | €805,900 | €400,000 – €1,480,000 | 1,692 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine (2021-2025) | 1,105 | €629,400 | €814,400 | €395,000 – €1,517,600 | 1,704 |
| 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 Vienne and prestige property prices in Vienne (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Vienne is an entry-level market for hospitality projects: the 2025 median country house sold for €144,000, with the top decile starting at €237,777, below the regional benchmark. Location matters: over 2020-2025 the median reached €155,000 in the commuter countryside around Poitiers, against €107,500 in the deep countryside. A guest house with several rooms, outbuildings and grounds belongs rather to the large period home segment, where the indicative median is €475,000 over 61 sales. All types of municipality have risen at a similar pace since 2021.
The Poitiers–Futuroscope–Châtellerault corridor, served by the A10 and the high-speed rail line to Bordeaux, brings the steadiest trade: families, business travellers and holidaymakers breaking their journey. In the north, the Loudun area borders Touraine, with tuffeau stone and nearby Loire vineyards. To the east, the Gartempe valley, Saint-Savin, Angles-sur-l'Anglin and La Roche-Posay combine heritage, spa and nature near the Brenne regional park. The more rural south, around Montmorillon and Civray, has long attracted British and Dutch buyers, with lower prices but a shorter season. Poitiers and Futuroscope TGV stations and Poitiers-Biard airport make arrival easy.
The north builds in soft tuffeau limestone under slate, the south in rubble stone under curved tiles. Tuffeau dislikes damp, so check wall bases and renders. Large properties often include barns, stables and secondary houses whose roofs weigh on the budget. Clay soils can shift and crack walls, and the Vienne and Clain valleys carry a flood risk. Rural homes usually rely on a private septic system inspected by the SPANC service. A chambres d'hôtes business is capped at 5 rooms and 15 guests at a time, breakfast included, and is declared at the mairie (town hall). Our article on the budget to open chambres d'hôtes (in French) lists the costs.
The park brings families during school holidays and weekends, but they often stay one or two nights and compare with local hotels. Family rooms and a good breakfast help nearby; further out, heritage, spa and nature take over. Test your assumptions with our B&B profitability and tax simulator (in French).
Two land-registry benchmarks frame most projects: €144,000 for a country house and €475,000 for a large period home. Price then depends on rooms already fitted, bathrooms, pool and outbuildings. Add works and notaire fees (in French), paid to the public official who handles property sales.
Gather the town hall declaration, recent accounts and bookings, reviews, mandatory surveys and the septic inspection; the compromis de vente (preliminary contract) and final deed are signed before the notaire. Then list your property with us.
To compare, see guest houses in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, including neighbouring Deux-Sèvres, Charente and Haute-Vienne, then all B&Bs for sale in France and tourism properties in Vienne.
