On the edge of the Paris region and Burgundy, a B&B for sale in the Yonne mainly serves weekend visitors from the capital, wine tourists and walkers. The hill of Vézelay and its basilica, a UNESCO World Heritage site and a starting point of the Way of St James, the Chablis vineyards, the cathedrals of Auxerre and Sens and the medieval village of Noyers-sur-Serein keep guest houses busy. Boaters on the Nivernais and Burgundy canals, visitors to the Guédelon castle-building site in Puisaye and hikers in the Morvan regional park add to the mix.
Properties range from winegrowers' houses with vaulted cellars to Puisaye farmhouses, lock-keepers' cottages and town houses. This page is for buyers of a running chambres d'hôtes or a house to convert, and for owners planning to sell. Set up an email alert (in French) for new properties in the Yonne.
As of 25 September 2026, there are no B&Bs and guest houses for sale in Yonne listed on ma-propriete.fr. Across the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, 3 listings show asking prices from €449,000 to €890,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Yonne was €135,000 (average €142,676), or €1,395/m² of living space, for 103 m² on an average plot of 2,536 m², based on 1,831 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €72,000 and one in ten above €230,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €125,500 to €135,000 (+7.6%); over the last year the change is +2.3%. For comparison: €157,000 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Yonne | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €135,000 | €157,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €142,676 | €168,680 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €72,000 | €74,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €230,000 | €279,670 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,395/m² | €1,525/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 103 m² | 108 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,536 m² | 2,805 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 1,831 | 11,450 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €115,000 (tourist inland) to €147,500 (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) | €115,000 | €1,176/m² | +3.7% | 1,039 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €147,500 | €1,477/m² | +0.0% | 6,218 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €120,000 | €1,250/m² | +3.4% | 4,897 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €462,500* over 2021-2025, with an average of €509,200, a P10–P90 range of €371,100 to €693,200 and 1,375 €/m² of living space, over 42 sales. These homes average 351 m² of living space on 9,938 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yonne (2021-2025) | 42 | €462,500* | €509,200 | €371,100 – €693,200 | 1,375 |
| 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 Yonne and prestige property prices in Yonne (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Country houses remain affordable: a 2025 median of €135,000, below the regional €157,000, and up a modest 2.3% over the year. A guest house with several rooms is closer to the prestige market, where the department median is €462,500 over 2021-2025, below the regional figure, with nine sales in ten between €371,100 and €693,200 (indicative, few sales). Tourist-inland villages, at €115,000, are the cheapest way in, while pricier commuter villages have been flat since 2021.
Chablis and the Auxerre area focus on wine tourism with year-round visitors. Further south, the Avallon and Vézelay area, at the gates of the Morvan, combines pilgrims, walkers and Romanesque heritage. The Serein valley and the Tonnerre area, with the châteaux of Ancy-le-Franc and Tanlay, are quieter and cheaper. To the west, Puisaye, the land of the writer Colette and of potters, offers hedged farmland and ponds. In the north, Sens and Joigny are closest to Paris. The A6 serves Auxerre and Avallon, and trains link Paris with Sens, Joigny and Auxerre.
Old buildings are mostly limestone under flat clay tiles: check roofs, which are costly to redo, and damp in cellars. The Yonne, Armançon, Cure and Serein valleys are flood-prone, so consult the flood-risk plan at the mairie (town hall). Rural houses often have 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 must be declared at the mairie; serving a glass of Chablis at dinner requires at least a restaurant licence and a dedicated permit. Our article on B&B taxation (in French) explains how income is taxed.
Land-registry sales put country houses at €135,000 and large homes at €462,500 in the department. A guest house near Sens or Joigny usually costs more than a similar one around Tonnerre. Add works, room fit-out and purchase costs; our article on B&B start-up budgets (in French) helps build the financing plan.
The site draws visitors over a long season, but stays are often short. Test occupancy, prices and costs in our B&B profitability and tax simulator (in French) before making an offer, then have an accountant review the figures.
Prepare the mandatory surveys, septic report, town hall declaration and a list of what is included. The sale is signed before a notaire, the public official who handles property transfers. Then list your property with us.
Continue with guest houses for sale in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, especially neighbouring Côte-d'Or and the Nièvre, or browse B&Bs for sale across France and tourism properties in the Yonne.
