Just west of Paris, a B&B for sale in Yvelines can count on both tourists and business travellers. The Palace of Versailles, a UNESCO World Heritage site, draws visitors from around the world, while Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Rambouillet and its forest, Montfort-l'Amaury and the abbey ruins of Port-Royal-des-Champs appeal to history lovers. The Haute Vallée de Chevreuse regional nature park fills with walkers and cyclists at weekends, and the business districts of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Vélizy bring weekday guests. Weddings held in the area's châteaux and estates add guests who need a room.
Properties run from restored farmhouses to large estates in their own parkland, usually at a high price. This page is for buyers of a running chambres d'hôtes business (a B&B run from the owner's home), for people comparing Yvelines with Seine-et-Marne, and for owners preparing to sell.
As of 25 September 2026, one listing in Yvelines is published on ma-propriete.fr, with an asking price of €3,150,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Yvelines was €346,650 (average €378,718), or €2,966/m² of living space, for 126 m² on an average plot of 1,840 m², based on 763 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €230,000 and one in ten above €575,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €350,000 to €346,650 (-1.0%); over the last year the change is -1.1%. For comparison: €280,000 in Île-de-France and €189,200 in France.
| Indicator (2025) | Yvelines | Île-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €346,650 | €280,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €378,718 | €295,207 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €230,000 | €171,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €575,000 | €435,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €2,966/m² | €2,603/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 126 m² | 116 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 1,840 m² | 1,590 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 763 | 3,611 | 150,313 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €362,912 (tourist inland) to €365,872 (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) * | €362,912 | €3,128/m² | +84.6% | 40 |
| Peri-urban countryside (within a town's catchment) | €365,872 | €3,081/m² | -7.4% | 4,816 |
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), the department benchmark is a median of €1,524,000 over 2021-2025, with an average of €1,699,800, a P10–P90 range of €865,000 to €2,750,000 and 4,141 €/m² of living space, over 211 sales. These homes average 384 m² of living space on 10,726 m² of land. The 2025 national median is €822,000.
| Area | Sales | Median price | Average price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yvelines (2021-2025) | 211 | €1,524,000 | €1,699,800 | €865,000 – €2,750,000 | 4,141 |
| Île-de-France (2025) | 90 | €1,445,000* | €1,916,500 | €700,000 – €3,496,500 | 4,247 |
| Île-de-France (2021-2025) | 592 | €1,263,100 | €1,602,600 | €601,200 – €2,988,300 | 3,363 |
| 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 Yvelines and prestige property prices in Yvelines (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Yvelines has the highest country-house median of the Île-de-France departments covered: €346,650 in 2025, or €2,966/m², with the top decile starting at €575,000. A guest house with several bedrooms and a garden is therefore already above the ordinary market, and an estate with grounds belongs to the prestige segment, where the department median reaches €1,524,000 over 2021-2025, above the regional €1,263,100. The peri-urban countryside, where most sales happen, is the benchmark; its median fell 7.4% over 2021-2025, which leaves room for negotiation.
Around Versailles and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, international and business guests keep rooms busy all year, but properties are scarce and expensive. The Haute Vallée de Chevreuse, with Chevreuse, Dampierre-en-Yvelines and the Yvette valley, offers wooded countryside popular with Parisians at weekends. Further south-west, Rambouillet and the Montfort-l'Amaury and Houdan area remain rural, with larger plots and guests who come for walking and riding. In the north-west, the Seine valley around Mantes-la-Jolie is more affordable but less well known. Access is by the A12, A13, N10 and N118 roads, RER lines A and C, and Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports; Massy high-speed station is in neighbouring Essonne.
Millstone houses, dressed-stone mansions, courtyard farms and long farmhouses around Houdan make up most of the stock: roofs, windows and insulation are costly to renovate on large volumes. The Seine, Mauldre and Yvette valleys carry a flood risk, and many slopes sit on shrink-swell clay. Near listed monuments, exterior work needs the approval of the state heritage architect. 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); serving wine at the table d'hôtes requires at least a restaurant licence and a specific permit. On tax, read our article on how B&B income is taxed (in French).
Expect at least the price of a country house, a median of €346,650 in 2025, and more often that of a prestige home, €1,524,000 over 2021-2025, once the property has five bedrooms and grounds. Add purchase costs, compliance work and furnishing. Our guest house buying guide (in French) runs from the compromis de vente, the preliminary contract, to completion before the notaire.
Both: business travellers from Monday to Thursday, tourists and wedding guests at weekends and in the holidays. That mix supports occupancy but ties your prices to nearby hotels. Run several scenarios in our B&B profitability simulator (in French) and have an accountant review them.
Yes, but they are separate activities. Rooms stay capped at 5 and 15 guests; a hall open to the public for weddings or seminars is a regulated public venue, inspected by the fire safety commission. See also our wedding and event venues for sale.
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