A tourism property for sale in Grand Est benefits from a crossroads location: the region borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland, and draws visitors from those countries as much as from the Paris area. Seasons follow one another with few gaps: harvest time and wine tourism on the Alsace Wine Route and the Champagne hillsides, skiing and hiking on the Vosges ridges, swimming and sailing on the Der and Forêt d'Orient lakes, and the Strasbourg Christmas markets in December. Add the heritage of Reims and Nancy and remembrance tourism around Verdun.
This page covers tourism real estate across the whole region: renovated Vosges farmhouses with holiday lets, winegrowers' houses split into furnished apartments, mountain hotel-restaurants, event halls with sleeping capacity among the vineyards, and lakeside campsites and leisure parks. It is written for hotel and inn buyers, holiday village investors, glamping project owners and sellers.
As of 25 September 2026, 8 tourism properties in Grand Est are listed on ma-propriete.fr: 5 gîtes, 2 hotels and inns, 1 campsite. The median asking price is €586,000; half are priced between €399,375 and €1,060,000, ranging from €319,000 to €1,995,000.
In 2025 the median sale price of a country house in Grand Est was €150,000 (average €156,757), or €1,400/m² of living space, for 112 m² on an average plot of 2,025 m², based on 7,886 sales in rural municipalities. One sale in ten was below €70,000 and one in ten above €255,000. Since the second half of 2020 the median price has moved from €136,400 to €150,000 (+10.0%); over the last year the change is +4.2%. The national median is €189,200.
| Indicator (2025) | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|
| Median price | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €156,757 | €207,100 |
| Lower bound (1st decile) | €70,000 | €90,000 |
| Upper bound (9th decile) | €255,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,400/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot | 2,025 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales (2025) | 7,886 | 150,313 |
By department:
| Department | Median price 2025 | Average price 2025 | Median price per m² | Change 2020-2025 | Sales 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardennes (08) | €146,000 | €148,310 | €1,402/m² | +14.0% | 901 |
| Aube (10) | €140,000 | €145,120 | €1,360/m² | +2.9% | 1,043 |
| Marne (51) | €180,000 | €191,161 | €1,675/m² | +6.5% | 1,380 |
| Haute-Marne (52) | €105,000 | €107,545 | €968/m² | +13.5% | 803 |
| Meurthe-et-Moselle (54) | €186,000 | €194,026 | €1,685/m² | +9.9% | 1,219 |
| Meuse (55) | €125,750 | €128,849 | €1,121/m² | +9.8% | 886 |
| Vosges (88) | €147,900 | €151,368 | €1,411/m² | +16.5% | 1,654 |
The type of municipality matters: across sales from mid-2020 to 2025, the median ranges from €125,500 (deep countryside) to €165,000 (peri-urban countryside). For a tourism business, coastal and tourist-inland municipalities are the relevant benchmark.
For prestige homes (houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha), 149 sales were recorded in Grand Est over 2021-2025, at a median of €550,000. The table gives the breakdown by department.
| Department | Sales | Median price | Range (P10–P90) | €/m² of living space |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardennes (08) | 13 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
| Aube (10) | 10 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
| Bas-Rhin (67) | — | Livre foncier | — | — |
| Haut-Rhin (68) | — | Livre foncier | — | — |
| Haute-Marne (52) | 6 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
| Marne (51) | 36 | €636,000* | €384,800 – €1,123,500 | 1,848 |
| Meurthe-et-Moselle (54) | 57 | €615,000* | €401,000 – €960,700 | 1,700 |
| Meuse (55) | 7 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
| Moselle (57) | — | Livre foncier | — | — |
| Vosges (88) | 20 | moins de 30 ventes : non publié | — | — |
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 Grand Est and prestige property prices in Grand Est (in French), DVF data (notarised sales, French tax authority). * fewer than 100 sales: indicative value.
Grand Est shows one of the sharpest gaps between its two benchmark markets. A country house sold for a median €150,000 in 2025, well below the national median, while large period homes in the Marne reached a median €636,000 over 2021-2025. A tourism property combining the owner's home, rental units, outbuildings and land sits between these two markers, moving closer to the second once it has a function room or a restaurant. The relevant municipality type is the tourist inland, at a median €137,462 over 2020-2025. Gîte complexes lead the supply, ahead of hotels and restaurants and outdoor accommodation. In Alsace and Moselle, sales are recorded in the Livre foncier and are missing from DVF data.
Hospitality here is mostly independent and family-run, with a different model in each area. In Alsace, the wine-village hotel pairs rooms with a regional restaurant and German and Swiss guests all year. In the Vosges, resort hotels in La Bresse or the Ballon d'Alsace rely on skiing in winter and the lakes in summer, while the farm inns (fermes-auberges) of the high Vosges serve hearty meals to hikers on the summit pastures. In Champagne, boutique hotels near Reims and Épernay live from wine tourism and seminars. In Lorraine and the Ardennes, village hotel-restaurants serve cyclists on the Meuse cycle route (La Meuse à vélo, EuroVelo 19), including the Trans-Ardennes greenway between Mouzon and Givet, and remembrance visitors. Properties come as the building alone, closed and to be relaunched or converted; the building and the business; or the business alone, with leased premises. Compare with hotels for sale nationwide and inns to take over.
Lorraine farmsteads, half-timbered houses and long Vosges farmhouses converted into several units make up the largest share of supply. They have their own pages: gîtes for sale in Grand Est and B&Bs and guest houses in Grand Est.
Campsites cluster around the lakes, in the Vosges valleys and along the Rhine; their sale follows specific rules (star rating, development permit, pitch management) covered on campsite businesses in Grand Est. Buyers also seek holiday villages to take over in Alsace and small chalets in the Vosges. The forests of the northern Vosges and the Ardennes suit treehouses, gypsy caravans and lodges: see glamping sites for sale. Tourist residences run under a commercial lease form a separate investor market.
Reception halls in the Champagne vineyards, Lorraine châteaux and barn farms host weddings, seminars and family gatherings; see event venues in the region.
Buying a hotel or inn means two separate transactions: the building, sold through a notary, and the business (goodwill, trading name, contracts, equipment), which follows its own transfer formalities. A hotel is a public-access building (ERP): ask for the latest fire safety commission report. The Atout France 1 to 5 star rating lasts 5 years, and selling alcohol requires a licence and an operating permit whose transfer must be confirmed with the town hall. In Alsace and Moselle, property rights are registered in the Livre foncier under local law. In the Vosges the Loi Montagne governs new building, and the Loi Littoral applies on the shores of large lakes such as the Der. Furnished holiday lets fall under the Le Meur Act of 19 November 2024, which extends registration nationwide and strengthens local councils' powers: check the applicable rules with the town hall. Check the risk report (Meuse and Moselle floods) and SPANC drainage approval.
The Wine Route offers sought-after boutique hotels with expensive premises but visitors spread over the year. Vosges resorts have two seasons, winter and summer, and depend on snow cover.
They depend on school, association and business groups. Profitability hinges on occupancy outside school holidays, the state of the buildings against ERP standards and energy costs. Ask for three years of accounts and the booking schedule, then test your assumptions with our holiday rental simulator (in French).
Add the value of the building, assessed against local sales of country houses and large homes, to the value of the business, based on operating profit. Allow for purchase costs, upgrades and low-season cash. In Champagne the building weighs heavily; in rural Lorraine entry prices are lower.
Compare with other regions on the national tourism real estate in France page. Set up an e-mail alert (in French) or, if you are selling your business, list your property.
