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Buy a house in the Gard

From the Uzège to the right bank of the Rhône, from the garrigue hills of Nîmes to the edge of the Cévennes: real house prices, the areas worth searching and what to check before you buy. Home Select then runs the search for you, off-market properties included, and is paid on success only.

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At a glance

Over 12 months to end of June 2026, houses sold at a median of €2,600/m² across the Gard, €2,800/m² in Nîmes and €3,800/m² in Uzès, the heart of the Uzège and the department’s prestige address.
In the Uzège, the stone, the light and the garrigue of neighbouring Provence cost far less than at the foot of the Alpilles: the median house sold for €3,800/m² in Uzès over 12 months to end of June 2026, against €5,500/m² in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Uzès recorded just 175 sales of all property types over 12 months to end of June 2026: the finest houses of the Uzège change hands without a listing, through notaries, local agents and word of mouth.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in the Gard, searches for your house from the right bank of the Rhône to the Cévennes, off-market included, then vets and negotiates it for you, with fees due on success only.

€2,600/m²: Median for houses, Gard
€2,800 – 3,800/m²: Spread of the medians for houses from one town to the next
717: Sales of houses in the towns on this page, over 12 months
2: Towns Home Select searches

The market

The market for houses in the Gard, in figures

Over 12 months to end of June 2026, the Gard recorded 10,488 sales of all property types, and its houses sold at a median of €2,600/m²: a figure that blends the housing estates of the plain, the villages, the Cévennes and the coast. Nîmes, where the median house reached €2,800/m², is the department’s deep market: from suburban houses to villas in the hills, eight house sales in ten went through between €1,800/m² and €4,500/m². Uzès costs markedly more, at a median of €3,800/m²: a long-established international clientele, a protected historic centre and the scarcity of farmhouses in the Uzège hold prices up.

In the Gard, stone makes the first difference: an old mas restored by the book, with thick walls, vaulted rooms and lime render, is worth far more than a 1980s villa of the same size. Next comes the land, planted with olive trees or holm oaks, with a pool that has its permit and a reliable water supply; then peace and the view, over the garrigue or a hilltop village; and finally village life on foot. In Uzès, one house sale in ten went above €6,600/m² over 12 months to end of June 2026: a townhouse to renovate and a restored mas with a pool do not play in the same league.

Then comes liquidity, which tells you how many houses you will be able to compare. Over 12 months to end of June 2026, Nîmes recorded 2,367 sales of all property types: supply is broad, and sorting is most of the work. Uzès recorded only 175: in a market this narrow, and narrower still in the surrounding villages, the finest houses change hands privately, and the network is what opens the door. Buyers torn between the Gard and Provence often compare with houses in Provence: the stone and the light are the same, the prices are not.

Houses, town by town

Town	Median per m²	1st to 9th decile	Sales over 12 months
Uzès	€3,800/m²	€2,400/m² – €6,600/m²	63
Nîmes	€2,800/m²	€1,800/m² – €4,500/m²	654

Gard: €2,600/m² median for houses, over 6,316 sales.

Median price per square metre of recorded sales; a town with fewer than 20 sales of the type is not shown. Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026. Page reviewed by Jean Mascla, founder of Home Select.

The historic heart of Uzès seen from directly above, its rooftops packed inside the ring of tree-lined boulevards

Where to buy

Where to buy in the Gard?

Five areas from east to west, from the Rhône to the Cévennes, each with its own prices, buyers and pitfalls.

Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and the right bank

Facing the Palais des Papes across the Rhône, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon keeps the Fort Saint-André, the Chartreuse du Val de Bénédiction and the palaces of the cardinals. Buyers look for stone townhouses and houses with gardens below the fort; in Les Angles, up on the plateau, villas look out over Avignon and, on clear days, Mont Ventoux. Avignon and its TGV station are minutes away, and many families live here all year; further north, Pujaut and the vineyards of Tavel and Lirac offer quieter farmhouses. Parts of the Rhône plain are flood-prone: read the flood risk prevention plan before any offer.

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Uzès and the Uzège

North of Nîmes, Uzès, the first duchy of France, lives around its arcaded Place aux Herbes and its Saturday market; all around, the Uzège unfolds villages of pale golden stone among vines, olive groves and garrigue, as far as the Pont du Gard. Buyers come for a grand townhouse in the old centre, a courtyard house in the Bourrac quarter and above all a mas in the Uzège, in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, a potters’ village, in Montaren, Saint-Siffret or Arpaillargues. Houses in Uzès sold at a median of €3,800/m² over 12 months to end of June 2026, to French and international buyers, English-speaking and Dutch above all, many of them long settled here. In the old centre, façades go through the state heritage architect; in the countryside, check the water, the drainage and the access.

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Nîmes and its garrigue hills

The ‘French Rome’ offers what the rest of the Gard does not: private mansions behind the carriage doors of the Écusson, period houses around the Jardins de la Fontaine, houses with gardens on the heights of Montaury and, to the north, villas and small stone cabins called mazets in the garrigue, the holm-oak hills where Nîmes families once spent their Sundays. Houses in Nîmes sold at a median of €2,800/m² over 12 months to end of June 2026, while the Nîmes mas, between the garrigue and the Costières vineyards, brings real land to the city’s doorstep. Families from Nîmes and Montpellier buy here to live year-round, as do Parisians arriving by TGV. In the garrigue, ask about the plot’s history: the cadereaux, streams that stay dry most of the year, turn into torrents during the violent autumn storms known as Cévenol episodes.

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The Petite Camargue and Aigues-Mortes

South of Nîmes, past the Costières, the Gard reaches the sea through the Petite Camargue: lagoons, salt pans, herds of black bulls and white horses, up to the ramparts of Aigues-Mortes and the beaches of Le Grau-du-Roi. Buyers look for a ranch farmhouse among the pastures, a village house in Saint-Laurent-d’Aigouze or Le Cailar, or a house inside the ramparts, rarely for sale. The market is small, and the best farmhouses change hands among insiders. Everything here is checked against water: flood zones, a high water table, salt in the walls and the mosquitoes of the lagoons.

The Cévennes and their foothills

To the north-west, garrigue gives way to schist and chestnut trees: from Anduze, gateway to the Cévennes, to Le Vigan, buyers find Cévennes stone farmhouses, old silk farms where silkworms were once raised, and village houses along the Gardon. In the foothills, Sommières, where the writer Lawrence Durrell lived until his death in 1990, and Sauve offer market-town houses and farmhouses among vines and olive trees; further west, the Hérault valley opens onto houses in Languedoc. Prices are gentler than around Uzès, for buyers in search of nature and silence. Autumn Cévenol storms can swell the Gardon and the Vidourle within hours: flood exposure, winter access, the roof and the heating are all checked before any offer.

The Tour Fenestrelle and the Saint-Théodorit cathedral in Uzès under a deep blue sky

The Corinthian columns and pediment of the Maison Carrée seen from below, under the clouds

Properties

The properties people buy in the Gard

The Uzège mas

A former farmhouse built of limestone around a courtyard, the mas gathers the living quarters, stable, sheepfold and barn under its curved terracotta tiles, sometimes with a dovecote. You find it in the countryside around Uzès, in the Gardon valley and up to the edge of Nîmes; restored, it offers vaulted rooms, a terrace under the vine arbour and a pool among the olive trees. Have the roof, the damp and the outbuildings costed, check that every extension and the pool have their permits, and read the septic system report, which the seller must provide at sale.

The village maison de maître

At the heart of the villages, the eighteenth- or nineteenth-century maison de maître, the house of the village notable, is known by its ordered façade, tall windows, stone staircase and walled garden; in Uzès and Nîmes, its grander sibling is the hôtel particulier, the town mansion. People buy it to live in the village all year, with shops and school on foot, without giving up a garden. Have the roof timbers, floors, ground-floor damp and party walls surveyed; in a protected historic centre, façade work needs the approval of the state heritage architect.

The bastide

The country seat of a family of notables, the bastide differs from the mas in its symmetrical façade, four-sided roof, avenue of plane trees and park; you find them in the Uzège, around Nîmes and on the right bank of the Rhône. It is often the rarest property in an area, with its outbuildings, sometimes working vines or olive groves, and it almost always sells privately. Read the easements, check the state of the services and the roof and any listed-monument protection, and cost the upkeep of the grounds.

The winegrower’s house

In the wine villages, from Tavel and Lirac to the Costières, the winegrower’s house opens onto the street through a wide carriage gate: the cellar and store below, the living quarters above, sometimes a roof terrace. It offers volumes to transform and village life, without the land of a farmhouse, often for a gentler price. Check the floors above the cellar, the insulation and the parking, and the permits needed to turn the cellar into living space.

The garrigue villa

Mostly built between the 1960s and the 2000s, the garrigue villa occupies the hills north of Nîmes, the surrounding villages and the plateau of Les Angles, on a large plot of holm oaks and pines, with a pool. It offers year-round living and the quiet of a hillside, minutes from the city centre. Check the compulsory brush clearance, usually over fifty metres around the house, run-off from the cadereaux below, the septic system, and insulation and windows that are often original.

Your budget

What your budget buys in the Gard

Budget	Uzès€3,800/m²	Nîmes€2,800/m²	Gard€2,600/m²
€500,000	≈ 130 m²	≈ 180 m²	≈ 190 m²
€1,000,000	≈ 265 m²	≈ 355 m²	≈ 385 m²
€2,000,000	≈ 525 m²	≈ 715 m²	≈ 770 m²
€4,000,000	≈ 1,055 m²	≈ 1,430 m²	≈ 1,540 m²

Indicative sizes: the budget divided by each town’s median price per square metre for houses over 12 months to end of June 2026, before notary fees, and before land, view and condition.

Our method

How Home Select searches in the Gard

It starts with a precise brief: the life you want to lead, the seasons you will spend in the house, what you are prepared to pay for stone, land or a view, and the full budget, notary fees of 7 to 8% and works included. Every day, Home Select then cross-checks the listings, the properties passed on by its network of 15,000 agents and professional partners, and those that will never be advertised: in the Uzège, a large share of the finest houses sells off-market.

Each shortlisted house is vetted on paper, then viewed before you, in a filmed pre-visit with the seller’s agent or the owner: you only travel for the houses that deserve it. The checks are specific to the Gard: flood risk and the plot’s history in recent Cévenol storms, brush clearance in the garrigue, private drainage, wells and boreholes declared at the town hall, easements, the local zoning plan for any extension or pool, and the state heritage architect near listed monuments. Have an architect or builder price the works before any offer.

Negotiation is conducted with the file in hand: comparable recorded sales, time on the market, planning and risk constraints. Home Select defends your offer, follows the preliminary contract with your notary, the conditions precedent and the financing, then stays with you until completion and the handover of the keys. Its fees are due on success only.

Method Off-market properties

One method, two ways in

Both are billed only if the property is found and the purchase completed. On top comes 10% of the negotiated reduction: Home Select is also paid on what you save.

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Exclusive

Exclusive search mandate

2.5% of the net purchase price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT + 10% of the negotiated reduction

The full service, for every budget: brief, sourcing, off-market, pre-visits, negotiation and follow-through to the notary signing.

The Exclusive offer

Confidentielle

Simple search mandate

1.5% of the net purchase price, projects from €2M + 10% of the negotiated reduction

The very same full service, on a selection made exclusively of off-market properties. For buyers who never want to see their search on a portal.

The Confidential offer

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Frequently asked questions

Buying a house in the Gard: your questions

Where should I buy a house in the Gard?

It depends on the life you want: the Uzège for stone-and-garrigue countryside around Uzès; Nîmes for a real city that lives all year; Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Les Angles for Avignon just across the Rhône; the Petite Camargue for space and the sea; the Cévennes for wild nature and gentler prices. Our guide to buying in Languedoc compares them with the Hérault, and Home Select helps you choose.

Uzès or Nîmes: where should I buy a house?

Over 12 months to end of June 2026, the median house sold for €3,800/m² in Uzès and €2,800/m² in Nîmes. Uzès is a small town of great character in its own countryside, much loved by international buyers, where supply is scarce; Nîmes, with 2,367 sales over the same period, offers far more choice, city life and the TGV. Many buyers look at both, and Home Select runs both searches side by side.

Is the Gard cheaper than Provence?

For a house of character, yes. Over 12 months to end of June 2026, the median house sold for €2,600/m² across the Gard and €3,800/m² in Uzès, its most sought-after address, against €5,500/m² in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and €6,600/m² in Gordes. For the same budget, the Uzège often buys more space and land than the Alpilles or the Luberon, with the same stone and the same light.

Is flooding a risk when buying in the Gard?

Yes, and it is assessed house by house. Autumn Cévenol storms can raise the Gardon, the Vidourle or the cadereaux of Nîmes within hours, and the Gard remembers the floods of 1988 and 2002. Before any offer, Home Select reads the town’s flood risk prevention plan, the risk statement in the sale file and the house’s history in recent floods: a house on high ground does not run the same risk as a farmhouse by a river.

What are the brush clearance rules for a house in the Gard?

In towns exposed to forest fires, which are numerous across the garrigue, owners must clear brush around their house, usually over fifty metres and sometimes more, even onto a neighbour’s land if the zone reaches it. It is a yearly cost to budget for, and neglected land can bring penalties. From the pre-visit, Home Select points out the house’s exposure, the state of the clearance and access for the fire services.

What should I check before buying an isolated mas in the Gard?

Water first: connection to the mains, or a well or borehole, which must be declared at the town hall, and its flow at the height of summer. Then the septic system, whose inspection report is compulsory at sale and which must be brought up to standard within a year if it fails; access in heavy rain, rights of way, and internet and mobile coverage. Home Select gathers this information before any offer; have an architect or builder price the works.

Does the Gard live all year round?

Mostly, yes. Nîmes is a real city, with its TGV station, university and hospitals; Uzès keeps its shops and its Saturday market all year, quieter in winter; Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Les Angles live at Avignon’s pace. The coast at Le Grau-du-Roi and the high Cévennes valleys are quieter out of season, and Home Select takes that into account if you plan to live there full time.

Is it worth using a buyer’s agent in the Gard?

Yes, because the finest houses in the Uzège and Nîmes often sell without a listing, and those that are advertised sometimes hide a flaw the listing leaves out: a flood zone, an undeclared borehole, an extension without a permit. A buyer’s agent works for you alone, on the buyer’s side, from shortlisting to negotiation. Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Languedoc and Occitanie, adds its network of 15,000 agents and professional partners and fees due on success only.

How much does a house cost in the Gard in 2026?

Over 12 months to end of June 2026, the median price per square metre of houses in the Gard ranged from €2,800/m² in Nîmes to €3,800/m² in Uzès. Gard: €2,600/m² median for houses, over 6,316 sales (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026). Home Select reads these figures street by street before any offer: view, land and condition make most of the price.

How long does it take to buy in the Gard with a buyer’s agent?

The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in {nom} and on your availability: Home Select frames it at the brief, then holds it. Properties are first seen on video, and your decisive viewings are grouped into a single trip.

How do you reach off-market properties in the Gard?

Through the network and direct approach: Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before they go on sale, and also contacts owners when the setting calls for it. In {nom}, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Uzès and Nîmes. That is often where the unfindable property is.

What are your fees in the Gard?

Home Select, a buyer’s agent in the Gard, charges 2.5% of the net purchase price (minimum €10,000 incl. VAT) on the Exclusive offer, or 1.5% on the Confidential offer for projects of €2m and above, plus 10% of the negotiated reduction in both cases. Home Select is paid on success only, and also on what you save: nothing is due until you have bought.

What happens next

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A first confidential conversation: how you will use the property, the real budget, the non-negotiable criteria, the timing.
A written brief, and a search started within the week. Nothing is due until you have bought.

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