Where to buy in Brittany: seaside homes from the Emerald Coast to south Finistère, town by town

Which part of the Brittany coast should you choose?

Brittany is not one market but a string of very different coastlines. To the north, the English Channel, its huge tides, its Belle Époque resorts and its granite towns; to the south, a gentler Atlantic, sheltered gulfs and long sandy beaches; at the western tip, Finistère, wilder still. The first choice is a way of living with the sea: sailing or beaches, a year-round town or a holiday house.

• The Emerald Coast (Côte d’Émeraude): Saint-Malo, Dinard, the malouinières (shipowners’ country houses) of the Clos-Poulet and the Rance estuary, the stretch of coast closest to Paris.
• The Gulf of Morbihan: a small inland sea scattered with islands around Vannes, from Arradon to the Rhuys peninsula.
• Quiberon Bay: the beaches of Carnac, the harbour of La Trinité-sur-Mer, the Quiberon peninsula.
• The Pink Granite Coast: Perros-Guirec and its rose-coloured rocks, at more accessible prices.
• South Finistère: Bénodet, Sainte-Marine, Concarneau and the estuaries of Cornouaille, Brittany’s own Cornwall.

To move from a coastline to a property, see buying a seaside house in Brittany, and the Brittany page, which lists the towns we cover and the places we search on request.

Where to buy on the Emerald Coast: Saint-Malo, Dinard, Saint-Briac or Cancale?

Saint-Malo is a real town, lived in all year, with 916 sales over the 12 months to end of June 2026. The walled town (Intra-Muros), rebuilt after 1944, offers apartments in tall granite buildings and a few shipowners’ houses; the Sillon seafront lines up apartments and villas facing the beach; Saint-Servan, on the Rance, is the family neighbourhood. The median for houses reaches €4,400/m², and one house in ten sold above €7,100/m². Behind the town, the Clos-Poulet countryside keeps the malouinières: see buying a house in Saint-Malo.

Dinard, Saint-Lunaire and Saint-Briac-sur-Mer

Across the estuary, Dinard was born of a fashion: British and American families built their villas here from the 1860s, and several hundred of them are now protected. The median for houses reaches €4,700/m², one in ten sold above €8,800/m², and the top of the market plays out on the headlands, from the Pointe du Moulinet to La Malouine: see Dinard’s villas. Saint-Lunaire and Saint-Briac-sur-Mer continue the coast on a more intimate scale, with villas, manor houses and a golf course; with 43 sales in a year, Saint-Briac is too thin a market for a reliable median.

Cancale and the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel

Cancale looks out over the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel from the port of La Houle and its oyster beds: fishermen’s houses on the harbour, isolated houses towards the Pointe du Grouin. The median for houses stands at €3,600/m², the top decile at €7,000/m². Mind the orientation: on the bay side the sea goes out a very long way, and a high-tide sea view becomes a view of the foreshore. Saint-Malo is fifteen minutes away.

Where to buy on the Gulf of Morbihan?

The Gulf of Morbihan, the “little sea” in Breton, is an inland sea scattered with islands, opening onto the ocean through a narrow channel between Port-Navalo and Locmariaquer, where the currents run hard; the view changes with every tide. At the head of the gulf, Vannes is the administrative capital of the Morbihan, lived in all year round, with its old town, its harbour, its TGV station and a deep market: 999 sales over the 12 months to end of June 2026, a median for houses of €4,100/m² and a top decile of €5,900/m². Within the town, the Conleau peninsula is the sought-after waterside address.

The most sought-after shores lie to the west: the Pointe d’Arradon, Baden and Larmor-Baden facing the islands, Locmariaquer at the mouth of the gulf. Buyers find villas facing the water and longères (long stone farmhouses) in the hamlets, often with a slipway or a mooring. To the south, the Rhuys peninsula (Sarzeau, Arzon, Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys) has two shores, gulf and ocean, but a single main road. See buying a house on the Gulf of Morbihan and buying a house in Vannes.

Carnac, La Trinité-sur-Mer or Quiberon: which to choose on Quiberon Bay?

On Quiberon Bay, Carnac lives at two tempos: the old town, near the alignments of standing stones, open all year round, and Carnac-Plage, the resort of villas and apartment buildings facing the main beach. It is one of the most expensive markets in Brittany: a median of €5,200/m² for houses and €6,100/m² for apartments, and a top decile for houses of €9,900/m². See buying a villa in Carnac.

La Trinité-sur-Mer is first and foremost a harbour, home port of ocean-racing yachts; the value of its houses lies in the view over the harbour, the Crac’h river or the bay, in a thin market of 53 sales a year. The Quiberon peninsula sets its wild western shore against a sheltered eastern side, and Belle-Île is forty-five minutes away by ferry; the isthmus road jams in summer, so people buy there to stay, not to commute.

What sets the price around the bay

• The real view, and from which rooms.
• The beach or the harbour on foot, with no need for the car in summer.
• The mooring or the berth, which are not sold with the house and often come only after a waiting list.

Why look at the Pink Granite Coast?

On the north coast of the Côtes-d’Armor, Perros-Guirec opens the Pink Granite Coast: the tumbled rocks of Ploumanac’h around the Mean Ruz lighthouse, a protected site, the beach of Trestraou, the coast of Trestrignel and, offshore, the Sept-Îles bird reserve. Neighbouring Trégastel and Trébeurden share the same landscape. Buyers find early twentieth-century granite villas, fishermen’s cottages and neo-Breton houses with a view.

The median for houses stands at €3,200/m², the top decile at €4,800/m², against €2,000/m² across the Côtes-d’Armor: for the same budget, you get more space or a wider view than on the Emerald Coast. Lannion, fifteen minutes away, brings the TGV station and the services of a town. The north coast is windier and cooler than the gulf: people come for the light and the peace, not the heat. See buying a house in Perros-Guirec.

Bénodet and Concarneau: what does south Finistère offer?

Cornouaille is the Brittany of estuaries and pale sandy beaches. Bénodet, at the mouth of the Odet, lines up villas, a marina and beaches facing Sainte-Marine on the opposite bank; the river is lined with manor houses and parks. Concarneau keeps its walled town on an island in the harbour, and its finest addresses on the Pointe du Cabellou. Around them, Fouesnant, Beg-Meil, Loctudy, Névez and Pont-Aven offer village houses, longères and estates on the banks of the rias.

A house in Finistère sells for a median of €2,200/m² (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026), but that figure blends inland and coast: a front-line house in Bénodet or on the Cabellou sells well above it, and is valued on its own comparables. Quimper, about twenty minutes away, brings the TGV station, about 3h30 from Paris, and the services of the administrative centre of Finistère. This is the Brittany furthest from Paris, and one of the mildest.