More and more people are taking the step: trading unaffordable square metres and noise for the space, quiet and light of south-west France. The difficulty is rarely the desire — it is the fear of cutting the cord with the capital, with family, with work. This house answers precisely that worry: it stands about 35 minutes from Toulouse-Blagnac airport, from which Paris is only an hour’s flight away. You can have lunch in your garden in the Haute-Garonne and dine in central Paris the same evening.
This page is not a technical sheet: it is a starting point for thinking about what settling in south-west France actually involves when you are coming from the Paris region. The detailed description of the property, its photos, its energy rating and its planning position are all in the menu; this page is mostly about how life works here.
In Paris the average price runs at around €9,000 to €10,000 per square metre: a family two-bedroom flat already represents a considerable budget, with no garden, no garage and often no real outdoor space at all. For a budget comparable to that of a Paris flat, you reach an entirely different scale of living here: a 319 m² house, seven bedrooms, two fireplaces, a mature garden, a garage, and an attic of 210 m² floor area waiting to be converted.
The reasoning that comes up most often among those who take the step: sell the Paris flat, buy the house in the south-west, and keep a comfortable cash reserve — while gaining floor space, greenery and quality of life. Remote working, now commonplace, makes the equation work: a few return trips a month are usually enough, and an hour in the air makes those journeys almost trivial.
“One hour’s flight from Paris” is not a slogan: it is the real duration of a Toulouse–Paris flight, on one of the busiest routes in France, with many daily departures to Orly and Charles-de-Gaulle. Toulouse-Blagnac airport is about 35 minutes’ drive from the house.
In practice this allows a life lived in two places: keeping a business, clients or family in Paris while living in the countryside. As a main home for remote working, as a second home reached in a single hop, or as a way of preparing for retirement in the sun without becoming isolated — the proximity of the airport is the central advantage of this location.
One detail that changes everything day to day: the house has a private, lockable garage. While you are in Paris your car stays indoors, safe and under cover. When you come back, a simple taxi or bus ride from the airport (or the station) brings you home — and the car is there, ready to go. You have your independence back immediately, with no need to hire a car and no vehicle left parked outside while you are away.
When people picture a second home reached from Paris, they think first of Normandy, the Perche or the northern Atlantic coast — places you drive to. Yet as soon as you reckon in real, door-to-door travel time, the gap is far smaller than you would think, while the change of scene is on an altogether different scale.
Paris to Deauville by car, for example, takes about 2 hours at best, and considerably longer on a Friday evening or coming back on a Sunday. Paris to Toulouse by air is about 1 hour in the air, plus the 35-minute drive between Toulouse-Blagnac airport and the house. In the end the south-west is not “further away”: it is a comparable distance in time, but with the sunshine, the space, and prices that bear no relation to those on the Normandy coast.
| Leaving from Paris | Mode | Real travel time | Setting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deauville / Normandy coast | Car (A13 motorway) | ≈ 2 h to 2 h 15 (traffic permitting) | Northern sea, cool climate, high price per m² |
| This house (Haute-Garonne) | Plane + car | ≈ 1 h flight + 35 min drive | South-west France, sunshine, 319 m² and a large garden |
Driving times are indicative (source: route planners, normal conditions). Toulouse–Paris is one of the busiest air routes in France, with many daily services to Orly and Charles-de-Gaulle.
In other words: for a budget often lower than that of a seaside house in Normandy, you get an entirely different floor area, a real garden and a southern climate — without being any further from Paris in travel time. That is precisely what many buyers do not suspect until they have done the sums.
The house stands at Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières, a village in the Haute-Garonne, about 150 metres from the church, in peaceful, green surroundings. Three kilometres away, Saint-Lys has shops, schools and everyday services. Toulouse and its wider area are quickly reached, and the foie gras market at Samatan (Gers), famous throughout south-west France, is some twenty kilometres away.
You get the quiet — a densely planted, south-east facing garden full of birds (blackbirds, tits, goldfinches, warblers…) — without giving up conveniences. It is the balance so many city dwellers are looking for: nature and space on one side, services and transport on the other.
You work remotely and only need to be in Paris a few days a month. The house has room for a proper study — one room on the street side is already set aside for it — and the airport makes appointments in Paris easy to arrange.
A base in south-west France reached in an hour’s flight: ideal for weekends and holidays, with enough bedrooms to have family and friends to stay without counting heads.
Preparing a new chapter — a growing family or the end of a career — in quiet and sunshine, in a character house that can evolve with you (a convertible attic, building potential on the plot) without cutting yourself off from the capital.
The 319 m² character house, its garden and its potential: everything is set out, in pictures, on this site.
Toulouse-Blagnac is about 35 minutes' drive from the house and serves more than 80 destinations without changing planes. For a buyer coming from the UK, Ireland, the Benelux countries, Germany or Scandinavia, that means the house is reachable in an afternoon — and, once here, you are still only about an hour's flight from Paris.
| From | Approx. flight time | Airlines |
|---|---|---|
| London (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted) | about 1 h 55 | British Airways, easyJet, Ryanair |
| Manchester | about 2 h 05 | Ryanair |
| Bristol | about 1 h 55 | easyJet |
| Edinburgh | about 2 h 25 | Ryanair |
| Dublin | about 2 h 15 | Aer Lingus, Ryanair |
| Amsterdam | about 2 h 00 | KLM, Transavia |
| Brussels | about 1 h 45 | Brussels Airlines, Ryanair |
| Frankfurt / Munich | about 1 h 45 – 1 h 55 | Lufthansa |
| Copenhagen | about 2 h 25 | Norwegian |
| Oslo | about 2 h 55 | Norwegian |
| Lisbon | about 2 h 05 | TAP |
| Madrid | about 1 h 25 | Iberia |
| Milan (Bergamo) | about 1 h 30 | Ryanair |
| Montreal | about 8 h 05 | Air Canada, Air Transat |
| Paris (Orly / Charles-de-Gaulle) | about 1 h 15 – 1 h 25 | Air France, easyJet, Transavia |
Flight times are approximate and routes vary between the summer and winter seasons; several are seasonal only. Check the current timetable on the Toulouse-Blagnac airport website before planning a visit. Buyers from North America generally connect through Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt or Montreal.