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If you’re interested in castles for sale and have any questions, read on.  Please send us a message here if you have any questions not answered below

We LOVE Castles for sale and so do our readers but we also love chateaux for sale, towers for sale (medieval/fortified) and forts for sale. We also know that we have lots of castle fans in various parts of the world where ‘real’ castles aren’t particularly common (the USA in particular) so we love to also write about ‘castles’ for sale in the USA (including castellated residences etc) and elsewhere.

At any one time there are approximately 1,000 castles for sale (including medieval towers and forts etc) around the world.

As with many other types of unique assets, there is a significant range in prices – with castles this depends on country, specific location, current condition, historical value etc. The cheapest castle we’ve written about so far had an asking price of just over €200,000. Castles do sometimes go to auction with a lower asking price than this however that is often done to generate interest and multiple bidders. At the other end of the scale, a number of exceptional castles (particularly in France and Italy) have been listed with prices of €20m-€30m+.

Whilst Castleist can’t offer its readers specific advice on the investment potential of a castle, we are happy to make some general observations on the castles for sale market:

With regards to the value of the property itself, castles are a rare asset with no new supply to the market (excluding ‘new’ mock castles being built) and arguably a diminishing stock – both from the perspective that some are inevitably falling in to ‘ruin’ category and will never be restored and others are also being bought by states and preservation bodies to ensure they remain open to the public for perpetuity.

Castles in the hands of private owners are therefore becoming more rare and that is a positive thing for prices in the future. Although some state bodies have recently sold some historic assets, this is the exception rather than the rule.

Castles can generate significant income if appropriately managed. International tourism continues to grow (and is expected to do so for many years to come) and thus there is a very healthy demand from tourists all over the world to stay in castles.

This demand takes numerous forms, including castle hotels, however for buyers of more modestly-sized castles, the growth of the holiday rentals market – facilitated in particular by Homeaway and Airbnb – means that a castle owner can easily connect with tourists looking for an authentic castle stay.