Hautes-Pyrénées department Property Prices, Rents & Rental Yields

About Hautes-Pyrénées department

Hautes-Pyrénées stretches from Pyrenean peaks and mountain valleys to the foothills around Tarbes. High-altitude scenery, spa towns and Lourdes give the department a distinctive setting for anyone comparing apartment investment locations in southwest France.

In October 2026, the clearest signal for apartments is the split between rents and sale prices over the past year: average rent is up 23.4% year on year, while the average sale price is down 2.4%. That divergence matters more than either movement alone. It suggests rental income has strengthened relative to headline purchase prices, without showing that every apartment or part of the department has followed the same path.

The monthly picture complicates that reading. Average sale prices rose 11.0% from the previous month, so the annual decline should not be mistaken for a steady downward trend. Nor does one monthly rise establish a lasting reversal. For an investor, the question is whether an individual asking price reflects that recent increase while its achievable rent reflects the broader annual movement. Department-wide averages cannot settle that question for a particular listing.

The reported apartment yield is 5.86%, a reference point rather than a promise of returns. It puts the contrast between pricing and rental growth in investment terms, but does not account for a property's costs, vacancy or condition. Taken together, the figures call for comparing purchase price with potential rent while keeping the monthly move and the year-on-year gap in their separate time frames.