5-Bed Holiday Home with Full Basement & Garden in Riantec, Morbihan Brittany



Brittany, Morbihan, Riantec, France, Riantec (France)
5 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 147m² Floor area
€381,100
House
Parking
5 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
147m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step out onto the terrace on a Saturday morning in Riantec and you'll hear it before you see it — the low hum of fishing boats heading out across the Rade de Lorient, the calls of gulls cutting through salt-sharp air, and somewhere down the street, the mechanical clatter of a boulangerie shutter rolling up. This is not a postcard version of Brittany. It's the real thing. A working coastal town where the rhythm of the tides still shapes daily life, and where a five-bedroom house with this much space and this much potential doesn't stay on the market long.
Built in the 1970s in a style typical of solid Breton residential construction, this 147-square-metre house sits in Riantec with a full basement, an attached garage, a proper garden, and a terrace that asks you to sit down and stay a while. The bones are good. The layout is generous. And the renovation opportunity here is exactly what buyers who know this part of Morbihan have been waiting for.
The garden level does something rare — it allows genuinely comfortable single-floor living if you want it. An entrance hall opens into a bright living and dining room, there's a functional kitchen, two bedrooms, a family bathroom, and a separate WC. Come summer, with the terrace doors thrown open and the garden spilling light through the windows, this floor alone becomes a complete holiday retreat. Upstairs, a landing leads to three more bedrooms, two of which come with dressing areas — a detail that matters enormously when you're hosting family for an extended August stay. The second bathroom has both a bath and a separate shower, which anyone who's coordinated a full house of guests will appreciate immediately.
The full basement is the kind of space that gets people thinking. Workshop, wine cellar, additional storage, a games room for rainy Breton afternoons — the footprint is there, waiting for a decision. Most of the windows have already been upgraded to PVC double glazing, which takes one significant item off the renovation checklist. What remains is largely cosmetic: updated decoration, a kitchen refresh, modernising the bathrooms. The structure is sound. This is a project with a clear finish line, not an open-ended commitment.
Riantec itself sits on the Presqu'île de Gâvres peninsula, a narrow strip of land between the Rade de Lorient and the Atlantic coast. Drive ten minutes and you're on the beach at Gâvres, a long arc of sand backed by dunes where the wind comes in hard off the sea and the water stays genuinely blue. The town of Lorient — a major Breton city with a TGV connection to Paris in around three hours — is just across the water, reachable by ferry in minutes or by road in under twenty. Port-Louis, with its 16th-century citadel and weekly market along the waterfront, is even closer. On Friday mornings, the stalls along the quay sell everything from local oysters from the Golfe du Morbihan to strawberries from Plougastel, and the whole thing has the easy, unhurried quality that makes Brittany markets different from everywhere else in France.
The Golfe du Morbihan itself — one of the most distinctive inland seas in Europe — is half an hour's drive east. Sailing out of Vannes or Arradon in July, navigating between the 365 islands (or so the locals claim) with a good wind and no particular agenda, is one of those experiences that makes you understand why people buy property in this region and never leave. Kayaking, paddleboarding, cycling the Véloroute du Littoral along the coast — Morbihan in summer is genuinely active, not in a curated resort kind of way but in the way that happens when the geography simply invites you outside.
Summer here runs long and warm by northern Atlantic standards. July and August regularly hit 24–27°C, and the Breton coast gets meaningfully more sunshine than its reputation suggests — around 2,000 hours per year in the Morbihan department. Spring arrives early along the coast. Winters are mild compared to inland France, rarely dropping below freezing, which matters for a second home you want to use outside school holidays.
For the Celtic music enthusiast, the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in August is one of the biggest Celtic cultural gatherings in the world — hundreds of thousands of visitors, pipe bands from Galicia to Scotland, late nights in venues across the city. It's the kind of thing you watch once from the outside and then spend years trying to get closer to. Having a house ten minutes away solves that problem entirely.
The food culture here is worth taking seriously. Galettes de sarrasin filled with andouille de Guémené at a crêperie in Port-Louis, freshly shucked Belon oysters with a glass of Muscadet at the Lorient fish market on a Tuesday morning, far Breton from a patisserie on the main street in Riantec — these are not tourist experiences. They're Tuesday. They're what the week looks like when you live here, or visit often enough to feel like you do.
For international buyers, the practical case is straightforward. France has a well-established legal framework for non-resident property ownership, with notaire-managed transactions that provide clear title protections. The Morbihan property market has shown consistent long-term demand, particularly along the coast and in commuter range of Lorient. A property of this size, with five bedrooms and a basement, has strong rental potential through peak summer weeks — families actively seek larger homes in this part of Brittany, and supply of quality rental stock is tight in July and August.
Key features at a glance:
- Five-bedroom house spanning 147 square metres across garden level and first floor
- Full basement suitable for workshop, storage, wine cellar, or additional parking
- Attached garage for secure vehicle or equipment storage
- Terrace with garden, ideal for outdoor dining and summer entertaining
- Two family bathrooms, one with both bath and separate shower
- Two upstairs bedrooms with dedicated dressing areas
- Majority of windows already upgraded to PVC double glazing
- Comfortable single-level living option on the garden floor
- 10 minutes from the Atlantic beach at Gâvres
- Ferry and road access to Lorient city centre in under 20 minutes
- TGV rail connection from Lorient to Paris in approximately 3 hours
- 30 minutes from the Golfe du Morbihan sailing and leisure hub
- Strong summer rental demand for large family holiday homes in Morbihan
- Renovation project with cosmetic scope — structural condition is good
- Priced at €381,100 with genuine value-add opportunity
This is not a property for someone who wants everything done for them. It's for someone with a clear vision, a sense of what Brittany actually is, and the understanding that a house like this — five bedrooms, full basement, good bones, genuine coastal location — is the kind of opportunity that rewards decisive action.
Get in touch with the team at Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to ask questions about the buying process for international purchasers. Properties at this price point, in this location, with this much space, move quickly.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 5
- Size
- 147m²
- Price per m²
- €2,593
- Garden size
- 3102m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- Yes
- Has Basement
- Yes
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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