Two farming worlds share this department, and choosing between them comes before everything else when looking at farms for sale in Eure-et-Loir: to the east, the open Beauce plain, its wide arable blocks, its hedgeless fields and its minimal buildings; to the west, the Perche and its wooded valleys, where grass, hedgerows and old stone buildings become the raw material again. The listings reach us from arable farmers winding up a career, from partners leaving a farming company, from local notaries and from succession advisers. Each one sets out the field pattern, soil potential, how much land is let, any abstraction rights and the machinery included with the holding. They belong to the national stock we keep of farms for sale in France.
Weighing two files takes more than a photograph and an asking price: what a hectare is really worth depending on whether it lies in the Beauce near Chartres or in the Faux-Perche, which districts release land, which productions carry the department and what to have verified before the preliminary contract. A project just getting under way will find the formalities and the money side laid out in our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French).
Land forms the base of a farm's value. DVF, the property sales database published by the French tax administration (vineyards excluded), records a 2025 median of €8,300 per hectare in Eure-et-Loir (28), an average of €8,647 and 213 sales; four transactions in five fall between €6,000 and €12,000, against a national median of €5,307.
The SAFER land value benchmark sets €10,030 per hectare for vacant land and pasture offered for sale in the same year, +0.3% over one year and +35.7% over ten, against €6,460 nationally. SAFER publishes no local figure for let land, too few sales being recorded; nationally, land sold with a farm tenancy in place trades at a discount of about 17%.
Against the Centre-Val de Loire region, whose median is €5,480 per hectare, this department sits 51% higher. For commune-level detail and comparisons with neighbouring areas, see our land price observatory, then cost your purchase with our financial calculators.
The department ranks among France's leading producers of soft wheat, barley and oilseed rape, alongside sugar beet, potatoes and a seed multiplication sector that shapes many rotations. An arable holding is bought here first for its land and its machinery: few livestock buildings, a great deal of storage, wide working widths and production contracts that carry part of the income. The Perche, by contrast, keeps a network of suckler and dairy cattle units, sheep flocks and medium-sized mixed farming structures resting on permanent pasture and hedgerows.
Between the two, a few poultry units and some field-scale vegetable growing occupy the Eure and Loir valleys, where water and alluvial soils allow it. A buyer aiming at the plain should think in storage capacity, working width and seed contracts; one aiming at the Perche bocage will think in housing places, roof condition and how well pasture carries stock in a wet spring, long before counting hectares.
The Beauce around Chartres, Voves, Janville and the Dunois district holds the largest structures and the firmest values: deep loam, fields lying in one block and neighbours ready to expand the moment land comes free. The Drouais and the Thymerais, further north, mix capping loams with flinty clays, with slightly smaller holdings and a Paris-region influence that shows in building prices. The Faux-Perche and then the Perche proper, towards Nogent-le-Rotrou, Authon-du-Perche and La Loupe, move into bocage country: grassland, small valleys, stone buildings and fragmented parcels.
It is along this western edge that supply turns over fastest, for want of successors on livestock units, and where the entry ticket stays most moderate. On the plain, a sale attracts several expansion candidates at once, often neighbours, and the deal is usually settled before any wide advertising. The Eure valley and the approaches to Dreux add residential competition that mainly lifts the price of the buildings.
The Beauce part of the department falls under the volumetric management of the Beauce aquifer: an authorised borehole, an allocated volume and a serviceable irrigation set cannot be improvised, and their presence separates two categories of property that a price per hectare alone will not distinguish. Nitrate vulnerable zone status further imposes winter soil cover, a fertilisation plan and buffer strips along watercourses; ask for recent plans to see what that means for the rotation on offer.
Then come three unavoidable steps. The deed brings the transfer to SAFER's notice, and the agency may step into the buyer's place before re-opening the file to candidates. Working the ground also calls for an administrative consent, granted against thresholds and an order of priority set by the Centre-Val de Loire plan. Lastly, a sitting tenant keeps the lease and a priority right to buy: on an agricultural property that is largely let, the area genuinely free on completion can shrink to very little.
Mandates arrive here as Beauce careers come to an end and as Perche livestock units close, with a peak after harvest. Set the farming system you want first, then the size bracket, then the district — sorting in that order saves time in a department this contrasted. An e-mail alert flags every relevant listing, and sellers can post a property themselves. To widen the net, browse farms for sale in Centre-Val de Loire.
