Price here is rarely read per hectare alone: farms for sale in Indre-et-Loire may be worth more for a few acres of planted slope or an irrigated block on the valley floor than for a wide stretch of plateau. The department sets high value-added specialist crops along the Loire, the Cher, the Indre and the Vienne beside more conventional field-scale systems on the plateaux between them. Properties come from owners preparing their succession, from Touraine rural agencies, from notaries and from specialist advisers; each listing details the parcels, access to water, production equipment and the quality designations attached to the land. They take their place in our record of farms for sale in France.
What a listing will not tell you is gathered here: what land is worth from one terroir to the next, which sectors carry the department, where area is released and the checks that decide whether a project is feasible at all. If a purchase is still only an intention, our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) takes it from statutes through to funding.
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 €5,477 per hectare in Indre-et-Loire (37), an average of €5,460 and 201 sales; four transactions in five fall between €3,092 and €7,916, against a national median of €5,307.
The SAFER land value benchmark sets €5,370 per hectare for vacant land and pasture offered for sale in the same year, -2.0% over one year and +33.9% over ten, against €6,460 nationally. Land sold with a tenancy in place is valued at €4,700, a discount of about 12%.
Against the Centre-Val de Loire region, whose median is €5,480 per hectare, this department sits 0% lower. For commune-level detail and comparisons with neighbouring areas, see our land price observatory, then cost your purchase with our financial calculators.
Vines occupy the slopes on both banks of the Loire and the Cher, under well-known Touraine appellations on which the value of a planting directly depends. In the alluvial valleys, market gardening and fruit growing have a long history: asparagus, strawberries, salad crops, apples and pears, together with nurseries and ornamental horticulture. The Champeigne, Gâtine and Sainte-Maure plateaux belong to arable farming, while the south of the department keeps goat units tied to an appellation cheese, alongside beef herds.
A buyer therefore chooses a trade before choosing an area. A vegetable or fruit business is bought for its glasshouses, tunnels, packing shed, labour and outlets; the land matters less than the plant and the customer base. A plateau unit is judged instead on soils, block size and machinery. Between the two, many mixed structures attach a specialist enterprise to a cereal rotation, which means appraising the profitability of each half separately.
The Véron, the Bourgueil district and the Loire terraces towards Langeais concentrate vines, vegetables and orchards on light sandy soils. The Cher valley, from Bléré to Chisseaux, and the Indre valley mix market gardening with small diversified holdings. The Champeigne plateau, between the Indre and the Cher, and the Gâtine to the north towards Château-la-Vallière carry the largest cropped areas. To the south, the Richelais and the Sainte-Maure country shift towards cereals and livestock, at distinctly more moderate entry prices.
The Tours conurbation presses hard on its immediate ring: parcels sought for development or leisure, old buildings wanted for housing, quick deals. An agricultural property genuinely available is therefore more often found at a distance, in the south and the north-west of the department, while the appellation slopes form a closed market where sales are frequently settled privately between growers.
Irrigation underpins much of the valley production. Check where the water comes from — alluvial abstraction, deep borehole, reservoir — which authorisation covers it, what volume is allocated and what restrictions were applied during low flows on the Loire and its tributaries. On the slopes it is the appellation specifications that govern varieties, yields and practices: a planting is worth only the rights and the designated area attached to it, and that area sometimes stops in the middle of a block.
Then come the administrative filters common to any purchase. The file first passes through SAFER, free to pre-empt and pass the property to another candidate. Next comes consent to farm, weighed against the regional plan, with lower thresholds for specialist production, where a few hectares can make a viable business. A running farm tenancy, lastly, passes with the land and gives the tenant a priority right to buy that must be identified before any funding plan is built.
In this department the decisive filter is not area but the nature of the plant: glasshouse, winery, orchard, packing station or a plain set of farm buildings. Combine it with the district and your budget, then save your criteria to receive an e-mail whenever something new appears. Touraine sellers and their advisers post their listings directly. To widen the search area, browse farms for sale in Centre-Val de Loire.
