Looking at farms for sale in the Landes means entering a farming county built on poor sand, drained in the nineteenth century and planted with maritime pine, whose cultivated clearings now carry high-yielding irrigated maize, fattened duck units and label-scheme poultry. The mandates feeding this page come from farmers at the end of their working life, from land negotiators based between Mont-de-Marsan and Dax, from rural notary practices and from handover advisers. Listings set out the usable area, the water resource, the livestock buildings and their compliance status, and the machinery included. All of them extend the survey ma-propriete.fr devotes to farms for sale in France.
What follows goes past the catalogue: it places the value of Landes farmland, separates the districts where supply keeps moving from those that have dried up, spells out what really transfers with a contracted livestock unit, and lists the checks to run before the preliminary contract. For a project still at the intention stage, our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) sets out which legal form to choose and how to build a funding plan.
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 €8,278 per hectare in Landes (40), an average of €8,618 and 138 sales; four transactions in five fall between €4,998 and €13,082, against a national median of €5,307.
The SAFER land value benchmark sets €8,960 per hectare for vacant land and pasture offered for sale in the same year, +1.5% over one year and -6.6% 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 Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, whose median is €4,538 per hectare, this department sits 82% higher. For commune-level detail and comparisons with neighbouring areas, see our land price observatory, then cost your purchase with our financial calculators.
Maize fills the Landes rotation as in few other French counties: irrigated from shallow groundwater and rivers, grown in short rotation on free-draining sand, it shapes arable holdings whose value rests as much on the irrigation equipment as on the soil. Alongside it, the duck sector has produced a model of its own, where a handful of hectares is enough because the building, the integration contract and the placement calendar make up most of the asset; poultry units under label schemes follow the same logic on woodland ranges. Pine forest almost always comes with the land and weighs on the final valuation.
The south of the county provides the counterpoint. The Chalosse and the Tursan carry suckler cattle enterprises and mixed farming systems on clay-limestone slopes, grassland and vines included. On the irrigated coastal sands, market gardening holdings grow asparagus, carrots and Adour kiwi fruit. A working farm here should be read first through its dominant enterprise: a fattening site and a block of maize are not financed, insured or taken over under the same rules.
To the north, the Haute-Lande and the Gabardan, around Sabres, Labouheyre and Gabarret, line up wide clearings cut from the ocean of pine: units are large and sales rare, often settled between neighbours before any advertising. The Marsan and the Armagnac landais, around Mont-de-Marsan, Villeneuve-de-Marsan and Roquefort, combine cereals, free-range poultry and small vineyards. South of the Adour, the Chalosse and the Tursan, from Saint-Sever to Hagetmau, Mugron and Geaune, show the most fragmented field pattern and the most mixed systems; that is where mid-sized holdings come free most regularly.
The coastal strip — Born, Marensin, Maremne, Seignanx — follows a different logic. Residential demand, tourist accommodation and the pull of the Bayonne conurbation lift values and thin out purely agricultural handovers. A buyer after area at farming prices will look inland instead, even at the cost of distance from the main roads: an agricultural property there remains negotiable.
On sandy soil, irrigation is not a comfort but the condition of the system. Establish where each abstraction comes from, whether the boreholes are properly authorised, what volume the collective water management body has notified, and what restrictions were imposed on the Adour and Midouze catchments in recent seasons. Much of the county is classed as a nitrate vulnerable zone, which brings cover-crop obligations, effluent storage capacity and recorded nitrogen applications: all of this is verified on documents, never on assurances.
For a poultry or fattening unit, the checks bear on the site's environmental permit status, the biosecurity plan, the downtime capacity between batches and whether the contract with the producer organisation transfers: successive avian influenza episodes have made these points decisive. Then comes the administrative triptych no purchase escapes. The notary alerts SAFER, which may step into the buyer's shoes while its review period runs. Working the property next requires a prefectural decision, weighed against the thresholds and new-entrant priorities set for the region. And parcels under tenancy remain in the hands of their tenant, who buys ahead of you if he chooses.
The pace of Landes sales follows retirements and the end of integration contracts: supply moves in bursts rather than steadily. Filter on the dominant enterprise, on area, on the water supply or on the money available, switch on the e-mail alert so no listing passes you by, and publish your own property if you are the one handing over. The search then widens to farms for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
