Loiret stands apart in the cereal landscape of the Paris basin: buyers take over wheat and sugar beet rotations, but also nursery beds, glasshouses and orchards, and farms for sale in Loiret often draw their value from the plant rather than from the acreage. The department is one of France's leading centres for horticulture, ornamental nursery stock and seed multiplication, without ceasing to be a large cereal plain. Properties reach us from owners organising their handover, from rural agencies, from notaries and from specialist advisers; a listing details the areas, the soils, the equipment, the irrigation and what remains let. They round out the record we keep of farms for sale in France.
Choosing takes more than a catalogue, and this page fills the gap: land values district by district, the sectors that structure the department, the areas where supply renews and the checks to complete before signing. Anyone arriving from outside the farming world will find the procedures and the funding structure explained 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 €5,122 per hectare in Loiret (45), an average of €5,632 and 160 sales; four transactions in five fall between €4,000 and €8,000, against a national median of €5,307.
The SAFER land value benchmark sets €6,390 per hectare for vacant land and pasture offered for sale in the same year, +2.6% over one year and +19.9% over ten, against €6,460 nationally. Land sold with a tenancy in place is valued at €5,510, a discount of about 14%.
Against the Centre-Val de Loire region, whose median is €5,480 per hectare, this department sits 7% lower. For commune-level detail and comparisons with neighbouring areas, see our land price observatory, then cost your purchase with our financial calculators.
Arable holdings occupy the deep loams of the Beauce around Orléans and of the Gâtinais: soft wheat, malting barley, oilseed rape, sugar beet, potatoes and seed crops rotate over wide blocks. Along the Loire, between Orléans and Sully, lies a dense horticultural belt — ornamental nurseries, orchards, protected cropping, container production — joined by market gardening and aromatic and medicinal plants. The south-east, towards the Puisaye and the Gien country, keeps cattle units and mixed farming systems.
A buyer must therefore separate two markets. Field-scale structures are judged on the parcels, the irrigation, the storage and the machinery, with quick deals whenever a block comes free. Horticultural and nursery businesses are judged on covered area, serviced growing beds, equipment, plant stock and trading contracts: the purchase then resembles the acquisition of a company rather than of land.
The Beauce around Patay, Artenay and Outarville gathers the largest cereal structures and the highest values, with irrigation widely installed. The Gâtinais, from Pithiviers to Montargis, mixes arable cropping, land historically given to saffron and a few livestock units, on more variable soils. The Val de Loire, narrow and fertile, concentrates horticulture and vegetable growing on alluvium that is easy to work but exposed to flooding.
South of the river, the Loiret Sologne and the Gien country offer wooded sands, ponds and more extensive holdings, while the Puisaye and the fringes of the Berry keep grass and stock. It is in this southern half and in the eastern Gâtinais that supply renews most readily, at entry prices well below those of the plain, where a sale finds its buyer before any wide advertising.
Across the northern half, everything turns on water: the Beauce aquifer is managed by allocating volumes between irrigators, allocations being trimmed by order as soon as levels drop. A holding with a properly consented abstraction point, a notified envelope and a maintained network bears no comparison with one worked dry, particularly for sugar beet, potatoes and seed crops. In the Val, abstraction from the alluvial water table and flood risk govern where glasshouses and growing beds can be placed.
Holdings with livestock buildings, boiler houses, product stores or packing platforms may fall under the regime for regulated installations: ask for the current permits and orders. Three checks then remain that nothing excuses: notice of the transfer to SAFER, which holds a pre-emption right; consent to farm, weighed against the regional plan; and any tenancy, where the tenant keeps occupation and a priority right to buy a let working farm.
The mandates entrusted to this page run from a Beauce block of land to a complete horticultural business, so it pays to say at the outset what you are after: bare land, a serviced site or a company to take over. Filters by production, area, buildings and budget tighten the list, and an e-mail alert keeps you posted on new listings. Sellers in the department publish their own listings directly. To compare on a regional scale, open farms for sale in Centre-Val de Loire.
