Buying one of the farms for sale in Lot-et-Garonne means entering the most fruit- and vegetable-oriented county of the greater south-west: the Garonne and Lot valleys have built a labour-intensive agriculture, planted, watered and tied to local processing, where the neighbouring plateaux stay in cereals. Properties appear here at the initiative of farmers preparing their succession, of rural land professionals based in Agen, Marmande or Villeneuve-sur-Lot, of notary practices and of disposal advisers. Each record gives the area, the make-up of the plantations, the irrigation equipment, the technical buildings and the rights attached. All of it belongs to the wider set formed by farms for sale in France.
The page also gathers what never appears in an advertisement: what land is really worth depending on whether it is bare hillside or a planted and irrigated plot, which districts bring handovers to market, and how to judge an orchard nearing the end of its cycle. Our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) supports projects still being shaped.
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 €7,501 per hectare in Lot-et-Garonne (47), an average of €8,547 and 150 sales; four transactions in five fall between €5,015 and €14,141, against a national median of €5,307.
The SAFER land value benchmark sets €8,870 per hectare for vacant land and pasture offered for sale in the same year, +0.3% over one year and +20.0% 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 65% higher. For commune-level detail and comparisons with neighbouring areas, see our land price observatory, then cost your purchase with our financial calculators.
The Ente plum, whose crop goes to the drying kiln, holds a place no other French county gives it: it underpins a dense fabric of orchard holdings combining trees, driers and storage, where the processing tool often weighs more than the soil. Hazelnut, apple, pear and kiwi complete the range according to terroir. The market gardening holdings of the Marmandais, geared to tomatoes, strawberries and contracted field vegetables, rest on glasshouses, packing lines and a seasonal work organisation that transfers with the property.
The rest of the county runs more conventional systems: irrigated arable farms on the alluvial terraces, mixed farming on the limestone ridges, beef enterprises and duck units in the Albret and the Néracais. The contrast in capital is sharp: taking on a planted agricultural property commits an outlay per hectare with no equivalent in an arable purchase, but returns far more output while the orchard is still young.
The Garonne plain, from Tonneins to Marmande and on towards Aiguillon and Port-Sainte-Marie, holds the deepest soils and the best secured irrigation, and therefore the most sought-after land in the county; trading is brisk and area rarely comes in one block. The Lot valley, from Villeneuve-sur-Lot to Fumel, extends the same logic with a stronger fruit emphasis. Between the two, the Pays de Serres lines up narrow limestone plateaux cut by small valleys, where units are smaller, less irrigated and far more affordable.
To the south-west, the Albret and the Néracais woodlands, around Nérac, Casteljaloux and Mézin, mix pine, maize and livestock on sands that recall the neighbouring county. To the north, the Fumélois and the edges of the Périgord offer more enclosed grassland units. A buyer on a tight budget does well to start with these margins rather than with the valley floor.
Nothing is decided here without the irrigation file. Where the resource comes from, how much is drawn from the Garonne or the Lot, what hillside reservoirs exist and in what condition, membership of a water users' association, authorised volumes and the rota applied during recent low flows: an orchard or a vegetable crop cut off from water loses its purpose. Then ask for the age of the plantations row by row, the varieties, the training system and the frost protection, because an ageing orchard means grubbing up and several years without a crop.
Labour is the second issue: the volume of seasonal jobs, the accommodation available on site, the contracts in force and any labour-sharing arrangements rarely transfer without adjustment. Then come the usual regulatory checks, to be handled from the preliminary contract onwards. SAFER reviews every transfer and may acquire in your place. Actually farming the land depends on an administrative clearance judged against regional enlargement thresholds. Let parcels follow their tenant, who buys first. And nitrate zone classification, together with the distances required for spraying near dwellings, frames day-to-day practice.
Retiring fruit growers and vegetable producers, rural property agencies and county notaries place their mandates on this page as successions arise. Sort by production, planted area, irrigation equipment or price bracket, ask for the e-mail alert as soon as a property matches, and publish your own listing if you are handing over. The wider picture stays available through farms for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
