A farm for sale in Var is nearly always found behind the first line of ridges. The coastal front, built up and given over to tourism, has little workable land left; it is the back country — the Provence verte, the Verdon, the Dracénie and the Fayence district — that supplies the market with olive holdings, orchards, protected cropping and small livestock units. Sellers are growers stopping for want of a family successor, local notaries, agencies geared to rural property and advisers specialising in handovers. Listings set out area, soils, water supply, the state of the buildings and the equipment included, then join the national collection of farms for sale in France.
This page goes past the catalogue: it places the value of land in the Var, describes the sectors that are holding up, points to the districts where properties come free, and recalls what a buyer must check where forest and farmland interlock. Vines, prominent as they are in the landscape, belong to a separate market covered in our wine estates category. Our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) supports first-time buyers.
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 €12,000 per hectare in Var (83), an average of €12,926 and 3 sales; four transactions in five fall between €6,800 and €19,423, against a national median of €5,307. * Fewer than 30 recorded sales: indicative value.
The SAFER land value benchmark sets €11,330 per hectare for vacant land and pasture offered for sale in the same year, +9.2% over one year and -16.6% 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 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, whose median is €13,518 per hectare, this department sits 11% lower. For commune-level detail and comparisons with neighbouring areas, see our land price observatory, then cost your purchase with our financial calculators.
Outside the vineyard, the olive shapes the farmed landscape, from the Dracénie to the hills of the Provence verte, with an oil under protected designation and new plantings on restored terraces. Fruit growing adds the Solliès fig, the sweet chestnut of the Maures around Collobrières and a few stone-fruit orchards on the valley floors. Market gardening clusters in the Gapeau valley and the Hyères plain, where cut flowers and nursery stock count as specialist crops, alongside aromatic plants on the plateaux and truffle growing in the upper Var around Aups and Rougiers.
Gain height and grass takes over: sheep enterprises run on scrubby rough grazing, goat herds with an on-farm dairy, a few suckler cattle units and a great many mixed farming systems combining forage, olives and direct selling. An agricultural property here often pairs limited workable ground with extensive rough grazing and buildings needing work: the return has to be calculated on the whole, not on the ploughable area alone.
The Provence verte, around Brignoles, Saint-Maximin, Barjols and Cotignac, holds the largest number of mid-sized properties, between workable plain and wooded slopes. The Dracénie, from Draguignan to Lorgues and Flayosc, mixes olive groves, orchards and lifestyle estates whose prices reflect residential appeal. The upper Var and the Verdon fringes, towards Aups, Salernes, Régusse and Comps, offer the widest areas and the lowest entry values in the department, in exchange for hard winters and distant outlets.
The coast and its immediate hinterland follow another logic. The Hyères plain and the Gapeau valley keep intensive market gardening but scarce, dear land; the Fayence country, the Maures and the Estérel set forest massifs, scattered housing and landlocked parcels side by side. A takeover there is rarely built in one block: it is assembled from separate islands of land, which tells on travel time and machinery costs.
Wildfire risk is the Var speciality never to underestimate. A holding bordered or surrounded by woodland falls under statutory scrub-clearance duties covering the approaches to buildings and access tracks; they fall on the owner and represent a genuine annual cost. Ask whether that work has been carried out, whether any order or formal notice has been served, and how emergency vehicles reach the farmstead. Check too the water storage available, the insurance on the buildings and the fire history of the massif concerned.
Irrigation is then verified with the paperwork in hand: connection to the regional pressurised network, a declared hillside reservoir, an authorised borehole, the allocated volume and low-flow restrictions. For the rest, the common rules apply strictly: SAFER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, told of the sale by the notarial office, may substitute itself for the buyer. The right to farm follows the thresholds set in the regional structure plan. And an established tenant retains his lease together with first refusal on the parcels he works. Bare farmland without buildings trades on a different basis again.
The soundest habit in this department is to think by terroir rather than by commune: the upper Var, the Provence verte, the Dracénie and the coastal plain share neither prices nor volumes. An e-mail alert saves returning to the page, since well-served properties go quickly. Retiring owners, notaries and rural agencies publish their instructions here, and owners may post a listing themselves. Widen the search if needed towards agricultural properties for sale in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
