Looking for a dog kennel for sale in Gers means accepting a thin but rarely saturated market. The department has few inhabitants per square kilometre, and most bookings come from its eastern edge, which looks towards Toulouse, from Auch and from the small towns of the Lomagne and the Armagnac. What we publish is sent to us by operators handing over, by agencies specialising in rural estates and by local notaries, with the declared capacity, the condition of the kennel block and the exact make-up of the lot. These properties join our dog kennels and boarding businesses for sale.
This page extends the listing: rural property values in Gers, the areas the customers genuinely come from, the equipment that changes running costs, and the formalities on which continuity of trading depends. If your project pairs animal boarding with a farming activity, the white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) presents the main stages.
In most sales the dwelling house is the largest single item, ahead of the kennel buildings and the goodwill. According to our country house observatory, the median price of a house in a rural commune in Gers (32) stood at €176,600 in 2025 (-1.0% year on year), or €1,671/m² of living space, across 1,271 recorded sales. By way of reference, the figure is €189,200 nationally and €210,000 across Occitanie.
Where land stays affordable, value comes from the plant and the customers. The plant: sound boxes, individual runs, drained exercise paddocks, a treatment room, a quarantine kennel, a laundry, a separate cattery. The customers: how long the diary has been running, whether the client file is properly assigned, online booking, the share of bookings outside holiday weeks, and standing with local vets and shooting people. The farmhouses of the Gers also weigh in the equation: place them with our country house price observatory and check that your project balances with our financial calculators.
Many businesses in the Gers occupy former farm buildings. The quality of the conversion then makes the difference: insulation under the roof, floors relaid to a fall with connected drainage, water and electrical services renewed, washable partitions between boxes, ventilation that works without a draught. The clay and limestone soils of the ridges hold water in winter: check drainage in the exercise paddocks, whether the access stays driveable in all weather, and the state of the fencing, often distorted by ground movement. Finally inspect the laundry, the feed store, the treatment room and the quarantine kennel.
A property here nearly always includes a dwelling house, sometimes a barn and several hectares. Have the house, the land, the professional buildings, the equipment and the goodwill valued separately, and obtain written confirmation of the authorised headcount, which does not always match the boxes you can see. Boarding kennels that came out of a partial conversion are negotiated on the works still to be done, costed by a local builder rather than guessed at during the visit.
The eastern edge is the engine: L'Isle-Jourdain, Gimont and the Save valley benefit from the spread of Toulouse and from a large working population, which makes land dearer but occupancy surer. Auch supplies the central town clientele. To the north, Fleurance, Lectoure and Condom serve the Lomagne and the Armagnac; to the west and south, Mirande, Nogaro and the Astarac gather fewer people. Add to that the second-home owners, numerous across the ridges, and a British and Dutch community long settled in the area.
Across a wide territory, the catchment is counted in driving minutes, not kilometres. Ask the seller where the bookings come from geographically and how the year is shaped: shooting, widely practised here, creates its own autumn demand for boarding and training that can offset a quiet winter.
Without the ACACED certificate held by someone in charge and without the declaration to the departmental directorate for the protection of populations, trading cannot continue: these formalities are taken up in the new operator's name, along with the registers, animal identification and the agreement with a designated veterinary surgeon. As soon as more than nine weaned dogs are housed, the site falls under the classified installations regime, which imposes a minimum distance between animal housing and third-party dwellings. Ask for the receipt or the order and compare it with what is on the ground.
Scattered housing across the ridges makes those distances easier to respect, but noise remains the leading cause of complaint: listen to the site at the hours when dogs come back in, and ask the town hall whether there is any history. On the handover, keep the property and the business apart, have an inventory drawn up of the animals and the deposits, and allow a generous transition: in a word-of-mouth market, a clientele does not change hands overnight.
Owners winding down, rural property agencies and notarial practices in the department supply this selection: dog boarding, a cattery, a registered breeding business or a building to convert. Filter by capacity, by budget or by area, put an alert in place to follow new offers, and continue with dog kennels for sale in Occitanie.
