The search for a dog kennel for sale in Indre-et-Loire leads to a department where a sizeable city, Tours, sits beside countryside that is both well inhabited and heavily visited. What comes on the market ranges from professional boarding premises close to residential areas to more isolated sites in southern Touraine where a breeding operation has grown alongside the boarding activity. We receive these files from managers winding down, from agencies specialising in country property and from notaries, with the capacity, the state of the kennel block and the regulatory position stated. They round out our dog kennels and boarding businesses for sale.
Comparing two businesses calls for benchmarks a listing does not supply. So you will find here the value of rural buildings in Touraine, how demand divides between the city and the hinterland, the equipment worth examining and the formalities that govern a handover. If your project is still taking shape, the white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) sets out the groundwork.
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 Indre-et-Loire (37) stood at €180,000 in 2025 (+0.6% year on year), or €1,806/m² of living space, across 1,884 recorded sales. For comparison, the national median stands at €189,200 and the Centre-Val de Loire regional median at €150,000.
The price is made of several layers the advert rarely separates. The tool first: the number and design of boxes, individual runs, exercise paddocks, a treatment room, a quarantine space and a separate cattery where one exists. Then the licensed capacity, which caps achievable turnover. Finally the business, with its loyal customers, its recurring bookings and its standing among vets. Put those amounts back into the local market through our country house price observatory and check feasibility with our financial calculators.
The first instinct should be to price what will need redoing. Poured floors without cracks and correctly sloped, drainage connected to a compliant system, solid partitions between boxes, raised bedding out of draughts, real ventilation rather than a set of openings: these decide daily comfort and the hours the work takes. Exercise paddocks must be drained, fenced high enough and buried at the base. A complete treatment room, laundry and isolation kennel spare you immediate outlay. Check as well what spare buildings remain, often decisive if you later want to raise the number of animals housed.
The dwelling house weighs heavily in holdings here, where residential property is sought after. A handsome farmhouse can account for a large share of the asking price without improving the return from the activity. Obtain a written split between home, working buildings, land and goodwill, confirmed by the notary, then reason separately about the productive part of the property and about what you are buying simply to live in.
The heart of the market lies in the Tours conurbation, from Joué-lès-Tours to Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire and Saint-Avertin, where pet owners willing to board their dog during holidays are concentrated. Amboise and the Loire valley extend that zone eastwards, Chinon and the Bourgueil country westwards, Loches and its surroundings to the south. Loire valley tourism and the presence of second homes, including those of foreign owners in the south of the department, add seasonal demand and short stays tied to visits.
Close to Tours, land is expensive and constraints from neighbours tighten; further out, prices fall but the customer drive lengthens. The balance is often found in an intermediate ring reachable without crossing the city. Ask the seller about the seasonality of occupancy and about the share of regular customers, which makes all the difference outside school holidays.
Request the activity declaration lodged with the departmental veterinary and consumer protection service and the ACACED certificate of competence of whoever supervises the animals. Once the site houses more than nine weaned dogs it falls under the classified installations regime, by declaration or by authorisation; the prefectural order then fixes distances from dwellings, effluent treatment and noise measures. Read it in full: requirements the seller has not carried out become your obligations on completion, including works that can prove costly.
On planning, verify that the working buildings were duly authorised and that the local plan would allow an extension, for instance to create a separate cattery. The sale usually concerns the business itself: ask for the position on bookings already paid, the transfer of staff, supplier contracts and the continuity of the establishment number once the operator changes.
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