An arable farm for sale in Hautes-Pyrénées is nearly always found in the north of the department: the Tarbes plain, the Adour valley and the Rivière-Basse make up maize, soya and sunflower country, while the mountain valleys belong to summer grazing and livestock. What retiring farmers, agencies specialising in farmland and notaries in Tarbes, Vic-en-Bigorre or Maubourguet put on the market is described through irrigable area, dryers and bins, machinery and, often, a Bigorre farmhouse. These listings join our national inventory of arable farms for sale.
Beyond the properties themselves, you will find here the price markers for ploughland recorded in the department, the districts where supply concentrates, how to appraise buildings designed around maize, and the checks tied to irrigation water. To build the project itself, our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) sets out each stage.
Pricing the land comes first in any plan to buy an arable farm. On the basis of 2025 DVF sales (vineyards excluded), the median in Hautes-Pyrénées (65) works out at €8,219/ha and the average at €7,982/ha, across 61 transactions. The central range covering 80% of sales runs from €4,817 to €11,797/ha; nationally the median is €5,307/ha.
The SAFER benchmark, the market's second yardstick, gives €7,850/ha in 2025 for vacant land and pasture (+0.1% over twelve months, +8.3% over ten years), beside a national €6,460/ha; tenanted land is worth about 17% less.
What gives a Bigorre unit its value goes beyond a count of hectares: soil type, whether capping silt or deep alluvium, the presence of drainage, access to a collective irrigation network or an authorised borehole, how grouped the blocks are, drying and storage capacity, the age of the self-propelled machines, basic payment entitlements and the contract held with a cooperative or merchant. The farmhouse and its outbuildings are valued separately. Our markers sit in the land price observatory, and the financial calculators help you turn them into a funding plan.
Maize governs how the farm is organised here, and water is the key to it. Before committing, establish where the resource comes from, a collective network supplied by mountain reservoirs and the Neste canal, direct river abstraction or a borehole, the volume authorised, the share devoted to seed multiplication and the condition of reels, pivots and hydrants. A grain farm without secure water is a different proposition altogether. Then examine the dryer, its capacity, its energy source and its compliance, along with the bins, the intake pit and how lorries move through the yard.
Sheds in the Adour valley, often raised piecemeal as the holding grew, vary widely in condition: asbestos cement sheeting to deal with, cracked slabs, spans too narrow for current machines. The farmhouse in river cobble and brick, common across the plain, belongs to the residential market of the Tarbes conurbation and is negotiated separately from the productive assets. A disused cattle shed or piggery can be turned over to machinery storage once its structure and drainage have been checked.
The Rivière-Basse, around Maubourguet and Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, and the Adour valley up to Vic-en-Bigorre hold the most sought-after ground: deep alluvium, regular field patterns, well-equipped irrigation. The Tarbes plain continues that basin, carrying the land pressure of the conurbation and its infrastructure, together with the Tarbais bean, grown under a quality label. Eastwards, the Magnoac slopes and the ground near Trie-sur-Baïse mix cereals, sunflower and livestock on heavier clay. The Lannemezan plateau, with its acid, waterlogged silts, offers more affordable arable land that demands drainage and liming in return.
To the south, the valleys of Aure, Louron, Barèges and Argelès-Gazost fall outside broadacre cropping: grass, gradient and pastoral systems prevail. The market in whole holdings therefore plays out on a narrow band where neighbours are frequently candidates for expansion. Visit in wet weather to judge how the soils drain and whether the tracks stay usable, two factors that shape the field calendar all season.
Ask for the documents that prove security of supply: the agreement with the body managing collective abstraction, the volumes notified, the record of restriction orders issued during low flows on the Adour, water bills and maintenance contracts on the equipment. Fragile irrigation reshapes a business plan more surely than a point of yield. Then check how the land is held: in a department where tenancy is widespread, look at the remaining term of each lease, the rent, the landlord's consent to the transfer and the tenant's pre-emption right. The structures control, the prefectural authorisation to farm, and possible intervention by SAFER frame the whole transaction.
Look as well at commercial commitments, seed maize contracts, cooperative supply obligations and quality-label specifications, which rarely pass automatically to a buyer. Verify the transfer of basic payment entitlements, the consistency of declared areas, the crop-protection store, the fuel tanks and the dryer's electrical installation. On fields close to watercourses, enquire about flood zones and the buffer strips required along the banks.
The properties visible on this page come from owners handing over, from rural property agencies and from notarial offices across Bigorre. Select the area, budget and district you want, ask for an e-mail as soon as a holding matches your criteria, then carry the search on among arable farms for sale in Occitanie.
