Considering vacant farmland in Cantal? With no sitting tenant, these plots leave you entirely free to farm as you choose from completion. This page gathers the benchmark prices (recorded sales and the SAFER scale), local productions and the legal and tax rules to know. Browse all our Farmland free of lease for sale in France.
In 2025, 136 farmland sales were recorded in Cantal. The median price stands at €7,381/ha and the average at €7,166/ha, for an average plot of about 11.9 ha. 80% of sales close between €3,657/ha and €10,561/ha.
Year | Sales | Average price (€/ha) | Median price (€/ha) |
2020* | 49 | 7,203 | 7,123 |
2021 | 126 | 6,928 | 6,495 |
2022 | 139 | 7,010 | 6,637 |
2023 | 130 | 7,063 | 6,549 |
2024 | 120 | 6,547 | 6,309 |
2025 | 136 | 7,166 | 7,381 |
* 2020: second half-year only.
Year on year, the average price moved by +9.5% (+3.4% since 2021). The department sits above its regional average (€4,786/ha in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) against a national average of €6,059/ha. All series are available in our farmland price observatory.
According to the SAFER/SSP statistics (official scale of farmland market values, 2025 figures published in August 2026), vacant land and meadows trade on average at €6,440/ha in Cantal in 2025, -2.9% year on year and +2.9% over ten years.
The detail by agricultural sub-region:
Agricultural sub-region | 2025 price (€/ha) | 1-year change | 10-year change |
Cantal - Plateau du Sud-Est Limousin - Artense | 6,780 | -1.0% | +9.9% |
Bassin de Massiac - Cézallier Margeride - Aubrac Planeze de St-Flour | 5,700 | -6.6% | +1.4% |
Châtaigneraie - Bassin d'Aurillac | 7,410 | +0.7% | -3.5% |
Values range from €5,700/ha to €7,410/ha across sub-regions: soil quality, drainage, irrigation and plot consolidation strongly influence prices within a single area.
Cantal is grass and cheese country: Salers and Aubrac cattle on the planèzes and Artense, with AOP Cantal, Salers and Bleu d'Auvergne. The Châtaigneraie and the Aurillac basin host the most structured dairy farms. With no lease in place, you keep full latitude over the choice of productions. Also browse the farms and agricultural estates for sale in Cantal.
Legally, buying farmland follows a well-marked path: notification to the SAFER holding a pre-emption right, a farming authorisation where required (structure control), and a notarised deed with about 5.8% transfer duties. Fiscally, letting under a rural lease generates property income, and long-term leases open, under conditions, partial IFI exemptions and allowances on transmission. Our financial calculators (financing plan, notary fees) are there to help.
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