Considering vacant farmland in Saône-et-Loire? 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, 391 farmland sales were recorded in Saône-et-Loire. The median price stands at €2,349/ha and the average at €2,437/ha, for an average plot of about 9.5 ha. 80% of sales close between €1,629/ha and €3,300/ha.
Year | Sales | Average price (€/ha) | Median price (€/ha) |
2020* | 145 | 2,455 | 2,170 |
2021 | 306 | 2,343 | 2,181 |
2022 | 338 | 2,493 | 2,182 |
2023 | 319 | 2,433 | 2,111 |
2024 | 367 | 2,400 | 2,263 |
2025 | 391 | 2,437 | 2,349 |
* 2020: second half-year only.
Year on year, the average price moved by +1.5% (+4.0% since 2021). The department sits below its regional average (€2,907/ha in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) 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 €2,550/ha in Saône-et-Loire in 2025, -0.8% year on year and +6.2% over ten years.
The detail by agricultural sub-region:
Agricultural sub-region | 2025 price (€/ha) | 1-year change | 10-year change |
Charollais - Brionnais | 2,550 | -3.4% | -10.8% |
Bresse Chalonnaise | 3,240 | -9.5% | +15.7% |
Mâconnais - Chalonnais | 3,130 | +1.3% | +3.0% |
Bresse Louhannaise | 2,580 | +10.3% | +38.0% |
Clunysois - Côte Chalonnaise | 2,470 | +0.8% | -12.1% |
Sologne Bourbonnaise - Autunois - Morvan | 2,310 | -2.9% | +10.5% |
Values range from €2,310/ha to €3,240/ha across sub-regions: soil quality, drainage, irrigation and plot consolidation strongly influence prices within a single area.
Saône-et-Loire is the cradle of the Charolais breed: fattening and breeding dominate the Charollais and Brionnais, alongside Bresse (AOP poultry), the Mâconnais vineyard and Saône valley crops. France's leading suckler department remains affordable per hectare. With no lease in place, you keep full latitude over the choice of productions. Also browse the farms and agricultural estates for sale in Saône-et-Loire.
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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