Considering vacant farmland in Centre-Val de 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, 1,195 farmland sales were recorded in Centre-Val de Loire. The median price stands at €5,480/ha and the average at €5,892/ha; 80% of sales close between €3,003 and €9,349/ha, against a national average of €6,059/ha.
Year | Sales | Average price (€/ha) | Median price (€/ha) |
2020* | 562 | 5,745 | 5,372 |
2021 | 1,266 | 5,797 | 5,446 |
2022 | 1,344 | 5,868 | 5,297 |
2023 | 1,298 | 5,872 | 5,500 |
2024 | 1,198 | 6,001 | 5,500 |
2025 | 1,195 | 5,892 | 5,480 |
* 2020: second half-year only.
Year on year, the average price moved by -1.8% (+1.6% since 2021). Departments ranked by 2025 DVF average: Eure-et-Loir (€8,647/ha) · Loiret (€5,632/ha) · Indre-et-Loire (€5,460/ha) · Cher (€5,310/ha) · Indre (€5,116/ha) · Loir-et-Cher (€5,031/ha). All series are 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 €6,260/ha in Centre-Val de Loire in 2025, -6.1% year on year and +8.3% over ten years, against a national average of €6,460/ha.
The detail by department:
Department | 2025 price (€/ha) | 1-year change |
Cher | 5,770 | +1.1% |
Eure-et-Loir | 10,030 | +0.3% |
Indre | 5,730 | +2.1% |
Indre-et-Loire | 5,370 | -2.0% |
Loir-et-Cher | 5,090 | +3.9% |
Loiret | 6,390 | +2.6% |
Centre-Val de Loire is France's leading cereal region: the Beauce and Champagne berrichonne line up wheat, barley, rapeseed and sugar beet on large, highly mechanised farms. The Loire valley adds vineyards (Sancerre, Vouvray, Chinon), market gardening and horticulture around Orléans, while the Sologne and Boischaut keep livestock and hunting estates. With no lease in place, you keep full latitude over the choice of productions. Also browse the farms and agricultural estates for sale in Centre-Val de 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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