Considering vacant farmland in Normandy? 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, 1,442 farmland sales were recorded in Normandy. The median price stands at €8,305/ha and the average at €8,905/ha; 80% of sales close between €5,139 and €13,206/ha, against a national average of €6,059/ha.
Year | Sales | Average price (€/ha) | Median price (€/ha) |
2020* | 740 | 8,027 | 7,648 |
2021 | 1,479 | 8,109 | 7,809 |
2022 | 1,484 | 8,529 | 7,964 |
2023 | 1,511 | 8,682 | 8,000 |
2024 | 1,458 | 8,668 | 8,000 |
2025 | 1,442 | 8,905 | 8,305 |
* 2020: second half-year only.
Year on year, the average price moved by +2.7% (+9.8% since 2021). Departments ranked by 2025 DVF average: Seine-Maritime (€12,013/ha) · Eure (€10,355/ha) · Calvados (€9,368/ha) · Manche (€7,788/ha) · Orne (€6,818/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 €9,610/ha in Normandy in 2025, +2.9% year on year and +17.2% over ten years, against a national average of €6,460/ha.
The detail by department:
Department | 2025 price (€/ha) | 1-year change |
Calvados | 10,390 | +2.8% |
Eure | 10,270 | +3.1% |
Manche | 8,150 | +1.0% |
Orne | 7,250 | -1.6% |
Seine-Maritime | 11,600 | -0.3% |
Normandy combines grass and field crops: the dairy Pays d'Auge and bocages (AOP Camembert, Livarot, Pont-l'Évêque, Isigny butter), horse breeding and cider apples, alongside the arable Caen plain and Pays de Caux, the world's leading flax basin. Flax and vegetable land on the Caux coast ranks among the most expensive in western France. With no lease in place, you keep full latitude over the choice of productions. Also browse the farms and agricultural estates for sale in Normandy.
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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