Considering vacant farmland in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur? 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, 59 farmland sales were recorded in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The median price stands at €13,518/ha and the average at €14,884/ha; 80% of sales close between €5,947 and €23,101/ha, against a national average of €6,059/ha.
Year | Sales | Average price (€/ha) | Median price (€/ha) |
2020* | 38 | 15,275 | 14,987 |
2021 | 74 | 13,660 | 13,640 |
2022 | 69 | 13,319 | 12,988 |
2023 | 70 | 12,123 | 11,118 |
2024 | 77 | 13,007 | 13,340 |
2025 | 59 | 14,884 | 13,518 |
* 2020: second half-year only.
Year on year, the average price moved by +14.4% (+9.0% since 2021). Departments ranked by 2025 DVF average: Bouches-du-Rhône (€19,365/ha) · Vaucluse (€14,943/ha) · Var (€12,926/ha) · Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (€7,310/ha) · Alpes-Maritimes (€7,245/ha) · Hautes-Alpes (€5,892/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 €12,260/ha in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in 2025, +2.8% year on year and +12.5% over ten years, against a national average of €6,460/ha.
The detail by department:
Department | 2025 price (€/ha) | 1-year change |
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 7,670 | +5.1% |
Hautes-Alpes | 8,470 | -14.4% |
Bouches-du-Rhône | 16,720 | -4.2% |
Var | 11,330 | +9.2% |
Vaucluse | 14,740 | -1.1% |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur grows very high value-added productions: AOP rosé wines, olives, lavender, irrigated fruit and vegetables along the Durance, Crau hay and Camargue rice, on scarce land contested by coastal urbanisation. Its land prices are by far the highest in mainland France, and the rental market is too narrow to produce published references. With no lease in place, you keep full latitude over the choice of productions. Also browse the farms and agricultural estates for sale in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
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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