Best said straight away: a poultry farm for sale in Hauts-de-Seine is an exception, since the department is almost entirely built up. What changes hands here is a business rather than an estate: a small flock kept in a shared garden, an educational unit with laying hens and table birds, an urban farming venture looking for someone to take it on. When such a property is entrusted to us, by its operator, by a rural estate agency or by a notary, we publish it with its area, its occupancy status and the way its output is sold. It rounds out the picture of poultry farms for sale nationwide.
This page is mainly there to frame the search: what the little remaining farmland is worth, the districts where something is still feasible, how to appraise an urban livestock building and the permits such a project implies. Our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) also sets out the route into farming, from the required qualification to the funding.
Land remains the largest item when buying a poultry farm. This department has no rural communes in the statistical sense, so the figures below are those of the Île-de-France region. According to sales recorded by the French tax administration (DVF, vineyards excluded), the median price of agricultural land in the region stood at €7,465/ha in 2025, with an average of €7,932/ha across 214 sales; 80% of transactions fall between €5,253 and €10,940/ha, against a national median of €5,307/ha.
The SAFER benchmark publishes no average for this territory; the national reference is €6,460/ha for vacant land and pasture and €5,350/ha for tenanted land.
Area says almost nothing about price in this department. What passes on is a tool and a going concern: the condition and compliance of the premises, air flow, water supply, feed store, fencing, night shelter, egg grading kit, the fit-out of a sales point or a visitor space. Add to that standing among local residents, arrangements with the council or nearby shops, and the time left to run on the occupancy title. Appraise the whole with our land price observatory and our financial calculators.
Nobody will find here the sort of broiler farm building common in livestock country. The volumes on offer are small: a range shelter, a light structure against a wall, a former horticultural outbuilding, a converted service room. The inspection therefore covers unusual points: soundness and weather-tightness of the structure, enough natural air flow, water and power supply, somewhere to keep feed safe from rodents, protection against urban predators and against intrusion, and removal of used litter. How easily the place can be cleaned, and how far birds can be kept apart from the public, govern both welfare and what the neighbours will accept.
Value, meanwhile, sits almost entirely in intangibles. A poultry enterprise changing hands in this setting passes on a base of local customers, sometimes an agreement with a council or a social landlord, a listing with nearby shops, and the groundwork already done. Check the nature of the title: ownership, lease, temporary occupancy agreement, and how long it still has to run. Where a house is included in the sale, its value far exceeds that of the activity, and the two must be costed separately.
The north of the department, in the Seine loop around Gennevilliers and Colombes, fed Paris from its market gardens before industry and housing took the ground. To the south, Sceaux, Châtenay-Malabry and Antony keep a horticultural memory and large parks, but in public ownership. The woodlands of Meudon and Saint-Cloud are protected and lend themselves to no livestock activity at all. In short, the plots that could host a poultry enterprise can be counted on one hand, and usually involve an arrangement reached with a council or a public developer rather than an outright purchase.
The logical next step is to cross the departmental boundary. The plaine de Versailles and the Chevreuse valley in Yvelines, the Hurepoix in Essonne and the Vexin in Val-d'Oise all hold working holdings less than an hour away, while keeping access to the same urban customers. Many projects that start here end up a few dozen kilometres out, with comparable buildings and land on altogether easier terms.
Keeping poultry, even in small numbers, means being on record: a declaration of bird keeping to the commune, registration of the holding where it is commercial, and compliance with the departmental health regulations. Above a certain flock size, the activity moves into the classified installations regime, the French environmental permitting system, with declaration, registration or authorisation. During avian influenza surveillance, housing and confinement instructions apply in full to small free-range flocks, which many newcomers discover late. The commune's planning rules will finally say what may be built on the plot.
Neighbours are the other major issue: early morning noise, odour, flies and manure storage account for most disputes in dense areas, and are prevented by design as much as by conversation. On former industrial ground, a soil survey is needed before letting birds scratch about. Should farmland be part of the sale, the rural lease continues with the buyer subject to the landlord's agreement, and both the structures control, the French authorisation regime for taking over farmland, and SAFER remain involved.
The properties shown come from operators, specialist agencies and notaries. Filters for area, budget and production help pick out the poultry house or the laying hens unit matching your idea; an alert remains the surest way to miss nothing on so narrow a market. Open the search up as well to the poultry farms for sale in Île-de-France.
