The sale price of farmland in Bourgogne Franche-Comté

Updated on April 8, 2026
We have built an Observatory of land prices in France based on DVF data published by the tax administration. Discover the sale prices of land in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2025.

Agricultural land prices in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

With nearly 2.8 million hectares of utilized agricultural area, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is one of the major French agricultural regions. It has many faces: the cereal plains of Yonne and northern Côte-d'Or, the Charolais suckler basin in Saône-et-Loire and Nièvre, the dairy farming pastures of Jura and Doubs, the prestigious vineyards of Côte de Nuits, northern Beaujolais, Chablis, and Jura, the forests of Morvan… This diversity largely explains the structure of the regional land market.

This article analyzes agricultural land prices in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté based on DVF (Demandes de Valeurs Foncières) data over the period July 2020 – June 2025, comparing them with the Ministry of Agriculture's scales and SAFER statistics. The objective: to give you a clear and quantified reading of what is actually being sold, where, at what price, and with what local specificities.

Land prices in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

ma-propriete.fr statistics (DVF source)

In 2024, the DVF database recorded 1,291 transactions of agricultural land in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The average price was €2,904/ha and the median price was €2,763/ha. The average surface area exchanged was 10.67 ha, slightly higher than the national average (10.52 ha).

Before going further, a word on how to read these figures. The average price adds up all transactions and divides by their number: it is sensitive to atypical sales. The median price corresponds to the middle transaction: half of the sales are below it, the other half above. It is the most representative indicator of the current market. To these two values, we add the P10 and P90 deciles: P10 marks the threshold below which the bottom 10% of the cheapest sales are located, and P90 the threshold above which the top 10% of the most expensive are found. The gap between the two measures the real dispersion of the market, much better than a simple minimum/maximum which would be skewed by a few exceptional transactions.

In Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the P10 stands at €1,800/ha and the P90 at €4,290/ha. The P90/P10 ratio is therefore 2.4 — a significantly lower dispersion than the national average (4.3). In other words: the agricultural land market in BFC is homogeneous. There is no wide gap between current transactions and premium transactions, which reflects a non-speculative market structured around the real agronomic value of the soil.

The evolution over 5 years confirms this image of stability: the average price went from €2,893/ha in 2020 to €2,904/ha in 2024, an increase of +0.4% in four years. The 1st half of 2025 follows the same trajectory at €2,887/ha. In real value, i.e., adjusted for inflation, agricultural land in BFC has therefore lost ground. The region remains, by far, the cheapest in metropolitan France.

Table 1 — Evolution of agricultural land prices in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2020-2025)

Source: ma-propriete.fr according to DVF. 2020 = second half only; 2025 = first half only.

Graph 1 — 2020-2025 evolution of the average price, median price, and P10–P90 band (DVF). Source: ma-propriete.fr.

Ministry of Agriculture statistics

The Ministry of Agriculture publishes an indicative scale for agricultural land prices every year, developed from data collected by the SAFERs. This source distinguishes, unlike DVF, the market for vacant land (sold free of occupation) from that of leased land (occupied by a farmer at the time of sale) — a value difference that can reach 10 to 15% in BFC.

For Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the 2024 SAFER scale shows an average price of €2,920/ha for vacant land and €2,670/ha for leased land. Over 13 years, the evolution is almost zero for vacant land (0.0% between 2011 and 2024) and +9.0% for leased land since 2012 — which, again, represents a pronounced erosion in real value.

Table 3 — SAFER prices for land and meadows in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2020-2024)

Source: SAFER — Land prices, 1999-2024 series.

Graph 2 — 2020-2024 evolution of SAFER prices in BFC, vacant/leased distinction. Source: SAFER.

The convergence with our DVF figures is remarkable: €2,904/ha (DVF, 2024) against €2,920/ha (SAFER vacant, 2024). The gap of less than 1% confirms the robustness of both sources, despite very different methods detailed at the end of the article. The two approaches are complementary rather than competing: SAFER offers unmatched historical depth and the vacant/leased distinction; DVF offers exhaustiveness and departmental granularity over the recent period.

Agricultural land prices by department

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté has eight departments: Côte-d'Or (21), Doubs (25), Jura (39), Nièvre (58), Haute-Saône (70), Saône-et-Loire (71), Yonne (89), and Territoire de Belfort (90). Here is the reading of the 2024 DVF data for each.

Table 2 — Agricultural land prices by department in 2024 (DVF)

Source: ma-propriete.fr according to DVF, year 2024.

Graph 3 — Comparison of the 8 departments of BFC in 2024, ranked from cheapest to most expensive (DVF). Source: ma-propriete.fr.

Côte-d'Or (21)

With 181 transactions in 2024, Côte-d'Or shows an average price of €3,118/ha and a median price of €2,879/ha. The gap between P10 (€1,898/ha) and P90 (€4,878/ha) reflects a certain agronomic diversity, from the limestone plateaus of Châtillonnais to the Saône plains. The average surface area exchanged (11.06 ha) remains within the regional average.

A point of attention: these figures do not reflect the value of the Côte de Nuits or Côte de Beaune vineyards. AOC vineyard plots are subject to separate transactions, outside the scope of our analysis, and their prices — which can exceed one million euros per hectare for grand cru — belong to a market totally disconnected from that of arable land. The DVF data for Côte-d'Or therefore essentially concerns mixed farming and crop land.

Doubs (25)

Doubs is, with an average price of €3,649/ha, the most expensive department in the region in 2024. The median stands at €3,199/ha over 124 transactions. The average surface area is significantly smaller (7.78 ha), reflecting a fragmented plot structure typical of mid-mountain dairy farming areas. The Comté sector, with its PDO specifications demanding forage areas, supports a structural demand for the Jura massif pastures and largely explains the observed price premium.

Jura (39)

With an average price of €2,456/ha and a median of €2,269/ha (130 sales), Jura is paradoxically one of the most accessible departments in the region — even though it shares the Comté PDO zone with Doubs. The explanation lies in the department's agronomic diversity: beyond the cheese-producing pastures of Haut-Jura, the Bresse jurassienne and the Bresse comtoise plains have land with lower potential that pulls the average down. Here too, the vineyard (Arbois, Château-Chalon, L'Étoile) constitutes a distinct market not captured by the DVF agricultural land statistics.

Nièvre (58)

The historical heart of the Charolais suckler basin, Nièvre shows an average price of €3,095/ha and a median of €3,000/ha over 155 transactions. The average surface area is higher than the regional average (11.73 ha), consistent with the structure of extensive livestock farms: few transactions, but on larger land units. The department remains penalized, like neighboring Saône-et-Loire, by the difficult economic situation of the beef cattle sector in recent years.

Haute-Saône (70)

Haute-Saône combines field crops in the Saône plains and livestock farming in more hilly areas. The 2024 average price was €2,813/ha for a median of €2,750/ha (141 sales). It is the department where the gap between average and median is the lowest in the region — a sign of a particularly homogeneous market, without extreme transactions to pull the average.

Saône-et-Loire (71)

With 367 transactions, Saône-et-Loire is by far the most active department in the region — more than a quarter of regional sales. It is also the cheapest: average price at €2,400/ha and median at €2,263/ha. The P90 peaks at €3,219/ha, making it the department with the lowest dispersion in all of BFC. These figures reflect the predominance of Charolais suckler farming on permanent pastures with moderate agronomic potential, in a tense economic context for the sector. On a national scale, Saône-et-Loire ranks among the most accessible departments in metropolitan France.

Again, as in Côte-d'Or, the Mâconnais and Côte Chalonnaise vineyards constitute a separate market, whose values are not reflected in the statistics for standard agricultural land.

Yonne (89)

Yonne is the region's major cereal crop department, with a strong orientation towards wheat, rapeseed, and barley on the Sénonais and Tonnerrois plateaus. The 2024 average price reached €3,390/ha for a median of €3,110/ha (180 sales). The average surface area exchanged — 13.44 ha, the highest in the region — illustrates the structure of large cereal farms typical of lowland agriculture.

Territoire de Belfort (90)

With only 13 transactions recorded in 2024, the Territoire de Belfort does not allow for robust statistical analysis. The displayed figures (average price €3,524/ha, median €3,500/ha) should be handled with caution: any calculation on such a small sample is very sensitive to each individual sale. For this department, we recommend prioritizing SAFER scales, which rely on longer series and field expertise.

Update: 1st half of 2025 figures

The initial DVF data for the 1st half of 2025 confirms the regional stability observed over the previous period. With 555 transactions recorded between January and June 2025, the regional average price stands at €2,887/ha, down very slightly compared to 2024. No department is experiencing a marked movement — the market continues its lateral trajectory.

Table 4 — Agricultural land prices by department in the 1st half of 2025 (DVF)

Source: ma-propriete.fr according to DVF, 1st half of 2025. The volumes for Territoire de Belfort (3 sales) and, to a lesser extent, departments with fewer than 70 transactions do not allow for a fully robust statistical reading for this half-year.

Analysis method and statistical limitations

Used DVF transaction analysis method

DVF (Demandes de Valeurs Foncières) data are published by the General Directorate of Public Finances. They record all real estate sales subject to a notarial deed, with their characteristics: price, surface, nature of the property, location, date of transfer.

To produce the statistics presented in this article, we applied several filters:

• selection of only transfers relating to plots classified under the cadastral nature "land" or "meadow";
• exclusion of transactions including buildings or residential use, which would distort the price per square meter;
• exclusion of sales below a surface threshold deemed non-representative (micro-plots);
• analysis period: from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2025, with adjustment for the two incomplete semesters (2020 second half, 2025 first half).

This method allows for isolating what most closely resembles a "pure" agricultural land transaction. For each geographic level (region, department), we systematically calculate the average price, median price, P10 and P90 deciles, number of sales, and average surface area exchanged.

Limitations of DVF data

Exhaustive as it is, the DVF database has several limitations that must be known to correctly interpret the figures:

• Incomplete geographic coverage: the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, and Moselle, which fall under the Alsace-Moselle Land Registry, are not included. No impact for Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
• Private sales: certain transfers not processed before a notary escape the database.
• Occasional mixing of natures: a plot classified as "land" in the cadaster may actually support a different use (urbanizable wasteland, declassified building land, etc.). Our filters reduce this bias without eliminating it entirely.
• No vacant/leased distinction: the DVF database does not specify whether the land sold was free of occupation or leased to a farmer. Yet the value difference between the two states can reach 30 to 40%. This is one of the main differences with SAFER data, which explicitly distinguishes the two markets.
• Vineyards not covered: as noted for Côte-d'Or, Jura, and Saône-et-Loire, plots planted with AOC vines follow a distinct market whose values are not found in these statistics.

Differences with SAFER statistics

The SAFERs publish their own statistics on the price of land and meadows every year, distinguishing the vacant market from the leased market. These figures have been a reference for decades and feed into the Ministry of Agriculture's indicative scale.

Three major methodological differences explain specific gaps with our DVF figures:

• SAFER only counts transactions notified to it under its right of pre-emption, which excludes certain specific operations but covers the bulk of the market;
• SAFER performs qualitative expertise to exclude atypical transactions (family, convenience, obviously undervalued), whereas DVF returns all raw sales;
• SAFER distinguishes between the vacant and leased markets, while DVF returns a single aggregate.

In practice, the two sources converge on major trends and give a faithful image of the market. We consider them complementary: SAFER for historical depth and the nuance of the vacant/leased segment, DVF for exhaustiveness and departmental granularity over the recent period.

Conclusion

The agricultural land market in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is distinguished by its remarkable stability: barely +0.4% over four years, which is a slight erosion in real value once inflation is taken into account. The region remains the most accessible in metropolitan France, with a price dispersion significantly lower than elsewhere — a sign of a non-speculative market where the value of land primarily reflects its agronomic potential. The moderate differences between departments map out a coherent geography: a premium for Doubs and Yonne driven by PDO dairy farming and field crops, maximum accessibility in Saône-et-Loire and Jura, where suckler farming and more modest land keep values low. For project holders seeking affordable land, BFC remains, in more ways than one, a land of opportunity.