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 Brittany region from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2025.
Brittany is one of the leading French agricultural regions. With approximately 1.6 million hectares of utilized agricultural area, it concentrates a dense network of farms, dominated by dairy, pig, and poultry farming, supplemented by field crops and a historical vegetable belt around the Bay of Saint-Brieuc and Léon. This agricultural usage pressure is logically reflected in the land market: Brittany is among the regions where transactions are most numerous each year.
In this article, we analyze agricultural land prices in Brittany based on DVF (Demandes de Valeurs Foncières) data, the public database that records all real estate sales registered with notaries. We present the regional average and median prices, the evolution since 2020, the detail department by department, and then compare these results with official statistics published by the Ministry of Agriculture based on SAFER reports. The goal is to provide a clear reading of the Breton market, its price levels, its dynamics, but also the methodological limits to keep in mind.
The statistics presented here come from a processing of DVF data carried out in March 2026. We isolated transactions exclusively involving unbuilt agricultural plots, with a surface area between 1 and 100 hectares, in order to exclude sales of micro-plots (often boundary adjustments or transfers between individuals with no market value) and very large operations that pull averages toward atypical values.
Across the entire Brittany region, we identified 1,389 transactions in 2024, for an average price of €5,818/ha and a median price of €5,500/ha. The average surface area of sold land stands at approximately 10.15 ha. The gap between the average and the median remains moderate, reflecting a relatively homogeneous market: the median price, which represents the midpoint of the market (half of the sales are below, the other half above), is often more representative than the average, as it is less sensitive to extreme values.
The P10–P90 indicator allows us to go further: in 2024, 80% of Breton transactions were concluded between €3,491/ha (P10, the threshold below which the bottom 10% of the cheapest sales are found) and €8,811/ha (P90, the threshold above which the top 10% of the most expensive are found). This P90/P10 ratio of 2.5 is significantly tighter than at the national scale (ratio of 4.3 over the same period), confirming that the Breton land market is relatively low-dispersed: price disparities are less marked than in regions where prestigious vineyards, high mountain zones, and intensive cereal farming coexist.
Over the last five years, growth has been steady but contained. The average price rose from €5,598/ha in 2020 to €5,818/ha in 2024, an increase of approximately +3.9% over the period. The median price progressed a bit faster, from €5,195 to €5,500/ha, or +5.9%. The volume of transactions stabilized around 1,400 annual sales after the 2021 rebound, a year when the post-Covid catch-up brought the number of transactions to 1,535.
[TABLE 1] — DVF summary of agricultural land prices in Brittany (2020–2025)
| Year | Number of sales | Average price (€/ha) | Median price (€/ha) | P10 (€/ha) | P90 (€/ha) | Average surface (ha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 737 | 5,598 | 5,195 | 3,358 | 8,221 | 9.60 |
| 2021 | 1,417 | 5,563 | 5,099 | 3,253 | 8,297 | 9.98 |
| 2022 | 1,535 | 5,601 | 5,191 | 3,325 | 8,500 | 10.19 |
| 2023 | 1,409 | 5,654 | 5,355 | 3,500 | 8,301 | 10.34 |
| 2024 | 1,389 | 5,818 | 5,500 | 3,491 | 8,811 | 10.15 |
| 2025 (1st half)* | 561 | 5,708 | 5,438 | 3,499 | 8,499 | 9.93 |
*2025 data only cover the first half (January to June) and remain partial. They should be interpreted with caution, as second-half sales are generally more numerous and likely to modify annual indicators. 2024 data, covering a full year, remain the most reliable reference to date.
[GRAPH 1] — Evolution of the average and median prices of agricultural land in Brittany between 2020 and 2024, with the P10–P90 range in the shaded area.
The Ministry of Agriculture publishes an indicative scale for agricultural land prices every year, built from transactions tracked by the SAFER (Société d'aménagement foncier et d'établissement rural). This source, which has been a reference for several decades, distinguishes two essential categories: vacant land, sold without a tenant in place, and leased land, sold with an ongoing rural lease. This distinction has strong economic meaning, as the presence of a farmer reduces the market value for the buyer who will not have immediate use of it.
According to 2024 SAFER figures, vacant land in Brittany was exchanged at an average of €6,520/ha, up +5.8% compared to 2023. Leased land was negotiated at €5,170/ha, with a much more modest progression of +0.8%. Over the 2020-2024 period, the price of vacant land grew by approximately +9.4% and that of leased land by +7.0%, a pace higher than that revealed by DVF data over the same interval.
How to explain this gap between DVF and SAFER? Several factors come into play, and we will return to them in more detail in the final part of the article. For now, let's remember that the two sources do not measure exactly the same thing: DVF aggregates all transactions registered as notarial deeds for unbuilt agricultural plots, without distinction between vacant and leased land, while SAFER selects and categorizes sales according to a methodology dedicated to market analysis.
Here are the SAFER prices for Brittany and by department over the last five years:
| Scope | Type | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brittany (region) | Vacant land | 5,960 | 5,920 | 5,960 | 6,160 | 6,520 |
| Brittany (region) | Leased land | 4,830 | 4,830 | 4,920 | 5,130 | 5,170 |
| Côtes-d'Armor (22) | Vacant land | 5,340 | 5,430 | 5,360 | 5,370 | 5,780 |
| Côtes-d'Armor (22) | Leased land | 4,700 | 4,860 | 4,990 | 5,190 | 5,330 |
| Finistère (29) | Vacant land | 5,090 | 5,200 | 5,170 | 5,220 | 5,420 |
| Finistère (29) | Leased land | 4,900 | 4,950 | 4,890 | 5,000 | 5,370 |
| Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Vacant land | 5,120 | 5,270 | 5,270 | 5,240 | 5,370 |
| Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | Leased land | 4,600 | 4,660 | 4,670 | 4,750 | 4,980 |
| Morbihan (56) | Vacant land | 4,940 | 4,880 | 4,850 | 4,950 | 5,170 |
| Morbihan (56) | Leased land | 4,220 | 4,420 | 4,480 | 4,500 | 4,600 |
Source: indicative scale for agricultural land prices, Ministry of Agriculture / SAFER, in current euros per hectare.
Brittany presents a certain price homogeneity, but the four departments that compose it each maintain agricultural specificities that translate into valuation levels. We review each department using the same DVF data as before.
Côtes-d'Armor is the leading Breton department in DVF transaction volume, with 404 sales registered in 2024. The average price there stands at €5,921/ha, the median at €5,539/ha, and the P10–P90 range is between €3,866 and €8,386/ha. The average surface area of exchanged plots is 10.34 ha.
Côtes-d'Armor combines dairy and pig production widespread across the department and a vegetable belt on the north coast, around Saint-Brieuc and Paimpol. This mix of systems partly explains why the department shows both a high average price (driven by market garden land and high-density livestock zones) and a contained median. Over the first half of 2025, 164 sales were identified, at an average price of €5,890/ha and a median of €5,726/ha, confirming the upward trend.
Finistère shows the highest average price in Brittany in 2024: €6,182/ha across 310 transactions, for a median price of €5,517/ha. The gap between average and median (over €660/ha) is the largest of the four departments, reflecting higher dispersion: the P10–P90 range extends from €3,403 to €10,000/ha, the highest P90 value in the region.
This dispersion is explained by the presence of the famous golden belt of northern Finistère, around Saint-Pol-de-Léon and the Bay of Morlaix, where market garden land (artichokes, cauliflower, shallots) is negotiated at levels far above the regional average. Conversely, livestock zones in the interior of the department remain at values closer to Breton standards. The first half of 2025 confirms this position, with an average price of €5,837/ha across 105 sales, although the half-year sample is too limited to draw definitive conclusions.
Ille-et-Vilaine is the Breton department where agricultural land is, on average, the cheapest. In 2024, the DVF average price stands at €5,450/ha for 379 sales, and the median price at €5,300/ha. The P10 and P90 boundaries (€3,102 and €7,977/ha) also outline the tightest market in the region: barely 10% of sales exceed €8,000/ha.
The department is largely oriented towards mixed farming and field crops in its eastern part. This usage homogeneity, combined with smaller surface areas (9.19 ha on average, the lowest in the region), explains the relative price stability observed since 2020. Data for the first half of 2025 (162 sales, €5,328/ha on average, €5,149/ha in median) show continuity, with no perceptible break.
In Morbihan, DVF data shows an average price of €5,767/ha in 2024, for a median of €5,249/ha and 296 sales identified. It is also the department where the average transaction surface area is the highest, at 11.45 ha, suggesting plots are generally larger or grouped together during transfers.
Morbihan remains dominated by livestock, but its southern coastline experiences peri-urban and tourist pressure that can occasionally pull prices up in certain municipalities close to the shoreline. The first half of 2025 shows an average surface area of 12.89 ha and a P90 climbing to €9,296/ha, a sign of dispersion that could intensify, but these figures will need to be confirmed over the full year.
The DVF statistics presented in this article are based on processing carried out in March 2026 from the public file provided by the General Directorate of Public Finances. We retained only transactions corresponding to unbuilt agricultural plots, which involves several successive filters:
For each year and each scope (region, department), we calculate four key indicators: the average price per hectare, the median price per hectare, and the P10 and P90 percentiles which characterize market dispersion by setting aside extreme values.
DVF data, as valuable as they are, are not without limits to keep in mind during interpretation:
The gaps between our DVF figures and those published by the Ministry of Agriculture from SAFER data should not be surprising. They are explained mainly by three reasons:
These two sources are therefore not contradictory: they are complementary. SAFER remains the historical reference for tracking long-term trends and distinguishing market segments. DVF, for its part, provides insight transaction by transaction, more granular and more reactive, particularly useful for analyzing local disparities and recent developments.
The Breton agricultural land market appears in 2024 as a mature market, dense in transactions and relatively homogeneous, with a DVF median price of €5,500/ha and moderate progression over five years. Finistère retains the place of most expensive department on average, driven by its vegetable belt, while Ille-et-Vilaine shows the most modest values. The first figures for 2025 reveal no break in trend, but they remain partial and must be confirmed at the end of the year. To go further in evaluating a specific plot, consult our land price observatory or our dedicated article on evaluating agricultural land.
