Looking for an equestrian property for sale in Normandy? The region offers a wide range: stud farms for sale in the Pays d'Auge or on the Argentan plain, equestrian estates with a manor, sport horse yards in the Manche, longères with paddocks in the Perche or the Pays de Bray, and homes with stables an hour and a half from Paris in the Eure. Listings from private sellers, agents and notaires state the acreage of grassland, the facilities and the condition of the buildings. Browse all our equestrian properties for sale in France to compare with other regions.
As the heartland of French racehorse and sport horse breeding, Normandy combines prized pastures, a dense network of racecourses and a closeness to the Paris region that supports prices. This page gives you price benchmarks by department, the main equestrian areas and the checks to carry out before buying. Our guide to buying an equestrian property in France covers the rest of the process.
An equestrian property combines pasture and a house, so its price is best read against two public benchmarks, farmland and country houses, alongside the asking prices of current listings.
In 2025, 1,442 farmland sales were recorded in Normandy (DVF data, vineyards excluded): the median price was €8,305/ha and the average €8,905/ha, with 80% of sales between €5,139 and €13,206/ha. Over four years, the median changed by +6.4% compared with 2021. The 2025 SAFER scale values land and pasture sold with vacant possession in Normandy at €9,610/ha (+2.9% over one year). The national median is €5,307/ha across 14,328 sales.
For the buildings, the benchmark is the country house: 14,367 sales in rural communes of Normandy in 2025, at a median of €189,000 and €1,872/m², compared with €189,200 nationally. For homes of over 300 m², common on larger estates, the regional median reaches €670,000 across 464 sales recorded from mid-2020 to the end of 2025.
On 24 September 2026, the 15 equestrian listings in Normandy showed a median asking price of €671,450, with a median area of 10.2 hectares.
| Department | Farmland: DVF median | Land with vacant possession (SAFER) | Country house: median price | Listings on 24 September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calvados (14) | €8,917/ha | €10,390/ha | €225,400 | 5 |
| Eure (27) | €9,723/ha | €10,270/ha | €185,000 | 2 |
| Manche (50) | €7,735/ha | €8,150/ha | €180,000 | 2 |
| Orne (61) | €6,432/ha | €7,250/ha | €139,000 | 6 |
| Seine-Maritime (76) | €11,543/ha | €11,600/ha | €201,000 | 0 |
Sources: 2025 DVF sales (French tax authority) processed by ma-propriete.fr, houses in rural communes; 2025 SAFER land value scale (Agreste, July 2026); homes over 300 m²: DVF mid-2020 to end-2025; asking prices of listings on 24 September 2026. * Indicative value (30 to 99 sales). Not published: fewer than 30 sales or area not covered.
The table shows a clear gap between the east and west of the region: land on the Caen plain and in Seine-Maritime sells at arable prices, while the Manche and the Orne offer more affordable grassland. For an equestrian property, the quality and drainage of the paddocks often matter more than the departmental average. Department-level detail is available in our farmland price observatory, and our land value tool gives an estimate for the fields of any property.
Normandy is a breeding region first: Thoroughbreds in the Pays d'Auge and around Argentan, trotters in the Orne, Calvados and Manche, and sport horses, mostly Selle Français, around Saint-Lô. Stud farms for sale usually combine post-and-rail pastures, foaling boxes, open barns, a hay barn and a house, sometimes a manor.
Leisure estates, frequent in the Eure and Seine-Maritime, focus on the house, an arena and a few hectares of grazing. The right department depends on your project: breeding, a livery business or a home with a few stables.
Between these two markets you will find livery yards near Caen, Rouen or Le Havre, riding centres and pony clubs to take over with an indoor school, clubhouse and tack room, and Bocage horse farms with paddocks, a lunge pen and sometimes a horse walker. Homes with stables and fields, popular with show jumping and dressage riders, exist in every department, at prices that vary mainly with the distance to the coast and to Paris. A few equestrian gîtes cater for trail riders in the Suisse normande and the Perche.
Calvados (14) has the Pays d'Auge studs, the Deauville racecourses and the summer Thoroughbred sales. The Orne (61) is home to the Haras national du Pin and the pastures of Le Merlerault and the Argentan plain; the Perche, shared with Eure-et-Loir among others, is the birthplace of the Percheron draught horse. The Manche (50) combines sport horse breeding around Saint-Lô and its equestrian centre, a former national stud, with the Graignes racecourse, linked to training for racing careers.
The Eure (27) draws riders from the Paris region thanks to the A13 and the Paris-Évreux railway; its leisure properties lie in the Vexin normand, the Pays d'Ouche and around Conches-en-Ouche. Seine-Maritime (76) offers grassland in the Pays de Bray, where the Mauquenchy racecourse holds trotting races, and pricier properties in the Pays de Caux near the coast.
Links with Paris rely on the direct trains of the Paris-Caen-Cherbourg and Paris-Rouen-Le Havre lines and on the A13 motorway, extended by the A84 towards the Manche. For British buyers, the ferry ports of Caen-Ouistreham, Cherbourg and Le Havre remain a real advantage.
The damp climate that makes the grass so good also means checking drainage, fencing and the ground of winter paddocks. In the Seine, Orne, Dives or Touques valleys, look at the flood risk plans. In Seine-Maritime and the Eure, search for old chalk pits (marnières) before any building project, particularly an indoor school. Along the coast, the coastal protection law restricts new building.
A frequent misunderstanding concerns rented grazing: when the seller also farms fields leased from other owners, those fields remain theirs and are not sold with the property. To keep horses on them, the new owner must agree a lease in their own name with each landlord, and none has to accept. The seller's tenancy cannot be handed on to the purchaser, other than under an uncommon transferable lease (bail cessible) or in a few close-family cases. The SAFER can pre-empt farmland when it changes hands, and breeding or livery counts in principle as farming, with MSA registration according to its scale.
On ma-propriete.fr you can filter Normandy listings by department, acreage or type of property, and set up an e-mail alert for each search. New offers are also shared in our Facebook group « Propriétés équestres à vendre - ma-propriete.fr ». Trainers will find our racing yards for sale across France.
Selling a stud farm, a yard or a leisure property in Normandy? Publish your listing with photos, a plan of the fields and a description of the facilities, choosing how precisely the location is shown. To set a fair price, we can carry out a land valuation study or refer you to a rural property professional.
