Looking for a forest for sale in Aube? The department lines up four quite distinct wooded landscapes. In the west, the Pays d’Othe, shared with Yonne, carries oak-hornbeam and beech woods on its plateaus and slopes. East of Troyes, the Champagne humide (the wet clay country) holds the large oak forests of Orient and Temple around the reservoir lakes of the Seine and the Aube. In the south-east, the Barrois and the Côte des Bar combine champagne vineyards with wooded limestone plateaus, while in the north the chalk plain of the Champagne crayeuse still has copses of pine planted in the 19th century. The woodland plots sold here range from a small firewood coppice to wooded blocks of several dozen hectares.
This page brings together the listings of forests and woods in Aube posted by private sellers, estate agents and notaires, followed by the prices actually recorded in sales. To place these values in a wider setting, our article on forest prices in the Grand Est adds benchmarks at regional level.
According to the ma-propriete.fr forest price observatory, built from sales recorded in the French DVF land registry database, the median price of a hectare of forest in Aube was €6,667/ha in 2025*, across 64 sales, with an average of €8,238/ha. That puts the department above the Grand Est median (€5,498/ha) and above the national median (€4,936/ha). Year on year, the departmental median moved by +39.4%: a change to read with caution on fewer than a hundred sales, where a few large estates can shift the median. Over the more robust 2020-2025 period, 297 sales give a median of €4,200/ha for a median plot size of 3.3 ha.
| Indicator | Aube (10) | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2025 | €6,667/ha* | €5,498/ha | €4,936/ha |
| Average price 2025 | €8,238/ha* | €6,545/ha | €6,214/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 64 | 527 | 6,329 |
| Change in median 2024 → 2025 | +39.4%* | +10.9% | +1.9% |
| Median price 2020-2025 | €4,200/ha | €4,958/ha | €4,778/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 297 | 2,836 | 35,100 |
Prices vary widely: in 2025, one forest in ten sold for less than €3,410/ha in Aube and one in ten for more than €15,593/ha. The bottom of the range is usually small coppice woods or plots with poor access; the top is valuable stands or properties whose price includes hunting rights, a pond or good access.
On the listings side, 59 forests and wooded properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, 3 of them in Grand Est. Their median asking price is €145,750 for a median size of about 17 ha. These are advertised prices for whole properties, sometimes with a house or a pond, not recorded sale prices per hectare like those in the DVF database. Finally, remember the purchase costs, which you can estimate with our notary fee calculator.
* 30 to 99 sales: indicative value. Source: DVF (French tax authority), processed by ma-propriete.fr; forests of 1 ha or more, cadastral type woodland; July 2020 to December 2025; Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin are not covered by DVF. Listings recorded on ma-propriete.fr on 2 October 2026.
On the impermeable clays of the Champagne humide, between Brienne-le-Château, Piney and Vendeuvre-sur-Barse, pedunculate and sessile oak dominate long-established woods, often managed as coppice-with-standards. The Orient and Temple forests, which surround the lakes, lie at the heart of the Forêt d’Orient regional nature park; private woods in the area resemble them, with oak, hornbeam and aspen dotted with small pools. Ash used to be plentiful, but ash dieback has badly weakened it, so many plots now have gaps that need replanting.
The Pays d’Othe, between Aix-en-Othe and Estissac, is one of the department’s best-known forests: oak-hornbeam and beech-oak woods on the plateaus, downy oak on the south-facing slopes. In the south-east, around Bar-sur-Aube and Bar-sur-Seine, the limestone plateaus of the Barrois carry beech and sessile oak woods that continue towards Haute-Marne and the Châtillonnais. In the north, on the chalk of the Champagne crayeuse, the old sheep pastures known as savarts were planted with black pine and Scots pine; these open pine woods, largely cleared since for arable farming, are valued mainly for landscape and wildlife. In the Seine and Aube valleys, finally, poplar plantations form a market of their own, driven by felling at maturity and replanting.
The market in Aube is small but varied. Buyers of small areas look for woods for sale near Troyes or the villages of the Côte des Bar, for firewood and leisure; investors target promising oak woods in the Champagne humide or the Pays d’Othe, where a forest property in a single block is still in demand. Big game is plentiful, mostly wild boar and roe deer, with red deer around the large forests: properties where hunting comes first are grouped on our page of hunting grounds in Aube, and woods with ponds, common in the Champagne humide, on our page of ponds in Aube. For plateau beech woods, widen your search to the forests for sale in Haute-Marne.
In the Champagne humide, clay soils that stay waterlogged for much of the year restrict when timber can be harvested: check access, whether there are hard-surfaced tracks and a loading area, because extraction in the wet season damages both soil and tracks. Have the volume and quality of the standing oak assessed, and look at tree health: oak defoliated by caterpillars, ash suffering from ash dieback, beech weakened by drought on the limestone plateaus of the Barrois. For a small wood in Aube of less than 4 ha, neighbouring owners and the commune hold a right of first refusal: they must be notified before the sale, failing which the sale can be annulled.
Part of the Champagne humide, particularly around the lakes, is a Natura 2000 site: drainage work or new tracks may require a prior impact assessment there. In Aube as elsewhere, a forest of 20 ha or more requires an approved management plan (plan simple de gestion). Lastly, near forests rich in game, ask about deer damage to young regeneration and about the cull plan allocated to the property.
Forests in Aube posted on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, estate agents and notaires’ offices. Rank them by price or size, save your search to receive newly listed woods by email, or post a listing for your own plot. Buyers willing to look beyond Troyes will find other options among our woods and forests for sale in the Grand Est.
