A forest for sale in Corse-du-Sud is seldom a single block of high forest. The large stands of laricio pine, from Aïtone above Évisa to Bavella and the Ospédale, belong mostly to the Collectivité de Corse (the island’s regional authority) or to the communes, and do not come onto the market. Private sales mainly involve land covered in maquis scrub and holm oak around the villages of the Valinco, the Sartenais or the Cinarca, chestnut groves in the mid-mountains around Bocognano or Évisa, and cork oak plots in the far south, between Porto-Vecchio and Figari. This page brings together the woodland plots and wooded land offered in the department by private sellers, estate agents and notaires.
Just after this text, a data block sets out the prices recorded in forest sales in Corse-du-Sud and across Corsica. Further down you will find the tree species and sectors of the department, then the checks that Corsica makes essential: title deeds, building rights and brush clearance. Our forest buying guide walks you through each step of a purchase, from the first visit to signing at the notaire’s office.
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 Corse-du-Sud was €6,160/ha in 2025*, across 34 sales, with an average of €7,366/ha. That puts the department above the Corsica median (€4,532/ha) and above the national median (€4,936/ha). Year on year, the departmental median moved by +26.8%: 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, 184 sales give a median of €5,340/ha for a median plot size of 3.8 ha.
| Indicator | Corse-du-Sud (2A) | Corsica | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2025 | €6,160/ha* | €4,532/ha | €4,936/ha |
| Average price 2025 | €7,366/ha* | €6,418/ha | €6,214/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 34 | 63 | 6,329 |
| Change in median 2024 → 2025 | +26.8%* | −3.2% | +1.9% |
| Median price 2020-2025 | €5,340/ha | €4,866/ha | €4,778/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 184 | 371 | 35,100 |
Prices vary widely: in 2025, one forest in ten sold for less than €1,441/ha in Corse-du-Sud and one in ten for more than €13,051/ha. The cheapest sales mostly involve young coppice, landlocked or steep plots; the dearest involve harvestable high forest, leisure woods near towns or properties with a pond.
On the listings side, 59 forests and wooded properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, none in Corsica at that date. 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. To work out the full cost of a purchase, add the conveyancing fees 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.
Near the coast the dominant cover is maquis: strawberry tree, mastic, tree heath and rockrose, beneath which holm oak eventually forms dense coppice when fire spares it. In the south, around Porto-Vecchio, Sotta and Figari, cork oak forms open woods with a maquis understorey. The Taravo, Prunelli and Gravona valleys mix holm oak, downy oak and sweet chestnut.
Higher up, chestnut groves climb around the mountain villages: Bocognano, whose chestnut fair is one of the best-known farm fairs in Corsica, or Évisa. Above them, laricio pine, the emblem of the Corsican mountains and sought after by the French royal navy in the 18th century, forms the great upland forests together with fir and beech: Aïtone above Évisa, Bavella in the Alta Rocca, the Ospédale above Porto-Vecchio. These forests belong to the Collectivité de Corse or to communes, like many communal forests of the interior; they are a benchmark, not a market.
Most sales cover a few hectares. The typical case is a piece of wooded land under maquis and holm oak on the edge of a village, bought by a neighbour, by a family wanting to protect the view from its house or by someone after firewood: dense, slow-growing holm oak is highly valued for heating. Next come mountain chestnut groves, often neglected for several generations, which young growers or families from the village want to bring back into production. Larger holdings in a single block remain rare.
Free-ranging pigs and cattle are part of the Corsican forest: in Aïtone, as in many valleys, herds belonging to local farmers graze under the trees. Ask about these practices before buying, since they hold back the regeneration of a wood. As for hunting, wild boar is practically the only big game hunted here, the island having no roe deer; properties bought mainly for driven hunts are listed on our page of hunting estates for sale in Corse-du-Sud. Private ponds are almost non-existent in such steep terrain: the few offers are grouped under lakes and ponds for sale in Corse-du-Sud.
The first check is legal. In Corsica many plots have remained in undivided ownership (indivision) for generations, and some still appear in the land register as unbounded property (biens non délimités): have the notaire confirm that the seller holds a proper title, that all co-owners agree to the sale and that the boundaries are known, with a formal survey if needed. If the wood covers less than 4 ha, owners of adjoining wooded plots have a right of first refusal, which the sale procedure must have respected.
The second check concerns use. The Littoral act and the island’s planning framework, the PADDUC, protect a large share of natural land; a maquis plot does not become buildable because its price is high. Read our article on building on wooded land before paying for hoped-for building rights. Finally, fire risk is constant: around any building, the owner must clear brush under rules set by prefectoral order, sometimes onto the neighbour’s land, and a wood crossed by a fire-defence track may be subject to an easement. Have the stand valued by a forestry expert: tall maquis has almost no market value, whereas a tended chestnut grove or a stand of pine does.
The wooded land and forests of Corse-du-Sud listed on ma-propriete.fr are offered by owners, island-based agents and notaires’ offices. Sort the listings by size or price, set up an e-mail alert for new properties, or post the advert for your own land. Since offers remain few, widen your search to woods and forests in Haute-Corse or to all our forests for sale in Corsica.
