A forest for sale in Eure is easier to find than elsewhere in Normandy: it is the most wooded department in the region, and its forests are overwhelmingly privately owned. Oak dominates, from the large oak woods of the Pays d’Ouche to the woods of the Lieuvin and the Roumois, while beech reigns on the plateaux of the Pays de Lyons. The Seine, Eure, Iton and Risle valleys add wooded slopes and poplar stands. People buy a Normandy woodland plot here for firewood or leisure, but also larger holdings intended for shooting or as an investment.
This page presents the listings of woods and forests in Eure published by private sellers, estate agents and notaires, along with the prices actually paid in the department’s sales. It also gives you benchmarks to compare areas, understand what makes the value of a wood vary, and avoid the common mistakes of buyers coming from the Paris region, starting with the wish to build on it.
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 Eure was €9,416/ha in 2025, across 106 sales, with an average of €9,867/ha. That puts the department below the Normandy median (€10,000/ha) and above the national median (€4,936/ha). Year on year, the departmental median moved by +0.1%. Over the more robust 2020-2025 period, 466 sales give a median of €8,645/ha for a median plot size of 2.3 ha.
| Indicator | Eure (27) | Normandy | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2025 | €9,416/ha | €10,000/ha | €4,936/ha |
| Average price 2025 | €9,867/ha | €10,562/ha | €6,214/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 106 | 298 | 6,329 |
| Change in median 2024 → 2025 | +0.1% | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| Median price 2020-2025 | €8,645/ha | €9,202/ha | €4,778/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 466 | 1,596 | 35,100 |
Prices vary widely: in 2025, one forest in ten sold for less than €5,822/ha in Eure and one in ten for more than €14,560/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 Normandy at that date. Their median asking price is €145,750 for a median size of about 17 ha. These asking prices apply to complete properties, often with buildings, a pond or hunting rights: they cannot be compared directly with DVF medians per hectare. Finally, remember the purchase costs, which you can estimate with our notary fee calculator.
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.
The Lyons state forest, straddling Eure and Seine-Maritime, is one of the largest forests in Normandy and among the most renowned beech forests in France; around Lyons-la-Forêt, its high forest shows what beech can achieve on the plateau loams. In the centre and south, the forests of Conches, Breteuil, Évreux and Beaumont-le-Roger frame the Pays d’Ouche: sessile oak forms high forest and coppice-with-standards there, just as in the private woods next door. In the north-west, the Montfort forest overlooks the right bank of the Risle, and the Bord-Louviers forest stretches between Pont-de-l’Arche and Louviers.
Private woodland, by far the majority, comes in many forms: large oak estates in the Pays d’Ouche and the south of the department, hanging woods on the chalk slopes of the Seine and Eure valleys, poplar and alder stands in the wet bottoms of the Risle and the Charentonne. Conifer plantations of Scots pine, Corsican pine or Douglas fir remain a minority and are found mainly on the poorest soils.
Sales are frequent and mostly concern woods of a few hectares, often bought by town dwellers from Rouen, Évreux or the Paris region, whom the A13 motorway and the stations at Vernon and Évreux bring within weekend reach. A wooded plot of this size is judged on its access, its neighbours and the quality of its future crop trees far more than on its timber volume.
The top of the market combines forest and big game: red deer roam large forests such as Lyons, and a forest estate in a single block, with good access and a hunting lodge, is in strong demand. Such properties appear on our page of hunting estates for sale in Eure. Ponds are less common in the department; properties that include one are grouped with our ponds and lakes in Eure.
Many buyers picture a chalet or a caravan in the middle of their wood. In a natural or forest zone of the local development plan, building is usually prohibited, and keeping a caravan or mobile home on site for long periods is regulated; clearing woodland, even partly, generally requires prior permission. Before committing, read our article can you build in a forest and check the planning rules at the town hall.
For woods under 4 ha, find out about the neighbours’ right of first refusal, which the notaire must clear. Then check the condition of oak and beech after the recent droughts, any ash affected by ash dieback in the valleys and the quality of conifer plantations. From 20 ha, an approved management plan (plan simple de gestion) is compulsory; it is also one of the conditions for the favourable tax regimes covered in our article on the taxation of woods and forests.
Forest listings for Eure on ma-propriete.fr are posted by private sellers, agents and notaires. Combine size, price and location criteria, set an alert on the communes that interest you, or list your own wood. To compare with the other Normandy departments, browse the forests for sale in Normandy, including the forests of Orne, which extend the Pays d’Ouche and the Perche.
