A forest for sale in Hauts-de-Seine is something you will almost never come across: the department is almost entirely built up, and its large woods are publicly owned. The state forests of Meudon, Fausses-Reposes and, in part, Verrières, managed by the Office national des forêts, cover the hillsides to the west and south, from Sèvres and Chaville to Clamart and Châtenay-Malabry. Occasionally a heavily treed garden or a wooded strip at the back of a plot is sold with a house, but that is residential property, not a forestry investment. To buy genuine woodland, look to the outer Paris departments or browse all our woods and plots for sale across France.
This page therefore describes the department’s woodland heritage, what can actually be bought there and the precautions that come with a treed plot in town, then points you to the Île-de-France departments where a forest market really exists. The price benchmarks shown below, in the absence of woodland sales in the department, mainly serve as a regional comparison.
The department has virtually no private woodland for sale: the ma-propriete.fr forest price observatory, built from DVF data, does not record enough sales there to publish a price. The useful benchmarks are Île-de-France as a whole, where the median price of a hectare of forest was €6,216/ha in 2025 across 106 sales, and the outer departments, where most of the region’s woodland for sale is found.
| Area | Sales 2025 | Median price 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Seine-et-Marne (77) | 67 | €5,985/ha* |
| Yvelines (78) | 12 | €8,659/ha† |
| Essonne (91) | 16 | €5,003/ha† |
| Val-d’Oise (95) | 11 | €7,884/ha† |
| Île-de-France | 106 | €6,216/ha |
| France | 6,329 | €4,936/ha |
On the listings side, 59 forests and wooded properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, 2 of them in Île-de-France. 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. Conveyancing fees come on top of the price: our notary fee calculator lets you estimate them before making an offer.
* 30 to 99 sales: indicative value. † 10 to 29 sales: sample too small to be representative of the local market. 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 Meudon forest stretches across Meudon, Clamart, Chaville and Sèvres before reaching Vélizy and Viroflay in Yvelines. Sweet chestnut and pedunculate oak dominate, with beech, ash and maple, while the Villebon, Chalais, Trivaux and Ursine ponds dot its small valleys. The Fausses-Reposes forest, between Ville-d’Avray, Marnes-la-Coquette, Vaucresson, Sèvres and Chaville, mixes chestnut, oak, birch and pine; its Ville-d’Avray ponds were painted by Corot. To the south, the Verrières forest spills over from Essonne into Châtenay-Malabry, and to the west the Saint-Cucufa wood, in Rueil-Malmaison, extends this green belt.
These forests are above all heavily used walking areas, so forestry there has to work around visitors: gradual renewal of ageing stands, safety felling along the paths. They are not for sale, but they show which species dominate in the private woods of western Île-de-France, with chestnut and oak in the lead.
The department’s few private wooded plots are urban land: large treed gardens, the back of properties on the forest edge in Meudon, Ville-d’Avray or Marnes-la-Coquette, wooded strips on the Seine hillsides. Their value belongs to the residential market, not the forestry market, and their trees are often protected. The local urban plan (PLU) may designate them as a protected woodland area (espace boisé classé), which rules out any clearance and makes felling subject to prior declaration; the regional master plan also protects the edges of large forests, where new building is tightly restricted outside areas that are already built up.
Before committing, read the PLU rules and appendices, ask the seller for the history of felling permissions and have the large trees inspected by an arborist: a declining oak or chestnut above a house is a liability, not an asset. Roe deer and wild boar, present in the department’s forests, also visit gardens close to the forest edges.
To find woodland for sale, the nearest markets are in the outer ring of departments. To the west, our forests for sale in Yvelines, from the outskirts of Versailles to the Rambouillet massif, are the easiest to reach from the department. To the south, Essonne offers woods in the Hurepoix and the Essonne valley: see our woodland for sale in Essonne. To the north, Val-d’Oise and its woods for sale centre on the Montmorency and L’Isle-Adam forests, while Seine-et-Marne, the largest department in the region, completes the range from the Brie to the edges of Fontainebleau: browse our forests on the market in Seine-et-Marne.
On ma-propriete.fr, woodland listings in Île-de-France are posted by private sellers, estate agents and notaires. As Hauts-de-Seine has virtually none, set up an alert covering the neighbouring departments instead, filtered by size and budget, so that you hear as soon as a plot goes on sale. You can also browse all our woods and forests for sale in Île-de-France.
