Looking for a forest for sale in Savoie? Here, the terrain decides almost everything. In the Avant-Pays savoyard, around Lake Aiguebelette and the Épine ridge, and on the hillsides of the Combe de Savoie, broadleaves dominate and most sales involve small woodland plots, sought for firewood or to round off a property. In the Bauges, the Chartreuse and along the Maurienne and Tarentaise valleys, fir and spruce make up mountain forests where slope and access count for more than size. The listings gathered on this page are published by private sellers, estate agents and notaires.
Below the listings you will find the prices actually paid for woodland in Savoie, set against regional and national figures, followed by the points that matter in the mountains: forest stands, harvesting conditions, the pre-emption rights of communes and the health of conifers. If this is your first wood, our step-by-step forest buying guide takes you from the first viewing to the signature.
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 Savoie was €4,092/ha in 2025*, across 32 sales, with an average of €4,566/ha. That puts the department above the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes median (€4,057/ha) and below the national median (€4,936/ha). Compared with 2024, the median changed by −8.3%, a movement to interpret with care given the number of sales. Over the more robust 2020-2025 period, 142 sales give a median of €4,042/ha for a median plot size of 2.6 ha.
| Indicator | Savoie (73) | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2025 | €4,092/ha* | €4,057/ha | €4,936/ha |
| Average price 2025 | €4,566/ha* | €4,843/ha | €6,214/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 32 | 964 | 6,329 |
| Change in median 2024 → 2025 | −8.3%* | +1.3% | +1.9% |
| Median price 2020-2025 | €4,042/ha | €4,000/ha | €4,778/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 142 | 5,257 | 35,100 |
Prices vary widely: in 2025, one forest in ten sold for less than €2,022/ha in Savoie and one in ten for more than €7,161/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, 3 of them in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Their median asking price is €145,750 for a median size of about 17 ha. These are asking prices for complete properties: they describe the supply on offer more than the average price of a wooded hectare. 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.
Savoie’s woodland is split fairly evenly between broadleaves and conifers, but most of the standing timber is softwood. In the Pre-Alpine massifs of the Bauges and the Chartreuse, silver fir and Norway spruce grow alongside beech in irregular high forest, worked tree by tree. Chartreuse timber even carries a protected designation of origin (AOC), the first ever granted to wood in France: it covers communes in Savoie and Isère and rewards well-grown mountain fir and spruce.
Further east, in the Maurienne, the Tarentaise and the Beaufortain, spruce takes over with altitude before larch and Swiss stone pine lead up to the tree line. Public forests, mostly owned by the communes, cover a large share of these valleys; the Bauges national hunting and wildlife reserve, run by the ONF, the French biodiversity office and the regional nature park, shows what long-term management of beech and fir forest can achieve. In the Avant-Pays savoyard and on the sunny slopes of the Combe de Savoie, oak, sweet chestnut and ash form coppice and coppice-with-standards.
Private woodland in Savoie is highly fragmented: generations of inheritance, narrow strips running down the slope, boundaries that are sometimes uncertain. Most sales therefore concern a wood for sale of a few hectares, often bought by a neighbour, by a local resident securing a firewood supply or by a farmer expanding his holding. A genuine production forest of several dozen hectares in one block, served by a forest track, remains rare and often changes hands with little publicity.
Some buyers are also after chamois or roe deer ground in the wooded combes; such properties appear on our page of hunting land in Savoie. Private ponds, on the other hand, are very scarce in the department, and large lakes such as the Lac du Bourget are obviously not on the market: the few properties available are grouped on our page of ponds and lakes in Savoie. If your search extends to the Chablais or the Aravis, compare with woodland for sale in Haute-Savoie.
In the mountains, access sets the price. Timber from a stand far from any forest road has to be extracted by overhead cable, a common technique in both Savoie departments but costlier than skidding by tractor: ask where the road, the loading area and any rights of way are, then have the standing volume assessed by a forestry consultant or a technician from the CRPF, the regional centre for private forestry. Check too whether the plot shields a road or hamlet from rockfall or avalanches, which can restrict felling, and whether it lies within a natural hazard prevention plan.
For a lot under 4 ha, owners of adjoining woods have a right of first refusal; in Savoie, where many plots border communal forest, the commune may also hold a pre-emption right, as may the State where the plot adjoins a state forest. Our article on the forestry right of first refusal sets out the notices required. From 20 ha upwards, an approved management plan (plan simple de gestion) is compulsory. Lastly, look at the health of the stands: spruce bark beetles remain active after several dry summers, fir is suffering on the warmest slopes, and ash dieback is spreading through valley-floor ash woods.
The Savoie forests listed on ma-propriete.fr are put up for sale by private owners, estate agents and notaires’ offices. Sort them by size, price or commune, set up an alert that flags every new wood posted in Savoie, or place a listing for your own plot. To compare with Isère, Ain or the Auvergne, browse our forests for sale in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
