Finding a forest for sale in Somme takes patience: it is one of the least wooded departments in France, and its woods, often small, are scattered between vast arable plateaux. Three areas account for most of the supply: Ponthieu and Vimeu in the west, where beech and oak woods lean on the Crécy forest; the Somme and Avre valleys, planted with poplars between marshes and ponds; and the copses of the Santerre and the upper Somme in the east. What people buy here is mainly small woods and wooded plots, for firewood, shooting or relaxation.
This page gathers the woods and forests of Somme offered by private sellers, estate agents and notaires, together with the prices recorded in the department’s sales. The text below helps you put each listing in context: type of stand, area, wetland constraints, and the weight of hunting in the value of a Picardy wood.
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 Somme was €18,421/ha in 2025*, across 43 sales, with an average of €18,224/ha. That puts the department above the Hauts-de-France median (€8,787/ha) and above the national median (€4,936/ha). Year on year, the departmental median moved by +35.5%: 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, 278 sales give a median of €14,075/ha for a median plot size of 2.5 ha.
| Indicator | Somme (80) | Hauts-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2025 | €18,421/ha* | €8,787/ha | €4,936/ha |
| Average price 2025 | €18,224/ha* | €11,293/ha | €6,214/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 43 | 384 | 6,329 |
| Change in median 2024 → 2025 | +35.5%* | +6.9% | +1.9% |
| Median price 2020-2025 | €14,075/ha | €8,853/ha | €4,778/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 278 | 2,009 | 35,100 |
Prices vary widely: in 2025, one forest in ten sold for less than €10,506/ha in Somme and one in ten for more than €26,028/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, 1 of them in Hauts-de-France. 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.
The Crécy state forest, between Abbeville and the coast, is the department’s main forest: high forest dominated by beech, renowned for the quality of its timber, mixed with oak and hornbeam. Further east, on the edge of Pas-de-Calais, the Lucheux forest near Doullens continues this wooded landscape. Everywhere else, woodland comes down to a few hectares of oak, ash, maple and hornbeam clinging to plateau edges and dry valleys, or to game coverts planted in the middle of the fields.
The valleys make up the second market. Along the Somme and the Avre, poplar stands alternate with peat marshes, reed beds and ponds created by peat extraction. Poplar grows fast here, and a mature plantation is capital you can realise; but waterlogged soils, their poor bearing capacity and the presence of protected areas make harvesting and replanting harder.
Sales remain few and usually involve an isolated wood, a valley woodland plot or a poplar stand, sought after by neighbouring farmers, hunters and families looking for a weekend retreat alike. Forest estates of several dozen hectares are rare; when one comes up, it often combines woodland, ponds and wet meadows, and its price owes as much to the shooting as to the timber itself.
Hunting indeed shapes the Picardy market: roe deer and wild boar on the plain and in the woods, wildfowl in the marshes and on the coast, where the tradition of shooting from huts remains very much alive. Such properties are presented with our hunting estates for sale in Somme, while those organised around a stretch of water, much sought after in the valley, join our lakes and ponds for sale in Somme. Via the A1, A16 and A29 motorways, and the Haute-Picardie TGV station between Amiens and Saint-Quentin, the department remains within reach of buyers from Paris and Lille.
In the marshes and peat bogs of the Somme and Avre valleys, a Ramsar site and partly Natura 2000, a plan to clear-fell, drain or replant may require a declaration or an impact assessment: ask the departmental directorate for territories and the sea (DDTM) before signing. Also get the age and cultivar of the poplars specified, the planned felling date and any obligation to replant.
For a small wood, neighbours matter: below 4 ha, owners of adjoining woods have a right of first refusal, and the commune may hold one too. Check access from a public track, as many lowland woods are landlocked in the middle of fields, and have the genuinely saleable volume estimated. Ash, common in valley woods, is affected by ash dieback; from 20 ha upwards, ask for the management plan (plan simple de gestion) and its felling programme. To take these steps in the right order, our forest buyer’s white paper will guide you.
Private sellers, agents and notaires list the woods and forests for sale in Somme on ma-propriete.fr. Narrow your selection by size or price, let an alert keep watch for you, or offer your own wood to the site’s buyers. In a department where supply is thin, widen your search to the woods and forests of Hauts-de-France and to the larger forests of Aisne.
