Looking for lakes and ponds for sale in Aube? The department combines two water landscapes with almost nothing in common. East of Troyes, the Champagne humide, a belt of impermeable clay, is dotted with fish-farming ponds inherited from the Middle Ages, set among oak woods and meadows around Piney, Brienne-le-Château and Soulaines-Dhuys. To the north-west, the Seine valley downstream of Romilly-sur-Seine has a very different offer: lakes left behind by sand and gravel extraction. On the chalk of the Champagne plain or the limestone uplands of the Barrois, ponds are scarce. This page brings together the lakes and ponds for sale in the department, from fishing ponds and former gravel pits to land with a pond, listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires.
Directly below, you will find the prices actually paid for ponds in Aube and across the Grand Est region. Further down, the page explains how a Champagne pond differs from a valley gravel pit, who buys, and what to check before signing: the pond’s legal standing, the condition of the dam and outlet structure, fishing rights and the constraints attached to protected wetlands. To prepare your viewings, our guide to buying a pond walks through each step.
According to the ma-propriete.fr pond price observatory, which keeps only ponds, lakes and pools sold without buildings in the French DVF land registry data, 20 pond sales were recorded in Aube between July 2020 and December 2025, at a median price of €27,322/ha† and an average of €34,418/ha. With only 20 sales, the sample is too small for these average and median prices to be truly representative of the local market: the regional price is a sounder benchmark. With only 4 sales in 2025, the department does not allow a reliable annual price. In Grand Est, 183 ponds sold over the same period at a median of €30,112/ha, and the regional median reached €30,000/ha in 2025* across 33 sales; the national median was €25,235/ha in 2025.
| Indicator | Aube (10) | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2020-2025 | €27,322/ha† | €30,112/ha | €25,694/ha |
| Average price 2020-2025 | €34,418/ha† | €35,533/ha | €32,291/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 20 | 183 | 2,053 |
| Median price 2025 | not published (4 sales) | €30,000/ha* | €25,235/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 4 | 33 | 300 |
Prices are calculated over the whole area sold, water, dams and surroundings included: per hectare, small equipped ponds cost much more than large lakes. These statistics cover ponds without buildings; a house or an adjoining wood changes how the price is formed.
On the listings side, 26 properties with a pond are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, none in Grand Est at that date. Their median asking price is €94,000 for a median size of about 2.6 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. Conveyancing fees come on top of the price: our notary fee calculator lets you estimate them before making an offer.
† 10 to 29 sales: sample too small to be representative of the local market. Source: DVF (French tax authority), processed by ma-propriete.fr; ponds, lakes and pools without buildings of at least 2,000 m², with water covering at least half of the property; July 2020 to December 2025. Listings recorded on 2 October 2026.
Along the clay belt running from the Aube valley towards the Marne and Haute-Marne, monastic communities dug ponds from the Middle Ages onwards to raise fish, support farming and water livestock. Several hundred ponds survive in this area, which is listed as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. Carp remains the main species, alongside pike, tench and roach, and many ponds are still drained in autumn for the harvest. The Étang de la Horre, shared between Aube and Haute-Marne, is one of the largest in the chain; the private ponds that come up for sale are usually much smaller, a few hectares, often edged with woodland.
The three large reservoir lakes of the Forêt d’Orient regional nature park, Lac d’Orient, Lac du Temple and Lac Amance, were built in the second half of the 20th century to hold back floods on the Seine and the Aube and to keep both rivers flowing in summer. Managed by the public body Seine Grands Lacs, they are not for sale, yet they shape the market around them: predator fishing, migrating common cranes, nature tourism. A private pond inside the park boundary is therefore often valued as much for its setting as for its fish.
Around Nogent-sur-Seine, the Seine valley bears the marks of sand and gravel extraction. When a quarry closes, it leaves deep lakes with sometimes steep banks, fed by the alluvial water table rather than by a stream. These former gravel pits draw carp and predator anglers; some have been landscaped by private owners for leisure, others change hands once extraction ends. They work nothing like a Champagne pond: they cannot be drained, the level follows the water table, and the restoration obligations set in the quarry’s prefectoral permit must be read carefully before you buy.
Demand is mainly local: anglers from the Troyes area, farmers rounding off their land, wildfowlers from the Champagne humide. A pond fringed with reed beds is also a useful addition to a hunting estate in Aube. Buyers from the Paris region, brought within reach by the A5 motorway, add to the mix, looking for a country house with its own water; for them, access and the state of the buildings matter as much as the pond. If the Champagne humide appeals but the choice in Aube seems thin, the same landscape continues towards the Lac du Der among the ponds for sale in Haute-Marne.
In a Ramsar area overlapped by several Natura 2000 sites, any dredging, dam repair or enlargement must go through the DDT, the departmental planning and environment office. Before signing, ask for the document that makes this particular pond lawful, be it a title older than the French Revolution (“fondé en titre”), a water-law authorisation order or a declaration receipt. Check whether it is connected to a stream: open water falls under the general fishing regulations, while closed water lets the owner organise fishing as they see fit. On site, inspect the dam, the outlet structure (the “moine”) and the spillway, the depth of silt and the water level at the end of summer, which drops markedly on Champagne clays in dry years. Our article on pond and dam maintenance sets out the work to plan for.
The Aube ponds listed on ma-propriete.fr are offered by private sellers, estate agents and notaires’ offices. Sort them by price or size, save an email alert to hear about new listings as soon as they appear, or advertise your own lake. Tempted by a pond surrounded by oak woods? See also our woods and forests for sale in Aube; to compare with Marne, Meuse or Vosges, browse the lakes and ponds for sale in Grand Est.
