Searching for lakes and ponds for sale in Corse-du-Sud means looking for a property the market almost never offers. The department has no pond country, and its lakes and lagoons are not part of the ordinary supply. What does change hands is rural property with its own water reserve: a hillside reservoir or irrigation basin on a farm, a small pond dug near a house, occasionally an old watermill with its leat. These properties, listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires, are gathered on this page, alongside our lakes and ponds for sale throughout France.
Sales of ponds on their own are so rare that the price panel below relies on wider benchmarks. Next come the existing water bodies, the island’s own rules and the upkeep of a water reserve in a Mediterranean climate; the stages of a purchase are set out in our pond buying guide.
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, no pond sale meeting these criteria was recorded in Corse-du-Sud between July 2020 and December 2025. Sales in the region are also too few to publish a price: the benchmark is the national median, €25,235/ha in 2025 (300 sales) and €25,694/ha over 2020-2025.
| Indicator | Corse-du-Sud (2A) | Corsica | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2020-2025 | not published | not published | €25,694/ha |
| Average price 2020-2025 | not published | not published | €32,291/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 0 | 1 | 2,053 |
| Median price 2025 | not published (0 sales) | not published | €25,235/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 0 | 0 | 300 |
Measured against the total area, banks included, a pond’s value depends heavily on its size: small, well-equipped ponds cost more per hectare. The figures concern ponds sold on their own, without a house or a large wood.
On the listings side, 26 properties with a pond are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, none in Corsica 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. Finally, remember the purchase costs, which you can estimate with our notary fee calculator.
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.
The department’s largest water bodies are public works. On the Prunelli, east of Ajaccio, Lac de Tolla, an EDF reservoir, has a beach, boats and fishing spots along its shores. Above Porto-Vecchio, the Ospédale reservoir, built in the heart of the forest to strengthen the drinking water supply of the town and its coast, has become a popular outing. Between Levie and Sorbollano, the more recent Rizzanese dam generates electricity for the island.
In the mountains, Lac de Creno, above Orto, the lowest of the island’s glacial lakes, can only be reached on foot and is ringed by Corsican pines and “pozzines”, peaty high-altitude grasslands. On the coast, the Étang de Balistra, a lagoon north-east of Bonifacio, is partly protected by the Conservatoire du littoral (the coastal protection agency); waterbirds and European pond turtles live there, and its sand bar is already deteriorating under too many visitors. These public or protected water bodies are not part of the supply.
Here a property with a pond is almost always a farm or a house first, and genuine land with a pond remains the exception. The Freto plain at Figari, the Sartène area and the Taravo and Rizzanese valleys are where to look: vineyards, olive groves or grazing land whose hillside reservoir or basin secures summer irrigation. Near inland villages, an old watermill may still have its intake on the stream and its leat. These properties attract farmers, winegrowers and livestock breeders seeking water self-sufficiency, as well as homebuyers for whom water is a real comfort in this climate.
To widen your search, neighbouring Haute-Corse, with the irrigated farmland of the eastern plain, offers a little more choice: see the ponds and lakes for sale in Haute-Corse.
In coastal communes, the Loi Littoral (coastal law) bans building within one hundred metres of the shore outside built-up areas and protects outstanding natural sites, rules detailed by the PADDUC, Corsica’s regional development plan; inland, the Loi Montagne protects the natural banks of lakes and ponds. Before planning a shelter, a jetty or an enlarged reservoir, ask for a certificat d’urbanisme (planning certificate).
On the water side, ask for proof that the reservoir was declared or authorised under water law and check its supply: pumping from a stream may need a declaration depending on its flow rate, and drought orders can ban it in summer. In the far south, do not mistake a temporary pool for a pond: flooded in winter and spring and dry by autumn, these “padule” are among the most vulnerable wetlands, and those on the Campocili plateau at Bonifacio form the Tre Padule de Suartone nature reserve; turning one into a pond is ruled out inside the reserve and, elsewhere, subject to wetland protection. Nor should you stock a pond linked to a river with farmed trout: hatchery fish have already interbred with the macrostigma trout, native to the island. European pond turtles and Hermann’s tortoises, both protected, also call for care during dredging or scrub clearance.
In this climate a pond loses a great deal to evaporation: visit it at the end of the dry season and ask whether it has ever run dry. Autumn storms, by contrast, can bring huge volumes of water within hours and wash sand and grit down from the slopes, especially after a fire, so the spillway, dam and ditches must be in good order. Check watertightness, whether a clay bottom or a geomembrane liner, and make sure no trees grow on the dam. Around the house, the scrub clearance required by fire regulations comes on top of looking after the water, which our article on caring for a pond helps you budget for.
The few properties with water in Corse-du-Sud listed on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, estate agents and notaires’ offices. In such a discreet market, an e-mail alert tells you about every new listing; price and size filters then help you sort, and any owner can publish a listing. If water is only one part of your project, see also our woods and wooded land for sale in Corse-du-Sud and the lakes and ponds for sale in Corsica.
