Looking for lakes and ponds for sale in Doubs? To be frank, the department is not pond country. Its limestone bedrock, riddled with sinkholes and swallow holes, lets water drain away underground, and the large bodies of water in the Haut-Doubs, such as the lakes of Saint-Point and Remoray, are natural lakes that are never sold. Private property is limited to small valley-floor ponds and pools created near a spring, usually attached to a farm or a house. This page gathers the pond and lake listings for Doubs, posted by private sellers, estate agents and notaires, whether a fishing pond, land with a pond or a house with a pond.
Further down you will find benchmark prices for ponds in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, as sales remain very rare in Doubs, followed by the rules that apply to a pond in karst country and in the uplands. Before committing, read our pond buyer’s handbook: it reviews the legal and technical points to check.
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, only 4 pond sales were recorded in Doubs between July 2020 and December 2025: too few to publish a departmental price. In Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, 217 ponds sold over the same period at a median of €26,357/ha, and the regional median reached €20,513/ha in 2025† across 27 sales; the national median was €25,235/ha in 2025.
| Indicator | Doubs (25) | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2020-2025 | not published | €26,357/ha | €25,694/ha |
| Average price 2020-2025 | not published | €30,268/ha | €32,291/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 4 | 217 | 2,053 |
| Median price 2025 | not published (1 sale) | €20,513/ha† | €25,235/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 1 | 27 | 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, 4 of them in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. 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 Jura range is karst: rainwater seeps into cracks in the limestone, flows underground and sometimes resurfaces far away. The best-known case dates from the early twentieth century: after a fire at the Pernod factory in Pontarlier, absinthe spilled into the Doubs reappeared two days later at the source of the Loue, on the other side of the mountain. Near Frasne, the Lac de Bouverans shows the same behaviour, filling and emptying very quickly. In these conditions, a pond only holds water over time on a clay or peat bed, which explains why ponds are so rare on the plateaus. For a buyer, a watertight bed and a reliable water supply therefore matter more than anything else.
The Haut-Doubs holds most of the department’s aquatic habitats: the Lac de Saint-Point, the Lac de Remoray, a national nature reserve, the Drugeon valley and the Frasne-Bouverans peat bogs, now a regional nature reserve. Along the Swiss border, the Doubs widens into the Lac de Chaillexon at Villers-le-Lac, within the Doubs Horloger regional nature park. These sites are public or protected: they explain the area’s appeal to anglers, not a market in private ponds. The few stretches of water that do sell generally come with a farm, a chalet or a village house, and the proximity of Switzerland supports property prices throughout the Haut-Doubs.
In a department of headwaters, rich in trout streams and wetlands, creating a new pond has become very difficult, and enlarging an existing one almost as hard. A pond already in place must be able to prove that it exists lawfully: a right “fondé en titre”, or an authorisation or declaration under water law. Check whether it is fed by a spring, a stream or a diversion channel, and where its overflow goes: the Loue, the Dessoubre and the Doubs receive particular attention for water quality and ecological continuity. In a peat bog or wetland, drainage, backfilling and dredging are strictly controlled, and may be banned outright in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
If you want a proper fishing pond, with a dam, an outlet tower and coarse fish, the neighbouring departments offer far more choice. To the north, Haute-Saône and its Mille Étangs plateau, at the foot of the Vosges saônoises, have the largest supply in the region: see the ponds in Haute-Saône. To the south-west, Jura combines mountain lakes with the ponds of the Bresse jurassienne, shown on our page of lakes and ponds in Jura.
Doubs ponds on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, agents or notaires, and supply is so thin that speed matters. Create an e-mail alert to be told as soon as a listing appears, sort listings by price and size, or offer your own pond for sale. For a wooded property in the Jura range, see our forests for sale in Doubs, and for a broader choice, the ponds offered across the region.
