To find lakes and ponds for sale in Gard, look south first. In the Petite Camargue, between Vauvert, Saint-Gilles and Aigues-Mortes, the Scamandre and Charnier lagoons, remnants of former arms of the Rhône, are bordered by marshes, reed beds and salt marshes (“sansouires”) where cattle farms and wildfowling marshes spread out. Elsewhere, still water is scarce: a few small lakes in the Uzège and on the Costières, basins beside farmhouses, and reservoirs in Cévennes valleys dominated by rivers. Properties on the market appear among our lakes and ponds on sale, listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires.
Just after this introduction, a price block compares ponds sold in Gard, in Occitanie and in France; sales of ponds without buildings are so rare there that the regional figure serves as the benchmark. The page then presents the department’s water landscapes, their buyers and the points to watch in a department exposed to drought as well as floods. Our practical guide to buying a pond sets out the general process.
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 2 pond sales were recorded in Gard between July 2020 and December 2025: too few to publish a departmental price. In Occitanie, 28 ponds sold over the same period at a median of €10,466/ha†; the national median was €25,235/ha in 2025.
| Indicator | Gard (30) | Occitanie | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2020-2025 | not published | €10,466/ha† | €25,694/ha |
| Average price 2020-2025 | not published | €14,521/ha† | €32,291/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 2 | 28 | 2,053 |
| Median price 2025 | not published (1 sale) | not published | €25,235/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 1 | 4 | 300 |
These figures divide the sale price by the total area of the property, banks and surrounding woodland included: a small, well-equipped pond always comes out dearer per hectare than a large lake surrounded by rough ground. They describe ponds sold on their own; once a house or a sizeable wood is added, the price is built differently.
On the listings side, 26 properties with a pond are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, 1 of them in Occitanie. Their median asking price is €94,000 for a median size of about 2.6 ha. These are advertised prices for whole properties, sometimes with a house or a pond, not recorded sale prices per hectare like those in the DVF database. 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 Camargue gardoise, awarded the Grand Site de France label and listed as a Ramsar wetland, combines lagoons, fresh or brackish marshes and salt steppes between the Petit Rhône and the Vidourle. Its reed beds are among the most extensive in western Europe; near Gallician, the Scamandre regional nature reserve protects part of these habitats. Private properties take the form of farmhouses (“mas”) surrounded by pasture for bulls and horses, or wildfowling marshes, more rarely a stand-alone pond.
In these marshes, water is managed more than owned. Canals and sluice gates (“martelières”) control the intake of fresh water and limit salt intrusion; the flooding calendar governs wildfowling, grazing and bird nesting. Before buying a marsh, find out who operates the sluices, which landowners’ associations are involved and what the Natura 2000 sites of the Petite Camargue allow. Hunting is often the main use; our hunting estates in Gard show the shoots available.
In the garrigue between Nîmes, Uzès and Alès, the limestone lets water drain away, and natural ponds are almost absent. The Étang de La Capelle, north-east of Uzès, is the exception: this rain-fed hollow holds Mediterranean temporary pools protected under Natura 2000, home to the great crested newt and the western spadefoot toad. Elsewhere, a private water body is usually an ornamental or irrigation basin near a farmhouse, or a water reserve on a Costières wine estate.
In the Gard Cévennes, around Le Vigan, Saint-Jean-du-Gard or Génolhac, steep slopes and violent rain leave little room for large ponds. Water runs along béals, channels cut across the slope to irrigate the terraces, and is stored in stone basins. Properties here combine a river, a béal and a chestnut grove rather than a true pond; indeed, the Sainte-Cécile-d’Andorge dam on the Gardon d’Alès was built to hold back floods rather than to create a leisure lake. To the west, neighbouring Hérault has more upland lakes: see our ponds for sale in Hérault.
Duck and snipe hunters are the most loyal buyers of Petite Camargue marshes; they judge a marsh first by the quality of the evening flight and the control of the water. Home buyers based in Nîmes, Montpellier or Avignon tend to look for a farmhouse with a lake or pool in the Uzège or the Costières. Carp and predator anglers want a private fishing pond, which is hard to come by in the department. Finally, bull breeders (“manadiers”) and horse breeders are interested in grazed marshes next to their land.
In autumn, Cévennes storms can drop several months’ worth of rain in a single day, and floods on the Gardon or the Vidourle, known locally as “gardonnades” and “vidourlades”, have already breached dykes in the department. Before buying, consult the flood risk prevention plan and have someone check that the pond’s spillway can cope with a violent storm without water overtopping the dam. In summer, by contrast, drought orders restrict abstraction from rivers and from the Vistrenque and Costières aquifers.
On the regulatory side, the department lies in the Rhône-Méditerranée basin. Ask for the pond’s declaration or authorisation under French water law, check whether it is connected to a watercourse, which changes the fishing rules, and whether it lies in a wetland, a Natura 2000 site or, near the southern lagoons, within the scope of the Loi Littoral coastal law. In the garrigue, a house with a pond remains subject to the legal brush-clearing obligations. For keeping the structures in order, our article on regular pond maintenance will be useful.
On ma-propriete.fr, ponds and marshes in Gard are listed by private sellers, agents and notaires’ offices; order the results by price or size, let an alert notify you of each new listing, or offer your own lake to our visitors. If you are also after holm oak or chestnut woods, see our forests for sale in Gard; to broaden your search, visit our ponds for sale in the Occitanie region.
