Finding lakes and ponds for sale in Gironde takes patience. The department’s large lakes, from Hourtin-Carcans to Lacanau and the Cazaux-Sanguinet lake shared with Landes, are obviously not on the market, and privately owned ponds sold on their own are rare. What does come up is of a different kind: a lagune (a small natural pool in the pine forest of the Landes girondines), a former gravel pit in the Garonne or Dordogne valley, a wildfowling pool on the estuary marshes or in the Médoc, or the ornamental pond of a wine estate or country house in the Entre-deux-Mers. The Gironde listings in our ponds and lakes for sale section are gathered here, whether they come from private sellers, estate agents or notaires.
The price section places Gironde against Nouvelle-Aquitaine and France; with so few sales of ponds without buildings, the regional benchmarks are the most telling. You will then find the different kinds of water bodies in the department, how buyers use them and the checks needed in an area exposed to forest fires and covered by the loi Littoral, France’s coastal planning law, along its Atlantic seaboard and around the large lakes. Our step-by-step pond buying guide covers the general procedure.
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 8 pond sales were recorded in Gironde between July 2020 and December 2025: too few to publish a departmental price. In Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 333 ponds sold over the same period at a median of €18,535/ha, and the regional median reached €22,232/ha in 2025* across 38 sales; the national median was €25,235/ha in 2025.
| Indicator | Gironde (33) | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2020-2025 | not published | €18,535/ha | €25,694/ha |
| Average price 2020-2025 | not published | €23,945/ha | €32,291/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 8 | 333 | 2,053 |
| Median price 2025 | not published (0 sales) | €22,232/ha* | €25,235/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 0 | 38 | 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, 5 properties with a pond are offered on ma-propriete.fr in Nouvelle-Aquitaine as of 2 October 2026, 1 of them in Gironde. Their median asking price is €71,000 for a median size of about 7.0 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.
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.
On the Landes de Gascogne plateau, south and west of Bordeaux, the maritime pine forest is dotted with lagunes: small natural hollows, fed by the water table, that hold water for part of the year. These habitats, rich in dragonflies, amphibians and rare plants, are protected as wetlands, so deepening one or turning it into a fishing pond requires a water-law procedure that has little chance of success. The Contaut lagune, at Hourtin in the Médoc, is a well-known example. Man-made lakes on the plateau are more recent: at Hostens, lignite mines worked in the 20th century left several lakes, now grouped in a departmental leisure estate. To compare with the Landes side of the forest, see the ponds and lagunes for sale in Landes.
Along the estuary, in the Blayais as in the Médoc, marshes drained by “jalles” and “esteys” (local streams and tidal channels) hold tonnes, sunken wildfowling hides beside carefully kept pools. Duck shooting is a strong tradition here, and a plot with a tonne sells to hunters first; our Gironde shooting properties show the other side of that market. Around the Arcachon basin, former salt marshes were turned into fish reservoirs: the Domaine de Certes at Audenge, laid out for salt in the 18th century and later converted to fish farming, now belongs to the Conservatoire du littoral. Finally, in the Garonne and Dordogne valleys, aggregate extraction has left gravel pits, some of which have been sold on to carp anglers or angling clubs.
Buyers are mainly people from the Bordeaux conurbation looking for land with a pond within reasonable reach of the city, for fishing, family swimming or a future second home; next come duck hunters attached to a tonne on the estuary, and wine or forest owners extending a neighbouring estate. Because ponds sold on their own are rare, most transactions concern a house with a pond or a wooded property in which the water is only one element, so compare properties as a whole rather than on the area of water alone.
Since the large fires at Landiras and La Teste-de-Buch, forest fire prevention has become a very practical matter: land with a pond in the middle of the pine forest remains subject to the legal brush-clearing obligations around buildings, and some ponds are listed as water points for firefighters and the forest fire-protection associations (DFCI), which may require keeping access to them open. In coastal communes and around the large Médoc lakes, the loi Littoral strictly limits new building, a fishing hut included. Everywhere, have the administrative status of the pond established (pre-Revolution “fondé en titre”, authorised or declared), check whether it connects to a jalle or a stream, and beware of water primrose, present in the Médoc lakes and canals: once it has taken hold, it is expensive to keep in check.
On ma-propriete.fr, Gironde water bodies are listed by owners, estate agents and notaires’ offices. As ponds are scarce in the department, set up an email alert so you hear as soon as a suitable property appears, and use the price and size filters to compare; if you are selling, you can post your listing too. If the land you are after is mainly wooded, see our pinewoods and forests for sale in Gironde; for a wider choice, the lakes and ponds for sale in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
