Looking for lakes and ponds for sale in Haute-Marne? The department has plenty of water, but private ponds for sale are rare. In the north, around Saint-Dizier and Montier-en-Der, the Champagne humide shares a string of old ponds and the Lac du Der-Chantecoq with the departments of Marne and Aube. In the south, the Langres plateau, where the Marne rises, is dotted with four reservoir lakes, while the Arc-en-Barrois and Auberive forests shelter springs and tufa marshes. This page presents the private ponds and lakes for sale relevant to Haute-Marne, whether a fishing pond, a leisure lake or land with a pond, listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires.
Further down, the sale prices recorded for ponds serve as a benchmark, since transactions in Haute-Marne are too rare for a purely local reading. Then come the department’s particular features: wetlands of international importance, a national park, springs and headwater streams. Our article on pond upkeep and management completes this information.
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 3 pond sales were recorded in Haute-Marne between July 2020 and December 2025: too few to publish a departmental 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 | Haute-Marne (52) | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2020-2025 | not published | €30,112/ha | €25,694/ha |
| Average price 2020-2025 | not published | €35,533/ha | €32,291/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 3 | 183 | 2,053 |
| Median price 2025 | not published (0 sales) | €30,000/ha* | €25,235/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 0 | 33 | 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, none in Grand Est at that date. Their median asking price is €94,000 for a median size of about 2.6 ha. These are asking prices for complete properties: they describe the supply on offer more than the average price of a wooded hectare. To work out the full cost of a purchase, add the conveyancing fees 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.
In the north of the department, the clay soils of the Champagne humide keep water at the surface: this is a land of ponds, flood meadows and oak forests. The ponds of the Champagne humide form a Ramsar site spanning Aube, Marne and Haute-Marne, around the Lac du Der-Chantecoq, built to regulate the flow of the Marne and now a major site for watching common cranes. The Étang de la Horre, straddling Haute-Marne and Aube, is one of the largest ponds in this area. Private ponds in the area, often fringed with reed beds, attract carp anglers and wildfowlers, but they rarely come onto the market.
To the south, the Langres plateau divides the Seine and Rhône basins: the Marne rises near Langres, and the Meuse has its source not far away, in the Bassigny. Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, four reservoirs were built there to feed the canal between Champagne and Burgundy: the lakes of La Liez, La Mouche, Charmes and La Vingeanne. As public works, they are open to fishing and water sports but never appear among properties for sale. Private ponds on the plateau are small, often attached to a farm or a village house, and depend on a spring or a stream.
Heavily wooded, with forests dominated by oak and beech, Haute-Marne also has woodland pools and a few ponds on the edge of the woods. In the south-west, the Parc national de forêts, shared with Côte-d’Or, protects springs, streams and very fragile tufa marshes around Arc-en-Barrois and Auberive. In the core of the park, any work affecting aquatic habitats is strictly controlled; in the outer zone, it remains subject to ordinary water law, which is already demanding in headwater areas.
With no real local market, each pond in Haute-Marne has to be studied as a special case. Establish its status: proven old existence, an authorisation or declaration under water law, and whether it qualifies as closed water. Have the dam and outlet tower surveyed, measure the silt, and ask how the pond is fed and when it was last drained. In the Champagne humide, find out about protected wetlands and nearby Natura 2000 sites; on the Langres plateau, about protection zones around drinking-water catchments. If supply is too thin, widen the search to the ponds in Aube, around the lakes of the Forêt d’Orient, or to the pond country of Moselle, with the Moselle ponds for sale.
The few Haute-Marne ponds offered on ma-propriete.fr are posted by private sellers, agents or notaires. To be sure not to miss them, create an e-mail alert for the department; you can also sort the region’s listings by price and size, or put your own pond on the market. If the woodland around the pond matters as much as the water, see our forests for sale in Haute-Marne, and for comparison, the lakes and ponds for sale in Grand Est.
