The Landes coast is lined with a chain of large lakes, from Parentis-Biscarrosse to Léon and Soustons, and yet lakes and ponds for sale in Landes take a long time to find. These large lakes, held back behind the coastal dunes, are largely protected and given over to tourism. The private market is made up of other things: a lagune or a dug pond on an airial (the oak-shaded clearing around a Landes farmhouse) in the Grande Lande, a wildfowling pool in the Adour barthes, the river’s flood meadows, a former gravel pit in the valley, or a farm reservoir in Chalosse or Tursan. The Landes properties in our selection of lakes, ponds and pools for sale appear on this page, whether offered by private sellers, estate agents or notaires.
The price section that follows gives regional and national benchmarks: sales of ponds without buildings are too rare in the department to support a local price. Further down, each kind of Landes water body is described, with its buyers and the rules that apply, from the protection of lagunes to fire risk. Our buyer’s guide to ponds and lakes completes this advice.
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 Landes 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 | Landes (40) | 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 | 4 | 333 | 2,053 |
| Median price 2025 | not published (1 sale) | €22,232/ha* | €25,235/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 1 | 38 | 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, 5 properties with a pond are offered on ma-propriete.fr in Nouvelle-Aquitaine as of 2 October 2026, none in Landes at that date. Their median asking price is €71,000 for a median size of about 7.0 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 heart of the Grande Lande, the maritime pine forest hides lagunes: small natural hollows, often round, fed by the water table, which fill in winter and may dry out at the end of summer. Relics of the old wet heathland, they shelter rare plants and animals, and researchers read the history of the region’s vegetation in the pollen trapped in their sediments. A lagune is not a pond: digging it out, draining it or linking it to a ditch falls under water law and runs up against wetland protection. Dug ponds, on the other hand, are often part of an airial, the clearing planted with oaks where the Landes house and its outbuildings stand; they serve as an ornamental feature, a fire reserve or a small fishing pond.
In the Adour valley, the barthes occupy the river’s flood plain: meadows that flood in winter, fitted with dykes and sluices over several centuries, where cattle and horses graze and where wildfowl are shot, notably from tonnes, sunken hides beside carefully kept pools. These plots are handed down and sold mainly between local hunters, often privately, owner to owner; the department’s larger shoots are listed on our Landes sporting estates page. Further south, the Marais d’Orx, a former farmland polder returned to water, has become a national nature reserve owned by the Conservatoire du littoral, and the Étang Noir, between Seignosse and Tosse, is also a nature reserve: two examples of how strongly the wetlands of southern Landes are protected.
From north to south, the lakes of Cazaux-Sanguinet (shared with Gironde), Parentis-Biscarrosse, Aureilhan, Léon and Soustons, together with the Étang Blanc and the Étang Noir, formed behind the dunes; several drain to the ocean through a “courant”, as the Étang de Léon does through the Courant d’Huchet, itself a nature reserve. The Lac d’Hossegor is different again: a sea lake, filled and emptied by the tide, where oysters are farmed. None of these lakes is for sale, and their shores fall under the loi Littoral, France’s coastal planning law. The few private ponds therefore lie inland: former gravel pits along the Adour and its tributaries, irrigation reservoirs in the Chalosse hills. For a true country of private ponds, look to Dordogne, where the Double is dotted with ponds: see the ponds for sale in Dordogne.
The whole Landes forest is exposed to fire risk: around a house with a pond, the legal brush-clearing obligations apply, and a pond that fire engines can reach may be listed as a water point by the forest fire-protection network, which means keeping access clear. On sand, water soaks away quickly: a pond dug without a clay layer depends on the water table and may almost empty in summer, while a gravel pit follows the river and can be swamped by floods, so consult the commune’s flood risk prevention plan (PPRI). As elsewhere, ask for proof that the pond is lawful under water law, have the dam, outlet and spillway inspected, and ask whether red swamp crayfish or water primrose are already present. Our article on looking after a pond helps you budget for the work.
The few Landes ponds offered on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, estate agents and notaires; sort them by price or size and create an alert so you do not miss the next one. Own a lagune, a gravel pit or an airial with a pond? Post your listing. If your project is mainly about pine woodland, see the pine plots and woods for sale in Landes, and to widen the search, the ponds for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, department by department.
