Finding lakes and ponds for sale in Puy-de-Dôme means telling the famous lakes apart from the water bodies that actually change hands. Private supply consists of hedgerow ponds in the Combrailles, small ponds in the Livradois and the Forez, high-altitude ponds in the Artense and, less often, former gravel pits on the Allier plain. This page brings these properties together, sought for fishing, leisure or a second home and listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires, alongside our ponds and lakes for sale across France.
Sales of ponds without a house are rare in the department, so the price panel that follows sets local figures in their regional context. Next come the features of an Auvergne pond (cold water, frost and mountain planning rules) and the checks to make before an offer, which our guide to buying a pond sets out step by step.
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, 15 pond sales were recorded in Puy-de-Dôme between July 2020 and December 2025, at a median price of €17,520/ha† and an average of €21,732/ha. Across 15 transactions, a handful of unusual sales is enough to move both median and average: these values are not truly representative of the local market and should be read against regional prices. With only 1 sale in 2025, the department does not allow a reliable annual price. In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 123 ponds sold over the same period at a median of €15,847/ha, and the regional median reached €19,818/ha in 2025† across 16 sales; the national median was €25,235/ha in 2025.
| Indicator | Puy-de-Dôme (63) | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2020-2025 | €17,520/ha† | €15,847/ha | €25,694/ha |
| Average price 2020-2025 | €21,732/ha† | €23,834/ha | €32,291/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 15 | 123 | 2,053 |
| Median price 2025 | not published (1 sale) | €19,818/ha† | €25,235/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 1 | 16 | 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, 2 of them in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. 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.
† 10 to 29 sales: sample too small to be representative of the local market. 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 department owes its best-known lakes to volcanoes. Lac d’Aydat, the largest natural lake in Auvergne, was created by the “cheire d’Aydat”, a lava flow from the Puy de la Vache and the Puy de Lassolas that blocked the River Veyre; Lac Chambon formed behind the Tartaret volcano, which dams the Couze Chambon. Lac Pavin, the Gour de Tazenat near Charbonnières-les-Vieilles and Lac Chauvet at Picherande are maars, explosion craters filled with water. These lakes, like the Sioule reservoirs at Fades-Besserve and Queuille, are not part of the everyday market, even though a few, such as Lac Chauvet, are managed by a private owner. They still offer pointers: Lac de Guéry, the highest lake in Auvergne, is fished through the ice in late winter, and a private pond at a similar altitude will share the same long frosts and slow fish growth.
In the west, the hedgerow country of the Combrailles, dotted with ponds between the Sioule and the Cher, is the first area to explore for land with a pond: meadow ponds fed by a spring or a stream, often sold with a farmhouse, grazing or a wood. These properties appeal both to anglers from the Clermont-Ferrand area and to families looking for a weekend retreat. If supply looks too thin, ponds are far more numerous in the Sologne bourbonnaise: see the ponds on the market in Allier.
In the Livradois and the Forez, local councils have created leisure lakes, such as the Prades lake at Saint-Rémy-sur-Durolle or the Lac d’Aubusson-d’Auvergne near Courpière; private ponds there are smaller, in clearings or along woodland edges. In the Artense and the Cézallier, glaciers and volcanoes left hollows where lakes, ponds and peat bogs follow one another, as at La Godivelle, around Lac d’En-Haut and the Sagnes nature reserve. On the Allier plain, finally, sand and gravel extraction has left former quarries, some of which have been restored, while the former Lac de Sarliève near Cournon-d’Auvergne, now drained, recalls the Limagne’s marshy past.
First ask for proof that the pond exists lawfully: a “fondé en titre” right for a structure predating the French Revolution, or an authorisation or declaration under water law for the rest. Many streams in the department are classed as first-category (trout) fishing waters: a pond built across one of them falls under open-water fishing rules, must let a minimum flow pass downstream and may be required to restore ecological continuity; only an isolated fishing pond in closed water (“eau close”) leaves the owner free to manage the fishing. In mountain areas, the natural parts of the banks of lakes and ponds under one thousand hectares are also protected over three hundred metres, where new buildings and roads are in principle banned, so do not count on a cabin by the water before reading the local plan (PLU). Finally, the peat bogs of the Artense and the Cézallier are wetlands where dredging, drainage and backfilling are tightly controlled.
Have the dam, the outlet (the “moine”) and the spillway inspected: thaw and spring storms test the structures, and an undersized spillway can wash away an embankment in a single night. Check the level at the end of summer, as a spring-fed pond can drop a long way in dry summers, and ask about silting. Fish choice follows altitude: salmonids in cold water, carp, tench and pike lower down. Finally, ask the seller about crayfish: the invasive signal crayfish has colonised water bodies such as Lac d’Aydat, where the protected white-clawed crayfish also survives, which calls for precautions whenever a pond is drained. Our article on routine pond maintenance helps you budget for this work.
On ma-propriete.fr, ponds in Puy-de-Dôme are offered by owners, estate agents and notaires’ offices. With so few on the market, an e-mail alert tells you about each new property; filters by price and size help you sort, and you can publish your own listing. To combine water and woodland, browse the woods and forests for sale in Puy-de-Dôme; for comparison, see the ponds and lakes for sale in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
