Looking for lakes and ponds for sale in Seine-et-Marne? The largest department in the Île-de-France region has varied water landscapes, but ponds sold on their own remain rare: most private water bodies change hands with a house, a mill or a wooded property. The gravel lakes of the Bassée, upstream of Montereau, and those in the loops of the Marne form a first group; the forest ponds of the Brie, such as those in the Villefermoy woods, a second; the pools of Fontainebleau and the small ponds of the Gâtinais complete the picture. This page gathers the lakes and ponds on the market in the department, from a fishing pond to a property with its own lake, listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires.
Next you will find the price of ponds sold in Seine-et-Marne and in Île-de-France, then the questions to ask before buying: the history of the site, especially for a former quarry, the legal status of the water body, and the constraints attached to flood zones and Natura 2000 sites. Our complete guide to buying a pond covers each of these points in detail, from the first visit to the signature.
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, 10 pond sales were recorded in Seine-et-Marne between July 2020 and December 2025, at a median price of €17,955/ha† and an average of €18,497/ha. With only 10 sales, the sample is too small for these average and median prices to be truly representative of the local market: the regional price is a sounder benchmark. With only 1 sale in 2025, the department does not allow a reliable annual price. In Île-de-France, 15 ponds sold over the same period at a median of €21,875/ha†; the national median was €25,235/ha in 2025.
| Indicator | Seine-et-Marne (77) | Île-de-France | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2020-2025 | €17,955/ha† | €21,875/ha† | €25,694/ha |
| Average price 2020-2025 | €18,497/ha† | €25,065/ha† | €32,291/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 10 | 15 | 2,053 |
| Median price 2025 | not published (1 sale) | not published | €25,235/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 1 | 1 | 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, 26 properties with a pond are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, 1 of them in Île-de-France. 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. Conveyancing fees come on top of the price: our notary fee calculator lets you estimate them before making an offer.
† 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 Bassée covers the Seine floodplain between its confluence with the Aube and its confluence with the Yonne. Extraction of aggregates for the Paris conurbation has dug a great many lakes there, now partly covered by the Bassée national nature reserve and by the “Bassée et plaines adjacentes” special protection area for birds. Private ponds in this area are often former extraction pits, bought for fishing or wildfowling: find out who operated the quarry, when work ended and what restoration obligations the operator had to meet.
Further north, the loops of the Marne between Meaux and Lagny-sur-Marne share the same history: the Jablines-Annet leisure park occupies old gravel pits in a meander of the river, and the site is also covered by Natura 2000. These large public lakes are not for sale; neighbouring private properties are far more modest in size and often subject to the same environmental constraints.
On the Brie plateau, clay soils made it possible to create ponds in woods and in the grounds of châteaux. The Villefermoy woods, a state forest in the south of the Brie, still hold a network of them, which earned the area a special protection designation for birds. Private ponds in the Brie usually lie on the edge of a wood or within a property, and are rarely sold on their own. Further south, the forest of Fontainebleau is dotted with pools on its sandstone flats, while the Gâtinais, partly within the Gâtinais français regional nature park, has mostly field ponds and a few valley ponds. Finally, in the valleys of the Grand Morin and Petit Morin, water often comes as a mill race or as a pond fed by the river.
Buyers come mainly from the Paris region: anglers who want water close to home, families looking for a weekend house with a pond, and wildfowlers. On that last point, Seine-et-Marne is one of the departments where night shooting is allowed from a declared fixed post, such as a hide on the edge of a gravel lake; Essonne, Val-d’Oise and Yvelines are not. Because supply is thin, many buyers widen their search to ponds for sale in Essonne or to lakes and ponds in Yvelines, or even to departments in neighbouring regions.
For a gravel pit, ask for the prefectoral order closing the quarry and the official inspection report confirming that restoration work was carried out; check the slope of the banks, the depth and the nature of any fill. For a mill pond, the water right, whether ancient (“fondé en titre”) or granted by permit, and the operating rules must be in the file, as several rivers in the department are classified for ecological continuity. In every case, check with the DDT (the departmental land and water office) that the pond exists lawfully under water law, whether a wetland or Natura 2000 site means that works must be assessed, and where the property stands in the flood-risk prevention plans for the Seine, the Marne and the Loing.
Pond listings for Seine-et-Marne on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, estate agents and notaires’ offices. Filter them by price and size, switch on an alert for new listings so you do not miss a property in a market where supply is scarce, or offer your own water body for sale. If the woodland matters as much as the water, see our woods and forests for sale in Seine-et-Marne, and for the whole region, the ponds for sale in Île-de-France.
