Hunting Property for Sale in Aisne: Hunting Woods in Thiérache, the Laonnois and the Soissonnais

For hunting property for sale in Aisne, the department offers a wider choice than most of its neighbours in northern France. The Forêt de Retz, around Villers-Cotterêts, and the Saint-Gobain and Coucy forest between Laon and Chauny are among the great state forests of Picardy; the private woods around them hold red deer, roe deer and above all wild boar, which are plentiful in the department. To the north, Thiérache adds its hedgerow woods around Hirson, Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache and Saint-Michel; in the valleys of the Oise, the Aisne and the upper Somme, marshes draw wildfowl. This page gathers the hunting estates and woods for sale in the department, listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires.

Below this introduction, a data panel gives the prices of forests and ponds recorded in Aisne and the big game culls measured by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB). Then come the main types of ground and the precautions specific to the department: hunting rights, huts, wild boar, First World War remains, fencing.

The price of a hunting estate in Aisne

A hunting estate is rarely valued with a single figure: its price adds up the value of the woodland, the ponds, the buildings and the shooting facilities. The statistics below give benchmarks for wooded land and ponds, based on sales actually recorded.

According to the ma-propriete.fr forest price observatory, built from sales recorded in the French DVF land registry database, the median price of a hectare of forest in Aisne was €6,010/ha in 2025, across 159 sales, with an average of €6,977/ha. That puts the department below the Hauts-de-France median (€8,787/ha) and above the national median (€4,936/ha). Year on year, the departmental median moved by +0.1%. Over the more robust 2020-2025 period, 647 sales give a median of €5,915/ha for a median plot size of 2.6 ha.

Nationally, the price per hectare rises with size: the large properties that appeal to hunters sell for more per hectare than medium-sized woods.

Ponds, which often make much of a shoot’s value, trade at a very different level: a median of €38,412/ha for the 93 ponds sold without buildings in Aisne between 2020 and 2025*.

On the listings side, 18 hunting properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, 1 of them in Hauts-de-France. Their median asking price is €888,000 for a median size of about 68 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.

* 30 to 99 sales: indicative value. Source: DVF (French tax authority), processed by ma-propriete.fr; forests of 1 ha or more, cadastral type woodland; ponds without buildings of at least 2,000 m²; July 2020 to December 2025; Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin are not covered by DVF. Listings recorded on ma-propriete.fr on 2 October 2026.

Game in Aisne: official game bag figures

The game bag records published by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) measure hunting pressure and, indirectly, the presence of big game. In Aisne, 1,589 red deer were taken in the 2024-2025 season, about 1.8% of the national total, alongside 6,907 roe deer and 19,678 wild boar.

Source: OFB, wild ungulates network, departmental big game bags (total culls, data published on data.gouv.fr).

Hunting property for sale in Aisne: great forests, Thiérache and marshland

Around Retz and Saint-Gobain: big game

The Forêt de Retz still carries the memory of royal hunts: Francis I set up a captaincy of the hunt there and had the first rides cut, which the House of Orléans completed in the eighteenth century. Beech and oak form tall high forest managed by the Office national des forêts (the state forestry agency), which lets the shooting on the state-owned blocks. The private woods along its edges, from the Valois to the Tardenois, are sought after for that very reason: big game moves through them. The forest spills slightly into Oise, where the hunting properties of Oise continue this run of large Picardy forests.

Further north, the Saint-Gobain forest, on a plateau cut by damp valleys and dotted with ponds, plays the same role between Laon, La Fère and Chauny. As elsewhere in Aisne, most sales involve small wooded plots; a hunting wood large enough to run driven days, with vehicle access and a hunting lodge, is rarer and is negotiated case by case.

Thiérache, marshes and plains: more varied shooting

In Thiérache, from Guise to Hirson, hedged grazing land surrounds the state forests of Hirson and Saint-Michel and the largely private Le Nouvion forest; private woods there are medium-sized, often bordered by pasture, and are hunted for roe deer and boar. Wildfowling is a market of its own: in the middle Oise valley, the Souche marshes near Laon or the upper Somme valley towards Saint-Quentin, you will come across marsh plots sold with their pond and their hide, known locally as a hutte. The Souche marshes are a special protection area under Natura 2000, where work on ponds and ditches is regulated.

Aisne is one of the departments where wildfowl may be shot at night from a fixed hide: the hide must have existed on 1 January 2000 and have been declared, and its owner keeps a bag record and contributes to the upkeep of the water. Lastly, on the plateaux of the Laonnois, the Soissonnais and the Vermandois, arable land suits grey partridge, pheasant and hare, wherever hedges and grass strips survive. For a marsh or a stretch of water, see also our lakes and ponds for sale in Aisne.

Before signing in Aisne

First, ask about the hunting rights. Aisne is not one of the departments where ACCA communal hunting associations are compulsory; a few municipalities have nonetheless formed one, and land of less than 20 ha in a single block within their boundaries is in principle attached to it. For wildfowling, the threshold drops to 3 ha for an undrained marsh and 1 ha for an isolated pond, so check at the town hall before buying a small valley plot.

Next, wild boar: plentiful in Aisne, they damage crops, the departmental hunters’ federation pays compensation, and the holder of a ground where boar are under-hunted can be asked to share the cost. Ask too for the cull plan allocations for red and roe deer. On the old front line, from the Chemin des Dames to the Soissonnais, another precaution applies: First World War munitions still surface in woods and ploughed fields, and any find must be reported to the authorities without being touched. Finally, if the ground is fenced, check that it complies with the 2023 act on fencing in natural areas, which requires fences put up since 1993 to be brought into line before 1 January 2027.

The Aisne hunting estates gathered on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, agents and notaires; a size and price filter helps you target properties, an alert tells you about each new one on the market, and you can post a listing for your own wood. For a mainly woodland investment, see our woods and forests for sale in Aisne; to compare with Somme, Nord or Pas-de-Calais, browse the hunting properties for sale in Hauts-de-France.