Hunting property for sale in Creuse is first and foremost a matter of forest. The department has become heavily wooded since the two world wars, through planting of Douglas fir and spruce and through trees reclaiming abandoned farmland. In the south-east, the Millevaches plateau, partly within a regional nature park, alternates conifer plantations, beech woods, heather moorland and peat bogs; in the centre and north, the Marche around Guéret and, to the east, the Combraille towards Auzances offer livestock hedgerow country dotted with oak and chestnut woods. Wild boar and roe deer are driven everywhere, red deer in the larger forests, and woodcock passing through in winter draw those who shoot over pointers. This page gathers Creuse properties listed by private sellers, agents and notaires; listings from all over France are on our page of woods and hunting estates for sale.
The data panel further down shows the prices of forests and ponds sold in Creuse and the big game bag figures. The following sections describe the department’s two main kinds of ground and the local rules to know, starting with the ACCA, the communal association that organises hunting across much of Creuse.
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 Creuse was €3,323/ha in 2025*, across 77 sales, with an average of €3,759/ha. That puts the department below the Nouvelle-Aquitaine median (€3,995/ha) and below the national median (€4,936/ha). Compared with 2024, the median changed by +7.9%, a movement to interpret with care given the number of sales. Over the more robust 2020-2025 period, 296 sales give a median of €2,720/ha for a median plot size of 5.1 ha.
| Indicator | Creuse (23) | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2025 | €3,323/ha* | €3,995/ha | €4,936/ha |
| Average price 2025 | €3,759/ha* | €4,688/ha | €6,214/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 77 | 1,450 | 6,329 |
| Change in median 2024 → 2025 | +7.9%* | +5.5% | +1.9% |
| Median price 2020-2025 | €2,720/ha | €3,684/ha | €4,778/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 296 | 8,009 | 35,100 |
Nationally, the price per hectare rises with size: the large properties that appeal to hunters sell for more per hectare than medium-sized woods.
| Size of forest sold (France, 2020-2025) | Median price | Number of sales |
|---|---|---|
| 10 to 20 ha | €4,010/ha | 3,161 |
| 20 to 50 ha | €5,330/ha | 1,850 |
| 50 to 100 ha | €6,810/ha | 581 |
| Over 100 ha | €7,361/ha | 320 |
Ponds trade at a very different level: a median of €18,273/ha for the 19 ponds sold without buildings in Creuse between 2020 and 2025†, a sample too small to be representative; regionally, the median reaches €18,535/ha.
On the listings side, 18 hunting properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, 1 of them in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Their median asking price is €888,000 for a median size of about 68 ha. These asking prices apply to complete properties, often with buildings, a pond or hunting rights: they cannot be compared directly with DVF medians per hectare.
* 30 to 99 sales: indicative value. † 10 to 29 sales: sample too small to be representative of the local market. 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.
The game bag records published by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) measure hunting pressure and, indirectly, the presence of big game. In Creuse, 1,137 red deer were taken in the 2024-2025 season, about 1.3% of the national total, alongside 7,828 roe deer and 5,692 wild boar.
| Species | 2021-2022 season | 2024-2025 season | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red deer | 716 | 1,137 | +59% |
| Roe deer | 9,076 | 7,828 | −14% |
| Wild boar | 3,610 | 5,692 | +58% |
Source: OFB, wild ungulates network, departmental big game bags (total culls, data published on data.gouv.fr).
On the south-eastern heights, between Felletin, Royère-de-Vassivière and Gentioux-Pigerolles, the forest is young: large plantations of Douglas fir, spruce and other firs, established on former grazed moorland, sit alongside beech woods, peat bogs and lakes, including Vassivière, shared with Haute-Vienne. Big game makes the most of large, quiet forests; clear-fells and replanting give it feeding areas but expose young trees to browsing, which makes the balance between forest and game a delicate one. A plateau hunting estate is driven for boar and roe deer, sometimes for red deer; winters are harsh, and access to the parcels depends on a good network of forest tracks.
In the centre and north, around Guéret, Bourganeuf and the Creuse valley, the landscape turns back to hedgerow country: grazing pasture, hedges, oak, chestnut and birch woods. South of Guéret, the Chabrières forest, partly state-owned, is the wooded core of the Monts de Guéret. To the east, the Combraille, around Auzances and Chambon-sur-Voueize, carries this landscape on towards Auvergne. Properties here can take the form of a farm with its woods, or a group of wooded parcels suited to a family shoot for roe deer and boar. With such a divided pattern of ownership, layout matters as much as acreage: a hunting ground in one block is far easier to manage than a collection of scattered lots, and for a parcel under 4 ha, bear in mind the right of first refusal held by neighbouring woodland owners.
Creuse is one of the departments where the Verdeille Act of 10 July 1964 made approved communal hunting associations (ACCAs) compulsory. Land whose single block falls below the opt-out threshold, raised to 60 ha in Creuse whereas the Environment Code sets a minimum of 20 ha, becomes part of the ACCA’s ground: you remain the owner and may, on request, join the association, which organises the hunting there. Above that threshold, withdrawal is requested from the departmental hunters’ federation, which has administered ACCAs since 2020, through a set procedure. For a buyer whose plan is to hunt, this is the first thing to establish, well before negotiating the price.
The cull plan then governs how many red and roe deer may be taken; on ground you hunt yourself, ask for the allocations of recent seasons. Game damage, boar in pasture and deer in plantations, is closely watched in a department of livestock farming and reforestation. Finally, the act of 2 February 2023 requires fences in natural areas to let wildlife pass, 30 cm above the ground and under 1.20 m high. Some agricultural fences and those protecting forest regeneration are exempt, but a hunting enclosure put up in the thirty years before the act must be brought into line before 1 January 2027; our guide to the fencing act explains the cases.
Private sellers, agents and notaires list hunting properties in Creuse on ma-propriete.fr. Filter them by size and price, schedule an alert for new listings or put your own ground online. If the timber matters more than the game, see our forests for sale in Creuse; for Haute-Vienne, Corrèze and the rest of the region, browse hunting estates for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
