Hunting Property for Sale in Gard: Cévennes Shoots, Garrigue and Petite Camargue Marshes

Three hunting landscapes with almost nothing in common share the market for hunting property for sale in Gard. In the north-west, the Cévennes and the Aigoual massif rise through chestnut groves, holm oak, beech woods and conifer plantations that hold wild boar, roe deer and red deer. In the centre, the garrigue of the Uzège and the country around Nîmes, covered with holm oak, kermes oak and pine, suits driven boar hunts as well as small game. In the south, the Petite Camargue, from Vauvert to Aigues-Mortes, is a patchwork of reed beds, marshes and salt flats used by wildfowl. This page gathers the hunting grounds for sale in Gard listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires: a Cévennes hunting wood, a farmhouse surrounded by garrigue or a Camargue marsh.

Just below, a data section sets out the forest prices recorded in the department and the official big game bags. The rest of the page describes the main types of ground in Gard and the checks to make before any offer: how hunting is organised in the commune, the cull plan, crop damage in the vineyards, brush clearance and fencing.

The price of a hunting estate in Gard

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 Gard was €3,104/ha in 2025*, across 86 sales, with an average of €4,744/ha. That puts the department below the Occitanie median (€3,333/ha) and below the national median (€4,936/ha). Compared with 2024, the median changed by −25.1%, a movement to interpret with care given the number of sales. Over the more robust 2020-2025 period, 344 sales give a median of €3,806/ha for a median plot size of 3.5 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 trade at a very different level: with too few sales in Gard, the benchmark is the regional median of €10,466/ha for ponds sold without buildings between 2020 and 2025.

On the listings side, 18 hunting properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, 2 of them in Occitanie. Their median asking price is €888,000 for a median size of about 68 ha. These are asking prices for complete properties: they describe the supply on offer more than the average price of a wooded hectare.

* 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 Gard: 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 Gard, 317 red deer were taken in the 2024-2025 season, about 0.4% of the national total, alongside 3,515 roe deer and 31,776 wild boar.

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

Hunting property for sale in Gard: from the Cévennes ridges to the coastal marshes

Cévennes and Aigoual: big game on steep ground

In the Cévennes valleys, a hunting estate rarely comes as a single flat block: it climbs between ridges, old stone terraces (faïsses) and wooded ravines, so the area you can actually drive matters more than the acreage on the land register. Wild boar make up most of the bag, roe deer are found on every slope, and red deer, reintroduced to the massif in the twentieth century, have spread into the neighbouring valleys. Part of the area lies in the core of the Cévennes National Park, one of the few French national parks where hunting continues in the core zone. Specific rules apply there, and hunters must join the park’s hunting association, except on the managed hunting grounds provided for in the decree that created the park.

Cévennes properties often combine a stone farmhouse, chestnut groves in need of restoration and several dozen hectares of coppice. Slopes and narrow tracks make it harder to set out stands and recover game; ask which tracks are passable by vehicle and which are reserved for fire protection. To the north, the Cévennes continue into Lozère, where hunting estates in Lozère are worth comparing.

Garrigue and Petite Camargue: drives, small game and wildfowl

Between Alès, Uzès and Nîmes, the garrigue is hunted first and foremost in boar drives, with bags among the highest in France and constant pressure on the Costières and Gard rhodanien vineyards. The same ground holds red-legged partridge, hare and rabbit, then woodcock and thrushes in winter. Further south, the Petite Camargue offers wildfowl marshes around Vauvert, Saint-Gilles and Saint-Laurent-d’Aigouze. Their value depends on water control: intakes from the canals, sluices, pumps and the ability to hold a level through the whole season. The Scamandre regional nature reserve, between Vauvert and Saint-Gilles, is a reminder that these wetlands are largely protected, notably under Natura 2000: dredging or work on the banks requires prior formalities.

Before you buy: hunting rights, damage and legal duties

Start with the local set-up. Depending on the commune, hunting is run by a communal hunting society, by an ACCA (an approved communal hunting association) where the commune has created one, or stays with the landowners. If an ACCA covers the area, a holding of less than 20 ha in one block is in principle brought into it; have the applicable threshold and the exact status of the plots confirmed before signing. Then ask for the cull plan allocations for red and roe deer, current leases and the history of crop damage: whoever holds the hunting rights and lets wild boar multiply on the land can be held financially liable for damage to neighbouring crops.

A farmhouse or lodge standing alone in the garrigue is also subject to the statutory brush-clearance duty (obligations légales de débroussaillement), which must be kept up every year. Enclosures fall under the act of 2 February 2023: in natural areas, a fence must leave 30 cm clear above the ground, stay below 1.20 m and let wildlife through, and fences put up since 1993 must be brought into line before 1 January 2027. Our guide to bringing hunting fences into compliance explains the exceptions.

On ma-propriete.fr, hunting properties in Gard are listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires, and owners can publish their own listing. As offers remain scarce, sort them by price or size and set up an email alert for new properties. If woodland comes first, browse our woods and forests for sale in Gard; to widen the search towards Hérault or Aveyron, see the hunting properties for sale in Occitanie.