Hunting Property for Sale in Haute-Corse: Wild Boar Hunting Land from the Nebbio to the Eastern Plain

Searching for hunting property for sale in Haute-Corse means accepting the rules of an island where wild boar is the only big game you may hunt. Even so, the department offers varied ground: the chestnut groves of the Castagniccia and the Boziu, the maquis and holm oak of the Balagne, the Nebbio and Cap Corse, the mountain valleys of the Niolu and the Venachese, and, on the eastern plain, farmland lined with lagoons where duck and waders spend the winter. Land sold as a shooting ground usually comes in plots of a few hectares to a few dozen hectares: an abandoned chestnut grove, a holm oak wood, a former farm on the plain. You will find them here, listed by private sellers, estate agents and notaires, next to the hunting woods and land listed across France.

Below this text, a data panel shows the prices recorded for forest sales in Haute-Corse and the wild boar bags compiled by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB).

The price of a hunting estate in Haute-Corse

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 Haute-Corse was €3,116/ha in 2025†, with an average of €5,306/ha, across 29 sales. Across 29 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. In Corsica, the median reached €4,532/ha in 2025 across 63 sales, with an average of €6,418/ha; the national median was €4,936/ha. Over 2020-2025, the department recorded 144 sales at a median of €4,457/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.

On the listings side, 18 hunting properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr across France as of 2 October 2026, none in Corsica at that date. 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.

† 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.

Game in Haute-Corse: 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 Haute-Corse, 16,830 wild boar were taken in the 2024-2025 season.

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

Hunting property for sale in Haute-Corse: from the mountains to the lagoons of the eastern plain

Castagniccia, Niolu, Balagne: wild boar first

Boar drives set the rhythm of village life in many places. The season opens in mid-August and brings together teams of hunters and dogs who know every gully in their commune. In the Castagniccia, neglected chestnut groves overrun by bracken and bramble make sought-after coverts; in the Niolu and the Venachese, hunting takes place in laricio pine and beech forests, much of them owned by the Collectivité de Corse or the communes. In the Balagne, the Nebbio and Cap Corse, maquis and holm oak are spreading over old olive groves and farming terraces, and boar come right down into gardens.

A medium-sized private hunting ground almost always lies within the patch of a local team, so it pays to know its habits before signing. Winter then opens a second season, for woodcock in the wooded gullies and for thrushes and blackbirds among the strawberry trees of the maquis.

Eastern plain and lagoons: wildfowl and crop damage

South of Bastia, the east coast is lined with lagoons visited in winter by duck, coot and waders. The Biguglia lagoon has been a nature reserve since 1994: hunting is banned on the water and on the coastal sand bar, and allowed only, in season, on a defined stretch of the western shore. Further south, the Diana lagoon hosts shellfish farms and the Urbino lagoon belongs to the Conservatoire du littoral, the coastal protection agency; private shores where you can shoot wildfowl are therefore rare. The few private ponds inland appear among our ponds and reservoirs for sale in Haute-Corse.

Around Aléria and Ghisonaccia, the plain is the island’s main farming area, with vineyards and citrus orchards. Boar damage is regular there, and farmers expect neighbouring hunters to keep numbers firmly in check. Buyers there mostly acquire farms on the edge of the maquis, where hunting remains an extra.

Before signing: protected species, drives, hybrids and fencing

In the Cintu massif, the Corsican mouflon, protected since 2019, finds refuge in the upper Asco valley. The Corsican red deer, reintroduced from Sardinia and released at Santo-Pietro-di-Venaco, Moltifao and Castifao among other places, may not be hunted either. As for hunting rights, the Verdeille Act did not make communal hunting associations (ACCA) compulsory on the island: the landowner holds the hunting rights, but local teams often range over unfenced land, so ask the seller who hunts the property and on what basis, written agreement or custom.

Pigs reared on open range interbreed with wild boar: these hybrids root up terraces and dry-stone walls, and Aujeszky’s disease, present in Corsica and fatal to dogs, calls for care when handling game. Another island feature is undivided ownership: a chestnut grove in the Boziu may belong to many heirs, so a clear title, everyone’s consent and a boundary survey must come before any signature; for a wood under 4 ha, neighbours also hold a right of first refusal on wooded plots.

Finally, the act of 2 February 2023 applies in Corsica too, where the materials allowed for fences in natural areas are set by the PADDUC, the island’s regional development plan. Livestock fences are exempt as long as they surround farmed plots; a game enclosure, however, must leave 30 cm clear above the ground, stay below 1.20 m and, if it went up in the thirty years before the act, be brought into line by 1 January 2027. See our overview of fencing in natural areas, in Corsica and elsewhere.

Hunting land, chestnut groves and woods in Haute-Corse listed on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, island estate agents and notaires’ offices. With such a narrow market, an email alert tells you about every new listing; you can also post your own. If woodland comes first, see our woods and chestnut groves for sale in Haute-Corse; for the south of the island, the shoots in Corse-du-Sud, and for the wider picture, the hunting land across Corsica.