Finding hunting property for sale in Loiret starts with choosing between three very different kinds of ground. South of the Loire, the Loiret side of Sologne begins on the edge of Orléans and runs towards La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, Ligny-le-Ribault and Cerdon: pine, oak and birch woods, heathland and ponds make up big game hunting estates, many of them fenced. North of the river, the Forêt d’Orléans sweeps in a long arc as far as Gien; between its state-owned blocks, private woods hold red deer, roe deer and wild boar. Further out, the Beauce, the Gâtinais and the Puisaye offer farmland and hedgerow shooting. This page gathers the department’s listings from private sellers, estate agents and notaires; to compare with other regions, browse all our hunting estates for sale across France.
Just below, a data panel sets out the forest and pond prices recorded in Loiret and the big game culls of recent seasons. After that come our pointers for judging a shoot: quality of cover, access to water, neighbours, fence compliance and the pressure wild boar put on crops. If you are focusing on the land south of the Loire, our feature buying an estate in Sologne describes this country of woods and ponds and how properties change hands there.
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 Loiret was €7,001/ha in 2025*, across 67 sales, with an average of €7,560/ha. That puts the department above the Centre-Val de Loire median (€5,803/ha) and above the national median (€4,936/ha). Year on year, the departmental median moved by +4.4%: a change to read with caution on fewer than a hundred sales, where a few large estates can shift the median. Over the more robust 2020-2025 period, 308 sales give a median of €6,315/ha for a median plot size of 3.2 ha.
| Indicator | Loiret (45) | Centre-Val de Loire | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2025 | €7,001/ha* | €5,803/ha | €4,936/ha |
| Average price 2025 | €7,560/ha* | €6,714/ha | €6,214/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 67 | 342 | 6,329 |
| Change in median 2024 → 2025 | +4.4%* | −3.3% | +1.9% |
| Median price 2020-2025 | €6,315/ha | €5,588/ha | €4,778/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 308 | 1,867 | 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, which often make much of a shoot’s value, trade at a very different level: a median of €41,006/ha for the 51 ponds sold without buildings in Loiret between 2020 and 2025*.
On the listings side, 6 hunting properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr in Loiret as of 2 October 2026. Their median asking price is €1,151,500 for a median size of about 95 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.
The game bag records published by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) measure hunting pressure and, indirectly, the presence of big game. In Loiret, 1,974 red deer were taken in the 2024-2025 season, about 2% of the national total, alongside 6,850 roe deer and 16,486 wild boar.
| Species | 2021-2022 season | 2024-2025 season | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red deer | 1,805 | 1,974 | +9% |
| Roe deer | 8,341 | 6,850 | −18% |
| Wild boar | 18,656 | 16,486 | −12% |
Source: OFB, wild ungulates network, departmental big game bags (total culls, data published on data.gouv.fr).
On the sands and clays of Sologne, farming gave way long ago to woodland and hunting. Red deer and wild boar find cover in thickets of pine and oak, the ponds draw mallard and teal through the winter, and woodcock haunt the damp undergrowth. Estates are hunted by driven days, stalking or from high seats; most come with a lodge or keeper’s cottage, a network of rides and game crops. The A71 motorway, which crosses Sologne from north to south out of Orléans, keeps up steady demand from buyers in Orléans and the Paris region.
Here more than anywhere, the deciding question is the balance between game and habitat. Decades of supplementary feeding and fencing have tipped part of Sologne from small game to big game, and some estates now carry more animals than their woods can feed. Before committing, look at forest regeneration and neighbouring crops, and ask for the records of past drives and the history of cull tags allocated.
The largest state forest in mainland France, the Forêt d’Orléans is made up of three blocks, Orléans, Ingrannes and Lorris, linked by privately owned woods. It is these connecting woods and forest edges that come up for sale: smaller areas than in Sologne, but crossed by the same big game as the public forest, where shooting rights are let by the Office national des forêts (the state forestry agency). To the north, the Loiret part of the Beauce, around Artenay and Patay, is open plain where grey partridge, hare and pheasant are shot; the value of a shoot there depends on the hedges, copses and grass margins that give game some cover. To the east, the hillier, hedged Gâtinais around Montargis and the Puisaye offer family-sized hunting woods for roe deer and boar.
Start with the wire, the central issue in Sologne. The act of 2 February 2023 requires fences in natural areas to let wildlife move freely: a 30 cm gap beneath the mesh, a maximum height of 1.20 m and nothing that can injure animals. Fencing put up in the thirty years before the act must be adapted before 1 January 2027, with exceptions such as the ground within 150 metres of a dwelling; the Centre-Val de Loire region had already written these standards into its planning framework in December 2018. Have the work costed before you make an offer, and read what the fencing act changes.
Loiret has no ACCA system (communal hunting associations): hunting rights stay with the land, and the owner may keep, sell or lease them. So check any leases and shooting syndicates in place, together with the cull plan (plan de chasse) allocations for red and roe deer over recent seasons. Wild boar, plentiful in the department, call for one last precaution: damage to neighbouring crops is compensated by the departmental hunters’ federation, which is funded by hunters themselves, and an estate judged to be under-hunted can be asked to bear part of the cost.
Hunting estates in Loiret listed on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, specialist agents and notaires’ offices. Sort them by size or price, set up an alert to hear as soon as a matching property goes online, or post a listing for your own estate. If woodland is your priority, see our woods and forests for sale in Loiret; to compare with the Sologne of Loir-et-Cher and Cher, browse hunting properties across Centre-Val de Loire.
