A hunting property for sale in Savoie rarely looks like its lowland equivalent: the terrain, the large share of commune-owned forest and the core of the Vanoise national park leave little room for big private estates. What comes up for sale is mostly hillside woodland, meadows and barns in the Bauges, the Avant-Pays savoyard, the Savoie side of Chartreuse or the Beaufortain, and wooded plots in the Maurienne and Tarentaise valleys. Game, on the other hand, is plentiful: chamois occupy every massif, red deer are widespread, and roe deer and wild boar come down to the slopes of the Combe de Savoie. Listings from private sellers, estate agents and notaires appear among our woods, shoots and sporting estates for sale in France.
The data block that follows shows the forest prices recorded in Savoie and the official game bag figures, in which red deer weigh almost as much as roe deer. Further down you will find the two main kinds of ground in Savoie and what to check before buying: ACCA rules, mountain thresholds, cull plans and high-altitude buildings.
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 Savoie was €4,092/ha in 2025*, across 32 sales, with an average of €4,566/ha. That puts the department above the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes median (€4,057/ha) and below the national median (€4,936/ha). Year on year, the departmental median moved by −8.3%: 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, 142 sales give a median of €4,042/ha for a median plot size of 2.6 ha.
| Indicator | Savoie (73) | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price 2025 | €4,092/ha* | €4,057/ha | €4,936/ha |
| Average price 2025 | €4,566/ha* | €4,843/ha | €6,214/ha |
| Number of sales 2025 | 32 | 964 | 6,329 |
| Change in median 2024 → 2025 | −8.3%* | +1.3% | +1.9% |
| Median price 2020-2025 | €4,042/ha | €4,000/ha | €4,778/ha |
| Number of sales 2020-2025 | 142 | 5,257 | 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: with too few sales in Savoie, the benchmark is the regional median of €15,847/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, none in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 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.
* 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 Savoie, 2,047 red deer were taken in the 2024-2025 season, about 2% of the national total, alongside 2,439 roe deer and 3,573 wild boar.
| Species | 2021-2022 season | 2024-2025 season | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red deer | 1,958 | 2,047 | +5% |
| Roe deer | 2,599 | 2,439 | −6% |
| Wild boar | 4,063 | 3,573 | −12% |
| Chamois | 2,509 | 2,551 | +2% |
Source: OFB, wild ungulates network, departmental big game bags (total culls, data published on data.gouv.fr).
West of Chambéry, the Avant-Pays savoyard, from the Mont du Chat to Lake Aiguebelette, and the Savoie side of Chartreuse around the Entremonts combine beech woods, fir forests and meadows where roe deer, wild boar and red deer are mostly hunted in driven days. The Bauges massif, between Chambéry, Aix-les-Bains and Albertville, is a regional nature park; its fir and spruce forests are worked for timber, its high pastures grazed in summer, and its eastern summits hold a national hunting and wildlife reserve shared with Haute-Savoie. A hunting property here usually means woods and meadows around a chalet or a farm: forest access, slope and snow cover weigh as much on its value as game density. North of the massif, the hunting grounds of Haute-Savoie offer a useful comparison.
In the great inner Alpine valleys, hunting takes place on slopes of larch, spruce and Swiss stone pine, then on the high pastures and scree. Chamois are the reference quarry, taken by stalking, red deer use the hillside forests, and black grouse are only shot where spring and summer counts allow it. The core of the Vanoise national park, the first in France, created in 1963, bans all hunting: check exactly where the plots lie, as a property in upper Maurienne or upper Tarentaise may fall wholly or partly inside it. Private holdings are small and fragmented; hunting rights are generally exercised through the municipal association, and an isolated hunting ground mainly appeals to a hunter already settled in the valley or to a buyer looking first for a chalet and its surroundings.
In Savoie, hunting is very largely organised through ACCAs (approved municipal hunting associations). A plot that stays below the opt-out threshold remains within their territory: at least 20 ha in one block under the Environment Code, and 100 ha for land above the forest line. In a department where private holdings rarely exceed a few dozen hectares, you are therefore often buying the land, the timber and the peace and quiet, while the hunting stays collective; have the departmental hunters’ federation, which administers ACCAs, confirm the threshold for your plots. Ask too about the cull plan for red deer, chamois and roe deer, about damage to hay meadows, and about the wolf, now established in several Savoie massifs.
Mountain buildings follow strict rules: restoring an old alpine chalet requires authorisation from the prefect after review by the departmental commission on nature, landscapes and sites, and our article what you may build on wooded land covers other cases. Fences are less common than in the lowlands, but the act of 2 February 2023 applies in the mountains too: a maximum height of 1.20 m, 30 cm of clearance above the ground, and compliance before 1 January 2027 for wire fencing put up since 1993; see our summary of the reform of fencing in natural areas.
On ma-propriete.fr, hunting properties in Savoie are listed by private sellers, estate agents or notaires; a size and budget filter combined with an email alert makes sure you do not miss those that appear. Selling a wood or a mountain pasture? Publish your listing. For a forest-led search, see our woods and forests for sale in Savoie; to widen the search to Isère or Ain, look at the hunting grounds on the market in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
