Looking for hunting property for sale in Centre-Val de Loire? The region owes its sporting reputation to Sologne, the country of woods, heath and ponds shared by Loir-et-Cher, Loiret and Cher, but what it has to offer reaches well beyond it. The Brenne, in Indre, combines ponds with big game; Touraine has large state-owned oak forests fringed by private woods; the Orléans forest and the Perche bring their own woodland, while the Beauce and the Champagne berrichonne remain small-game country. This page gathers listings for large estates with a lodge, hunting woods and open farmland shoots, posted by private sellers, estate agents and notaires, alongside all our sporting estates on the market across France.
The data block below compares forest and pond prices across the six departments, together with the big game culls recorded by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB). We then go through the hunting areas, department by department, and the checks that matter more here than elsewhere: fencing, existing leases and game. For a closer look at Sologne, read our feature on investing in a Sologne estate.
The price of a hunting property adds up the value of the woodland, ponds, buildings and facilities. For wooded land, the ma-propriete.fr forest price observatory, built from DVF data, gives a median of €5,803/ha for forests sold in Centre-Val de Loire in 2025 (342 sales), against €4,936/ha nationally, and €5,588/ha over 2020-2025 (1,867 sales). Nationally, the price per hectare rises with size: the large blocks sought by 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 make the value of many shoots, trade at a very different level: a median of €21,707/ha for the 311 ponds sold without buildings in Centre-Val de Loire between 2020 and 2025.
On the listings side, 12 hunting properties are offered on ma-propriete.fr in Centre-Val de Loire as of 2 October 2026. Their median asking price is €1,362,500 for a median size of about 98 ha. These are asking prices for complete properties: they describe the supply on offer more than the average price of a wooded hectare.
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.
According to the game bag records of the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), 13,838 red deer, 49,476 roe deer and 81,928 wild boar were taken in Centre-Val de Loire in the 2024-2025 season. Compared with 2021-2022, culls changed by +10% for red deer, −17% for roe deer, −14% for wild boar.
| Department | Red deer | Roe deer | Wild boar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indre-et-Loire (37) | 3,847 | 6,298 | 10,099 |
| Loir-et-Cher (41) | 2,840 | 10,734 | 22,793 |
| Indre (36) | 2,569 | 9,196 | 11,711 |
| Loiret (45) | 1,974 | 6,850 | 16,486 |
| Cher (18) | 1,877 | 10,486 | 17,987 |
| Eure-et-Loir (28) | 731 | 5,912 | 2,852 |
| Centre-Val de Loire | 13,838 | 49,476 | 81,928 |
2024-2025 season. Source: OFB, wild ungulates network, departmental big game bags (total culls, data.gouv.fr).
Between the Loire and the Cher rivers, Sologne is the heart of the regional market. Its sandy and clayey soils, long too poor for farming, now carry oak, Scots pine and birch woods, heather heathland and strings of ponds: cover that holds red deer, wild boar and roe deer and draws duck and woodcock in winter. Loir-et-Cher has the largest share, around Romorantin-Lanthenay, Lamotte-Beuvron and Salbris; to the west, the walled national estate of Chambord shapes the Blois side of Sologne but is never for sale. Listings for that department appear among our shooting grounds in Loir-et-Cher. Loiret’s Sologne starts on the outskirts of Orléans and runs towards La Ferté-Saint-Aubin and Ligny-le-Ribault, while the Cher side spreads around Aubigny-sur-Nère, Vierzon and Argent-sur-Sauldre.
Sologne estates usually come in a single block, with a manor house or hunting lodge, a keeper’s cottage, ponds, a network of rides, high seats and game crops. Served by the A71 motorway from Orléans to Vierzon, the area attracts buyers from the Paris region and families who keep their shoot for several generations, which limits the supply of large estates.
In south-west Indre, the ponds of the Brenne, most of them dug by monks in the Middle Ages to raise fish, alternate with scrubby heath, meadows and woods where big game is plentiful, and wildfowl winter there in large numbers. Properties combining a pond, woodland and a house within the Brenne regional nature park appear among our hunting properties in Indre. Elsewhere in the Berry, the Boischaut, in the south of Indre and Cher, is hedgerow country with medium-sized woods frequented by roe deer and wild boar, and the Champagne berrichonne, around Bourges and Issoudun, remains an arable plateau for partridge and hare.
Less familiar to buyers than Sologne, Indre-et-Loire nonetheless records the region’s highest red deer bags. The state forests of Chinon, Loches and Amboise, managed by the National Forestry Office (ONF), are among its main reservoirs, and the private woods on their edges benefit from that wildlife. North of the Loire, the Gâtine tourangelle alternates woods and clearings on poor soils, with medium-sized properties; to the south, the Lochois and southern Touraine combine forest blocks, the Indre and Claise valleys and farmland plateaux. To follow this market, see our hunting estates in Indre-et-Loire.
North of the Loire, the Orléans forest, the largest state forest in mainland France, forms an arc of public woodland linked by private woods that red deer and wild boar move through; further east, the Gâtinais and the Loiret part of the Puisaye offer family-sized hunting woods. The Beauce, shared by Loiret, Eure-et-Loir and northern Loir-et-Cher, is open plain where grey partridge, hare and pheasant depend on hedges, coverts and grass strips: a Beauce shoot is worth as much for its habitat work as for its size. In western Eure-et-Loir, the Perche and the Thymerais, around Senonches, hold most of the department’s woodland, while the Vendômois and the Loir valley, in Loir-et-Cher, make the transition to Touraine.
Sologne sparked the national debate on fencing: a senator for Loiret, Jean-Noël Cardoux, sponsored the bill that became the act of 2 February 2023. In natural areas, a fence must now leave 30 cm clear above the ground, stay below 1.20 m and let wildlife pass; fences put up since 1993 must comply before 1 January 2027, with exceptions, notably around houses. A fully fenced estate in Sologne or the Brenne may therefore need heavy work: have it costed before settling on your offer, and read our guide to fencing in natural areas.
The second issue is the hunting right. None of the six departments is among those where the 1964 Verdeille act makes communal hunting associations (ACCA) compulsory, so the hunting right goes with the land. Ask about current leases and guns sold and what happens to them on sale, the cull plan (plan de chasse) allocations for red and roe deer over several seasons, and wild boar damage paid out to neighbouring farmers, which hunters fund. As Sologne straddles three departments, compare the feeding and safety rules set by each departmental game management plan if your ground crosses a boundary. Finally, much of Sologne falls within the Natura 2000 network, where dredging a pond may require an impact assessment.
The hunting estates, woods and shoots in Centre-Val de Loire shown on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, agents and notaires’ offices. Sort them by department, size or budget, save an alert to hear about every new property in Sologne or the Brenne, or list your own ground. If the woodland matters more than the game in your plans, browse our woods and forests for sale in Centre-Val de Loire.
