Finding hunting property for sale in Île-de-France takes a targeted search. The region is still well wooded, but its largest forests, Fontainebleau, Rambouillet, Saint-Germain-en-Laye or Sénart, are mostly state-owned and managed by the National Forestry Office (ONF). The private market is therefore concentrated in the outer ring of departments: woods of the Brie and the Gâtinais in Seine-et-Marne, the fringes of the Rambouillet forest and the Mantes plains in Yvelines, the Hurepoix and the Beauce in Essonne, the French Vexin and the northern woods in Val-d’Oise. What comes up is mostly hunting woodland of a few hectares to a few dozen hectares, more rarely a property with a hunting lodge. This page gathers those listings, posted by private sellers, estate agents and notaires; to widen your choice, see the hunting properties offered elsewhere in France.
Further down, the data block sets out forest and pond prices in the region and big game culls by department, which place most red deer in Yvelines and Seine-et-Marne. We then describe each area, including the inner suburbs, and the rules that weigh on a purchase near Paris: public pre-emption, protection forests, sharing the land with walkers, and fencing.
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 €6,216/ha for forests sold in Île-de-France in 2025 (106 sales), against €4,936/ha nationally, and €6,615/ha over 2020-2025 (640 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 €21,875/ha for the 15 ponds sold without buildings in Île-de-France 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 Île-de-France 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.
According to the game bag records of the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), 1,893 red deer, 10,727 roe deer and 27,104 wild boar were taken in Île-de-France in the 2024-2025 season. Compared with 2021-2022, culls changed by −1% for red deer, −15% for roe deer, +2% for wild boar.
| Department | Red deer | Roe deer | Wild boar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yvelines (78) | 1,022 | 2,994 | 5,684 |
| Seine-et-Marne (77) | 608 | 4,221 | 14,372 |
| Essonne (91) | 165 | 2,146 | 3,417 |
| Val-d’Oise (95) | 98 | 1,201 | 3,439 |
| Hauts-de-Seine (92) | — | 27 | 25 |
| Seine-Saint-Denis (93) | — | 14 | 53 |
| Val-de-Marne (94) | — | 124 | 114 |
| Île-de-France | 1,893 | 10,727 | 27,104 |
2024-2025 season. Source: OFB, wild ungulates network, departmental big game bags (total culls, data.gouv.fr).
In the south-west of the department, the Rambouillet forest makes Yvelines the department of the region where the most red deer are culled. Largely state-owned, it is surrounded by private woods, towards Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, Montfort-l’Amaury or the upper Chevreuse valley, which share its red deer, roe deer and wild boar; some lie within the Haute Vallée de Chevreuse regional nature park. A hunting wood bordering the forest is bought first for that continuity, and good access matters as much as its size. Further north, the Versailles plain, the Mantois and the Houdan area offer open farmland and scattered spinneys for partridge, pheasant and hare. Properties in the department are gathered on our page of hunting estates in Yvelines.
Seine-et-Marne has the widest range. Around Crécy-la-Chapelle and Tournan-en-Brie, the forests of the western Brie include a high share of private woodland, mostly hunted with driven days; to the south, the Fontainebleau forest is mainly state-owned, but its edges and the neighbouring Gâtinais supply red deer, roe deer and boar to the properties alongside. To the east, the Bassée adds marshes and former gravel pits for wildfowl. See our hunting properties in Seine-et-Marne. In Essonne, supply is thinner: valley woods in the Hurepoix, plots in the French Gâtinais around Milly-la-Forêt and Beauce farmland towards Étampes, with the Dourdan state forest, an extension of the Rambouillet woodland, as the main red deer area.
Val-d’Oise combines two landscapes. To the west, the French Vexin regional nature park, shared with Yvelines, is an arable plateau dotted with woods and wooded hills: grey partridge, hare and pheasant country, where a shoot is judged by its coverts and hedges. To the north-east, the L’Isle-Adam, Carnelle and Montmorency state forests and the Oise-Pays de France regional nature park, which continues into Oise, hold wild boar and roe deer; private woods there remain small. Listings are gathered with our shooting grounds in Val-d’Oise.
In the inner suburbs, no private shoot comes on the market. The woodland is public: the Meudon and Fausses-Reposes state forests in Hauts-de-Seine, the Bondy regional forest and the Poudrerie forest park in Seine-Saint-Denis, the Arc boisé woodland, including the Notre-Dame state forest, in Val-de-Marne. These are places for walking, open to everyone, not property to acquire. If you live in these departments, your shoot will be in the outer ring or further afield, in Sologne or Normandy.
The first regional feature is competition from public buyers. In pre-emption zones for sensitive natural areas (espaces naturels sensibles), the Département, or the Region’s Green Spaces Agency (Agence des espaces verts) in its place, can buy on the terms of the sale; the SAFER may also step in if it includes farmland. Ask the notaire before signing the preliminary contract. Another status to look out for: Fontainebleau, Rambouillet, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Sénart and the Arc boisé are classified as protection forests (forêts de protection), and this also applies to private woods inside their boundaries, where clearing is ruled out. For a wood under 4 ha, bear in mind the right of first refusal held by neighbouring woodland owners.
No department in the region has compulsory communal hunting associations (ACCA): the hunting right goes with the land, and a running lease may delay your first season. Public use matters too: locate the paths open to walkers and the distance to houses, which shape how driven days can be organised under the departmental safety rules. The act of 2 February 2023 created a fine for entering, without permission, rural or forest land whose private status is physically marked; it also requires fences in natural areas to be raised 30 cm off the ground and kept below 1.20 m, with those put up since 1993 to be brought into line before 1 January 2027. Finally, ask for the cull plan allocations and the record of wild boar damage to neighbouring crops.
The hunting woods and shoots in Île-de-France listed on ma-propriete.fr are offered by private sellers, agents and notaires. To follow such a narrow market, save an alert filtered by department and size; you can also put your own wood up for sale. If your project is mainly about woodland, see our woods and forests for sale in Île-de-France; for larger ground south of Paris, our feature on Sologne and its large estates presents an option many Paris-based hunters choose.
