Looking for recreational land for sale in Lozère (48) means turning to the most rural and least populated department in Occitanie, between the Aubrac plateau, the Margeride forests and the Cévennes valleys carved out by the Tarn and the Jonte. Undeveloped plots are plentiful here: summer pastures, wooded slopes on schist or granite, Cévenol chestnut groves, causse meadows enclosed by dry-stone walls. On this page, ma-propriete.fr gathers the listings of recreational land for sale in Lozère: a mountain meadow, woodland to manage, a causse plot reached by a rural track.
You will find price benchmarks drawn from actual sales, a tour of the areas where these plots are concentrated and the precautions to take before buying in an agricultural or natural zone, including near the Cévennes National Park. A useful first step: our guide on how to turn agricultural land into recreational land: it explains what the planning rules really allow.
There is no such thing as a "recreational land price" in the French notarial records: the DVF database records sales of agricultural land, woodland and ponds, and a recreational plot is priced against these three benchmarks, higher or lower depending on what it adds (vehicle access, a water point, fencing, an existing shelter, a village nearby). The table below gives, for each benchmark, the sales recorded in 2025 in Lozère (48), the median price and the range between the first decile (floor) and the ninth decile (ceiling), with the national figure for comparison.
| DVF 2025 benchmark | Sales | Median price | Range (P10 – P90) | France median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bare agricultural land (€/ha) * | 995 | €7,015/ha | €3,913/ha – €11,825/ha | €5,307/ha |
| Woodland (€/ha) | 40 | €1,963/ha | €890/ha – €5,516/ha | €4,934/ha |
| Pond (€/m²) * | 313 | €2.54/m² | €1.03/m² – €6.90/m² | €2.54/m² |
Bare agricultural land is well above the national median (€5,307/ha), with the median price moving +0.2% between 2020 and 2025. Woodland trades well below the national benchmark (€4,934/ha), and a pond, a much rarer asset, is valued per square metre of water and banks. To compare a listing, bring everything back to the square metre: €7,015/ha of bare land is €0.70/m², against €2.54/m² for a pond. Recreational land, almost always classified as an agricultural or natural zone, generally sells slightly above bare agricultural land; but it usually remains subject to the SAFER land agency's right of pre-emption, and the SAFER may pre-empt with a downward price revision if the price is excessive compared with local land prices. These benchmarks therefore also help you avoid paying a price the SAFER would challenge.
Find the detail by department, plot size and year in our agricultural land price observatory and in the forest price observatory. Source: DVF (Demandes de valeurs foncières), 2025 sales, processed by ma-propriete.fr; medians published from 30 sales upwards. * Fewer than 30 sales in the department: the benchmark shown is the regional figure for "Bare agricultural land"; national figure for "Pond".
On the Aubrac, in the north-west of the department, plots mostly take the form of open summer pastures, lined with volcanic-stone walls, long tied to transhumance and rarely fenced. In the Margeride, east of Mende and around Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, conifer and beech woods on granite soils dominate, often sold as small wooded plots for firewood. The Cévennes, around Florac and the Tarn valley, offer a different landscape: dry-stone terraces once planted with chestnut trees, wooded ravines and small streams, sometimes with a stone cabin or an old sheepfold.
The Sauveterre, Méjean and Can du sud causses, around the Tarn and Jonte gorges, offer large, sparsely wooded grazing areas, marked out by stone walls and crossed by old drailles. Genuine ponds are almost non-existent here: the limestone and granite terrain does not favour standing water, apart from a few carved troughs used to water livestock, which do not count as standalone properties.
The Margeride, around Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, Langogne and Le Malzieu-Ville, holds most of the supply of wooded slopes, at some of the most accessible prices in the department. The Lozère Aubrac, around Nasbinals and Marvejols, offers large summer pastures, sought more for grazing than for leisure. The Cévennes, from Florac to Sainte-Enimie and Meyrueis, on the edge of the national park, attract buyers looking for wooded terraces and streams, though plots there are often landlocked and reached only by simple tracks. Mende, the county town, remains the central landmark, but true recreational plots lie mostly on its outskirts.
The most affordable areas lie in the Margeride and the high Aubrac, away from main roads. Cévenol plots close to tourist valleys, the Tarn and Jonte gorges, and the rare plots with access to a stream sell well above the departmental average, which itself remains modest by regional standards.
In Lozère, many rural communes have no local planning document and fall under national planning rules, which makes building in an agricultural or natural zone even more restrictive: a cabin, a chalet or a light leisure dwelling cannot be installed freely. Near the Cévennes National Park, the core zone adds further rules that must be checked commune by commune. An old shelter, sheepfold or stone cabin, is only an asset if it was properly built; otherwise it may have to be removed. Also check access to the plot, often via a rural track or an old transhumance drove road, sometimes subject to a right of way, and the altitude, which can make some tracks impassable for part of the winter.
Water and electricity are absent from the vast majority of isolated plots, in the Margeride as on the causses. On land classified as agricultural, the SAFER land agency may exercise its right of pre-emption, with a risk of the price being revised down if it strays too far from local land prices. Large parts of the territory are designated Natura 2000, around the Tarn and Jonte gorges and Mont Lozère: check before any planting or development project, however light.
The listings of recreational land in Lozère published on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, estate agents and notaries. Filter by area, by sector (Aubrac, Margeride, Cévennes) and by the presence of a shelter, then set up an e-mail alert to be notified of new plots. Given how limited supply is in Lozère, it is worth widening your search to recreational land for sale in Occitanie.
