Looking for recreational land for sale in Savoie (73) means accepting the rules of a high-mountain department, between the Bauges, the Beaufortain, the Maurienne and the Tarentaise, where the non-constructible plots available are mostly hay meadows, alpine pastures and wooded slopes: few flat plots, many sloped ones. On this page, ma-propriete.fr gathers the listings of recreational land for sale in Savoie: a hay meadow, a wooded hillside plot, an alpine pasture or a former mountain hut with a shelter.
You will find price benchmarks drawn from actual sales, an overview of the areas where these plots are concentrated, scarcer here than in many other departments, and the points to check that are specific to a mountain territory shaped by steep slopes and family-held land. Before any viewing, go through our guide on how to turn agricultural land into recreational land: it explains what the local planning rules genuinely allow in an agricultural or natural zone.
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 Savoie (73), 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) * | 1,230 | €3,887/ha | €2,161/ha – €8,738/ha | €5,307/ha |
| Woodland (€/ha) | 32 | €4,092/ha | €2,022/ha – €7,161/ha | €4,934/ha |
| Pond (€/m²) * | 313 | €2.54/m² | €1.03/m² – €6.90/m² | €2.54/m² |
Bare agricultural land is well below the national median (€5,307/ha), with the median price moving +7.5% 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: €3,887/ha of bare land is €0.39/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".
In Savoie, the typical plot is neither a flat meadow nor lowland woodland, but a sloped hay meadow, often held in joint family ownership, inherited from a mountain farm. These meadows, classed as non-constructible land, are found in the Maurienne and Tarentaise valleys as well as in the Bauges and the Beaufortain. The woods, mostly high-altitude conifers, spruce and larch, cover the less sunny slopes and are often sold for their timber value rather than for recreational use.
Ponds are, in practice, absent from the Savoie market: the terrain leaves little room for natural stretches of water that come up for sale, and the few that do exist are almost always attached to a larger estate. Buyers looking for a plot with a pond generally turn to neighbouring departments or settle for a simple mountain-stream bank, more common in Savoie than a pond.
The Bauges massif, between Chambéry and Annecy, offers the most accessible meadows and woods in the department, on terrain that is still moderate and served by the A41 motorway. The Beaufortain, around Beaufort and Hauteluce, offers high-altitude pastures and mountain huts, valued for their setting but rarely for sale. The Maurienne, a long valley served by the A43 towards Modane and the Fréjus tunnel, and the Tarentaise, around Moûtiers and Bourg-Saint-Maurice, hold hay meadows on the valley floor and wooded slopes on the sunnier sides. These two valleys remain the areas where supply, though limited, is the most regular, and where a buyer has the best chance of finding a plot with genuine road access.
The most affordable areas lie in the upper Maurienne and Tarentaise, far from the resorts, where the supply of hay meadows and woods stays the most available. Close to the major ski resorts and the busiest valleys, the scarcity of plots pushes prices well above the regional average.
In Savoie more than elsewhere, the local planning document (PLU) deserves a careful read: almost all land outside built-up areas is classed agricultural (A) or natural (N), and a chalet or a light leisure dwelling cannot be installed there without authorisation, even on a former mountain hut that is already built. Winter access, the slope and exposure to rockfall or avalanche risk need to be checked before any purchase, along with whether a track is genuinely usable all year.
Joint ownership is common on meadows and pastures passed down over several generations, which can slow a sale. On parcels classified as agricultural, SAFER may exercise its right of pre-emption, with the price revised if it strays from the local price of mountain farmland. Finally, have the boundaries surveyed: in mountain areas, old cadastral limits rarely match the terrain as it actually is.
The listings of recreational land in Savoie published on ma-propriete.fr come from private sellers, estate agents and notaries. Filter by area, altitude and aspect, then set up an e-mail alert to be notified as soon as a hay meadow, a wooded plot or a mountain hut is listed, as such plots come up rarely in this department. You can also widen your search to recreational land for sale in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
