Looking for recreational land for sale in Seine-Saint-Denis (93) means searching in an almost entirely urbanised department, where the few remaining open spaces, the forêt régionale de Bondy, the Poudrerie forest park at Sevran, the residual farmland near Tremblay-en-France, are either public land or large cereal fields with no fragmentation, neither of which suits a leisure project. On this page, ma-propriete.fr lists the recreational land for sale that concerns Seine-Saint-Denis and the neighbouring departments where this type of property actually exists.
You will find an honest picture of how scarce this kind of property is in the department, guidance towards the areas of the Paris region where recreational land is found in greater numbers, and the precautions to know before buying a parcel classified as agricultural or natural. Before going further, read our guide on how to turn agricultural land into recreational land, which explains what the local planning rules 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 Seine-Saint-Denis (93), 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) | 214 | €7,465/ha | €5,253/ha – €10,940/ha | €5,307/ha |
| Woodland (€/ha) | 107 | €6,223/ha | €3,412/ha – €12,416/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 +4.3% between 2020 and 2025. Woodland trades well above 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: €7,465/ha of bare land is €0.75/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"; regional figure for "Woodland"; national figure for "Pond".
In Seine-Saint-Denis, dense urbanisation leaves very few private meadows or woods standing: the few sizeable green spaces, the forêt régionale de Bondy, the Poudrerie park, are public land laid out as walking areas, not transferable to private owners. The residual farmland near Tremblay-en-France and Le Blanc-Mesnil remains devoted to large-scale cereal farming, with no fragmentation into small plots. Even the allotment gardens and the rare wooded urban parks of the department never really qualify as recreational land in the sense used elsewhere in France.
Sales of agricultural or wooded parcels here are very limited each year, and no pond is ever recorded for sale: recreational land of the kind found in the Perche or the Sologne has practically no equivalent in Seine-Saint-Denis. A cabin, where one still stands on an isolated plot, is usually a leftover from a former market-gardening use that has since stopped.
To find a genuine wood, an enclosed meadow or a riverside plot, it is better to look beyond the inner ring. Seine-et-Marne, to the east, offers the widest range of plots, woods of the Brie plateau, meadows along the Marne. Val-d'Oise, to the north, offers land in the Vexin français and the Oise valley, reached via the A1 or A16 motorways. Yvelines and Essonne, to the west and south, complete the offer with meadows and woods further from the heart of the urban area. A resident of Seine-Saint-Denis can therefore, within a reasonable radius, compare very different kinds of land depending on the direction taken, cereal plain to the north, bocage to the west, wooded plateau to the east.
These neighbouring departments remain broadly more affordable than the very rare transactions recorded in Seine-Saint-Denis, where weak supply weighs more heavily on price levels than location itself. Here again, widening the search is less a matter of choice than a practical necessity.
If an agricultural or natural parcel were to come up, reading the local planning document remains the first step: in zone A or N, no new building is in principle allowed, and a cabin or a light leisure dwelling is very rarely tolerated. Access to the plot, the presence of water and electricity, almost absent outside built-up areas, and the accuracy of the cadastral boundary deserve particular attention, as does the past use of the land, which often determines whether an existing shelter was ever properly authorised.
The SAFER land agency keeps a right of pre-emption on agricultural parcels, even in peri-urban zones, with a risk of the price being revised down if it strays from local land values. Some areas near the Marne, at Villemomble or Gagny, are also exposed to flood risk. Given how scarce this kind of property is, a purchase project in Seine-Saint-Denis is best pursued alongside a search in the neighbouring departments, rather than being limited to the department alone.
With no significant supply in Seine-Saint-Denis, ma-propriete.fr invites you to browse the full range of recreational land for sale in Île-de-France, with listings from private sellers, estate agents and notaries covering Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne and Val-d'Oise; set up an e-mail alert to be notified as soon as a plot matches your criteria.
