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Whether you want to buy a pond for leisure, fishing or hunting, you'll find a wide selection of ponds and lakes for sale in every region of France by private owners or by property professionals.
Using our search tool, you can select fishing ponds for sale by location, surface area in hectares or purchase price. If you do not find a pond to buy or a lake to take over that matches your criteria, you can create an alert to be automatically informed of new properties with ponds to buy that are published on our portal.
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You can modify your sale advert at any time and publish it in 1 or 2 categories or sub-categories on our portal. You will have access to the visibility statistics for your advert and will receive the contact forms directly to your email inbox. Whether you are an owner wishing to sell your pond, or a property professional, our portal will meet your needs to ensure the successful sale of your pond.
The average selling price of a pond or lake is €20,000 per hectare. However, this price varies widely, from €5,000 per hectare to €50,000. There are many criteria that influence the value of a pond.
Proximity to major conurbations is one of the main criteria influencing the sale price. Being close to a large town will attract more buyers.
The type of project that can be carried out there will also have an impact. A hunting pond will have a higher value than a simple leisure pond, and even more so in the most famous hunting areas (Sologne, etc.).
The surface area of the pond is also a criterion. If it's too small (less than 1 ha), few people will be interested in it, which will have a negative impact on its value. Conversely, a pond that is too large (over 10 ha) will also be penalised and will have a lower value per hectare.
Finally, the state of maintenance of the pond is undoubtedly the element that has the greatest impact on its value: the state of the banks and reed beds, the level of siltation, the drainage system, etc. are all factors to be taken into account when determining the sale or purchase price of a pond.
Our professional advertisers, specialists in forests and ponds, will be able to guide you in determining the selling price of your pond. You can complete our form to be put in touch with these forestry professionals free of charge.
Buying a pond or lake is often a project driven by passion. Pond buyers need to be sure that their future lake or pond will last, and to plan ahead for future maintenance.
Ponds, marshes, rivers and other bodies of water are part of France's highly regulated natural areas. As such, you should ask the seller to declare the existence of the pond, which is issued by the Direction Départementale des Territoires et de la Mer. The pond must therefore be "founded in title".
Otherwise, you will have to ask the DDTM to regularise the existence of the pond, which will be possible if it is old. In addition, a pond must comply with certain standards (grids, spillway, dykes, etc.).
First of all, you need to know the planning classification of your plot. If your plot has planning permission (zone U), you can build a house on it.
If your plot of land is classified as agricultural (Zone A), natural or forest (Zone N), you can install a caravan, mobile home or light leisure accommodation on the land next to your pond, provided that it does not remain on site for more than 3 months and that it can be moved. Otherwise, all construction will require planning permission, which may not be possible everywhere depending on the planning zoning or environmental zones (Natura 2000, ZNIEFF, etc.).
In all cases, contact your local town planning department.
You can buy a pond or lake for your own pleasure. You can also make it profitable, i.e. earn income from it. You can rent it out to hunting or fishing clubs, or to fish farmers. You can also run your own pond as a commercial activity by renting out fishing rights on a daily and half-day basis. Carp fishing, for example, is a popular activity with many foreign tourists.
