How much is a hectare of farmland worth in Italy?

A hectare of farmland in Italy is worth €22,400 on average (2024 data). The figure comes from the land market survey (Indagine sul mercato fondiario) of the CREA, Italy's council for agricultural research. The edition was published in November 2025. In the North-East the average rises to €47,100, in the Islands it falls to €8,600. Compared with 2023, the national average value grew by 1%.

Average values by area and by region

The CREA estimates the value of bare land: buildings and plantations are left out. The figures are for 2024 and rounded to the nearest hundred euro per hectare.

• North-West, 35,200: Piedmont 23,100, Aosta Valley 14,400, Lombardy 49,100, Liguria 37,100.
• North-East, 47,100: Trentino-Alto Adige 95,000, Veneto 54,100, Friuli-Venezia Giulia 35,500, Emilia-Romagna 29,200.
• Centre, 15,100: Tuscany 18,400, Umbria 12,000, Marche 13,600, Lazio 14,400.
• South, 13,300: Abruzzo 11,400, Molise 13,300, Campania 17,300, Apulia 14,800, Basilicata 8,200, Calabria 12,500.
• Islands, 8,600: Sicily 10,300, Sardinia 6,700.

The CREA warns that the 2024 data cannot be compared with earlier editions. It has updated the surface areas and the boundaries of the agricultural regions.

What the price depends on

This is what the CREA writes:

• Altitude zone. On national average, plains are worth €33,500 per hectare, inland hills 16,900, coastal hills 14,300, coastal mountains 8,800. Inland mountains reach 18,900, pushed up by high prices in Trentino-Alto Adige.
• Land features. It matters whether the land is dry or irrigated, how fertile it is and whether it can be improved or converted.
• Crop. In the province of Padua, arable land is worth about €47,000 per hectare. DOC vineyards in the Euganean Hills, in production and well exposed, are worth around 80,000, with peaks of 100,000.
• Water. Interest in irrigable land is growing, although the CREA advises checking its exposure to floods and landslides.
• North and South. In the North, more plains, more irrigated land and urban growth all weigh in. Urban growth reduces the supply of land compared with demand.
• Access and quality. Land that is easier to reach and suited to quality production tends to rise. Marginal, less productive land tends to fall.

The values are estimated by local experts (brokers, professionals, technicians from farm organisations and public bodies). For the CREA they are broad indications only: for a specific plot you need a valuation by a technician.

How the market is doing

Current prices rose by 1% in 2024, while inflation fell from 5.4% to 0.8%. For the CREA this is a slight positive sign in real terms, not seen for 20 years. Sales recorded by the notaries' council (Notariato) were over 180,000, +1.7% on 2023. 57% of the deeds concern land worth less than €10,000. The most active buyers are farmers. Sellers are often people who have stopped farming or who inherited land they do not want to farm.

And rents

For the CREA, the rental market stayed broadly stable in 2024. The CREA cites the 2020 Census of the ISTAT (Italy's national statistics institute): about 6.2 million hectares are farmed under rent or free use. That is 50% of the utilised agricultural area. Demand comes from young farmers, well-organised farms and renewable energy operators. Supply grows when older farmers leave the business.

Is your land above or below the average for your area? If you want to sell or rent it out, post the listing with crop, irrigation and location already stated.