Farmland prices and rents
What a hectare of farmland costs to buy or rent: average prices and rents of arable land and permanent grassland in 27 European countries and their regions from 2011 to 2024, arable land in every Polish voivodeship by soil quality and farmland values in the 48 contiguous US states, from official statistics.
- EU arable land, 2024
- EUR 15,224e per ha
- EU permanent grassland, 2024
- EUR 11,753e per ha
- EU rent for a year, 2024
- EUR 295e per ha
- Countries
- 27
Price of arable land by country
Average price of a hectare of arable land in euro, in the latest year each country reported (2023 or 2024). Select a country for its regions, history and rents.
The bar for Malta is shortened so that the other countries stay readable.
Farmland prices and rents by country
Latest figures in euro per hectare. Countries report different years, so check the year before you compare.
| Country | Arable land | Permanent grassland | Rent for a year | Arable land, 5-year change | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇲🇹 Malta | 268,649 | — | 91 | — | 2023 |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 96,608 | 77,609 | 941p | +35% | 2024 |
| 🇵🇹 Portugal | 76,556p | 36,067p | 207p | +32% | 2024 |
| 🇮🇪 Ireland | 50,375p | 22,698p | 426 | +79% | 2024 |
| 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | 48,180 | 48,700 | 288 | +29% | 2024 |
| 🇧🇪 Belgium | 38,496e | 34,262e | 340 | — | 2014 / 2024 |
| 🇦🇹 Austria | 37,600 | 31,700 | 309 | — | 2024 |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | 35,447 | 15,896 | 837b | — | 2020 |
| 🇸🇮 Slovenia | 28,348 | 27,467 | 158 | +51% | 2024 |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 23,412 | 17,932 | — | +0.6% | 2018 |
| 🇩🇰 Denmark | 22,468 | 11,344 | 580 | +28% | 2024 |
| 🇵🇱 Poland | 16,118e | 10,710e | 390e | +47% | 2024 |
| 🇨🇿 Czechia | 14,835 | 12,021 | 171 | +73% | 2024 |
| 🇬🇷 Greece | 14,312 | 4,894 | 509 | +14% | 2024 |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | 12,778 | 4,360 | 247 | −1.1% | 2024 |
| 🇸🇪 Sweden | 10,706 | 4,470 | 162 | +18% | 2024 |
| 🇷🇴 Romania | 8,700 | 6,257 | 142 | +63% | 2024 |
| 🇧🇬 Bulgaria | 8,679 | 1,877 | 303 | +61% | 2024 |
| 🇫🇮 Finland | 8,670 | — | 230p | −0.2% | 2024 |
| 🇪🇪 Estonia | 7,033 | 5,274 | 115 | +103% | 2024 |
| 🇫🇷 France | 6,400d | 6,400d | 171 | +6.7% | 2024 |
| 🇭🇺 Hungary | 6,041 | 3,249 | 206 | +24% | 2024 |
| 🇭🇷 Croatia | 5,965 | 3,762 | 74 | +76% | 2024 / 2023 |
| 🇸🇰 Slovakia | 5,823 | 3,598 | 69 | +54% | 2024 |
| 🇱🇹 Lithuania | 5,590 | 4,063 | 243 | +41% | 2024 |
| 🇱🇻 Latvia | 4,825 | 3,642 | 111 | +23% | 2024 |
| 🇳🇴 Norway | — | — | 284 | — | 2024 |
Letters after a figure come from Eurostat: e = estimated, p = provisional, d = definition differs, b = break in series. Husfarm leaves out zero values and figures that differ from the rest of a series by a factor of four or more, which points to a different unit or definition. Charts and five-year changes start after the latest break in a series.
Arable land in Poland: PLN 72,682 per hectare
Average price in the second half of 2025: PLN 85,858 for good soils, PLN 74,439 for average and PLN 59,477 for poor soils. Every voivodeship, with figures back to 2009.
US farm real estate: USD 4,500 per acre in 2026
About USD 11,120 per hectare, land and buildings together. Cropland averaged USD 6,020 and pasture USD 2,000 per acre. All 48 contiguous states in one table.
Questions and answers
How much does a hectare of farmland cost in the EU?
Eurostat estimates the average price of a hectare of arable land in the EU at EUR 15,224 in 2024, and of permanent grassland at EUR 11,753. National averages range from EUR 4,825 in Latvia to EUR 268,649 in Malta, and prices also differ between regions of each country.
How much does it cost to rent farmland?
Renting a hectare of farmland in the EU cost on average EUR 295 for a year in 2024 (Eurostat estimate for arable land and permanent grassland together). Each country page lists rents by region and year.
Can farmland prices from different countries be compared?
With care. National statistics offices compile the figures with their own methods, and Eurostat marks figures that are estimated (e), provisional (p), defined differently (d) or follow a break in the series (b). Compare the same type of land in the same year, and check those marks.
Where do these figures come from?
From Eurostat’s statistics of agricultural land prices and rents, which national statistics offices supply, from Statistics Poland as published by ARiMR and from the USDA’s annual land values survey. Husfarm updates these pages when the publishers release new figures.
Sources
- Eurostat: Agricultural land prices by region (apri_lprc) and Agricultural land renting prices for one year by region (apri_lrnt), last updated 10 July 2026. Prices · Rents. Licence: CC BY 4.0; charts and changes calculated by Husfarm.
- Statistics Poland (GUS): average prices of arable land, published by the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture (ARiMR) and its archive.
- USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service: Land Values 2026 Summary, released 31 July 2026.
- Other publishers of farmland prices and rents, country by country: farmland price sources in the Husfarm directory.