Agricultural land prices in Italy per m²: 2025 regional averages

In 2025 a hectare of farmed agricultural land in Italy was worth 22,926 euros on average, or €2.29 per square metre, according to the farmland market survey of CREA, Italy’s public council for agricultural research. Regional averages run from €0.67/m² in Sardinia to €9.36/m² in Trentino-Alto Adige. These are broad figures for bare land: the price of your plot is a matter for a professional valuation.

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CREA’s 2025 averages: from €0.67 to €9.36 per square metre

Average farmland prices in Italy are recorded by the farmland market survey (Indagine sul mercato fondiario) of CREA, the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics. Its policy and bioeconomy centre has run the survey every year since the 1950s. For 2025 the national average for farmed land is €22,926 per hectare, 0.9% more than the €22,731 of 2024.

Average prices differ widely between the five macro-regions: €48,862/ha in the North-East, €36,525 in the North-West, €15,196 in the Centre, €13,369 in the South and €8,613 on the islands. CREA links the gap to differences in land resources, farm structures and types of production. Among regions, the lowest average is Sardinia at €6,693/ha and the highest Trentino-Alto Adige at €93,563.

The prices recorded are for bare land: buildings and plantations are left out where possible, and prices that cannot safely be tied to farming use are discarded. The table below this section lists every region in alphabetical order, in euros per hectare and per square metre.

From euros per hectare to euros per square metre

Farm statistics work in hectares: one hectare is 10,000 square metres. To get the price per square metre, divide by 10,000, so €22,926/ha is €2.29/m². The reverse sum helps when a listing gives a price per square metre: €1.50/m² is €15,000 per hectare.

Crop and terrain: what moves the price most

CREA records prices for 11 crop types in each agricultural region and groups them into five categories. The gaps are wide: in the 2025 Italian average a hectare of vineyard is worth €69,786 and a hectare of permanent meadow and pasture €9,342, so the vineyard average is about 7.5 times the meadow and pasture average. The chart at the end of this section sets out the five categories per square metre.

The second factor is the altitude zone. Plains are the most expensive at €35,264/ha (€3.53/m²); inland hills are at €16,806, coastal hills at €14,358 and coastal mountains at €8,861. Inland mountains reach €18,837/ha in the Italian average, but €61,888 in the North-East. CREA points out two exceptions to the rule that plains cost most: Ligurian vegetable and flower growing on the coastal hills and Trentino-Alto Adige orchards in the inland mountains.

In its 2025 summary CREA adds that demand for land for other uses, such as renewable energy plants, is affecting the market in some areas. If a price depends on a use other than farming, the CREA average does not describe it, because it leaves those prices out.

Sources: CREA, land values by region 2000–2025; CREA, 2025 survey summary; accessed 13 November 2026.

Very different prices in one region: the Tuscan example

The 2025 average for Tuscany is €18,519 per hectare, €1.85 per square metre. The price examples CREA publishes for specific areas and crops show how little that figure says about a single plot. The examples refer to land or whole farms with significant sales or letting activity during the year, so marginal land is probably under-represented. Unlike the averages, they may cover holdings including land improvements, so not bare land alone.

What raises or lowers the price of a single plot

CREA explains that the same crop can fetch quite different prices depending on the land: dry or irrigated, how fertile it is, whether it can be improved. The table links each point to the document where you can check it before making an offer.

Two situations have guides of their own: land with a running farm lease, in buying tenanted farmland, and the pre-emption rights of neighbours and tenants, in the guide to agricultural pre-emption. Building land is valued on other criteria, covered in the guide to building land prices.

VAM and OMI quotations: what they are for

The valori agricoli medi (VAM, average agricultural values) are not a market price list. Every year, by 31 January, a commission set up by the Region in each province fixes them for each agricultural region, according to the crops actually grown, for the previous calendar year and for land treated as not subject to a farm lease (Presidential Decree 327/2001, Article 41(4)). They are expressed in euros per hectare and published in the regional official bulletins; the Agenzia delle Entrate, the Italian tax agency, collects them on its website.

According to the Agenzia delle Entrate, today they are used in the expropriation of non-building land, in particular for additional payments: an owner who is a coltivatore diretto (working farmer) or a full-time farm entrepreneur is entitled to an additional payment equal to the VAM of the crop actually grown (Article 40(4)). Article 42 grants an additional payment, set under the same Article 40(4), to a tenant farmer, sharecropper or crop-share partner as well, under the conditions it lists: direct cultivation of the area since at least one year before the declaration of public utility, having to leave all or part of the area because of the expropriation or a voluntary transfer, a statement by the person concerned and a check that the conditions are met.

Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 40, which tied to the VAM the compensation for uncultivated non-building land, the offer and the provisional compensation, were struck down by the Constitutional Court in judgment 181 of 2011. The Agenzia delle Entrate sums up the reason: compensation cannot rest on average prices that do not match actual market values.

The tax agency’s OMI quotations (Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare, its property market observatory) give, for each zone of every municipality, half-yearly bands in euros per square metre by property type and condition. The agency itself calls them broad indications that do not replace a professional valuation. Its service for looking up declared sale prices covers sales of units in the building cadastre, sometimes together with land parcels.

Sources: Presidential Decree 327/2001, Article 41; Presidential Decree 327/2001, Article 40; Presidential Decree 327/2001, Article 42; Agenzia delle Entrate, average agricultural values; Agenzia delle Entrate, OMI quotations; accessed 13 November 2026.

Price, value in the deed and taxes

Registration tax is not worked out on the CREA average but on the value of the property at the date of the deed (Presidential Decree 131/1986, Article 43). That is the value declared by the parties, or the price if it is higher; for property, value means open-market value (valore venale in comune commercio, Article 51).

To check that value, the tax office looks at transfers, divisions and court valuations of the same or similar properties dating from no more than three years before the date of the deed or the date on which the deed actually transfers or creates the right, at net income capitalised, and at any other relevant element, including information from municipalities (Article 51(3)). The three years mark the window for choosing comparable sales, not the time the office has to carry out its check. If it considers the market value higher, it adjusts it and claims the extra tax with interest and penalties (Article 52(1)).

Rates, minimum amounts and reliefs, which also depend on who buys, are explained in the guide to taxes on buying agricultural land. From 1 January 2027 a new consolidated code on registration tax applies (Legislative Decree 123/2025, Article 205): if your deed (rogito) is signed on or after that date, ask the notary for the figures under the new code.

How to estimate your plot, step by step

1. Find the agricultural region, on the CREA website. Look up the municipality in the list of agricultural regions: Bagno a Ripoli, for instance, is in the «Colline di Firenze» region. You download the file from the survey page.
2. Read the values for the area, on the CREA website. The files by province and altitude zone and the 2025 minimum and maximum file give the average and the extremes for the crop category. CREA warns that minimum and maximum figures are averages too and do not show all local variation.
3. Check crop and area, at the land registry and on site. The visura (cadastral extract) gives the registered crop class; a site visit shows what is really there, water and access included.
4. Check the zoning, at the Comune (municipality). The certificato di destinazione urbanistica (CDU, zoning certificate) says whether the plan treats the land as agricultural. The Comune must issue it within thirty days of the request (Presidential Decree 380/2001, Article 30(3)).
5. Ask a professional for a valuation. CREA writes that its figures are an aid to the valuation of a professional, the only document able to justify the value of a specific property. The professional gives timing and fee in the quote.

Sources: CREA, agricultural regions and municipalities; CREA, note on minimum and maximum values; Presidential Decree 380/2001, Article 30; accessed 13 November 2026.