About us

The Safer group

Frenchland.com is the english version of Proprietes-rurales.com, the website of rural property offers from the Safer group. 25 Land Management and Rural Establishment Agencies (Sociétés d’Aménagement Foncier et d’Etablissement Rural: Safer) cover the whole France, including overseas departments (DOM).

Non profit-making private companies under government supervision, created in 1960, the Safer group contribute, through land transactions, to balanced, sustainable, rural land development.

Their public service missions are structured around three main lines: 

• contributing to the maintenance and development of dynamic and sustainable agriculture.
• assisting the regional bodies in their policy for rural development,
• taking part in protection of the environment and of landscapes.

 Discover 50 years of Safer's actions

Our missions

The Safer: 

• informs the public of the sales of rural properties,
• advises and informs the purchasers and direct them to the right people,
• watches the land market of its region and has aregulatory role in this market,
• facilitates the investors' financial investments,
• evaluates agricultural properties,
• a mediator between sellers and purchasers,it improves farm structures, etc. 

What we offer

You are a sponsor, buyer, young farmer or investor and you are trying to create an activity contributing to the rural world's dynamism (handicraft, tourism or leisure activities, social and cultural activity)? The Safer can help you:
A Safer intervenes in transactions of a wide range, involving farms and rural properties: 

• transfer of entire mixed production farms including animal breeding (land to sell or rent, farm buildings, livestock, equipment), with lease transfer, transparency, support for respecting agricultural regulations, in accordance with the departmental schemes of the agricultural structures and in cooperation with the local people in charge
• search of lessees and sponsors for properties suitable for land investment and to rent
• transfer of wine properties, farms specialised in flower, vegetable or fruit growing, farms with hunting and fishing areas. 

The Safer also offers agrotourism properties, as well as rural estates.

The "house of Safer" (Maison des Safer)

The Safer group has a national federation (Fédération nationale des Safer - FNSafer) and a research department, Terres d'Europe - Scafr both situated in Paris at the Maison des Safer (House of Safer).

91 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 PARIS
FRANCE

Phone: (+33) (0)1 44 69 86 00

- Our corporate website (in French, Safer.fr)
- Our information website made for European farmers willing to settle in France (in English and French, Terresdeurope.net)
- The Maison des Safer (House of Safer) on Google Maps