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Real estate activities

Current registrations 587division 68: 55,049
Starters, 12 months 213.6 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 8020 employers · latest accounts
Median age 14.2 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 80.6%473 of 587 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.

Filed accounts

NACE 68204 · financial year 2025 · 328 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
44.2%
division 31.5% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€9,510
division €8,435 · Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€336,523
division €167,933 · Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
38.2%
division 38.2% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
14.9%
division 17.6% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
3.2%
division 5.6% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.06
division 1.18 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
28.9%
financial year 2024, 329 filings · division 36.1% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
4.4%
of 343 companies with annual accounts · division 4.3% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 47.5%41.9%43.6%42.2%46.3%44.2%
Median net result €3,250€2,976€5,424€2,776€6,655€9,510

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
1
0.17% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
2
3.4 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
06-05-2022 NEW PARKING JACK
BE 0723.900.508

Every bankruptcy in division 68, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 433 of 587 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 290 · 67.0%
  • Wallonia 100 · 23.1%
  • Brussels 39 · 9.0%
  • Abroad 4 · 0.9%
fewer moremax 87

Largest employers

NACE 68204 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 GROUP BONTEMPSNazareth 12.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 POWER ROSESKalmthout 11.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Exploitatiemaatschappij Klein StrandJabbeke 11.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 CASTELEINVeurne 11.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 IMRODERSint-Martens-Latem 7.6 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 31 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 14
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 6
  • 302 Hotels and catering 5
  • 144 Agriculture 3
  • 124 Construction 2
  • 146 Forestry 2
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 2
  • 112 Garages 1
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  • 125.03 Timber trade 1
  • 127 Fuel trade 1
  • 140 Transport and logistics 1
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 1
  • 140.05 Removals 1
  • 145 Horticulture 1
  • 148 Fur and pelts 1
  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 68: Real estate

Related activities

3 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land68203 12,063 650 15 6,701
Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing68201 9,071 343 16 1,881
Real estate activities68202 205 4 1 4,185

Bankruptcies per year in division 68

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies259238230201237147130172172179222159
Jobs lost343300340245321220243273242264322220

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 68

2,653 employers
Median
€62,300
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€48,800 to €79,700
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
53 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €60,400 €47,500 to €78,100 2,217
10 to 49 FTE €70,400 €57,900 to €84,400 363
50 to 249 FTE €75,500 €69,800 to €86,900 68

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 68
Number
649
Half have run longer than
28 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
39%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,642 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 7 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

260 of the 44,363 companies in NACE division 68 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Luxembourg (107), Netherlands (56) and France (32). Together they employ 560 of the division's 26,053 FTE: 2.1%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €1.11bn awarded 3,795 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Tussenkomst FS3 aan initiatiefnemers
  • Federal transfers 16.9m amount as published 8 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelage aan de BGHM
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €8.8m paid 23 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subvention en capital à la SA Conservatoire de Bruxelles
  • EU budget €138.7m attributed share 49 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Rents and purchases
  • EU research €8.6m EU contribution 10 recipients · 2008 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Real estate activities

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 3.2% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 38.2% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium. The median net result of €9,510 is below Belgium's €16,500.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 14.2 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 3.6 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 83% of the 87 NACE divisions. 26.2% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 28.9% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 55 of the 80 FTE: 68.2%.

Direction. Median solvency fell from 47.5% in financial year 2020 to 44.2% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €3,250 in financial year 2020 to €9,510 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 68204 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.