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Property management for co-owned buildings (syndics)

Current registrations 3,659division 68: 55,053
Starters, 12 months 832.3 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 82.2 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 1,591157 employers · latest accounts
Median age 24.4 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 63.1%2,307 of 3,659 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 68321 · financial year 2025 · 1,394 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
34.4%
division 31.5% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€13,976
division €8,440 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€142,226
division €168,105 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
30.6%
division 38.2% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
13.5%
division 17.5% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
10.9%
division 5.6% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.22
division 1.18 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
40.4%
financial year 2024, 1,385 filings · division 36.1% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
4.1%
of 1,465 companies with annual accounts · division 4.3% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 32.3%31.9%32.0%33.7%34.4%34.4%
Median net result €11,406€13,072€12,537€11,621€12,186€13,976

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
17
0.46% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
23
6.3 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
05-11-2026 NEMESIS
BE 0429.219.060
10-07-2026 M.I. MANAGEMENT
BE 0832.201.897
08-07-2026 SINACO
BE 0429.095.138
28-05-2026 DVS MANAGEMENT GROUP
BE 0699.464.030
18-05-2026 CASALDA BELGIË
BE 1019.275.109
22-04-2026 Red Brands Franchise Network
BE 0775.928.536
26-01-2026 QA Invest
BE 0793.525.722
19-01-2026 Donck, Arthur
BE 0745.983.052 · sole trader · Antwerp

Every bankruptcy in division 68, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 3,296 of 3,659 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 1,604 · 48.7%
  • Brussels 1,093 · 33.2%
  • Wallonia 585 · 17.7%
  • Abroad 14 · 0.4%
fewer moremax 1,093

Largest employers

NACE 68321 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 CBRE GWS BelgiumMachelen (Brab.) 251 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 VM VastgoedbeheerBrussels 141 FTEfinancial year 2024
  3. 3 BNP PARIBAS REAL ESTATE BELGIUMBrussels 100 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Alliantie van Brusselse CoöperatievenWoluwe-Saint-Lambert 85.2 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 CEUSTERSAntwerp 76.3 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 364 companies
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 260
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 89
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 22
  • 124 Construction 8
  • 121 Cleaning 5
  • 302 Hotels and catering 5
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 2
  • 201 Independent retail 2
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  • 307 Insurance brokers and agencies 2
  • 330 Health institutions and services 2
  • 101 Mining 1
  • 109 Clothing and garment industry 1
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 112 Garages 1
  • 144 Agriculture 1
  • 149.04 Metal trade 1
  • 203 White-collar workers in bluestone quarries 1
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 1
  • 215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 1
  • 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 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
Real estate agency activities68310 11,708 818 34 4,590
Real estate appraisal on a fee or contract basis68322 971 138 2 149
Real estate activities68329 157 72 0 13

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

2,655 employers
Median
€62,300
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€48,800 to €79,600
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 €47,400 to €78,100 2,219
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
650
Half have run longer than
28 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
39%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,562 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 6 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 44,355 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 26,056 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 3,794 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 Property management for co-owned buildings (syndics)

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 10.9% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Liquidity of 1.22 is below Belgium's 1.66. Solvency of 34.4% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 2.2 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 74% of the 88 NACE divisions.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 24.4 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Brussels holds 33.3% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. 9.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 654 of the 1,591 FTE: 41.1%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 32.3% in financial year 2020 to 34.4% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €11,406 in financial year 2020 to €13,976 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 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 68321 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 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 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.