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Real estate appraisal on a fee or contract basis

Current registrations 971division 68: 55,049
Starters, 12 months 13814.2 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 22.1 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 14924 employers · latest accounts
Median age 7.2 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 86.6%841 of 971 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 68322 · financial year 2025 · 413 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
43.7%
division 31.5% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€11,269
division €8,435 · Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€59,018
division €167,933 · Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
27.2%
division 38.2% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
11.9%
division 17.6% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
16.1%
division 5.6% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.55
division 1.18 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
40.4%
financial year 2024, 401 filings · division 36.1% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
5.7%
of 440 companies with annual accounts · division 4.3% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 37.6%39.1%39.5%39.4%40.6%43.7%
Median net result €8,914€14,053€14,174€11,275€10,093€11,269

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
5
0.51% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
8
8.2 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
24-09-2026 BRIDINVEST REAL ESTATE
BE 0732.786.696
16-03-2026 BRE MANAGEMENT
BE 0840.767.888
28-04-2025 INSPECT HOUSE EXPERTISES
BE 0799.498.645
14-10-2024 Ravimo
BE 0422.481.916
10-06-2024 KAERELS
BE 0756.884.862

Every bankruptcy in division 68, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 577 of 971 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 263 · 45.6%
  • Wallonia 210 · 36.4%
  • Brussels 83 · 14.4%
  • Abroad 21 · 3.6%
fewer moremax 83

Largest employers

NACE 68322 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD BELGIUMBrussels 41.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 TROOSTWIJK - ROUX EXPERTISESAntwerp 25.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Bopro Portfolio Performance ManagementGhent 11.0 FTEfinancial year 2024
  4. 4 TOPO-IMMOHaaltert 9.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 W IMMOBILIEREArlon 6.0 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 65 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 31
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 29
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 4
  • 201 Independent retail 2
  • 336 Liberal professions 2
  • 144 Agriculture 1
  • 145 Horticulture 1
  • 210 White-collar workers in the steel industry 1
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  • 322 Temporary agency work and approved local services 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 11,702 818 34 4,590
Property management for co-owned buildings (syndics)68321 3,658 83 8 1,591
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

2,653 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 44,364 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 26,057 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 appraisal on a fee or contract basis

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €11,269 is below Belgium's €16,500.

Inflow and structure. Wallonia holds 37.8% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. In 12 months, 14.2 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 93% of the 87 NACE divisions. Half of the companies are younger than 7.2 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 93 of the 149 FTE: 62.6%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 37.6% in financial year 2020 to 43.7% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €8,914 in financial year 2020 to €11,269 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 68322 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.