France paid employment: real estate
France paid employment: real estate stood at 340.9 thousand persons in 2025, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Annual national accounts table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1949 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Annual national accounts table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paid employment (persons) | |||||||||||
| Real estate | 340.9 | 344.1 | 351.2 | 352.8 | 342.7 | 332.7 | 327.9 | 325.6 | 322.1 | 310.9 | |
| Scientific and technical act.; administrative and support service act | 4,239 | 4,266.7 | 4,259 | 4,209.4 | 4,022.8 | 3,798.5 | 3,937.7 | 3,932.8 | 3,817.5 | 3,638.7 |
Understanding france paid employment: real estate
Salaried personnel totals dedicated to property leasing, asset management, brokerage, and building administration capture the formal labor input of firms whose primary economic function centers on land, dwellings, and non-residential real estate assets. This headcount excludes self-employed property agents, independent lessors operating without formal incorporated payrolls, and construction personnel who build structures before they enter the leasing market. By isolating wage earners tied directly to real estate operations from broader market services, this metric maps labor absorption specific to property transactions, facility management, and housing administration.
Interpreting this series requires accounting for annual revisions driven by late fiscal returns, administrative employment registers, and corporate tax declarations. Because the collection frequency is annual, comparisons should focus strictly on year-on-year changes rather than intra-year fluctuations, which are absent from this frequency. Analysts should avoid equating headcount tallies directly with full-time equivalent measures found elsewhere in the accounts, as part-time arrangements and variable hours can diverge significantly from raw person counts in property-related businesses.
Frequently asked questions
- How does this employment count treat independent real estate agents without a salary?
- Self-employed agents and non-salaried brokers are excluded, as this series covers only formal paid employees.
- Are residential and commercial property management personnel combined in this figure?
- Yes, all salaried staff across both residential and non-residential real estate operations are aggregated together.
- Why might this headcount differ from output measures in the same sector?
- Employment counts persons rather than monetary value added, meaning price shifts in property markets can decouple output from headcount.