# EU countries by persons employed in real estate activities, 2024

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_real_estate`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of real estate activities (NACE Rev. 2 section L): employees plus working proprietors, partners working regularly in the enterprise and unpaid family workers. A head count, not full-time equivalents. Eurostat structural business statistics.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Structural business statistics, Real estate activities (NACE Rev. 2 section L), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Structural business statistics, Real estate activities (NACE Rev. 2 section L), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/persons-employed-real-estate/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 755,302 |
| 2 | France | 310,100 |
| 3 | Italy | 274,682 |
| 4 | Spain | 270,184 |
| 5 | Poland | 210,052 |
| 6 | Portugal | 105,342 |
| 7 | Sweden | 103,144 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 85,834 |
| 9 | Hungary | 78,209 |
| 10 | Belgium | 77,592 |
| 11 | Czechia | 77,541 |
| 12 | Austria | 66,435 |
| 13 | Denmark | 60,935 |
| 14 | Romania | 56,050 |
| 15 | Lithuania | 49,088 |
| 16 | Bulgaria | 44,806 |
| 17 | Ireland | 42,276 |
| 18 | Slovakia | 36,823 |
| 19 | Greece | 35,711 |
| 20 | Latvia | 29,265 |
| 21 | Finland | 26,500 |
| 22 | Estonia | 20,294 |
| 23 | Croatia | 13,389 |
| 24 | Slovenia | 7,771 |
| 25 | Malta | 5,174 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 4,876 |
| 27 | Cyprus | 4,662 |