The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For real estate activities on a fee or contract basis, that activity is 68200.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
68200 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for real estate activities on a fee or contract basis: a sub-class of class 6820, real estate activities on a fee or contract basis, within division 68, real estate activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 68Group 682Class 6820Sub-class 68200
Real estate activities on a fee or contract basis
Sub-class 68200 · Class 6820 · Group 682 · Division 68 · Section L, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
682005 digits: 68 + 2 + 0 + 0NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 68200. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 68 covers real estate activities. It sits in section L, real estate activities.
Real estate activities on a fee or contract basis.
Real estate activities on a fee or contract basis. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Real estate activities on a fee or contract basis. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
68200 is a sub-class of class 6820, real estate activities on a fee or contract basis. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the provision of real estate activities on a fee or contract basis including real estate related services such as, activities of real estate agents and brokers, intermediation in buying, selling and renting of real estate on a fee or contract basis, management of real estate on a fee or contract basis, appraisal services for real estate, real estate escrow agents
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 68200 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For real estate activities on a fee or contract basis, that activity is 68200.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Questions
Real estate activities on a fee or contract basis, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6820, real estate activities on a fee or contract basis.
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page, and the explanatory note for class 6820, are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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