The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For real estate activities with own or leased property, that activity is 68100.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
68100 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for real estate activities with own or leased property: a sub-class of class 6810, real estate activities with own or leased property, 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 681Class 6810Sub-class 68100
Real estate activities with own or leased property
Sub-class 68100 · Class 6810 · Group 681 · 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.
681005 digits: 68 + 1 + 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 68100. 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 with own or leased property.
Real estate activities with own or leased property. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Real estate activities with own or leased property. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
68100 is a sub-class of class 6810, real estate activities with own or leased property. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes buying, selling, renting and operating of self-owned or leased real estate, providing of homes and furnished or unfurnished flats or apartments for more permanent use, typically on a monthly or annual basis, development of building projects for own operation, i.e. for renting of space in these buildings, subdividing real estate into lots, without land improvement, operation of residential mobile home sites
This class excludes:
- - development of building projects for sale, see 4100
- - subdividing and improving of land, see 4290
- - operation of hotels, rooming houses, camps, trailer camps and other non- residential or short-stay accommodation places, see 5510, 5520
- - operation of suite hotels and similar accommodations, see 5510
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 68100 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For real estate activities with own or leased property, that activity is 68100.
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 with own or leased property, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6810, real estate activities with own or leased property.
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 6810, 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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