In the second quarter this year, on-site business sentiment among domestic real estate service enterprises improved slightly from the previous quarter.
According to the results of the "2026 second-quarter Real Estate Service Industry Business Survey (BSI)" released by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on the 14th, the second-quarter business conditions BSI was 65.5. That was up 2.8 points from the previous quarter. The expected index for the third quarter was also tallied at 65.6, a slight 0.1-point increase from the second quarter.
With 100 as the baseline, a BSI above that level means more firms view conditions positively, while a lower figure means more see them negatively.
The industry conditions BSI also rose 1.6 points from the transfer quarter to 61.9, and the outlook for the next quarter inched up to 62.0, extending a modest improvement. The sales BSI climbed 1.6 points to 66.2, and the third-quarter outlook (66.4) was forecast to edge up as well. The funding conditions BSI improved by 1.7 points from the previous quarter to 67.0, but the expected index for the third quarter was found to decline 0.3 point to 66.7.
By segment, management services (92.1), which handle real estate facility maintenance, and financial services (90.4) posted higher readings, indicating a relatively stronger tendency to view the economy positively. In particular, the financial services sector jumped 13.5 points from the previous quarter, marking the steepest rise.
By contrast, consulting (33.2), brokerage (33.2), and development (48.7) fell below the baseline of 100, still reflecting a severe downturn.
Meanwhile, the item most frequently cited by on-site firms as the biggest obstacle to running their businesses was "uncertainty in the economic situation that refuses to be pinned down (44.9%)." That was followed by "various government regulations (17.5%)," "soaring labor costs (6.5%)," "lack of business funds (5.4%)," and "excessive competition within the industry (4.6%)," cited as key pressures on management. Compared with the previous quarter, complaints about government regulations and funding difficulties grew, while the proportion of respondents pointing to economic uncertainty edged down.
Detailed results of the survey, conducted on 3,000 real estate service enterprises nationwide, can be found directly starting today on the Korean Statistical Information Service (KOSIS) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's Statistics Nuri.