Extended Stay Report · 2026Q3 · CBSA 45300
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
3,424,560 residents across 4 counties. Supply as mapped 18 days ago; employment for 2025Q4.
The gap, stated plainly
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater has about 5,539 extended-stay rooms. The construction workforce already on the ground implies demand for roughly 7,611.
Existing rooms
5,539
Baseline need
7,611
Project-driven need
0
Gap
+2,072
Arithmetic: 95,132 construction jobs × 8% assumed non-local = 7,611 rooms. The non-local share is an assumption and is the single biggest lever here — halve it and the gap moves more than any other input.
First edition
This is the first published edition for Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, so there is nothing to compare against yet. Its 5,539 rooms, 95,132 construction jobs and gap of +2,072 are the baseline. Each later quarterly edition shows how they have moved since.
Read the full market report
Supply by brand, the demand trend, the labour market, the announced project pipeline, the lodging sponsors already raising in this metro, the operator commentary, and the full methodology with its counter-arguments.
The full market report is free. We ask who is reading it so we know which markets to cover next, and so that any future correspondence is with people who actually work in this sector. A person reads every response.
This is a research readership list. Completing it is not an application to invest, does not create an offer to you, and does not commit either of us to anything. Nothing on this page is investment advice, and nothing here is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.
Don't see your market?
Tell us which metro you want covered. Requests decide which markets we add next, and we will email you if we add it.
Generated 2026-09-28. RealInsightHQ builds market intelligence from public data. Nothing here is investment advice, and nothing here is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.