Tampa Airbnb Market
Trends & Insights

Not on current data. Tampa has 6,394 active entire-home listings, and revenue per listing over the last twelve months is down 9.8% year over year. A saturating market shows falling revenue per listing as supply outruns demand. Tampa suits investors who want weekly and monthly stays backed by medical, military, and corporate demand rather than pure tourism. The main things to underwrite are the seven-night minimum in residential zoning (nightly pricing models overstate what most homes can legally earn), the 2027 Hillsborough County registration, HOA and condo rental restrictions, and flood and windstorm insurance. The saturation signal on this page tracks the ratio of listing growth to demand growth each month.

Over the trailing twelve months Tampa averaged $180 per night and 60% occupancy, with March the strongest month ($4,436 per listing) and September the weakest ($2,243). Spring training, spring break, and festival season (Gasparilla in January and the Florida State Fair in February) push demand to its peak in late winter and early spring, while September, deep in hurricane season with schools back in session, is the slow stretch. Listings with a hot tub earned about 79% more than the market baseline. The five-year charts on this page show how rate and occupancy have moved month by month.

Tampa short-term rental demand comes from four segments. (1) Medical and university: Tampa General Hospital, Moffitt Cancer Center, and USF bring patients' families, traveling nurses, visiting faculty, and graduation weekends that fill weeks and months, not only weekends. (2) Military and corporate: MacDill Air Force Base rotations, corporate relocations, and the Westshore and Downtown office districts drive furnished mid-term stays. (3) Sports and events: Buccaneers and Lightning games, Raymond James Stadium concerts, spring training, Gasparilla, and the Florida State Fair create the highest-rate weekends of the year. (4) Cruises and beaches: Port Tampa Bay cruise departures add pre- and post-cruise nights, and the Gulf beaches across the bay pull leisure travelers who want a city base.

When new listings grow faster than booked nights, occupancy and nightly rates compress and per-listing revenue falls. Tampa's advantage is demand diversification: medical and university, military and corporate, sports and events, cruises and beaches do not all move together, which puts a floor under occupancy. The supply and demand chart on this page tracks active listings, available nights, and booked nights over time; treat supply growth above 20% with demand growth under 10% as a signal to be more selective on neighborhood and property type.

Three things: (1) supply growth in your target neighborhood, since above 15% a year competition intensifies; (2) nightly-rate direction, because falling rates signal oversupply while stable or rising rates (currently $180 in Tampa) indicate pricing power; and (3) regulatory changes. Both the City of Tampa and unincorporated Hillsborough County limit homes in residential zoning to stays of seven days or longer under rules that predate Florida's 2011 preemption, so nightly stays in ordinary neighborhoods are off the table outside Hillsborough's Resort Dwelling Overlay Districts. Every rental needs a Florida DBPR license, stays pay 13.5% combined tax (6% state sales tax, 1.5% county surtax, 6% Tourist Development Tax), and unincorporated Hillsborough adds an annual county registration starting January 1, 2027.

In Tampa, listings with a hot tub earned roughly 79% more per year than the market baseline of $36,426. The amenity performance section on this page ranks every tracked amenity by revenue, rate, and occupancy lift so you can prioritize the upgrades that pay back fastest.