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Who's building the most new homes in Tampa

A look at new single-family construction in Hillsborough County, Florida, and the homebuilders driving it, from public building-permit records.

By the PermitFocus Data Team · Published September 3, 2026 · Updated September 13, 2026

Data through Jun 26. Free to cite with attribution to PermitFocus.

3,696
new single-family permits, trailing 12 months
~323
new homes permitted per month
15+
active homebuilders tracked

Key findings

  • Hillsborough County permitted about 323 new single-family homes a month over the past year — 3,696 in total.
  • Lennar Homes, LLC led all builders with 644 permits; the top three builders account for roughly 39% of builder-identified new-home permits.
  • Of the 15 most active builders, 10 are national production builders and 5 are regional or local — about 33% of the leaderboard is the reachable long tail for suppliers and trades.

New-home permits by month

Monthly new single-family building permits in Hillsborough County (Aug 25 through Jun 26). The market has run at roughly 323 new homes a month.

Aug '25Sep '25Oct '25Nov '25Dec '25Jan '26Feb '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26Jun '26

Tampa's most active homebuilders

Ranked by new single-family permits pulled in Hillsborough County over the trailing 12 months. Builder names link to full permit-activity profiles where available. National production builders and regional/local builders are tagged.

HomebuilderPermits (12 mo)Type
1 Lennar Homes, LLC 644 National
2 Pulte Home Company, LLC 190 National
3 D.R. Horton Inc 159 National
4 Homes By Westbay 115 Regional / local
5 Highland Homes 87 Regional / local
6 Ryan Homes 70 National
7 Weekley Homes 60 National
8 Taylor Morrison Of Florida, Inc. 50 National
9 Casa Fresca Homes LLC 49 Regional / local
10 Kb Home Tampa, LLC 40 National
11 Mattamy Homes 34 National
12 Ashton Tampa Residential, LLC 33 National
13 Leola Construction Inc 30 Regional / local
14 Nvr Inc. Dva Ryan Homes 29 National
15 Domain Homes, Inc 22 Regional / local
Source: PermitFocus analysis of public building-permit records, Hillsborough County, FL. Free to republish with a link to permitfocus.com.

Why this matters for suppliers and trades

Every new-home permit is a downstream job for the trades that follow construction. If you sell to or subcontract for builders in Tampa, this leaderboard is your target list — and the long tail of regional builders is where most reachable demand sits.

Permit-driven leads by trade: roofers in Tampa · concrete contractors in Tampa · HVAC contractors in Tampa · plumbers in Tampa · electricians in Tampa · lumber & building-material dealers in Tampa

Go deeper: Hillsborough County market dashboard · all tracked homebuilders · download the Hillsborough County permit dataset

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Methodology. Counts are new single-family residential building permits in Hillsborough County, Florida, from public county permit feeds, de-duplicated and classified by PermitFocus. Builder rankings use the contractor of record on each permit, normalized across regional entities and grouped case-insensitively. Owner-builder and non-builder filings are excluded from the leaderboard. The trailing-12-month window ends with the last fully reported month (Jun 26); very recent months are excluded until records finish posting. Figures are for informational use; verify against county records for official purposes. Published September 3, 2026; last updated September 13, 2026.

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