Press & media
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Key numbers
- 95 sourced ownership changes involving 88 Tampa Bay home-service companies since 2010.
- 50 different buyers now control those brands; 69 investors sit behind them.
- Most acquisitive owners in the region: Strikepoint Group Holdings, LLC (8 brands), Pool Troopers (7 brands), Arrow Exterminators, Inc. (5 brands), Panther Service Group (4 brands), SPS PoolCare (Smart Pool Services) (4 brands).
- By county: Hillsborough27 · Pinellas19 · Pasco8 · Polk5 · Manatee8 · Sarasota19 · Hernando0.
- Tampa is home to the nation's largest residential trades consolidator (Apex Service Partners, ~75 brands) and to at least three newer platforms formed since 2023.
Press releases
- September 13, 2026 — Introducing Tampa Home Watchdog: the public record of who owns your contractor
Data & custom cuts
Download the full dataset (CSV/JSON, CC BY 4.0). We will run custom cuts — one buyer's Florida roster, one county over time, one trade — within a business day: press@tampahomewatchdog.com.
Interviews & comment
We can speak on the record about the data and the consolidation pattern. We do not comment on the conduct of individual companies beyond what public documents show. Email press@tampahomewatchdog.com.
Boilerplate
Tampa Home Watchdog is an independent public-record project tracking who owns Tampa Bay's HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest-control, pool, garage-door and restoration companies, and what changes after they are sold. Every record is sourced and rated for confidence. It is not affiliated with any contractor, platform or investor and accepts no advertising. tampahomewatchdog.com