Tampa Bay’s residential real estate heavyweights just got a new roll call, and it is a long one. A fresh list from the Tampa Bay Business Journal names 69 teams that each reported at least $40 million in residential sales during 2025, putting a wide mix of brokerages on the region’s high-volume radar.
The ranking, compiled locally by research director Chris Erickson and released June 26, 2026, tracks teams operating across Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sarasota counties. Teams are ordered by 2025 sales volume, and the publication notes that figures were supplied by company representatives and “could not be independently verified,” according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal. The full rankings live behind a subscriber paywall, with access reserved for paying readers.
Last year’s version of the list was a tighter club. It featured 47 teams and set the entry bar at $50 million in 2024 sales, a detail reflected on firm press pages such as Pettingell Professionals. Dropping the cutoff to $40 million this time around opened the door for more teams to make the publication’s leaderboard.
Market Context
The backdrop for all this leaderboard jockeying is a state housing market that has largely leveled off rather than fallen off a cliff. Statewide, 2025 closed with single-family home sales up 0.9% and median prices holding steady, according to Florida Realtors.
On the ground in Tampa Bay, Realtor.com’s market overview for early 2026 pegs the median home price at roughly $450,000, signaling continued, if uneven, demand across different corners of the metro. Some submarkets are sprinting while others are catching their breath, but overall the engine is still running.
What the List Shows
The Business Journal’s roster is not a full census of the region’s players. Only firms that responded to the survey made the cut, so some active teams are not represented. Even so, the results highlight how a relatively small slice of the brokerage community handles a hefty share of big-dollar deals, as reported by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
The shift from a $50 million threshold last year to $40 million this year inevitably broadened the field, pulling more mid- to high-volume teams into the spotlight while keeping the top-producing groups firmly on top.
Teams to Watch
For a sense of scale, some teams have already touted their numbers publicly. Pettingell Professionals reports more than $161 million in 2025 sales, a figure highlighted on the firm’s own press page at Pettingell Professionals. Numbers like that help explain why luxury and boutique outfits show up prominently on high-volume lists.
For buyers and sellers, the Business Journal’s rankings offer a quick snapshot of who is routinely handling the biggest checks and toughest timelines. For agents and rival brokerages, the list is a scoreboard that hints at where marketing budgets, listing inventory and negotiating firepower are currently stacked in the Tampa Bay market.
Anyone wanting the blow-by-blow details of all 69 ranked teams will find them locked behind the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s subscriber wall, where the full tables remain paywalled.
