Tampa area ranks among top U.S. secondary MSAs

The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan statistical area ranks among the Top 20 performing secondary MSAs in the U.S. for potential commercial real estate investors, according to a new survey by real estate research firm Trepp LLC.

Trepp ranked the city 13th for its debt service coverage ratio of 1.97x, its loan delinquency rate of 6.91%, its commercial occupancy rate of 90.83%, an unemployment rate of 3.25% and a population growth rate of 1.81%.