Veterinary Clinic Feasibility Study in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about veterinary clinic lending in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Tampa Bay veterinary lending at large tickets

Inside Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater the veterinary clinic class ranks 13 of 39; against all areas, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater ranks 11 of 485 for veterinary clinic. A location quotient of 1.38x shows animal hospitals weighing noticeably more here than nationally, on the files' own evidence. SBA's files list 52 loans for $61.9 million from FY2017 to FY2026. Veterinary clinic borrowers in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater see a $645,500 median, 1.04x of the national veterinary clinic figure; ordinary loans run $241,450 to $1.6 million.

By count SBA 7(a) carries 45 veterinary clinic loans in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater; SBA 504 carries 7. Pinellas County supplies 30 loans, and Hillsborough County supplies 15 loans. For 7(a) paper in Tampa, the table shows Live Oak Banking Company with $29.1 million across 15 loans. The average ticket at that lender is far above the area median. The Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater lender table as SBA’s ledger of holders, without judging how Live Oak Banking Company lends. Holdings, not standards.

In the Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater veterinary clinic cell, the charged-off rate, a floor for post-approval cancellations, and the flagged portion stays out of print because the count falls short; no zero is implied. 6 approvals for $4.9 million in FY2018; 5 approvals for $5.9 million in FY2021; 5 approvals for $5.1 million in FY2022; 6 approvals for $10.5 million in FY2024; 10 approvals for $12.6 million in FY2025; and 5 approvals for $1.3 million in FY2026.

One lender dominates the named holders by dollars, so a borrower should expect that lender's file standards, whatever they are, to shape comparison, though SBA's records do not describe them.

Tampa veterinary: what a veterinary study here has to test

A veterinary study should test the client base and referral flow, the doctor and technician roster, imaging and surgical equipment cost, the lease or purchase of the building, and coverage of debt service if one veterinarian leaves. A practice acquisition needs goodwill separated from real estate in the appraisal. In Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater, a veterinary clinic loan counts using the financed site’s county by way of July 2023 boundaries. No match, no inclusion. Loan Analytics gives this behind the veterinary clinic analysis a Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater borrower needs, with Daniel Smith, MAI, signing it; no outcome is promised.

SBA veterinary clinic loans in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202652
Gross dollars approved$61.9 million
Median loan$645,500
Middle half of loans, from$241,450
Middle half of loans, to$1.6 million
SBA 7(a) loans45
SBA 504 loans7
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas for veterinary clinic loans11 of 485
Rank of veterinary clinic among the classes in this area13 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.38x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.04x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)withheld
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)withheld

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

SBA veterinary clinic loans approved in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area, by fiscal year

0246810FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 6Loans, FY2021: 5Loans, FY2022: 5Loans, FY2024: 6Loans, FY2025: 10Loans, FY2026: 5
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20186$4.9 million
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY20215$5.9 million
FY20225$5.1 million
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY20246$10.5 million
FY202510$12.6 million
FY20265$1.3 million

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Live Oak Banking Company15$29.1 million

Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Pinellas County, FL30
Hillsborough County, FL15

Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.

Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MA-45300-C21.

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