Sarasota & Manatee County, Florida

Find a contractor whose license we already checked.

Suncoast Registry is a free list of home-service contractors working in Sarasota and Manatee County. We look up every license with the State of Florida, and we put the date we checked it right on the page. Search it as long as you want. There's nothing to sign up for.

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Free to search. Free to be listed. We never charge a homeowner.

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Licenses checked with the State — every listing shows the source and the date.
Two counties, on purpose — Sarasota and Manatee. We don't list Tampa.
Homeowners pay nothing — no fees, no account, no lead selling.
Paid placement is labeled — and it never changes a verification result.

How we check a contractor

Here's the whole process. It's short, and we'd rather you know exactly what it covers and exactly what it doesn't.

Step 1
We find who's actually working
We pull public building permit records for Sarasota and Manatee County. That tells us which contractors are really pulling permits and doing work here right now, not who bought the most advertising.
Step 2
We look up the license with the State
We check the license against the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and against the state's business records. If the license isn't active, the listing doesn't go up.
Step 3
We show you the date, and we check again
Every profile carries one line: License verified 8/11/26 · source: Florida DBPR. We re-run the check every month. If a license lapses, the listing comes down.

What this does not mean.

We check licenses. We do not inspect job sites, hold anyone's certificate, or promise anyone's work will be any good.

We verify license status only. We do not verify insurance, bonding, or workmanship. Always request a certificate of insurance before work begins.

A verified license means the State of Florida said the license was active on the date shown. That's it, and that's still more than most lists give you.

Read our full verification standard

Pick a trade

Every category is filtered to Sarasota and Manatee County.

See the whole directory

4,200 verified contractors are already listed.

We built this list before we asked anyone to join it. We pulled the permit records, checked the licenses, and published the contractors who are already working here. Most of them don't know they're on it yet.

4,200contractors with an active Florida license
6trades covered
8/11/26last full license re-check

Is one of them you?

If your business is on this list, the profile is yours. Claim it, fix anything we got wrong, add your phone number and your photos, and keep it. Free, and free from here on out. We don't have a trial and there's no card.

Claim Your Listing Remove My Listing

Listings are built from public records. If you'd rather not be listed, tell us and we'll take it down. One email, no argument. hello@suncoastregistry.com

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Two ways to use this

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If you need work done

Look up the trade you need, see who's licensed and working near you, and call them yourself. We don't sit in the middle of it. We don't sell your phone number, we don't hand it to four companies, and nobody is going to call you the second you close this page.

Find a Pro

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If you do the work

Get a free listing with your license status, your trades, the towns you cover, and your phone number. It stays free.

If you want to sit at the top of your category, that's Featured, a paid placement, at $49 a month, and Exclusive is a paid placement capped at two contractors per trade per ZIP code. Paying moves where you sit on the page. Placement is paid. Verification is not for sale.

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What's on every profile

The license number, its type, and its statusStraight from the Florida DBPR record, with the source named on the page.
The date we checked it with the stateOn every profile, in one line. We check again every month and the date moves with the check.
The trade, the county, and the city on the licenseThe city is the address of record on the state license, and we label it that way. It is not a service area the business told us.

Reviews are coming, and they'll only come from homeowners we can tie to a real job. We'd rather have none than have made-up ones.

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The list is free. So is being on it.

Homeowners: find someone licensed near you in about a minute. Contractors: get your business in front of people who are already looking, at no cost, for as long as you want it there.