Lindsey Cantillo, President of CRGAR
Who is the President of CRGAR?
Lindsey Cantillo, owner and broker of Summer Coast Realty in Guanacaste. Costa Rica's realtors chose her to lead the Costa Rica Global Association of REALTORS® for 2026, after serving as its Vice President from 2010 to 2025. She has been a member since 2004.
What is CRGAR?
The Costa Rica Global Association of REALTORS® is a not-for-profit professional association that brings together real estate professionals across Costa Rica. It promotes education, ethical standards and advocacy for the profession, and has done so for more than twenty years.
It works with the US National Association of REALTORS® as a bilateral partner, which is why its members can also join NAR as International REALTOR® Members.
What do CRGAR members commit to?
A Code of Ethics, backed by a professional standards process. Members also get access to the national OMNI MLS listing system, bilingual training on Costa Rican real estate law, legal templates in Spanish and English, and NAR's international designations such as CIPS.
Why does it matter when you choose an agent in Costa Rica?
Costa Rica has no law that licenses real estate agents: anyone can call themselves one. Membership of an association with a code of ethics is one of the few ways a buyer or seller can check who they are dealing with.
Lindsey has worked to change that. In 2022 she sat on CRGAR's law project committee, which pushed for a law to recognise the real estate profession in Costa Rica.
What has she done at CRGAR?
As Vice President she worked on initiatives to strengthen the real estate industry in Costa Rica and its ties with colleagues abroad, and for more than a decade she has organised CRGAR's national golf tournament, one of the association's yearly events.
Her record
- 2004Joins CRGAR
- 2010 to 2025Vice President
- 2022Law project committee, for a law that recognises the real estate profession
- More than a decadeOrganiser of the national golf tournament
- 2026President
Sources: CRGAR, CRGAR board of directors, NAR International REALTOR Membership
More about Lindsey
- Lindsey CantilloOwner and broker, Summer Coast Realty
- In real estate since 2000Lindsey Cantillo, in real estate since 2000
- Two officesSummer Coast Realty offices in Playa Flamingo and Tamarindo
- Five languagesFive languages at Summer Coast Realty
- CIPSLindsey Cantillo, Certified International Property Specialist
- ABR and SRSLindsey Cantillo, ABR and SRS
- REALTOR®Lindsey Cantillo, REALTOR®
- MBA and master'sLindsey Cantillo, MBA and master's in digital marketing
- Her communityLindsey Cantillo in her community
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