Lindsey Cantillo, in real estate since 2000
How long has Lindsey Cantillo worked in real estate?
Since 2000. Her career in real estate began that year in Guanacaste, while she was still studying business administration with a focus on finance and banking. In 2004 she moved into real estate full time, joining a well-known agency in Tamarindo, and she went on to open Summer Coast Realty, with its main office in Playa Flamingo.
What did she do before real estate?
She ran her own businesses. While studying she started a shoe and fragrance shop that grew into a wholesale and retail business. After graduating she opened a UPS courier office in Guanacaste, an idea that came out of her university thesis on the region's room for business growth.
Running them is where she learned client management and how a business grows, the groundwork she brought to real estate.
What has she seen change on this coast?
A full market cycle. She built her own home at 25, worked through the market before and after the 2007 economic crisis, and has sold homes, condos, lots and land up and down the coast from Junquillal and Sámara to Playas del Coco.
She has been married since 2002 to a real estate lawyer, so the legal side of a sale in Costa Rica has been part of her daily life for more than two decades.
Where is she today?
She is the owner and broker of Summer Coast Realty, with offices in Playa Flamingo and Tamarindo and a team that speaks five languages, and in 2026 she is the President of the Costa Rica Global Association of REALTORS® (CRGAR).
Her record
- 2000Starts in real estate in Guanacaste while studying business administration
- 2002Marries a real estate lawyer
- 2004Full time in real estate at an agency in Tamarindo; joins CRGAR
- 2009Member of the National Association of REALTORS®
- 2010Vice President of CRGAR, until 2025
- 2012Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS)
- 2018Partnership with Premier Casa in Panama, for clients moving between Panama and Costa Rica
- 2022On CRGAR's law project committee, for a law that recognises the real estate profession in Costa Rica
- 2026President of CRGAR
More about Lindsey
- Lindsey CantilloOwner and broker, Summer Coast Realty
- President of CRGARLindsey Cantillo, President of CRGAR
- 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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