Got a listing? Let us help you sell it.
Put your listings on gaprealestate.com at no cost. We write them up properly in English and Spanish, we put them in front of our buyers, and if one of those buyers takes it, GAP keeps half a percent of the sale price for the advertising and marketing and the rest of the commission is split evenly between the two of us. You keep your seller. Nothing is exclusive.
Costa Rica has no real MLS. Every agent is sitting on their own inventory, showing it to their own buyers, and hoping the right one walks past. Pooling listings is the only thing that fixes that, and somebody has to go first.
What we bring to your listing is buyers. gaprealestate.com, our own audience including a Costa Rica community group of more than 170,000 people, and the people already talking to us every week about buying here.
And the part most agents underestimate: we can finance the buyer.
Through GAP Equity Loans we arrange property-backed financing from US$50,000 to around US$1 million, and project funding from US$1,000,000 to US$100,000,000 for larger deals. No credit score, no income verification, any nationality.
Which means a buyer who loves your property but cannot get a Costa Rican bank to move is not automatically a dead lead any more. That alone has saved deals that were already written off.
Commission in Costa Rica is not regulated and it is not the same everywhere. The Central Valley usually runs lower than the coast; land, farms and smaller sales usually run higher. The total is agreed with the owner for each individual property.
Whatever that total turns out to be, the arithmetic is the same: GAP’s half point comes off first, and everything left is divided evenly.
| Commission agreed with the owner | GAP, for advertising and marketing | Each agent |
|---|---|---|
| 5% | 0.5% | 2.25% |
| 6% | 0.5% | 2.75% |
| 8% | 0.5% | 3.75% |
| 10% | 0.5% | 4.75% |
Why the total moves around: the Central Valley is quick and cheap to work, the coast and the mountains are not; a condo is a simple sale and a farm is not; and a small sale takes almost the same work as a large one. The full explanation, with the customary rates, is here →
Illustrations only. These are not GAP’s rates — the commission on your property is whatever you and the owner agreed. You will see the exact figures in writing for that property before you show it to anybody.
Not much, and none of it is paperwork you do not already have:
- The owner knows the property is being marketed and has agreed the price
- Photos we can actually use, and the location — a pin is fine
- You tell us when something changes: a price move, an offer, or that it has sold
- The same price everywhere, so a buyer does not find it at three numbers on three sites
That last one is the only rule we are strict about. A listing on our site that sold two months ago costs you credibility as much as it costs us.
Before we publish anything, we need to know the property is genuinely yours to market.
Not passed along to you by another agent. Not something you saw go by in a WhatsApp group. Not a property you are hoping to get. Send us the finca number and confirm the owner has agreed both to the price and to it being marketed.
This is not us being difficult. The same house appearing on our site three times, at three prices, from three agents makes every one of us look like amateurs, and it is the quickest way to lose a seller’s trust for good. We do not take sub-listings.
We keep the paperwork to what the property actually needs. If you have a property and the owner wants it sold, that is enough to start a conversation.
We also will not go around you. We are not interested in taking your seller. We are interested in having enough good property on one website that buyers stop looking anywhere else.
A lot of agents already share listings in the MLS Live in Costa Rica WhatsApp group. If you are in it, you can simply send the listing there or straight to Glenn — there is nothing else to sign up for. If you are not in it and you would like to be, ask and we will add you.
Pick the listing you are most tired of looking at and send it over. If we can move it, you will know quickly. Glenn Tellier handles these personally.
The total commission is agreed with the owner for each property. GAP retains 0.5% of the sale price for advertising and marketing, and the remaining commission is divided evenly between the listing agent and the selling agent. Terms are confirmed in writing before any viewing takes place. GAP works on open listings only and does not ask for exclusivity on partner listings.