Alejandra Rodriguez-Villamizar is a communications specialist, editor, and researcher based in Medellín, Colombia, with experience working at the intersection of investigative journalism, strategic communications, and multimedia storytelling.
She is currently Editorial Consultant at KeyCrew, where she leads and refines editorial processes, and manages and mentors the editorial team. Before this role, Alejandra coordinated multimedia content production and designed impact metrics. She conducted in-depth research on organized crime across Latin American countries, contributing to investigative reports that inform public debate and policy discussions. Her career also includes work in digital strategy and audience engagement at University College London, where she supported the Anthropology Department’s outreach and career initiatives.
Alejandra holds a BA in Communications and Journalism from Universidad EAFIT and an MSc in Politics, Violence and Crime from UCL, graduating with distinction. Her work is grounded in a people-centered approach that combines rigorous research, clear storytelling, and strategic thinking to generate social impact.
Housing markets are supposed to move on big forces – interest rates, job growth, inventory levels. But in Dallas Fort Worth, the momentum building through early 2026 broke not because of a rate hike or a recession, but because gas jumped from $2.60 to $4 a gallon seemingly overnight. For buyers already stretched to their ...
Downtown Jersey City sits at a three-month absorption rate for resale condos, and once problem listings are removed (bad layouts, low ceilings, overpriced units), the effective supply drops closer to two months. That’s the backdrop against which a new wave of high-rise condo development is arriving in Hudson County, New Jersey, a building type that ...
The assumption that longer days on market signal a weak housing market doesn’t hold up in Polk County, Florida. Homes there are sitting longer; days on market have climbed from single digits during the pandemic to the 90s, yet properties are still closing at 97% of asking price across most neighborhoods, according to Jen Lay, ...
Buyers relocating to southeast Florida’s beachside neighborhoods often assume that spending seven figures guarantees a polished, updated home. In East Hollywood and surrounding areas of Broward County, that assumption leads to serious budget miscalculations. The gap between purchase price and true move-in cost is one of the biggest surprises facing out-of-state buyers. Lilli Schipper, a ...
The broader Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) housing market has cooled. Listings are sitting longer, buyers are pickier, and the negotiating balance has shifted. But one segment in the Frisco-McKinney corridor is defying that trend: distinctive, high-end properties on unusual lots. While generic inventory stalls, homes with irreplaceable features are still moving quickly, even above the million-dollar ...
In the retirement communities of Coachella Valley, two homes with the same floor plan, the same square footage, and the same street can sell $100,000 apart. The difference has nothing to do with location or timing. It comes down to whether the owner kept up with maintenance or let it slide for decades. John Gonnello, ...
Over the past decade, private flood insurance has grown steadily as an alternative to the federal National Flood Insurance Program. For homeowners in flood-prone areas, the appeal is obvious: potentially lower premiums, sometimes broader coverage, and a familiar private-market experience. But many buyers don’t discover the trade-off until it’s too late. Private carriers can cancel ...
Waterfront and vacation properties along Lake Conroe, Lake Livingston, and the Gulf Coast from Crystal Beach through Jamaica Beach are sitting in saturated inventory – and many owners who purchased during the recent boom cannot recover their investment at current prices. For owners who treated second homes as a store of value, the math has ...
A lender tells you that you qualify for $350,000. You start browsing listings at that number. Within weeks, you are under contract on a home that stretches your monthly budget past the point of comfort. In the affordable Houston suburbs, this pattern is playing out repeatedly in 2026 – and the borrowers most at risk ...
Building an ADU in a Los Angeles backyard has always meant one financial path: rent it out. A homeowner could house a family member or find a tenant, but selling the unit as standalone property required a costly lot split. A policy change already active in parts of California may eliminate that barrier, turning backyard ...
Short-term rentals made small-scale landlording look easy for years. Buy a house, list it on Airbnb, collect nightly rates that dwarf a traditional lease payment. But in Houston, experienced brokers are now steering investor clients away from that model entirely, and toward a strategy called co-sharing that trades flashy nightly rates for something harder to ...
Small commercial property owners have spent the past few years hearing that insurance is getting harder to secure and more expensive across the board. For strip mall operators, warehouse landlords, and retail building investors, the assumption has been that coverage will only keep tightening. According to Andrew Kowalske, Chief Product Officer at Blitz Insurance, the ...
The challenge facing homeowners trying to sell in North Texas isn’t soft demand; it’s that builders down the street are offering rate buydowns and design credits that no individual seller can easily match. Across Collin County’s fast-growing suburbs, Frisco, McKinney, Prosper, Celina, Melissa, new construction communities continue to expand. Those builders routinely offer incentives worth ...
The Coachella Valley real estate market is splitting along price lines. Properties above $1 million are still moving. Below $500,000, activity has slowed noticeably, a dynamic that complicates the conventional wisdom about retirement destinations as uniformly resilient markets. John Gonnello, a Realtor with HomeSmart Professionals in Palm Desert, California, has spent close to 40 years ...
The Austin housing market has shifted far enough toward buyers that seller concessions now appear on virtually every purchase contract crossing a lender’s desk. That alone marks a reversal for a market that, just two and a half to three years ago, required buyers to close in two to three weeks or risk losing a ...
