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.
Metro Detroit remains one of the few major metropolitan areas where an investor can acquire a property for under $100,000, put in rehab work, and still generate positive cash flow. That affordability continues to attract capital from across the country, but financing these deals and structuring them to survive a missed assumption requires more nuance ...
A few years ago, buyers in the Hudson Valley were putting offers on anything available. Homes needing work, homes in unfamiliar towns, homes that didn’t quite fit, all moved quickly in a market defined by urgency. That dynamic has shifted. The market hasn’t slowed in volume, but buyers have become selective in ways that are ...
Builders in the Houston suburbs of Katy and Cypress are offering incentive packages large enough to make new construction cheaper than comparable resale homes, a reversal that is forcing existing homeowners into concessions and leaving resale inventory sitting longer than it has in years. The compression between new and resale pricing has created a market ...
A home listed at $350,000 in Bakersfield, California, looks like a bargain compared to what the same money buys in Los Angeles or the Bay Area. But out-of-town investors keep making the same mistake: they chase the purchase price and ignore whether the rental income can actually service the debt. Ernesto Osuna, Broker/Owner of D ...
The assumption that tight inventory means a frozen market doesn’t hold in the towns just west of New York City. In Nutley, Bloomfield, and Belleville – a cluster of residential communities roughly ten miles from Manhattan – homes are selling quickly enough that annual transaction counts are running closer to normal than monthly inventory snapshots ...
For years, offsite and modular construction occupied a familiar position in housing conversations: promising in theory, unproven at scale, and haunted by high-profile failures from the last decade. That position is changing, not because the technology suddenly became viable, but because the economics of conventional construction have deteriorated to the point where developers are actively ...
A city of roughly 68,000 to 72,000 people does not typically support 34 simultaneous new-home developments. But Celina, Texas, one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States over the past five years, is operating at a pace that forces resale homeowners into direct competition with publicly traded builders who adjust pricing on weekly data ...
Bakersfield’s housing market sits in an unusual position for California: median prices around $400,000, rising inventory, and builders actively offering credits and rate buydowns to attract first-time buyers. The result is a market where resale sellers who ignore what’s happening next door, sometimes literally next door to a new construction community, are watching their listings ...
The common shorthand for Nashville’s housing market, either “still hot” or “finally cooling,” misses what’s actually happening on the ground. According to Kortney Wilson, Founder & Team Leader of The Kortney Wilson Group at eXp Realty, the metro area is behaving less like a single market and more like a collection of distinct submarkets, each ...
Most real estate websites still greet visitors with a contact form, a passive tool that asks for information before offering anything in return. That model is increasingly out of step with how buyers actually shop: browsing has shifted heavily into evenings and weekends, attention spans have compressed, and the rise of zero-click search, where consumers ...
Rising inventory usually signals a cooling market. In the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro, it signals something else: more people choosing to move at the same time. The Twin Cities are carrying their highest housing inventory since 2018 or 2019, yet transaction volume has risen in step – producing a busy market with more options rather than ...
The short-term rental boom that swept through New York’s Hudson Valley during the pandemic years has given way to a less forgiving environment. Regulations are tightening across municipalities, operational costs have risen, and supply has flooded the market as second-home owners listed their properties on rental platforms simultaneously. STR investors are pulling back, and a ...
The starter home in South Jersey used to cost around $250,000. That number has shifted upward by roughly $100,000 to $150,000 depending on the county, pushing the introductory price into the $350,000 to $400,000 range, according to Maria Robles, a Realtor Associate Broker with Real Broker, LLC, who has worked the South Jersey market for ...
For years, real estate observers in the Philadelphia metro region described South Jersey as undervalued – a suburban stretch with beach access and lower taxes that hadn’t caught up to its northern counterpart. That description is outdated, according to Shelby Morgan, Broker/Owner of Morgan Capital Real Estate in Marlton, New Jersey. Prices in parts of ...
Two years ago in the Buffalo metro, getting a home often meant going over the asking price. Buyers approved for $350,000 would bid $360,000 and figure out the difference later. That era is over. According to Lawrence Blaber, a Realtor with WNY Metro Roberts Realty who works with both homeowners and investors across the Buffalo ...
