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.
The housing slowdown in Southern California is not distributed evenly. In the corridor stretching from Temecula through North County San Diego, homes priced below city-specific thresholds are still drawing multiple offers in their first week. Luxury listings, meanwhile, sit with fewer showings and longer days on market. The result is two distinct markets operating side ...
Drive around Austin, Dallas, or several fast-growing Southern and Southwestern metros, and you’ll see apartment complexes on nearly every block. Rents have softened, and landlords are offering concessions, discounts like free months and waived fees, to fill units. For renters, the market feels generous. But large investors say this is temporary. A building boom already ...
A beautifully renovated home on a barrier island might seem like the safest bet in coastal Florida. But in Sarasota, buyers are learning that a home’s elevation relative to the base flood line matters far more than its kitchen counters or square footage. According to Tom Cail, Co-Founder of the Cail Grande Group at RE/MAX ...
The prevailing assumption in mid-2026 is that nobody refinances when mortgage rates sit in the mid-sixes (roughly 6.5 percent). According to Ron Vaimberg, president of Ron Vaimberg International, , that assumption is wrong, and it’s costing homeowners money. His mortgage coaching and training firm has worked with over 300,000 originators since 1997. Vaimberg points to ...
Automated valuation tools pull comparable sales data from nearby properties and produce confident estimates of what a house is worth. But in metros where housing stock spans more than a century, those estimates often fail to account for physical condition, structural age, and zoning designations that only a human can identify. According to one agency ...
A new home that costs 12 to 18 percent more than a conventional wood-framed house sounds like a hard sell. But Neil Prakash, an architect working in mass timber construction in British Columbia, argues that sticker price is the wrong number to focus on. He says the real cost of a home should be measured ...
Every quarter, mortgage rate forecasts change. Every quarter, buyers who delayed purchases based on those forecasts find themselves no closer to the conditions they were waiting for. According to Ron Vaimberg, president of Ron Vaimberg International, a mortgage training firm that has coached over 300,000 loan originators since 1997, the prediction track record is dismal: ...
In most housing markets, a small shift in mortgage rates changes a monthly payment by a manageable amount. In Orange County, California, where typical purchase prices run well above a million dollars, that same quarter-point shift moves payments by hundreds of dollars a month. According to Jordan Bennett, team lead of Jordan Bennett & Associates ...
In hurricane-prone parts of the US, the case for 3D-printed housing rests less on speed or novelty than on what the walls are made of. Concrete homes printed by robots carry specific resilience advantages over stick-built wood framing, advantages that matter most in markets where storms, termites, and wildfire threaten conventional structures. Boris Kozlov, Founder ...
In the stretch of coastline running from Hallandale Beach through Hollywood, Aventura, and Sunny Isles, the condo market is not experiencing a single correction. Two distinct markets are operating under the same geographic label – one defined by scarcity, the other by oversupply – with the dividing line falling near the million-dollar mark. Below that ...
In a region often discussed in extremes – either “heating up” or “cooling off” – Palm Desert’s residential market is doing neither. The city leads the Coachella Valley in monthly home sales volume, carries roughly four months of inventory, and operates as a balanced market, according to Vlada March, Realtor and owner of Vlada March ...
The gap between what sells fast and what lingers in Southern California’s inland and coastal submarkets has less to do with location than most buyers assume. In the corridor stretching from Temecula and Murrieta through Fallbrook and down into Oceanside, Carlsbad, and Vista, the dividing line is increasingly about condition and price, not neighborhood prestige ...
Northeast Florida’s housing market carries a four-month supply of inventory, a figure that, by conventional standards, still favors sellers. But within that tight market, a divide is forming between resale properties and new construction that is forcing existing homeowners to rethink how they position a listing. The issue is not a lack of demand. Builders ...
From the outside, Naples registers as a single luxury market, wealthy cash buyers competing for beachfront property. That perception isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete enough to cost buyers money. The metro contains at least four distinct sub-markets, each with different pricing dynamics, buyer profiles, and ownership cost structures. What works in a golf community purchase ...
The standard condo listing tells a buyer about square footage, amenities, and monthly fees. What it doesn’t tell them is when the elevator needs replacing, whether the reserve fund can cover it, or how much they’ll personally owe when the bill comes due. That information exists – buried in hundreds of pages of governing documents, ...
