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.
Canada’s housing shortage has generated no shortage of proposed solutions, and prefabricated mass timber construction is among the most frequently cited. The logic is appealing: use domestic timber resources, build panels in a controlled facility, ship them to site, and erect homes faster than traditional stick-frame methods allow. In British Columbia, where forestry infrastructure already ...
The luxury vacation-home market along Florida’s 30A corridor is splitting into two distinct tiers. Newer, well-built homes in desirable communities are commanding strong prices and attracting buyers quickly. Older homes that need work are sitting. The divergence is reshaping how buyers, sellers, and agents approach a stretch of coastline where every purchase is discretionary. Richard ...
The narrative around residential real estate investors in 2026 is one of retreat. Higher rates, compressed margins, and fewer easy flips have thinned the ranks. But the pullback may say more about how investors were making decisions than about the actual availability of deals, and the distinction matters for anyone still active in the space. ...
For years, institutional real estate portfolios looked roughly the same: heavy allocations to office, industrial, and apartments, with modest exposure to everything else. That composition is now shifting in ways that reflect structural changes in how people live and work and a broader reassessment of what “real estate” means as an asset class. Capital is ...
In much of coastal Florida, rising insurance costs and storm damage have slowed buyer activity and left damaged properties sitting unrepaired. In Sarasota County, something different is happening: nearly half of all transactions are cash, according to Tom Cail, Co-Founder of the Cail Grande Group at RE/MAX Alliance Group in Sarasota, who has worked the market ...
In a falling market, real estate investors can adjust. They recalculate timelines, revise budgets, and wait for the bottom. The current environment presents a different problem, one harder to plan around. Across private bridge lending, deal flow hasn’t collapsed so much as stalled, with borrowers and investors sitting on capital they can’t confidently deploy. The ...
Harrison County, Mississippi holds zoning authority over its unincorporated areas, something only one or two of the state’s 82 counties can claim. That distinction is becoming increasingly relevant as residential development pressure pushes northward from the coast’s municipalities into semi-rural territory where residents on three- and five-acre lots are organized to resist higher-density projects. The ...
Orange County’s residential real estate market has held its value through cycles that punished other Sun Belt markets. But beneath that headline stability, a structural split is forming between single-family homes and condominiums, two segments that used to move in rough tandem. Well-priced single-family listings still draw multiple offers and sell above asking. Condos, meanwhile, ...
The narrative around alternative housing usually centers on affordability or aesthetics. But for a growing segment of buyers in Canada, remote islands, and rural areas worldwide, kit homes aren’t a lifestyle choice – they’re the only construction option available. When traditional builders won’t travel to a site, when local labor doesn’t exist, and when permitting ...
The Houston metro area keeps expanding outward, with thousands of new homes rising in communities west, north, and south of the city center. That growth is creating a specific problem for homeowners in the $450,000 to $700,000 range: their properties are competing against brand-new builds that come with lower prices, builder-subsidized mortgage rates, and covered ...
Most homebuilders still run on spreadsheets, phone calls, and manual site inspections. That’s not for lack of trying; it’s a symptom of a broader gap between what AI can theoretically do for construction workflows and what builders have actually implemented. The industry’s underlying problem is severe enough to explain the urgency: construction needs roughly 499,000 ...
In the stretch of Central Florida running from Kissimmee through St. Cloud and Davenport, new construction is moving faster than existing homes, not because buyers prefer new finishes, but because the economics currently favor it. Builders are covering closing costs and offering better rates that resale sellers cannot match, according to Jose Santana, a Realtor ...
The conventional narrative about South Florida real estate centers on coastal wealth migration, billionaires relocating from California, trophy homes trading at nine figures, and vertical development climbing ever higher along the waterfront. But a parallel movement receives far less attention: middle-income residents and families are leaving coastal metros for inland master-planned communities where new single-family ...
The math is straightforward: a buyer priced out of Orange County can cross into Corona, pick up a single-family home with a yard, and accept a commute in exchange for ownership. That trade has been available for years, but the current market is making it more attractive than usual, not because prices have dropped, but ...
The construction and real estate industries have spent a decade trying to digitalize existing buildings, with poor results. Several startups worldwide have attempted to automate the creation of digital twins for the built environment, yet the vast majority of the world’s 2.4 billion buildings remain what the industry calls “dark assets,” structures with no usable ...
