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 Coachella Valley has long attracted second-home buyers seeking winter sun two hours from Los Angeles. But the market entering mid-2026 is sorting itself along a line that has little to do with location or architecture: condition. Buyers across price tiers are refusing to take on work, and the gap between move-in-ready homes and everything ...
A home that would have drawn 15 offers in a weekend three years ago now sits for 60 to 120 days or longer in the Scottsdale area, and according to Brad Kimmelman, Team Leader, Senior Global Real Estate Advisor with The Homanity Team at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, the listing itself is rarely the ...
Two homes list in Houston’s western suburbs in the same week. One is priced at $550,000. The other at $1.25 million. The cheaper home sits for 90 days. The expensive one sells over asking with multiple offers. That split, counterintuitive on its surface, is what Bryan Lillis, team lead at Luxe Realty Houston, describes as ...
The Kansas City metro area has a median home price around $450,000 and enough inventory variety to serve both first-time buyers and out-of-state relocators. But the factor determining whether a listing sells in a week or sits for more than 30 days isn’t price, neighborhood, or even school district; it’s the condition of the home ...
Most homeowners can recall a moment when managing their property felt overwhelming, a missed maintenance task, a renovation that ran over budget, or the scramble to locate documents after an unexpected event. Despite owning what is often their single largest financial asset, many people still rely on scattered spreadsheets and memory to keep track of ...
The pitch sounds irresistible: buy a condo near the coast, furnish it, find a tenant who stays three to six months, and collect rent while you do almost nothing. That story circulates widely among small investors eyeing San Diego’s midterm rental market in 2026. But operators actually running these properties say the reality is far ...
A three-bedroom, two-bathroom home with a two-car garage in California can run $800,000 or more. The same home, brand new, in Princeton, Texas, is closing this month for $325,000, and that gap is doing more to shape the Dallas-Fort Worth housing market than any single local trend, according to Nadeem Khan, a Realtor with Crown ...
The wood-frame, stucco-clad homes that dominate Southern California residential construction burned by the thousands last year. Concrete does not burn. The technology that once made concrete homes prohibitively expensive for residential use – the formwork, the labor, the time – is now being stripped away by robotic printers laying walls with a precision no human ...
In parts of the eastern Coachella Valley, parcels that look like obvious development opportunities on paper are worth far less than their location suggests – because they cannot be connected to the electrical grid. The local utility serving that portion of the valley is at capacity, according to Troy Kudlac, Broker – President of KUD ...
Younger home buyers have more information at their fingertips than any generation before them. But in the Coachella Valley’s eastern communities, that information – particularly instant answers generated by AI tools – is making transactions harder to close rather than helping buyers make better decisions. The problem isn’t that buyers are doing research. It’s that ...
Buying a single-family rental in a fast-growing Sun Belt city usually starts with job growth, population trends, and neighborhood quality. What many investors skip entirely is the one factor that can erase all of those advantages: how many new apartments are being built nearby. The argument sounds counterintuitive. You are buying a house, not a ...
The Coachella Valley, the string of desert communities stretching from Palm Springs to Indio in Southern California, operates on a seasonal rhythm that most housing markets don’t share. Luxury second-home buyers arrive in winter. Year-round residents, many of whom need to sell a home elsewhere before purchasing locally, close transactions in summer. Agents who treat ...
The midterm rental segment in coastal San Diego, stays of one to six months, fully furnished, has attracted a wave of new operators over the past two years. Many are former short-term rental hosts pivoting in response to regulatory pressure and seasonal volatility. The result is more supply competing for the same pool of demand, ...
Commercial real estate investors typically pay a premium for stabilized properties: fully renovated, fully leased, and requiring no immediate capital expenditure. In central Arkansas, that logic has flipped. Properties that need work are moving faster than those that don’t, according to Bryce Richardson, president of commercial sales at Brick Real Estate in Faulkner County, Arkansas, ...
Unincorporated land with minimal zoning restrictions, relatively affordable lots, and a creative culture that celebrates architectural experimentation, on paper, the Southern California high desert looks like a developer’s playground. But Hargo Khalsa, a Realtor & Developer with Joshua Tree Modern who recently completed his first ground-up new construction project in Pioneertown, says the permitting reality ...
