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.
Large hotel chains spent much of 2025 announcing AI initiatives. Independent hotels spent it testing them, and the independents are pulling ahead, according to Steve Carran, Co-Host & Head Writer at The Modern Hotelier, a podcast and media company covering hotel operations and technology. The gap isn’t about budget or engineering talent. It’s about approval ...
Home inspections exist to identify safety hazards, structural concerns, and mechanical failures that a buyer can’t detect without training. Across many markets, that purpose is being redefined, not by regulation or shifting housing conditions, but by short-form video content, often produced by inspectors themselves. The pattern shows up clearly in the Twin Cities, where Reuben ...
The roughly 500 MLS systems across North America hold something no competitor can easily replicate: a comprehensive, professionally verified database of properties for sale and rent, updated by the agents who listed them. That cooperative structure has been around for decades. What’s changing is who wants access to that data, and how. Large language models, ...
For a growing share of American households, staying in an apartment isn’t a holding pattern before homeownership. It’s a deliberate financial decision – one driven by math that has shifted sharply against buyers in recent years, according to Chamari De Silva, Director of Marketing at Renew, a renewal, retention, and management platform for multifamily operators. ...
A buyer scrolling listings in La Quinta or Indian Wells in California sees a monthly HOA fee north of $1,000 and mentally crosses that community off the list. It feels like a penalty – money disappearing into someone else’s budget every month. But in the Coachella Valley’s gated golf communities, buyers who dismiss properties on ...
The appeal of building your own home from a kit is simple: skip the general contractor, save tens of thousands, and end up with a house you assembled with your own hands. Younger buyers priced out of traditional construction are increasingly drawn to this path. But the savings only materialize if you honestly assess one ...
Housing markets across the U.S. are splitting into two distinct stories in 2026, with high-end demand holding steady while entry-level segments cool under mounting affordability pressure. Houston illustrates this national divide with unusual clarity. Houston’s housing market is not one market. At $1.2 million and above, properties move quickly, driven by corporate relocations and executives ...
The land investment space has long been dominated by two extremes: speculative holds on raw acreage and full-scale horizontal development with entitlements, infrastructure, and vertical construction. Between those poles sits a less visible model, buying large rural tracts, subdividing them under existing by-right zoning provisions, and selling smaller parcels to retail buyers who want to ...
Inventory in central Los Angeles keeps growing, but the buyer pool is not growing with it. In neighborhoods like Koreatown, downtown LA, and surrounding submarkets, properties sit longer, open houses draw fewer visitors, and verbal offers come in well below asking – only to evaporate before negotiations begin, according to David Shin, a Realtor with ...
Multifamily real estate has experienced a correction that, by most historical standards, should be attracting capital. Prices are down 20 to 25 percent from their peaks, according to Neal Bawa, CEO and Founder of Grocapitus Investments. Rents, while flat, haven’t fallen. Yet investor appetite remains subdued, a pattern that says more about behavioral cycles than ...
The oversupply problem in parts of the greater Palm Springs area didn’t start with a housing crash or a demand collapse. It started with Airbnb investors who bid up prices during the pandemic and are now selling at losses, creating inventory pressure that spreads well beyond the short-term rental segment itself. The Coachella Valley sits ...
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 ...
