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.
Scroll through any real estate site in South Florida right now, and you will see a growing number of properties flagged as pre-foreclosure or carrying a lis pendens notice, a legal filing indicating a pending lawsuit, often related to mortgage default. It looks like a pipeline of distressed deals building up. But agents working the ...
The East Bay housing market is not one market right now; it is two, and they are behaving like strangers. At the high end, buyers with strong stock portfolios are spending freely, pushing sale prices past comparable homes. At the entry level, first-time buyers in the million-dollar range are hesitating, held back not by price ...
Real estate professionals watching companies pour into Florida, Texas, and other business-friendly states may be overestimating how many of the arriving employees will need mortgages. Corporate relocation activity is higher than it has been in decades, but the profile of who moves has shifted in ways that compress the real estate transaction opportunity on both ...
Two years of legislative debate over short-term rental rights on Maui have driven down prices in affected condo complexes by roughly 30% since 2023, according to Evan Harlow, a Realtor and Luxury Real Estate Agent with Maui Elite Property. The properties in question are still legally rentable through 2031. No rights have been revoked. No ...
The North Dallas corridor spent the past year shifting from what agents describe as an even playing field to a clear buyer’s market, with inventory at levels not seen in over 15 years and offers coming in well below asking price. But a wave of corporate relocations scheduled for late 2026 and into 2027 could ...
In a county with roughly 1.9 million taxable parcels, the vast majority of homeowners never challenge their assessed value. Property tax attorneys in the Chicago area say that inaction is far costlier than a failed appeal. The argument is simple: filing an appeal has no downside and a meaningful upside, yet most people skip it ...
If you own an older home in the Jacksonville or St. Augustine area and are thinking about a major renovation – expanding for a growing family, adapting for aging in place, or updating a property built decades ago – you may find the process takes longer than expected. One reason has nothing to do with ...
In New York’s Capital Region, a growing number of home buyers are making a choice that would seem counterintuitive in most markets: voluntarily signing up for an eight- to ten-month wait for a home that does not yet exist. The reason, according to agents working the ground there, is simple math. When resale inventory stays ...
Along the shores of Keuka Lake and Seneca Lake in upstate New York, real estate operates on a different frequency than the surrounding region. While much of the Southern Tier has settled into steady, modest appreciation, lakefront properties continue to draw bidding wars, sell above asking price, and attract buyers paying cash. For investors eyeing ...
When a housing market softens, the instinct is to blame prices. Sellers priced too high. Buyers can’t afford current levels. Cut the price, move the home. But agents working the Fort Pierce and Port Saint Lucie corridor on Florida’s Treasure Coast argue the real bottleneck isn’t price; it’s employment. Without a deeper job base, the ...
In most housing markets, the home that sold down the street gives you a reasonable sense of what yours might fetch. In Greater Boston right now, that logic has broken down. Two nearly identical listings on the same block can produce wildly different outcomes, one drawing a bidding war, the other sitting for weeks with ...
A year or two ago, almost anything listed in Jupiter or Palm Beach Gardens sold fast. Today, agents working those zip codes describe a market that has split cleanly in two: turnkey homes still move, while properties that need renovation sit. The dividing line is no longer just price or location; it is condition, and ...
For decades, buying a rental property in the San Francisco Bay Area looked like a sure thing. Prices climbed, rents rose, and a two- or four-unit building could generate income while appreciating steadily. That calculus no longer holds. Expanding rent control laws and tenant protections have made multi-unit rental investing in parts of Silicon Valley ...
In many parts of the country, new construction has served as a pressure valve for tight housing inventory. In New York’s Capital Region, that dynamic plays out differently. Builders here don’t break ground speculatively. They wait for a buyer to walk in the door first, which means the pipeline of new homes is moving, but ...
