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.
While much of the national vacation and second-home market has cooled since the pandemic boom, one corner of upstate New York appears largely immune to the slowdown. The 1000 Islands region, straddling the St. Lawrence River along the US-Canada border, continues to attract steady buyer interest, and the agents working there say the fundamentals driving ...
The national housing conversation centers on affordability pressures, rate sensitivity, and slowing demand. In Silicon Valley, that narrative does not apply. A different set of forces drives this market: AI-driven wealth creation, severe inventory constraints, and a buyer pool that routinely closes multimillion-dollar deals in cash. Understanding what is happening in communities like Atherton and ...
The Central Florida real estate market is undergoing a period of adjustment that many sellers find difficult to accept. In Winter Haven, a lakeside city positioned between Orlando and Tampa, the gap between seller expectations and buyer capacity has become one of the defining tensions of mid-2026. For agents working this market daily, the conversations ...
While Manhattan and Brooklyn dominate New York City’s real estate headlines, Flushing has been quietly maturing into a full-scale residential destination. Long recognized as one of North America’s most significant Chinese-American commercial centers, the Queens neighborhood is now drawing investors, young families, and retirees to a growing roster of new condo developments. But after several ...
For the past three years, buying a home on Florida’s Gulf Coast has come with a hidden cost that shows up long after the purchase contract is signed: insurance. Carriers pulled out of the state in large numbers, leaving many coastal homeowners with limited options and sharply higher premiums. What experts working in these markets ...
Six years after the pandemic reshaped suburban demand across the Northeast, the markets straddling the New York-New Jersey border offer a useful lens for understanding where residential real estate actually stands. Not the version told through national headlines, but the ground-level reality that agents working these neighborhoods encounter week to week. Jon Paul Molfetta, Broker ...
The Houston residential market heading into mid-2026 tells two distinct stories. In the entry and mid-range segments, affordability pressures, elevated interest rates, and property insurance costs continue to weigh on buyer decisions. But above the $700,000 threshold, a different dynamic is playing out – one largely insulated from those headwinds and supported by corporate relocations, ...
Naples, Florida, has long carried a reputation as a playground for the ultra-wealthy, but the reality on the ground in mid-2026 tells a more layered story. While beachfront properties along Gulf Shore Boulevard are taking longer to sell, buyer activity is concentrating in a less obvious location, about a mile inland, where amenity-rich communities offer ...
The narrative around Florida’s coastal real estate has been dominated by alarm in recent years, rising insurance costs, hurricane damage, condo assessment crises, and departing residents. But on the ground in Pinellas County, the picture is more layered than the headlines suggest. For investors and buyers paying attention, the current moment in Tampa Bay’s beach ...
Eighteen months after a direct hurricane hit ended a four-decade streak without a major hurricane, Anna Maria Island’s real estate market is showing clear signs of stabilization. Prices remain well below their post-pandemic peak, rental bookings are climbing back toward pre-storm levels, and a growing number of investors are quietly moving back in. For those ...
For years, Florida real estate carried an almost automatic appeal: warm weather, no state income tax, and a steady stream of buyers from colder, higher-tax states. But in mid-2026, the Orlando market tells a more complicated story. Rising inventory, persistent affordability pressures, and financing challenges are forcing agents, buyers, and sellers to rethink how they ...
The Hudson Valley real estate market is operating under conditions not seen since the late 1990s. Inventory across the region has fallen to its lowest level since 1997, creating an environment where sellers hold most of the leverage and buyers must move quickly and creatively to compete. With remote work still reshaping where professionals choose ...
Rent prices and vacancy rates are not supposed to move in the same direction at the same time. When a market softens, rents typically fall. When demand is strong, vacancies shrink. But for much of 2024, property managers in Upstate South Carolina were watching both numbers climb together, a contradiction that left landlords confused and ...
For the past several years, the story coming out of Florida’s coastal real estate market has been one of insurance chaos, carriers fleeing the state, premiums doubling or tripling in a single year, and buyers walking away from deals because the numbers no longer made sense. That period is now ending. Legislative reforms passed in ...
Buyers who keep losing out on move-in-ready homes in the DC-Maryland-Virginia market are often fighting the wrong battle. The competition for updated, turnkey properties is intense enough that many buyers are being priced out or repeatedly outbid, and some are passing over a financing option that could change the math entirely. Renovation loans have existed ...
