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.
For years, South Jersey sat below the radar of most New Jersey real estate investors. Price points were low relative to the rest of the state, appreciation was modest, and attention flowed northward toward denser, higher-value markets closer to New York City. That dynamic has changed substantially since 2020, according to Shelby Morgan, Broker/Owner of ...
The principal and interest portion of a mortgage payment is simple math, and every online calculator gets it right. It’s the components that actually surprise buyers, property taxes, homeowner’s insurance, and private mortgage insurance, where most tools fall short, often by a wide enough margin to send first-time buyers into a lender’s office with expectations ...
Cross-border real estate investment has long involved a painful irony: money moves digitally in seconds, but property purchases still require travel, intermediaries, and paper. In markets like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Oman, where large diaspora populations routinely send capital home for real estate, the gap between how easily money crosses borders and how difficult it ...
The gap between what South Florida sellers believe their homes are worth and what buyers will pay has become a defining feature of the current market. According to Peter Blicharz, a Real Estate Advisor with The PMB Group at SERHANT, sellers in Boca Raton and surrounding Palm Beach and Broward County communities remain anchored to ...
The Northwest Houston resale market faces competitive pressure that has little to do with interest rates or buyer demand. New construction communities ringing the area offer aggressive buyer incentives, closing cost coverage, design center upgrades, and boosted agent commissions that pull qualified buyers away from established neighborhoods. For investors and agents working the resale side, ...
Most first-time buyers in New Jersey are competing against investors for the same homes – not single-family houses, but small multifamily properties with two to four units. Both groups want them for the same reason: rental income from the additional units either justifies the investment or makes the mortgage affordable. The result is that correctly ...
Metro Detroit remains one of the few major metropolitan areas where an investor can acquire a property for under $100,000, put in rehab work, and still generate positive cash flow. That affordability continues to attract capital from across the country, but financing these deals and structuring them to survive a missed assumption requires more nuance ...
A few years ago, buyers in the Hudson Valley were putting offers on anything available. Homes needing work, homes in unfamiliar towns, homes that didn’t quite fit, all moved quickly in a market defined by urgency. That dynamic has shifted. The market hasn’t slowed in volume, but buyers have become selective in ways that are ...
Builders in the Houston suburbs of Katy and Cypress are offering incentive packages large enough to make new construction cheaper than comparable resale homes, a reversal that is forcing existing homeowners into concessions and leaving resale inventory sitting longer than it has in years. The compression between new and resale pricing has created a market ...
A home listed at $350,000 in Bakersfield, California, looks like a bargain compared to what the same money buys in Los Angeles or the Bay Area. But out-of-town investors keep making the same mistake: they chase the purchase price and ignore whether the rental income can actually service the debt. Ernesto Osuna, Broker/Owner of D ...
The assumption that tight inventory means a frozen market doesn’t hold in the towns just west of New York City. In Nutley, Bloomfield, and Belleville – a cluster of residential communities roughly ten miles from Manhattan – homes are selling quickly enough that annual transaction counts are running closer to normal than monthly inventory snapshots ...
For years, offsite and modular construction occupied a familiar position in housing conversations: promising in theory, unproven at scale, and haunted by high-profile failures from the last decade. That position is changing, not because the technology suddenly became viable, but because the economics of conventional construction have deteriorated to the point where developers are actively ...
A city of roughly 68,000 to 72,000 people does not typically support 34 simultaneous new-home developments. But Celina, Texas, one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States over the past five years, is operating at a pace that forces resale homeowners into direct competition with publicly traded builders who adjust pricing on weekly data ...
Bakersfield’s housing market sits in an unusual position for California: median prices around $400,000, rising inventory, and builders actively offering credits and rate buydowns to attract first-time buyers. The result is a market where resale sellers who ignore what’s happening next door, sometimes literally next door to a new construction community, are watching their listings ...
The common shorthand for Nashville’s housing market, either “still hot” or “finally cooling,” misses what’s actually happening on the ground. According to Kortney Wilson, Founder & Team Leader of The Kortney Wilson Group at eXp Realty, the metro area is behaving less like a single market and more like a collection of distinct submarkets, each ...
