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.
Nightly rate compression is no longer a temporary correction in the short-term rental market; it’s a structural condition. Competition has intensified, supply has caught up with demand in many markets, and pricing tools alone cannot restore the margins operators enjoyed four or five years ago. The operators pulling ahead now aren’t necessarily the ones with ...
Bergen County has long been one of northern New Jersey’s most competitive residential markets; good schools, proximity to Manhattan, and distinct town-by-town character keep demand high. But affordability constraints and persistently tight inventory are now pushing a growing share of would-be Bergen buyers into Passaic, Essex, Morris, and Union counties, according to Heather Corrigan, a ...
The spare bedroom used to become a nursery, a home office, or a guest room. Increasingly, it’s becoming a podcast studio or a video set, a shift that reflects how content creation has moved from side hustle to income stream for a growing number of homeowners. Taras Legar, Founder / Principal Designer at Leg Art ...
Three luxury high-rise projects are going up along the Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach waterfront: a Waldorf Astoria, a W Hotel property, and a Ritz-Carlton tower. For investors watching South Florida, this kind of branded development pipeline signals institutional confidence in a corridor’s future. But the opportunity these buildings represent requires a longer holding period ...
It sounds backward, but in New York’s Hudson Valley, paying a higher price for a home in good condition may cost less overall than buying a cheaper fixer-upper. Renovation costs have climbed so sharply that the discount on a home needing work often doesn’t cover the cost of fixing it. A higher purchase price can ...
National headlines about soaring flood insurance have made barrier-island buying sound like a financial minefield. But in Ocean City, New Jersey, buyers routinely arrive bracing for five-figure annual premiums and find the actual cost far lower. That gap between perception and reality, according to one agent with 37 years in the market, may be steering ...
Most housing markets respond to interest rates. When borrowing costs rise, prices soften. When political uncertainty builds, buyer activity slows. In Monmouth County, New Jersey, that logic no longer applies. The county’s residential market is being driven almost entirely by a supply-and-demand imbalance so severe that conventional economic indicators – rates, geopolitical risk, consumer sentiment ...
Most first-time buyers in the Northeast assume new construction is out of reach. In the Capital Region of upstate New York – the sprawling metro area anchored by Albany, Schenectady, and Saratoga – that assumption is being tested by modular home developments priced to compete directly with older existing inventory. The dynamic is straightforward: buyers ...
Home values have climbed steadily in most U.S. markets, but transaction volume remains well below the peaks of 2020 and early 2021. That gap matters more than it might seem: brokerages earn money on deals closing, not on values rising, and when fewer transactions clear, revenue falls even as the cost of running a brokerage ...
For months, publicly traded homebuilders like Lennar and Pulte have held an advantage over individual sellers in slower markets: the ability to offer buyers below-market mortgage rates. In Kitsap County, Washington – a military-anchored peninsula separated from Seattle by Puget Sound – a broker has adapted that mechanism for private resale listings, using rate lock ...
Jersey City has spent the past several years absorbing buyers priced out of Manhattan, drawn by shorter commutes and significantly more space per dollar. But the city is not a single market. Its neighborhoods: downtown, the Heights, Journal Square, are each at different stages of development, attracting different buyer profiles, and responding differently to the ...
Most private owners in Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) don’t learn the true cost of their custom home or renovation until the design is fully complete. By then, changing anything means starting over. This budget shock is largely preventable. Preventing it means adopting a practice that public infrastructure projects have used for years. On public projects such ...
When a storm destroys a roof, the instinct is to replace it with the same material. The insurance check often covers exactly that: the same style, with the same vulnerability. But in regions where severe weather recurs, homeowners and insurers alike are increasingly questioning that default. That’s according to Renee Ramey, executive director of the ...
A gap is forming in San Antonio’s luxury home market. Homes that listed near a million dollars just a few years ago are now trading in the $700,000 to $760,000 range. These are sharp discounts that would normally attract a rush of buyers. But the buyers who can actually act on those prices are almost ...
Developers are increasingly betting that buyers will pay coastal prices for water they can’t get to the coast for. Engineered lagoons and machine-made surf breaks have moved from novelty amenity to core sales pitch across landlocked and desert markets – Texas, the desert Southwest, and now southern Utah – with several of the resulting communities ...
