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.
When housing markets slow, demand tied to employers tends to hold up better than demand tied to choice. A family that wants a bigger house can wait for rates to fall. A family whose employer has transferred them across the country usually cannot. Suburbs near large corporate employers often see that difference first. Blue Bell, ...
As housing markets cool, buyers are paying up for homes they can move into without lifting a hammer and discounting nearly everything else. In the Lake Tahoe and Reno region, that discount may be outrunning the actual cost of the work. JB Benna, who leads Benna Mountain Luxury at Sotheby’s International Realty, says buyers are ...
Most coverage of Florida’s condo market treats the post-Surfside regulatory wave as an ongoing financial burden for buyers. In Panama City Beach, a vacation rental market built heavily on investor-owned condominiums, the picture looks different. The milestone inspections, structural integrity reserve studies, and large special assessments triggered by new state rules hit existing owners hard. ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has narrowed the list of property conditions that can hold up a VA-backed purchase. Under an update to the VA’s Lender’s Handbook, appraisals ordered from May 1, 2026, no longer require repairs for peeling paint on homes built in 1978 or later, or for defects in detached sheds and garages. ...
Construction costs are rising. Capital is more expensive. Some markets are oversupplied. Together, those pressures have made buying existing self-storage facilities more attractive than building new ones, according to George Hristodoulou, a principal at RSG Development, a New Jersey-based developer. “We think it’s in many ways a better time to acquire than develop because of ...
The affordability conversation in most metro areas centers on interest rates. In Fairfax County, Virginia – the suburban ring just outside Washington, D.C. – a 25-year view points to home prices, not interest rates, as the main driver of the affordability squeeze, according to Andy Novins, who has worked the Falls Church area for 23 ...
A buyer browsing listings late at night will often send inquiries to several teams at once, and the first team to call back usually wins the client. During business hours, most agents can keep up with that pace. After hours and on weekends, many of those inquiries sit until the next workday or never get ...
Across Central Texas, a construction defect hidden inside backyard pools is ending home sales before they close. The problem is alkali-silica reaction, or ASR, commonly called concrete cancer. According to Bill Cafferata, a real estate agent with CaffGroup at Keller Williams Realty in Dripping Springs, most buyers and many agents have never heard of it. ...
Investors are supposed to dominate the market for distressed and estate properties. They have the cash, the contractor networks, and the tolerance for risk that families typically lack. In Oakland’s East Bay market, that assumption does not hold, according to Delores Johnson, an independent broker who has worked Oakland real estate for 24 years. Probate ...
A $400,000 home with $5,000 a year in property taxes looks like a bargain to a buyer arriving from New York or New Jersey – and like a barrier to someone who already lives and works in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. That gap in perspective is repricing the region. Out-of-state buyers with higher incomes and different ...
Buyers in the short-term rental cabin market around Broken Bow and Hochatown, Oklahoma, have less leverage than they did a year ago. In 2025, active listings climbed past 325. With that much choice, buyers could negotiate roughly 6% to 10% off the asking price, with the high end reserved for extreme cases, by the rough ...
In a market commonly described as balanced, more than one in four sellers in Dallas-Fort Worth have reduced their asking price. Across the metro, the latest September data showed 29,364 active listings with a median time on market of 62 days and 27.5% of listings carrying price reductions, according to Ana Martin, a luxury real ...
Across much of the Dallas–Fort Worth housing market, the money a seller gives back at closing has stopped working as a bargaining chip. It is now part of how buyers qualify for a mortgage. With rates above 7%, Tabor Campbell, broker and owner of The Max Group, says most of his current transactions involve buyers ...
Charlotte sellers thinking about waiting until after the holidays are working from an assumption the local calendar doesn’t support. Over more than two decades of transaction history, December has consistently been one of the top two or three months of the year for Live Love Homes, according to founder Lisa Archer. The reason lies in ...
On the hillside lots of West Los Angeles and the South Bay, the backyard a homeowner wants and the backyard a site will allow are often two different things. Increasingly, what can be permitted and built on a particular lot shapes the design before aesthetics enter the conversation. In-ground pools and spas show this most ...
