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.
Most housing developers treat infrastructure as a line item. For the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southern Arizona, the second-largest land-based tribe in the United States, with a reservation roughly the size of Connecticut, infrastructure regularly consumes up to 50% of total project costs. That figure reshapes every assumption about what it costs to build affordable ...
When average home prices dip in a county-level report, the natural instinct is alarm. Your home is losing value. The market is softening. But in Collin County, Texas – one of the fastest-growing counties in North Texas – the headline numbers are telling a misleading story, according to one team that has been working the ...
Investors looking at affordable properties in Chicago’s south suburbs are running into an obstacle that does not show up in any listing: several villages have rewritten their rental standards in ways that effectively bar new investors from renting out properties within village limits, according to Aaron Gaines, a Realtor with Keller Williams Preferred Realty who ...
In conventional real estate, location drives price. A corner lot, a cul-de-sac, a waterfront view – these separate a quick sale from a lingering listing. But in the luxury motor coach resort market near Palm Springs, California, the improvements on a lot – not its position in the resort – create entirely separate seasonal markets, ...
In northern Bergen County, New Jersey, two nearly identical homes on the same street can sell months apart – one in a bidding war within a week, the other lingering with price reductions. The difference is not location, lot size, or school district. It is whether the kitchen has been updated and the bathrooms look ...
A growing acquisition strategy among small real estate investors in Texas involves taking over someone else’s mortgage payment without ever assuming the loan itself. It is called a “subject-to” purchase, and insurance professionals who work with these investors say the financial exposure on both sides – for the original homeowner and the new investor – ...
In Tennessee’s fastest-growing county, the gap between what people earn and what homes cost has widened so far that one local official calls it a direct threat to generational wealth. Median family income in Rutherford County has risen 71 percent since 2005. Over the same period, median home prices have risen 213 percent. The math ...
For years, the national conversation about real estate migration has centered on Sun Belt destinations. A different pattern is forming in western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh’s combination of affordable housing, healthcare employment, and a growing tech sector is pulling buyers from states like Utah, Nevada, and California, not as a temporary relocation trend, but as a deliberate ...
For the past several years, Chicago’s South Side dominated new construction activity in the city’s multi-unit investment market. That momentum is now shifting west, and the catalyst is a single infrastructure project large enough to redirect capital flows across the city. The 1901 Project, a multi-year, $7 billion development planned around the United Center on ...
In a market where buyers finally have leverage – where inventory is at roughly 10-year highs, sellers are cutting prices, and concessions are available – a surprising number of Houston home purchases are falling apart before the buyer even asks for a single repair. The problem isn’t structural defects in the homes, according to Sherry ...
The New Jersey housing market looks red-hot or cooling fast depending entirely on which slice you’re looking at – and sellers who confuse one segment’s strength for their own risk a costly mispricing. Along the coast in mid-2026, the gap between the luxury second-home market and the broader residential market serving primary-residence buyers is widening ...
Mortgage rates above six percent have buyers waiting on the sideline, but the wait itself may be the most expensive decision they make. According to Marty Medve, Co-Owner & Principal Broker at Trident Home Loans, the pattern has repeated across three rate cycles over 25 years: when rates drop even modestly, pent-up demand floods the ...
When most people think about insuring a home near the coast, they picture flood zones and waterfront properties. But buyers in New Jersey’s Monmouth and Ocean counties are running into a different problem – one that catches people off guard. Standard homeowners insurance, the basic coverage every mortgage lender requires, has become harder to obtain ...
People still move to Florida expecting a bargain. No state income tax, warm weather, reasonable home prices – that was the pitch for decades. But buyers relocating to Tampa Bay in 2026 are discovering a cost structure that the listing price doesn’t reveal: insurance premiums driven up by hurricane risk, property taxes that run higher ...
Raw land has spent most of the last few years as a quiet inflation hedge, a finite, tangible asset that investors treat as reliable protection against inflation because the cost of land tends to rise alongside the cost of everything else. Rural land prices in particular held firm through 2025 and into 2026, with no ...
