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.
The conventional wisdom about Houston real estate centers on its sprawling suburban subdivisions and energy-sector wealth. But in 2026, the market’s most active corridors aren’t in the established inner suburbs; they’re in communities like Crosby, Magnolia, Waller, and Dayton, where buyers are trading proximity for acreage, lower flood risk, and significantly more house per dollar ...
Rework consumes an estimated 5 to 12 percent of total project cost on the average commercial build, according to research from the Construction Industry Institute and other industry studies, and design errors and omissions account for roughly a quarter of that figure. On a $50 million project, that’s millions of dollars in avoidable cost, much ...
Houston’s housing market sits in an unusual position among major U.S. metros. The fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country has maintained modest positive home price growth while cities like Austin and Dallas have undergone post-pandemic price corrections. But that relative stability masks a growing tension on the ground: resale sellers are struggling to compete with ...
Balanced market data can mask what’s actually happening on the ground. In Cypress, Texas, one of northwest Houston’s fastest-growing suburbs, the numbers through July 2026 show stable pricing and no clear advantage for buyers or sellers. But according to Andrea Curran, Team Leader of The Andrea Curran Team at Compass, something shifted around the first ...
A property that sits outside a designated FEMA flood zone is not necessarily free of flood risk. It may simply be in territory nobody has formally assessed yet. The United States has roughly three and a half million miles of streams, rivers, and coastlines. FEMA has mapped about 1.1 million of those miles, roughly a ...
In lower Westchester County, New York, the supply-demand imbalance that defined the pandemic-era housing market has not corrected. At the million-dollar price point in White Plains, the county’s urban center, homes are moving in nine to twelve days. The driver is not speculation or pandemic migration. It is a structural relationship between Manhattan’s cost of ...
Seller concessions in San Antonio have shifted from rare to routine. Builders are covering closing costs and upgrades. Resale sellers are addressing deferred maintenance they once ignored. And buyers, particularly first-timers and millennials entering the market, are negotiating terms that did not exist when inventory was tighter. The dynamic is familiar across Sun Belt markets ...
Sellers in Austin are conceding something on nearly every deal right now. But the form those concessions take determines how much value buyers actually capture. According to Joel Richardson, VP & Branch Manager at First Community Mortgage’s Austin office, buyers who direct concessions toward closing costs rather than price reductions get significantly more from the ...
If you’re shopping for a home in one of the fast-growing communities on the edges of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the math on building equity looks very different than it did a few years ago. The typical three-to-five-year ownership timeline, long considered enough to build a cushion before selling, may leave you competing directly against ...
Buyers shopping for homes in Chino, California, face a gap of $25,000 to $40,000 depending on whether they choose new construction or resale, a gap created by builder incentives that resale sellers cannot match. According to Thomas Ryan, a Realtor with Thomas Ryan Real Estate at Real Broker who focuses on the Chino and Chino ...
The properties generating the strongest cash flow in South Florida are not the ones most investors notice first. Polished Class A buildings, waterfront luxury units, and newly built complexes attract attention but compress returns. Experienced investors working in Miami-Dade and Broward County are instead buying mobile home parks, working-class rental portfolios, and properties in neighborhoods ...
Buyers relocating to Santa Fe County’s Eldorado community almost always arrive with the same assumption: that their money will go further in New Mexico than it did back home. According to Lisa Smith, an associate broker at Sotheby’s International Realty who has worked Eldorado’s market for 21 years, the opposite is true, most end up ...
The fix-and-flip model has long attracted small investors who want a tangible, short-cycle return. But in lower Westchester County, the conditions that once made flipping viable are eroding. Rising labor costs, expensive materials, and drawn-out project timelines are compressing the margins that used to make these deals worthwhile. Frank Palombo, a Realtor with Howard Hanna ...
Condominium projects originally designed for sale are converting to rental use across Quebec, adding inventory to a market where vacancy is already rising, and rents are falling. For small landlords who bought properties during the post-COVID boom, these conversions introduce competitors that national housing data does not capture until units are actually listed, according to ...
If you own a home in southern New Hampshire right now, selling it probably won’t be your problem. Homes still move quickly, often at or above asking price. The real challenge – the one that catches sellers off guard – is figuring out where you’re going next. In a market this competitive, selling without a ...
