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 usual story about senior housing markets involves inventory, pricing, and interest rates. In Ocean County, New Jersey, one of the state’s densest concentrations of age-restricted communities, a less visible problem may be shaping the market just as much: the people running the communities themselves. Many of Ocean County’s 55-plus developments are self-managed or governed ...
The story of people leaving big cities for Montana took hold during the early 2020s and became familiar shorthand for a certain kind of relocation. What is less understood from outside the state is that the profile of who is arriving in Whitefish has continued to change even as the headline narrative has stayed the ...
The balance of power in Northern Colorado’s housing market has tilted toward buyers, and sellers are feeling it. Buyers are arriving at the table more prepared than ever, and what they are asking for has changed in ways that would have been unusual just a couple of years ago. Sellers who resist these new expectations ...
When a housing market loses its outside buyers, prices feel it. That is the situation unfolding in Topanga Canyon right now, where a series of disruptions over the past two years has filtered the buyer pool down to people who already know the area, and shrunk it considerably. Agents working the canyon say the implications ...
First-time buyers in Conway, Arkansas, are running out of options, and the problem is more structural than cyclical. The forces squeezing entry-level buyers are not temporary, and buyers hoping conditions will ease soon may be waiting a long time. Emily Walter, executive broker and team lead at The Emily Walter Team under RE/MAX Elite, has ...
Thousands of people relocate to Florida every year without a clear picture of what owning a home there actually costs, and the gap between expectation and reality can be expensive. The sticker price on the home is only the beginning. Agents who specialize in out-of-state relocation are flagging a consistent pattern: buyers arrive focused on ...
Scroll through any real estate site in South Florida right now, and you will see a growing number of properties flagged as pre-foreclosure or carrying a lis pendens notice, a legal filing indicating a pending lawsuit, often related to mortgage default. It looks like a pipeline of distressed deals building up. But agents working the ...
The East Bay housing market is not one market right now; it is two, and they are behaving like strangers. At the high end, buyers with strong stock portfolios are spending freely, pushing sale prices past comparable homes. At the entry level, first-time buyers in the million-dollar range are hesitating, held back not by price ...
Real estate professionals watching companies pour into Florida, Texas, and other business-friendly states may be overestimating how many of the arriving employees will need mortgages. Corporate relocation activity is higher than it has been in decades, but the profile of who moves has shifted in ways that compress the real estate transaction opportunity on both ...
Two years of legislative debate over short-term rental rights on Maui have driven down prices in affected condo complexes by roughly 30% since 2023, according to Evan Harlow, a Realtor and Luxury Real Estate Agent with Maui Elite Property. The properties in question are still legally rentable through 2031. No rights have been revoked. No ...
The North Dallas corridor spent the past year shifting from what agents describe as an even playing field to a clear buyer’s market, with inventory at levels not seen in over 15 years and offers coming in well below asking price. But a wave of corporate relocations scheduled for late 2026 and into 2027 could ...
In a county with roughly 1.9 million taxable parcels, the vast majority of homeowners never challenge their assessed value. Property tax attorneys in the Chicago area say that inaction is far costlier than a failed appeal. The argument is simple: filing an appeal has no downside and a meaningful upside, yet most people skip it ...
If you own an older home in the Jacksonville or St. Augustine area and are thinking about a major renovation – expanding for a growing family, adapting for aging in place, or updating a property built decades ago – you may find the process takes longer than expected. One reason has nothing to do with ...
In New York’s Capital Region, a growing number of home buyers are making a choice that would seem counterintuitive in most markets: voluntarily signing up for an eight- to ten-month wait for a home that does not yet exist. The reason, according to agents working the ground there, is simple math. When resale inventory stays ...
