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.
Along the shores of Keuka Lake and Seneca Lake in upstate New York, real estate operates on a different frequency than the surrounding region. While much of the Southern Tier has settled into steady, modest appreciation, lakefront properties continue to draw bidding wars, sell above asking price, and attract buyers paying cash. For investors eyeing ...
When a housing market softens, the instinct is to blame prices. Sellers priced too high. Buyers can’t afford current levels. Cut the price, move the home. But agents working the Fort Pierce and Port Saint Lucie corridor on Florida’s Treasure Coast argue the real bottleneck isn’t price; it’s employment. Without a deeper job base, the ...
In most housing markets, the home that sold down the street gives you a reasonable sense of what yours might fetch. In Greater Boston right now, that logic has broken down. Two nearly identical listings on the same block can produce wildly different outcomes, one drawing a bidding war, the other sitting for weeks with ...
A year or two ago, almost anything listed in Jupiter or Palm Beach Gardens sold fast. Today, agents working those zip codes describe a market that has split cleanly in two: turnkey homes still move, while properties that need renovation sit. The dividing line is no longer just price or location; it is condition, and ...
For decades, buying a rental property in the San Francisco Bay Area looked like a sure thing. Prices climbed, rents rose, and a two- or four-unit building could generate income while appreciating steadily. That calculus no longer holds. Expanding rent control laws and tenant protections have made multi-unit rental investing in parts of Silicon Valley ...
In many parts of the country, new construction has served as a pressure valve for tight housing inventory. In New York’s Capital Region, that dynamic plays out differently. Builders here don’t break ground speculatively. They wait for a buyer to walk in the door first, which means the pipeline of new homes is moving, but ...
Property taxes in Illinois have long been a source of frustration, but the conversation has moved in recent years from quiet grumbling to active pushback. With assessed values climbing alongside a competitive housing market, and tax rates that consistently rank among the highest in the nation, more homeowners are asking whether there is anything they ...
Regional bank consolidation has been reshaping construction lending across the United States for the better part of two years. Still, its effects are playing out with particular intensity in New England. As larger institutions merge and tighten their balance sheets, developers across the region are increasingly turning to private credit providers to keep projects moving. ...
When buyers relocate to the Buffalo area, they tend to gravitate toward the same well-known suburbs: Amherst, Williamsville, and the established neighborhoods of North Buffalo. Grand Island, sitting on a river island accessible only by bridge, gets overlooked by people who did not grow up near it. Agents who work the area say that oversight ...
Multifamily properties in Northern New Jersey are selling fast and well above asking price. That activity looks like a clear signal to investors, but agents working the market argue that the bidding intensity is outrunning the fundamentals for buyers who need to finance, and that the gap between what these properties are selling for and ...
The purchase prices look almost too good to be true. In Newburgh, New York, a small Hudson Valley city of roughly 30,000 people spanning three square miles, properties can be listed for figures that would barely cover a parking spot in Manhattan. Investors who spot those numbers on a spreadsheet often assume the hard part ...
Walk into certain manufactured home communities in Central Florida, and you’ll find homes built in the early 1980s selling for prices that would surprise most buyers who’ve written off the category entirely. The assumption – that manufactured homes lose value the way a used car does, steadily and without recovery, is one that brokers working ...
Nearly two years after one of the slowest periods the Miami real estate market has seen in recent memory, conditions are gradually improving. Transaction volume remains below pandemic-era peaks, but agents working at the ground level are noticing cautious momentum building. For those who stayed in the business through the downturn, the current environment is ...
As housing markets across the Sun Belt have cycled through sharp run-ups and subsequent corrections since 2020, the Chicagoland market has followed a notably different path. While cities like Phoenix, Nashville, and Tampa drew waves of remote workers and saw prices surge well beyond sustainable levels, Chicago absorbed post-pandemic demand more gradually, producing steady price ...
