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 VA loan requires no down payment, no private mortgage insurance, and offers competitive rates. But in competitive suburban markets where homes attract multiple offers quickly, the structural constraints of VA financing put buyers at a disadvantage before they submit an offer. In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where inventory moves fast and cash offers are common ...
Most home-search platforms filter by round numbers, such as $200,000, $250,000, and $300,000. A home listed at $249,900 shows up for buyers searching up to $250,000. It disappears for buyers searching from $250,000 and up. On paper, the seller saves the buyer $100. In practice, the seller loses an entire bracket of potential offers. In ...
For years, luxury buyers in the hills around Los Angeles prioritized views, acreage, and privacy. Insurance was a line item, not a deciding factor. That era appears to be ending. In the West Valley and surrounding fire-prone areas, insurance costs have climbed so steeply – and coverage has become so difficult to secure – that ...
When Cambridge removed single-family zoning citywide, headlines split predictably between housing breakthrough and neighborhood teardown. Neither version captures what Ed Feijo, a luxury real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Realty and Team Partner at Gail Roberts who has focused on Cambridge for more than two decades, is seeing on the ground. Development activity has accelerated, ...
Small landlords have held up better than the market around them. Larger investors have pulled back from single-family housing over the past few years, but owners with fewer than 10 purchases have kept buying. According to Realtor.com, they accounted for about 63% of investor home purchases in 2025, the highest concentration in more than 15 ...
For the better part of five or six years, sellers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, had the upper hand. Inventory was tight, offers came in fast, and negotiations were brief. That era appears to be ending. Homes are coming off the market unsold at rates the city hasn’t seen in some time, buyers are negotiating ...
Most conversations about housing affordability focus on price. In rural northwest Pennsylvania, the barrier is often the house itself. Much of the region’s housing stock was built in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and these homes frequently fail to meet the minimum property standards required by VA, FHA, and USDA loan programs. That mismatch ...
Most national conversations about housing affordability assume entry-level and mid-range homes move quickly while luxury inventory lingers. In the Mount Pleasant and barrier island submarkets around Charleston, South Carolina, that pattern is inverted. Homes listed between $1 million and $2 million are selling briskly, while properties in the $300,000 to $700,000 range – the segment ...
Inventory levels in northern Chester County have improved on paper. But the homes coming to market are not matching what buyers actually need – and the gap between well-priced, move-in-ready properties and everything else is widening into two distinct markets operating side by side. The tri-county area spanning Chester, Montgomery, and Berks counties has seen ...
In most small cities struggling with housing affordability, the playbook is familiar: release publicly owned land, offer incentives, and wait for private developers to build. In Covington, Kentucky – a city of 40,000 directly across the Ohio River from Cincinnati – that approach ran into a basic math problem. New construction on infill lots costs ...
Homes priced between $200,000 and $400,000 in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley are selling within the first week, often with competing bids, according to Zack Nebbaki, a 13-year real estate agent at eXp Realty who works primarily with listings and investor buyers in the region. Above $400,000, properties are lingering – and sellers who haven’t adjusted their ...
Lackawanna County just completed its first property tax reassessment in 68 years, and some homeowners in and around Scranton are reconsidering their options. According to Julissa Contreras, a bilingual agent with LUXE Homes Real Estate who has worked the Scranton market for nearly six years, the reassessment is one factor contributing to a noticeable rise ...
The condo market and the single-family market in Broward County, Florida, are no longer moving in the same direction. Building inspections and assessments tied to aging high-rise structures have slowed condo sales across the region, while single-family homes – particularly in strong school districts – are absorbing most of the buyer and investor demand. The ...
In most Texas housing markets right now, buyers have leverage they have not enjoyed in years. Inventory is up, prices are softening, and seller concessions – credits toward closing costs or interest-rate buydowns – have become a common negotiating tool. But in the luxury corridors west of Dallas, that playbook stops working above a certain ...
In parts of the Midwest where the housing market still favors sellers, a split is emerging that has less to do with location than with condition. Two houses can sit side by side in the same neighborhood, built around the same time, and sell at noticeably different prices. The difference, according to Jean Lewis, who ...
