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.
A broken dishwasher in a managed UK flat feels like a simple problem. Report it, someone fixes it, move on. But a single work order can touch dozens of people and cost hundreds of pounds before anyone picks up a tool, not because the management company is negligent, but because the administrative chain between “my ...
In some of Seattle’s most desirable neighborhoods, the person bidding against you for an older home is not another family. It is an investor who plans to tear the house down and build two or three townhomes in its place. Recent zoning changes in Seattle have made this strategy legal and profitable, according to Eric ...
Many first-time buyers in New Jersey delay purchasing for years because they believe they need 20 percent down. According to Anastasia Cafiero, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Central who serves Monmouth County’s Freehold, Marlboro, and Manalapan areas, that belief is wrong, and the actual entry point is low enough that some renters could buy ...
Across Los Angeles County, the conversation around housing affordability has settled into a familiar shape: rents keep climbing, and the leap to homeownership feels further out of reach with each passing year. For most renters, that means resigning themselves to paying more every month with no path toward building equity, since local home prices have ...
Most first-time home buyers in the East Bay focus on one number: the purchase price. But in a market where home prices remain well above national averages, the monthly payment, and specifically how it is structured, matters far more than the listing price. The difference between an affordable mortgage and one that strains a household’s ...
Mountain real estate in Colorado’s Summit County has long carried a reputation as a stable store of value: limited land, world-class ski resorts, and steady demand from wealthy second-home buyers. But several pressures are converging in ways that test that assumption. Buyers treating a Summit County purchase as a guaranteed hedge may be underestimating risks ...
The model homes dotting Austin’s northern suburbs come with rate buy-downs, closing cost credits, and move-in-ready kitchens. But the purchase price often hides at least three costs that can push a household toward financial distress within the first two years of ownership. None of these costs show up on a listing sheet or during a ...
In some of the most desirable neighborhoods in Concord and Salisbury, North Carolina, homes are sitting on the market, not because they’re overpriced, but because the buyers who want them can’t afford what comes after closing. Standard seller strategies, including aggressive price reductions, aren’t solving the problem. The issue isn’t the mortgage. It’s the renovation ...
Short-term rental income sounds like a straightforward way to offset a vacation home’s carrying costs. In Palm Desert’s private golf communities, the reality is more layered, shaped by permission, timing, and upkeep in ways that aren’t obvious from a listing price alone. One Palm Desert golf community allows short-term rentals, including Airbnb and VRBO. In ...
In a market where well-maintained homes attract offers within days of listing, a different category of property is quietly stacking up unsold in Ocean County, New Jersey: houses that need work. The pattern agents describe is not subtle. Move-in-ready homes fly. Homes needing renovation linger – sometimes for weeks, sometimes longer. The reason is that ...
Las Vegas looks like a short-term rental goldmine on paper. Millions of visitors, a 24/7 entertainment economy, no state income tax. But investors who show up expecting to buy a property and list it on Airbnb are running into a wall of regulations that most outsiders never see coming. The city’s investor-friendly reputation masks a ...
Homeowners who purchased in Central Texas near the market’s mid-2022 peak are now sitting on roughly 20 percent less value than what they paid. That is not a rounding error; it is a meaningful loss on paper, and local brokers say many of these owners are effectively stuck. They cannot sell without bringing money to ...
The classic house-flip playbook – buy cheap, renovate fast, sell high – depends on a market where buyers are plentiful and willing to pay premiums for move-in-ready homes. In the Santa Clarita Valley right now, that condition does not exist. With buyer traffic thin and homes sitting longer than they have in years, some local ...
A growing number of mortgage lenders are using artificial intelligence to read, extract, and enter data from loan application documents. If that makes you nervous, if you wonder whether a machine might misread your pay stub or transpose a number on your tax return, experts in the space say that concern is both valid and ...
A growing number of Canadian homeowners over 55 are making a choice that would have seemed counterintuitive a generation ago: selling the family home and renting an apartment instead of buying a condo. For long-time homeowners who want flexibility and less maintenance, renting in a secondary market may now be the smarter financial and lifestyle ...
