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.
Most people who own a rental property in a market where prices have tripled face the same question: Is it time to sell? In Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, where the average sale price has climbed from roughly $140,000 before the pandemic to around $450,000 today, that question is coming up constantly. What experienced local ...
Selling a home in a market flooded with new construction is hard enough. Selling one when the builders down the street are offering sub-5% interest rates and covering closing costs is harder still. That is the situation resale sellers in Clermont, Florida, are facing right now, and agents working the area say the sellers who ...
Few real estate professionals have the vantage point that comes from navigating a market through multiple complete cycles. Janice Mason, a Luxury Real Estate Advisor with Coastal Properties Group and Forbes Global Properties, has been active in Tampa Bay real estate since 1991. Her perspective spans the pre-Internet era, the 2008 housing collapse, the pandemic ...
Investors looking at upstate New York’s Catskill area as an alternative to the expensive downstate market are arriving with one set of assumptions and finding a different set of facts. The pitch makes sense on paper, lower prices, lower taxes, proximity to New York City. But agents working the market say the gap between what ...
State housing laws written to ease California’s homelessness crisis were never designed for a town that lost two-thirds of its buildings in a single fire. But that is exactly where they are being applied now, and the results will reshape what Altadena looks like for decades, in ways most displaced residents never agreed to and ...
Permit dashboards and rebuild tallies have become a way for outside observers to measure how well California’s fire-hit communities are recovering. But the people living within those numbers say the comparisons are being misread, and that the most important story is not in the totals at all. As of early June 2026, Altadena had issued ...
There is a specific kind of buyer that Queens’ new development has not been serving well. They already live in the borough. They have been renting in Long Island City or Astoria for three or four years, they know the neighborhood, and now they want to buy something larger – a three-bedroom, enough space for ...
If you picture a dream Jersey Shore property, you probably imagine a house with ocean views and sand steps away. But buyers who actually know this market are increasingly choosing the bay side over the beach side, and the reasoning is more practical than you might expect. Agents working the barrier islands along the South ...
A 29-acre waterfront development has not yet broken ground in Flushing, Queens. Rezoning is still being sorted out. The timeline between phases has not been finalized. And yet, investors who follow this market closely are already pricing the project into their decisions, which means buyers who have not heard of it may be entering the ...
Buyers frustrated by high interest rates and overpriced resale homes in Central Florida may be overlooking a corner of the market operating under different financial terms. New construction in the Winter Haven area is offering interest rates well below those in the broader mortgage market, and that gap is widening enough to influence buying decisions. ...
In most housing markets, buyers pay for square footage, finishes, and floor plans. In Silicon Valley’s highest-demand towns, the land itself, the lot, the location, the neighborhood, is what actually holds and builds value. The house on top is almost secondary. Dana Carmel, founder of Dana Carmel Group at Represent Realty, a boutique brokerage serving ...
The narrative around South Florida real estate has long been one of relentless demand and perpetual sunshine. But in Pembroke Pines, the picture is more layered – particularly within the 55-plus communities that have quietly defined this corner of Broward County for decades. Rising insurance costs, new state mandates requiring structural inspections and fully funded ...
Southwest Florida’s real estate market has spent three years recovering from back-to-back hurricanes while absorbing a wave of younger buyers and contending with a national narrative that often overstates the region’s struggles. For agents working the market daily, the picture is more nuanced – and in some pockets, considerably more encouraging than the broader story ...
Most people shopping for a home in Brooklyn watch one number above all others: the price per square foot. It shows up on every listing, it’s easy to compare, and it feels like a reliable way to judge value. But after 25 years of selling real estate across Brooklyn’s neighborhoods, Rudolph Saint Walker says that ...
