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.
Few real estate markets in greater Los Angeles have faced as many compounding pressures in recent years as Topanga Canyon. A landslide blocked canyon access from Santa Monica and the Westside for three months in 2024. A new disruption came with the Palisades Fire in January 2025. Rising insurance costs added yet another layer of ...
The idea that rising home prices benefit everyone in a housing market is getting harder to defend. What real estate professionals are seeing in markets like San Luis Obispo County tells a more complicated story, one where the same price appreciation that rewards longtime owners is systematically locking out everyone else. Hal Sweasey, broker and ...
Pasco County, Florida, has a reputation problem. For years, people who knew the Tampa Bay area thought of it as farmland, aging homes, and not much else. That picture is nearly a decade old, but it persists, and for buyers still acting on it, the gap between perception and reality is closing in ways that ...
A ballot measure arriving in November 2026 could do more to change Central Florida’s housing market than any interest rate move in recent memory. Real estate professionals in the region are watching it closely, and some argue that buyers who understand what is at stake will be better positioned than those who don’t. Lisa Foor, ...
The South Florida real estate market has long attracted a diverse mix of buyers: retirees seeking year-round sunshine, international investors looking for a stable place to park capital, and more recently, a wave of financial and technology sector professionals drawn by the region’s favorable tax environment. But as mid-2026 approaches, rising insurance costs, tightening condo ...
The East Bay real estate market in mid-2026 is telling two very different stories depending on price point. At the entry level, job anxiety and affordability pressures are keeping cautious buyers on the sidelines. At the upper end, wealth generated by the AI boom and a rising stock market is pushing demand well past recent ...
The pandemic-era real estate frenzy that swept mountain and resort communities across the American West has largely subsided, and markets like Whitefish, Montana, are now navigating a more measured reality. After years of rapid price appreciation, multiple-offer situations, and record-low days on market, buyers and sellers in Flathead County are recalibrating expectations on both sides ...
As Miami’s urban core continues attracting headlines for luxury condo sales and out-of-state migration, a quieter but steady trend is taking shape roughly 20 miles northwest. Pembroke Pines, a Broward County suburb that once served primarily as a bedroom community, is drawing a different kind of buyer, one seeking space, accessibility, and long-term stability over ...
Florida’s new condo inspection and reserve laws were supposed to make buyers more cautious. On the Sarasota barrier islands, they have done something more complicated: they have pushed prices down and flooded the market with inventory, but buyers who know how to navigate the new rules are finding deals that would have been impossible two ...
Landlords across New Jersey who have been collecting steady rent increases for years are about to face a new kind of competition, and it is not coming from other landlords. It is coming from state law. A wave of new apartment construction is hitting markets like Princeton and Mercer County, driven not by developer enthusiasm ...
The conventional explanation for why so few homes are for sale right now is that sellers are trapped by their mortgages. They locked in rates of 2.9 or 3 percent during the pandemic years, the story goes, and they refuse to trade those rates for today’s 6.5 percent. That explanation is not wrong, but real ...
The Hudson Valley’s Orange County has long attracted buyers seeking a quieter pace of life within reasonable reach of New York City. But as of mid-2026, the market dynamics that defined the past several years are producing concrete results: rising inventory, longer days on market, and increasing price reductions that are reshaping expectations for buyers, ...
South Florida’s new development market has entered a period of recalibration. Rising inventory and slower sales volumes tell part of the story, but the picture varies sharply by submarket. For developers and brokers, success now depends less on market timing and more on product quality, pricing discipline, and relationships built long before a project reaches ...
The Manhattan residential market has long been defined by its complexity, but rising transaction costs, shifting buyer preferences, and an increasingly fragmented information landscape are creating pressures that go well beyond what headline sales figures capture. For practitioners working deals on the ground, the gap between media narrative and market reality has rarely felt wider. ...
In Brooklyn’s competitive real estate market, where single-family homes routinely attract multiple offers and sell within days, the agents finding consistent success are those who have built deep expertise in overlooked corners of the market. While most brokers chase high-profile listings, a quieter but steady stream of transactions flows through probate properties, estates left behind ...
