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 Florida markets capture the current complexity of residential real estate quite like Sarasota. Once a relatively under-the-radar coastal city, it became one of the most sought-after destinations during the pandemic years, drawing buyers from across the country with its beaches, lifestyle, and comparatively affordable prices. Now, as the market recalibrates after years of rapid ...
The Jersey Shore real estate market has changed considerably since the pandemic years, but not in the ways many buyers were hoping for. Inventory remains historically tight, prices have held firm despite rising interest rates, and the path from listing to closing has grown longer and more complicated. For agents working this market every day, ...
Rising property taxes, persistent inflation, and elevated interest rates are forcing real estate investors in New Jersey to rethink their playbooks. Strategies that worked two or three years ago – particularly quick fix-and-flip deals – are no longer reliably profitable. For agents working across both residential and investment transactions, reading these conditions in real time ...
Few housing markets in Texas rode the pandemic-era boom as hard as the small cities strung along the Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio. The years since have been a slow unwinding – prices adjusting, timelines stretching, and expectations on both sides of the transaction getting a hard reset. The stretch of Interstate ...
Tucked between Philadelphia, Wilmington, and the Jersey Shore, South Jersey’s residential market occupies an interesting position heading into the second half of 2026. While national headlines focus on affordability pressures and rate-driven hesitation, conditions on the ground tell a more specific story – one shaped by geography, local pricing dynamics, and growing awareness of what ...
When people think about how US-Canada relations affect everyday life, real estate rarely comes to mind. But in the 1000 Islands region of upstate New York, where the international border runs through the St. Lawrence River just minutes from some neighborhoods, the cooling relationship between the two countries is showing up in property transactions, tourism ...
In a state where some housing markets have lurched from frenzy to slowdown and back again, the suburbs west of Houston have earned a reputation for staying relatively steady. But agents who work those markets every day say the stability is real, and also more fragile at the edges than the headline narrative suggests. The ...
Florida’s condo market has spent the past two years generating alarming headlines: soaring insurance premiums, mandatory reserve requirements, special assessments landing in owners’ mailboxes without warning. For buyers eyeing a condo in the Sarasota area, the question is whether those headlines still reflect what is actually happening on the ground, or whether conditions have improved ...
Property values that have climbed from $30,000 in the 1990s to between $325,000 and $480,000 today tell only part of the story on Long Island’s South Shore. For the investors and agents who work these markets daily, the real drivers are far more nuanced, and right now, they point to a market where pace is ...
If you are shopping for a condo in Florida right now, the price tag on the listing may be the least of your worries. Real estate professionals working the Gulf Coast market are warning that a wave of structural inspections, unpaid assessments, and tightening lender requirements has made a large share of Florida’s condo inventory ...
While much of the national vacation and second-home market has cooled since the pandemic boom, one corner of upstate New York appears largely immune to the slowdown. The 1000 Islands region, straddling the St. Lawrence River along the US-Canada border, continues to attract steady buyer interest, and the agents working there say the fundamentals driving ...
The national housing conversation centers on affordability pressures, rate sensitivity, and slowing demand. In Silicon Valley, that narrative does not apply. A different set of forces drives this market: AI-driven wealth creation, severe inventory constraints, and a buyer pool that routinely closes multimillion-dollar deals in cash. Understanding what is happening in communities like Atherton and ...
The Central Florida real estate market is undergoing a period of adjustment that many sellers find difficult to accept. In Winter Haven, a lakeside city positioned between Orlando and Tampa, the gap between seller expectations and buyer capacity has become one of the defining tensions of mid-2026. For agents working this market daily, the conversations ...
While Manhattan and Brooklyn dominate New York City’s real estate headlines, Flushing has been quietly maturing into a full-scale residential destination. Long recognized as one of North America’s most significant Chinese-American commercial centers, the Queens neighborhood is now drawing investors, young families, and retirees to a growing roster of new condo developments. But after several ...
For the past three years, buying a home on Florida’s Gulf Coast has come with a hidden cost that shows up long after the purchase contract is signed: insurance. Carriers pulled out of the state in large numbers, leaving many coastal homeowners with limited options and sharply higher premiums. What experts working in these markets ...
