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 narrative around Florida’s coastal real estate has been dominated by alarm in recent years, rising insurance costs, hurricane damage, condo assessment crises, and departing residents. But on the ground in Pinellas County, the picture is more layered than the headlines suggest. For investors and buyers paying attention, the current moment in Tampa Bay’s beach ...
Eighteen months after a direct hurricane hit ended a four-decade streak without a major hurricane, Anna Maria Island’s real estate market is showing clear signs of stabilization. Prices remain well below their post-pandemic peak, rental bookings are climbing back toward pre-storm levels, and a growing number of investors are quietly moving back in. For those ...
For years, Florida real estate carried an almost automatic appeal: warm weather, no state income tax, and a steady stream of buyers from colder, higher-tax states. But in mid-2026, the Orlando market tells a more complicated story. Rising inventory, persistent affordability pressures, and financing challenges are forcing agents, buyers, and sellers to rethink how they ...
The Hudson Valley real estate market is operating under conditions not seen since the late 1990s. Inventory across the region has fallen to its lowest level since 1997, creating an environment where sellers hold most of the leverage and buyers must move quickly and creatively to compete. With remote work still reshaping where professionals choose ...
Rent prices and vacancy rates are not supposed to move in the same direction at the same time. When a market softens, rents typically fall. When demand is strong, vacancies shrink. But for much of 2024, property managers in Upstate South Carolina were watching both numbers climb together, a contradiction that left landlords confused and ...
For the past several years, the story coming out of Florida’s coastal real estate market has been one of insurance chaos, carriers fleeing the state, premiums doubling or tripling in a single year, and buyers walking away from deals because the numbers no longer made sense. That period is now ending. Legislative reforms passed in ...
Buyers who keep losing out on move-in-ready homes in the DC-Maryland-Virginia market are often fighting the wrong battle. The competition for updated, turnkey properties is intense enough that many buyers are being priced out or repeatedly outbid, and some are passing over a financing option that could change the math entirely. Renovation loans have existed ...
After several years of pandemic-fueled frenzy, Florida’s Gulf Coast real estate market is settling into something more familiar to long-time practitioners. In Sarasota, that correction is being felt across price points and property types. For those who have worked the market through multiple cycles, it reads less like a slowdown and more like a return ...
Florida has always been a boom-or-bust real estate market, and the post-pandemic correction playing out across Sarasota and Manatee counties is a clear reminder of that pattern. After years of compressed inventory and rapid price appreciation, the market is settling into a rhythm closer to its historical pace – and for buyers and investors who ...
The rental market in Upstate South Carolina has been telling a more complicated story than regional growth headlines suggest. While Greenville consistently ranks among the fastest-growing cities in the country, the day-to-day realities of managing rental properties across the region reveal competing pressures: rising rents alongside rising vacancies, an influx of first-time landlords, and tenants ...
The Washington, D.C., metro area real estate market is navigating an unusual combination of pressures in mid-2026. Federal workforce reductions, persistent interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainty have combined to create a market that looks and feels different from recent years. For buyers and sellers trying to time their moves, the signals can be confusing, and ...
As summer 2026 gets underway, the residential real estate market in Southern Westchester County shows little sign of the seasonal slowdown that typically follows Memorial Day. Inventory is gradually increasing, but buyer demand continues to outpace supply, keeping conditions firmly in seller territory across the Sound Shore communities of Larchmont, Mamaroneck, and Rye. For Farrah ...
The Central Florida housing market in mid-2026 looks meaningfully different from the pandemic-era frenzy that defined much of the early 2020s. Inventory is moving more steadily, out-of-state buyers remain active, and a growing number of buyers are finally accepting that historically low interest rates are not coming back. But persistent pricing gaps between seller expectations ...
The narrative around South Florida real estate has grown increasingly complicated in recent years. Headlines swing between stories of pandemic-era price surges and more recent warnings of a cooling market. For agents working across Miami-Dade and Broward counties, the reality is more nuanced than either storyline suggests, and the timing matters. With new condo regulations ...
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 ...
