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.
New York City’s housing conversation centers on building more. In South Brooklyn, a less visible shift is adding to the complexity of the situation: the small, family-owned landlords who provided the most stable rental housing in these neighborhoods are selling off their properties. What replaces them is not more housing but a different kind of ...
Inventory in the South Bay beach cities of Los Angeles County is higher than it was a year ago, according to Susan Murphy, who has spent two decades running the Hoffman Murphy Real Estate Team out of Hermosa Beach, California. That would normally suggest softening conditions and more leverage for buyers. But the additional supply ...
Twice in two years, Austin’s residential real estate market has built momentum toward recovery – and twice, external economic disruptions have stalled it. The pattern points to a market not in decline but in a holding pattern shaped more by geopolitical uncertainty than by local fundamentals, according to Brooke Roeder, Principal of the Roeder Group ...
In most real estate transactions, the sequence of financial commitments works against the buyer. Non-refundable due diligence fees, earnest money deposits, inspection costs, and appraisal fees are all paid before the buyer has a clear picture of a property’s actual condition. When problems surface – foundation damage, structural issues, faulty wiring – buyers who walk ...
For much of the past several years, sellers in St. Paul, Minnesota, had the upper hand. Low inventory, intense buyer competition, and rapid price appreciation made it easy to list a home and attract multiple offers. That dynamic is changing. Listings in St. Paul are up roughly 12 percent over last year, according to Shawn ...
The combination of snow load, seismic, wildfire, and energy requirements means every new home is a luxury product by default – and the market is adjusting accordingly New construction in most mountain resort towns is expensive. In Truckee and North Lake Tahoe, California, the cost of code compliance alone prices out all but the luxury ...
Most cash offers in Marin County don’t come from tech workers carrying suitcases of stock-sale proceeds. They come from parents funding a child’s purchase, or from buyers drawing on personal IRA accounts and securing conventional lending afterward. The distinction matters because the popular narrative – that the Bay Area’s cash-heavy markets are simply a function ...
The Philadelphia region never saw the extreme price run-ups other markets did, so it never took the sharpest drops either, and it remains one of the more affordable markets in the country. That steadiness hasn’t kept every seller’s expectations in line with the current market. Anne Rubin, a partner at Century 21 Advantage Gold who ...
Delaware has three counties, and Diego Reyes sees the state’s growth moving toward the one in the middle. New Castle County in the north is already saturated, he says, and Sussex County along the coast is adding pressure of its own. That leaves Kent County, at the center of the state, as the place he ...
Baltimore remains one of the top cash-flow markets in the country, ranking alongside Cleveland, Philadelphia, and St. Louis, according to Andrea Mann, an agent with Iron Valley Real Estate Charm City who works primarily with investors. But the city’s investment landscape punishes assumptions – particularly the assumption that a renovated property will sell for whatever ...
Some of the most qualified home buyers in Southern California aren’t shopping for homes right now. They’re renting. According to Carly Zamani, founder and broker of zRE Group in Laguna Niguel, California, many homeowners who sold in the past three to four years are now leasing while they wait for mortgage rates to come down. ...
Inventory in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has been building for months, and homes are sitting far longer than many sellers anticipated. Average days on market in some parts of Dallas proper have stretched to around five months, according to brokers working the area. Yet buyer activity remains muted, held back by interest rate sensitivity, indecision, ...
The average home in Billings, Montana, now costs around $385,000, and in the view of Damian Forrester, who leads Forrester Group Real Estate, brokered by eXp Realty of Montana, a buyer needs something close to two household incomes to purchase one. New construction starts around $450,000 and climbs from there, putting it out of reach ...
Most real estate coverage focuses on markets where prices are the main barrier to homeownership. In Chester, a small town in southern Illinois’s Randolph County, the average home price sits around $138,000, according to Robin Bert, a broker with Worth Clark Realty who has sold in the area for ten years. The barrier is not ...
El Segundo, California, sits just south of Los Angeles International Airport – a municipality of roughly 17,000 residents in a single zip code. The city has adopted mixed-use and residential overlays meant to open the door to new housing, but little has been built under them. Interest rates climbed almost as soon as the city ...
