About The Market Distillery

WHAT IS THE MARKET DISTILLERY

Our Purpose

How's the market?

The Market Distillery was created with one goal in mind: to help real estate professionals answer the question "how is the market?"

The problem for most real estate professionals is that the information available is often at a national level. This can cause you think think and act one way, when your local market data would suggest otherwise. Worse yet, when your clients ask you questions, you can be stuck without a local answer and clients who won't take action. 

With 50+ years combined in the real estate business, Alex Stewart, Quinton Harris, Dr. Steve Tufts, and Daniel Halvorsen joined together to form The Market Distillery. With a data-driven approach, The Market Distillery takes thousands of data points about the local market and distills them into easy-to-understand insights that help you guide your clients to make wise real estate decisions.

Alex Stewart, MBA

Alex has been a mortgage banker for 8 year with Bank of England Mortgage, helping over 900 families and generating over $190,000,000 in loan volume. He has spent the last 6 years analyzing the local real estate market and developing tools to help Realtors navigate the market and guide their clients.

He has an MBA from the University of Alabama and is currently earning his Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Florida and will graduate in August 2023.

Alex was born in Durango, CO and grew up in Huntsville, AL. After starting his career in Atlanta at Georgia Pacific and The Home Depot, he moved to Jacksonville with his wife Katie. They have two children, Peyton & Jack, and two dogs, John Henry and Fezzie. They currently live in Atlantic Beach, FL.

Quinton Harris

Quinton Harris, VP Northeast Florida for Bank of England Mortgage, has been in the mortgage banking industry for over twenty years. Under Harris' leadership, the BOE Jacksonville team has been the #1 branch in the entire organization for nine consecutive years -- even gaining #1 market share in Northeast Florida in 2020 according to both CoreLogic and Zonda.

Dr. Steve Tufts

Steve is an accomplished businessman and educator. He has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida, an MBA from the University of Virginia and a DBA from the University of Florida. As a Clinical Professor at UF’s Warrington College of Business, he teaches classes in entrepreneurship, real estate, marketing and sales. 

As a part of his entrepreneurial strategy, he received his real estate license in 2001. Following his early success in luxury real estate, Steve became the Founder and Operating Partner of the Atlantic Partners Realty Group (dba Keller Williams Realty, Atlantic Partners) with ownership in 10 KW locations housing over 1200 real estate professionals throughout North Florida. He is a member of the KW University International Master Faculty, a Licensed Real Estate Broker in Florida and Georgia and a Licensed Real Estate Instructor in Florida. He is a Member of the National Association of Realtors, the Florida Association of Realtors and 5 Local Boards of Realtors in North Florida. He also owns parts of a title company and various other businesses.

Steve is a proud native of Florida, having been born in Jacksonville and spending his childhood on Merritt Island. In his spare time, he enjoys boating, fishing, cycling, music and anything that puts him near salt water. He is married to the former Barbara Thompson and has 3 adult daughters and 4 grandchildren. He splits time between Gainesville and Atlantic Beach, FL.

Daniel Halvorsen

Daniel Halvorsen, Area Manager at Bank of England Mortgage has been in residential mortgage lending for 12 years. Prior to moving into management he was the #1 loan officer in Northeast Florida four consecutive years and a Scotsman Guide Top 100 lender. His unique approach to referral based marketing has resulted in personally funding over $800,000,000 in loan volume. Daniel is a graduate of Jacksonville University and lives in Atlantic Beach with his wife, Amy and daughter Josephine.