About The Market Distillery

Dr. Alex Stewart, Founder

Alex has been in real estate for over 10 years. He currently teaches business management at the University of North Florida and operates The Market Distillery. As a mortgage banker in Jacksonville, he helped over 900 families and generated over $200,000,000 in loan volume. Since 2016, he's analyzed the local real estate market and developing tools to help Realtors navigate the market and guide their clients.

Blending experience and education, he has an MBA from the University of Alabama and a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Florida.

Alex was born in Durango, CO and grew up in Huntsville, AL. After starting his career in Atlanta as a financial analyst 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.

WHAT IS THE MARKET DISTILLERY

Our Purpose

The Market Distillery was created with one goal in mind: to help Florida Realtors answer the question "how is the local market?"

After 8 years as a mortgage banker in Jacksonville, I knew there was a need for high-quality information to help Realtors guide their clients.

The challenge for most Realtors 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 could suggest otherwise. 

Worse yet, most reports are a collection of numbers without any context or interpretation.

With a data-driven approach, we take thousands of data points about the local market and distill them into easy-to-understand insights that help you guide your clients to make wise real estate decisions.

HOW DO WE WORK

Our Method

We guide our clients using our RISE method.

RISE stands for Research, Innovate, Strengthen, and Engage.

1. Research: Guide your clients with credible, data-driven insights and proprietary local market metrics.
2. Innovate: Identify opportunities other agents miss and add value to your services to help you stand out from the crowd.
3. Strengthen: Cultivate a growth mindset and build your business to thrive in the ever-evolving real estate market.
4. Engage: Create lasting relationships and loyalty through strategic engagement and modern marketing tactics.