November 26, 2018 (CINCINNATI, OH) - Lee & Associates, the largest broker-owned commercial real estate firm in North America, is pleased to announce that SVN|RICORE Investment Management, Inc. has become Lee & Associates Cincinnati.

Lee & Associates has highly successful offices in Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio, and Cincinnati is an exciting addition to the Ohio group.

Lee & Associates Cincinnati will continue to be led by local real estate veterans John Rickert, Principal and Executive Managing Director, Mark Fajack, Chief Financial Officer, Kim Stachler, Vice President of Management Services and Joe Gilligan, Director of Brokerage Services.

Lee & Associates Cincinnati is located at 11500 Northlake Drive, Suite 100, Cincinnati, Ohio 45249.

“The new Lee & Associates Cincinnati real estate team of Joe Gilligan, Dan McDonald, Stewart Devitt, Mark Freiberg, Gary S. Fisher and others, has an 18+ year track record of providing property management, receivership, leasing, tenant representation, property maintenance, and investment sale and general building construction services. “I am delighted to welcome this office of nearly 50 real estate professionals to complete Lee & Associates expansion on the Ohio I-71 corridor. This is exciting. The entire Lee organization benefits, but more importantly, we are able to, once again, elevate our customers’ experience.” said Jeffrey Rinkov, CEO of Lee & Associates.

John Rickert says, “We made the decision to join the Lee & Associates organization to take our Integrated Real Estate Services platform (leasing, management, construction and maintenance) to a higher level. We could not be more pleased with the professionalism and capabilities of our fellow Lee & Associates colleagues.”

Dan McDonald adds, “We are attracted to Lee & Associates because of the company’s entrepreneurial mindset, broker ownership platform, in-depth client relationships and transactional support for its brokers. We are taking an already robust integrated Real Estate Services platform and making it that much better.”

Lee & Associates will celebrate its 40^th anniversary in 2019. Lee & Associates has been expanding its North American footprint and has recently added best of class offices in Miami, FL, Seattle, WA; Pasadena, CA; Walnut Creek, CA; Minneapolis, MN; Vancouver, B.C.; Eastern Pennsylvania; Cleveland and Columbus, OH, and Houston, Texas. Rinkov says, “We have developed a brokerage model that not only aligns the interest of our agents and clients but, through broker ownership, aligns the interests of our agents in offices throughout North America. It’s clear that relevant, established and substantial real estate firms understand the power of our offering and want to bring this to their clients.”

ABOUT LEE & ASSOCIATES
Lee & Associates is a commercial real estate brokerage, management and appraisal services firm. Established in 1979, Lee & Associates has grown its service platform to include offices in the United States and Canada. Lee & Associates provides superior market intelligence in office, industrial, retail, investment, and appraisal to meet the specialized needs of our clients. For the latest news from Lee & Associates, visit lee-associates.com or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Link, our company blog.

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