Already one of the largest commercial real estate companies in Greater Cincinnati, Henkle Schueler & Associates hopes to nab more large corporate clients with its membership in an international real estate firm.

Henkle Schueler became a member of Corporate Facility Advisors — CORFAC International on Jan. 1, according to CORFAC. CORFAC is an international network of locally-owned commercial real estate firms. As a member, Henkle Schueler was given the territory of Greater Cincinnati, including Northern Kentucky, said Joe Kramer, executive vice president of Henkle Schueler.

In addition, Henkle will open a brokerage office in Kentucky this year in response to increased business in the area, having recently bought a 130-acre industrial park near the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, he said.

“We now have a network of companies very similar to ourselves around North America and around the world, as a matter of fact, so that if we’re are talking to a company in Middletown that has a sales office in Dallas and a warehouse in Los Angeles and a subsidiary company in Chicago, we can tell them we can handle their real estate needs anywhere that they’re at,” Kramer said.

The Lebanon-based company has three arms — Bunnell Hill Development, Bunnell Hill Construction and Henkle Schueler, which has real estate and commercial divisions. A membership charge was paid to join CORFAC, and as a result, the commercial division’s name has officially become Henkle Schueler & Associates/CORFAC International.

Kramer said Henkle Schueler & Associates is the sixth largest commercial real estate firm by number of local licensed agents in the Cincinnati area, according to Cincinnati Business Courier’s 2011 Book of Lists. They have 17 agents, he said.

In the past week two new hires have been named. Jen Tucker Clonch was made a commercial sales agent focused on Clermont County and Andy Scott was made a vice president of development, Kramer said.

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