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Podcast: The TreppWire Podcast: A Commercial Real Estate Show
Episode: 341. The CRE CLO Comeback Story: Market Trends & Execution Strategies with Steve Chow, Prime Finance
Description: In this special guest episode of The TreppWire Podcast, we are joined by Steve Chow, Principal and Head of Capital Markets, Analytics and Trading at Prime Finance. Steve oversees the firm's financing and capital markets activity across three distinct commercial real estate debt strategies, including their bridge lending platform that has issued 12 CRE CLOs over the past decade. We dive into the current CRE CLO market resurgence, exploring why issuance has more than doubled in 2025, the relative value proposition driving crossover investors into the space, and the lessons learned from executing deals through various market cycles. We also discuss...