Company: NXDT
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001437749-25-020001
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Company: NEXPOINT DIVERSIFIED REAL ESTATE TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form: S-8
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 for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

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REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES</div>

The shareholders of NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (the “Company”) approved the Amended and Restated NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust 2023 Long Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) on June 10, 2025 (the “Effective Date”).

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) for the purpose of registering an additional 943,000 common shares of beneficial interest, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Shares”) for issuance pursuant to the Plan. Accordingly, the Company incorporates by reference the contents of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-269602), filed with the Commission on February 6, 2023.

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INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents, which are on file with the Commission, are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference:

All documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) (excluding information deemed to be furnished and not filed with the Commission) subsequent to the effective date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, will be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 8. Exhibits.

| Exhibit          
 Number           | Description                                           |
| 5.1*             | Opinion of Tuan Olona