Company: NXDT
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: S-3
Source: 0001437749-25-027604
Chunk: 39

Company: NEXPOINT DIVERSIFIED REAL ESTATE TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: S-3
Chunk 39
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 for deficiency dividends.

| ■ | Recordkeeping Requirements |

To avoid a monetary penalty, we must request on an annual basis information from our shareholders designed to disclose the actual ownership of our outstanding shares. We intend to comply with these requirements. A shareholder that fails or refuses to comply with such requests is required by Treasury regulations to submit a statement with its tax return disclosing the actual ownership of our shares and other information.

| ■ | Failure to Qualify |

If we fail to satisfy one or more requirements for REIT qualification other than the gross income or asset tests, we could avoid disqualification if our failure is due to reasonable cause and not to willful neglect and we pay a penalty of $50,000 for each such failure. Relief provisions are available for failures of the gross income tests and asset tests, as described above in “-Income Tests” and “-Asset Tests.”

If we fail to qualify for taxation as a REIT in any taxable year, and the relief provisions described above do not apply, we would be subject to tax, including any applicable alternative minimum tax, on our taxable income at the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate. Any such corporate tax liability could be substantial and would reduce the amount of cash available for distribution to our shareholders, which in turn could have an adverse impact on the value of, and trading prices for, our shares. In calculating our taxable income in a year in which we fail to qualify as a REIT, we would not be able to deduct amounts paid out to shareholders. In fact, we would not be required to distribute any amounts to shareholders in that year. In such event, to the extent of our current and accumulated earnings and profits, distributions to shareholders generally would be taxable as ordinary income. Subject to certain limitations of the U.S. federal income tax laws, corporate shareholders may be eligible for the dividends received deduction and shareholders taxed at individual rates may be eligible for reduced U.S. federal income tax rates on such dividends.

Unless we are entitled to relief under specific statutory provisions, we would also be disqualified from re-electing to be taxed as a REIT for the four taxable years following the taxable year during which we lost qualification. It is not possible to state whether, in all circumstances, we would be entitled to this statutory relief.

| ■ | Prohibited Transactions |

Net income that we derive from a prohibited transaction is subject to a 100% tax. The term “prohibited transaction” generally includes a sale or other disposition of property (other than foreclosure property, as discussed below) that