Company: NREF
Filing Date: 2025-08-18
Form Type: 8-A12B
Source: 0001437749-25-027181
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Company: NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-18
Form: 8-A12B
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 “NREF”.

Item 1. Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered.

The description of the Common Stock, as may be amended from time to time, contained in Exhibit 4.1 of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on March 27, 2025, is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 2. Exhibits.

Pursuant to the Instructions as to Exhibits for Form 8-A, no exhibits are required to be filed, because no other securities of the Registrant are registered on the NYSE Texas, and the securities registered hereby are not being registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

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SIGNATURES</div>

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized.

|                         |     | NEXPOINT REAL ESTATE FINANCE, INC.                                               |
|                         | By: | /s/ Paul Richards                                                                |
|                         |     | Paul Richards                                                                    |
|                         |     | Chief Financial Officer, Executive VP-Finance, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary |
| Date:   August 18, 2025 |     |                                                                                  |

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