Company: KW
Filing Date: 2025-06-13
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001408100-25-000134
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Company: Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-13
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 13, 2025</div>

#### Registration Statement No. 333-

### UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, DC 20549

#### FORM S-8

### REGISTRATION STATEMENT

#### UNDER

#### THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

#### KENNEDY-WILSON HOLDINGS, INC.
<div align='center'>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

| Delaware                        |     | 26-0508760         |
| (State or other jurisdiction of 
 incorporation or organization)  |     | -I.R.S. Employer   
 Identification No. |

#### 151 S. El Camino Boulevard

#### Beverly Hills, California 90212
<div align='center'>(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

KENNEDY-WILSON HOLDINGS, INC. SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED 2009 EQUITY PARTICIPATION PLAN

(Full title of the plan)</div>

#### Corporation Trust Company

#### 1209 Orange Street

#### Wilmington, Delaware 19801
<div align='center'>(Name and address of agent for service)

(800) 677-3394

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:</div>

| Justin Enbody                   
 Chief Financial Officer         
 Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.   
 151 S. El Camino Boulevard      
 Beverly Hills, California 90212 
 (310) 887-6400                  |     | Julian T.H. Kleindorfer, Esq.      
 Latham & Watkins LLP               
 355 South Grand Avenue             
 Suite 100                          
 Los Angeles, California 90071-1560 
 (213) 485-1234                     |

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | Accelerated filer         |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | Smaller reporting company |
|                         |     | Emerging growth company   |

If an emerging growth company