NWHM The New Home Company Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 8, 2021

Registration on Form S-3 (No. 333-222645)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

6730 N Scottsdale Rd., Suite 290

Scottsdale, Arizona 85253

(602) 767-1426

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Leonard Miller

President and Chief Executive Officer

The New Home Company Inc.

6730 N Scottsdale Rd., Suite 290

Scottsdale, Arizona 85253

(602) 767-1426

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

With a copy to:

Taurie M. Zeitzer

Brian Scrivani

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019

(212) 373-3000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No.  1 relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) of The New Home Company Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant” or the “Company”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and is being filed to deregister any and all securities that remain unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement No. 333-222645 filed with the SEC on January 22, 2018, registering the resale by certain selling stockholders of up to an aggregate of 6,407,484 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”).

On September 8, 2021, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 23, 2021, by and among Newport Holdings, LLC (“Parent”), Newport Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned, direct subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and the Company, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”). As a result of the Merger, the shares of Common Stock will cease to be publicly traded. The Company intends to file Form 15 to terminate registration under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and its duty to file reports under Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to its existing registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the Registration Statement. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all of such securities of the Registrant registered but not sold or otherwise issued under the Registration Statement, if any, as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities, and the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irvine, State of California, on September 8, 2021.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.