Chief Financial Officer, Executive VP-Finance, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer · NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NREF)

Paul Richards

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Paul Richards as a named executive officer of NexPoint Real Estate Finance; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$885,261

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 20, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Paul Richards compensation by year

NexPoint Real Estate Finance Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as NexPoint Real Estate Finance reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$0
Bonus$0
Stock awards$885,261
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$0
Total$885,261

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 20, 2026, accession 0001437749-26-012765, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU108,701$1,530,510—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments NexPoint Real Estate Finance discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death—$1,530,510—$1,530,510
Retirement—$680,852—$680,852
Disability—$1,530,510—$1,530,510
Resignation for good reason, no change in control—$849,658—$849,658
Change in control and involuntary termination—$1,530,510—$1,530,510
Change in control and resignation for good reason—$1,530,510—$1,530,510
Involuntary termination without cause—$611,667—$611,667
Voluntary resignation—$258,452—$258,452

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

NexPoint Real Estate Finance’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Matt McGranerChief Investment Officer and Executive VP$2,161,170
James DonderoPresident$2,161,170
Paul Richards · this pageChief Financial Officer, Executive VP-Finance, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer$885,261

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How this record is built

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