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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August&nbsp;19, 2009
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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt">Registration No.&nbsp;333-74185
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>WASHINGTON, DC 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1<BR>
TO</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 0pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
Under the Securities Act of 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CENTEX CORPORATION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><DIV style="width: 100%; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; font-size: 1px">&nbsp;</DIV>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Nevada</B>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>75-0778259</B></TD>
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</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(State or other jurisdiction of <BR>
Incorporation or organization)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">(IRS Employer<BR>
Identification No.)</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>c/o Pulte Homes, Inc.</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>100 Bloomfield Hills Parkway, Suite&nbsp;300</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Bloomfield Hills, Michigan</B>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>48304</B></TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">(Zip Code)</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Amended and Restated 1998 Centex Corporation Employee Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan</B></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Full title of the plans)</DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Steven M. Cook<BR>
Senior Vice President and Secretary<BR>
Centex Corporation<BR>
c/o Pulte Homes, Inc.<BR>
100 Bloomfield Hills Parkway, Suite&nbsp;300<BR>
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304</B><BR>
(Name and address of agent for service)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>(248)&nbsp;647-2750</B></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</DIV>


<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 6pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" align=left>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Indicate by check mark whether the
registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated
filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of &#147;large accelerated
filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer&#148; and &#147;smaller reporting company&#148; in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act. (Check one):</DIV>


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Post-Effective Amendment No.&nbsp;1, filed by Centex Corporation, a Nevada corporation (the
&#147;Company&#148;), deregisters all shares of the Company&#146;s common stock, par value $0.25 per share
(&#147;Common Stock&#148;), that had been registered for issuance under the Amended and Restated 1998 Centex
Corporation Employee Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan on the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (File No.&nbsp;333-74185) (the &#147;Registration Statement&#148;) that remain unsold upon the
termination of the sale of shares covered by the Registration Statement.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On August&nbsp;18, 2009, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April&nbsp;7, 2009, by
and among the Company, Pulte Homes, Inc., a Michigan corporation (&#147;Pulte&#148;), and Pi Nevada Building
Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pulte (&#147;Merger Sub&#148;), Merger Sub merged with and into the
Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of
Pulte (the &#147;Merger&#148;). As a result, the Company has terminated all offerings of its Common Stock
pursuant to its existing registration statements, including the Registration Statement. In
accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from
registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any shares of the Company&#146;s Common Stock
which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from
registration all shares of its Common Stock under the Registration Statement which remained unsold
as of the effective time of the Merger.
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>SIGNATURES</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Bloomfield Hills, State of Michigan, on
August&nbsp;19, 2009.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left"><B>CENTEX CORPORATION</B><BR>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Steven M. Cook
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Steven M. Cook&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Senior Vice President and Secretary&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No.
1 to Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Richard J. Dugas, Jr.
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Richard J. Dugas, Jr.
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">President and Member of the
Board of Directors<BR>(Principal
Executive Officer)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August&nbsp;19, 2009</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Roger A. Cregg
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Roger A. Cregg
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Executive Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer and Member of
the Board of Directors
(Principal Financial Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August&nbsp;19, 2009</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Michael J. Schweninger
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Michael J. Schweninger
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Vice President and Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August&nbsp;19, 2009</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Steven M. Cook
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Steven M. Cook
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Member of the Board of Directors&nbsp;
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August&nbsp;19, 2009</TD>
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