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          Pulte Homes, Inc., a Michigan corporation (“Pulte” or the “Registrant”), hereby amends its Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Registration No. 333-158974), which was declared effective on July 17, 2009, (the “Form S-4”), by filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on Form S-8 (the “Post-Effective Amendment No. 1”) relating to shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Pulte common stock”), that are issuable by Pulte pursuant to awards granted under the Centex Corporation 2003 Equity Incentive Plan, the Amended and Restated Centex Corporation 2001 Stock Plan, the Amended and Restated 1998 Centex Corporation Employee Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan, the Centex Corporation Amended and Restated 1987 Stock Option Plan and the Centex Corporation Long Term Incentive Plan (collectively, the “Centex Plans”). The Form S-4, as amended by this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1, is referred to herein as the “Registration Statement.”

          On August 18, 2009, Pi Nevada Building Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pulte (“Merger Sub”), merged with and into Centex Corporation, a Nevada corporation (“Centex”), with Centex continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Pulte (the “Merger”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 7, 2009 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Pulte, Merger Sub and Centex. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the effective time of the Merger, each outstanding share of Centex common stock (other than those shares held by Pulte or Merger Sub, and other than treasury shares) was converted into the right to receive 0.975 of a share of Pulte common stock (the “Exchange Ratio”).

          Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the effective time of the Merger, all of the obligations of Centex under the Centex Plans were assumed by Pulte. In addition, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the effective time of the Merger:

     The following documents are incorporated by reference herein:

     All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than the portions of those documents not deemed to be filed) subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment hereto which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

     Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein by reference modifies or supersedes such prior statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

          Not applicable.

          Not applicable.

          Section 561 of the Michigan Business Corporation Act, or the MBCA, permits a Michigan corporation to indemnify any director or officer of the corporation (as well as other employees and individuals) that was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, other than an action by or in the right of the corporation, by reason of his or her position with, or service to, the corporation, against expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation or its shareholders, and with respect to any criminal action

or proceeding, if the person had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. Section 562 of the MBCA permits similar indemnification by the corporation in the case of actions or suits by or in the right of the corporation, except that (a) the permitted indemnification does not extend to judgments, penalties and fines, and (b) court approval is required before there can be any indemnification where the person seeking indemnification has been found liable to the corporation. Section 563 of the MBCA provides that, to the extent that a director or officer of a corporation has been successful in the defense of an action, suit or proceeding described above, or in the defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, the corporation is required to indemnify him or her against actual and reasonable expenses, including attorneys’ fees, incurred by him or her in connection therewith.

          The Registrant’s Restated Articles of Incorporation provide that directors of the Registrant shall not be personally liable to the Registrant or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of the director’s fiduciary duty. However, Pulte’s Restated Articles of Incorporation do not eliminate or limit the liability of a director for any of the following: (a) acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or knowing violation of law; (b) a violation of Section 551(1) of the MBCA; (c) a transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit; or (d) an act or omission occurring before the effective date of the Articles. In addition, the Registrant’s by-laws generally provide that the Registrant shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Registrant, or is or was serving at the Registrant’s request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.

          The Registrant has obtained a Directors’ and Officers’ liability insurance policy, which provides for coverage for liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including for prior acts dating to the Registrant’s inception.

Not applicable.

(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement;

          (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b) The undersigned Registrant undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to our directors, officers and controlling persons pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

          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. 1 on Form S-8 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Bloomfield Hills, State of Michigan, on August 19, 2009.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on Form S-8 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

          Each of the undersigned directors of Pulte Homes, Inc. does hereby severally constitute and appoint Richard J. Dugas, Jr., Roger A. Cregg, and Steven M. Cook, and each of them acting alone, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution in each of them for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, and in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and any applicable securities exchange or securities self-regulatory body, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or their or his or her substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on Form S-8 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.