EQUITY RESIDENTIAL

Not applicable.

PART III

Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14.

Trustees, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters; Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Trustee Independence; and Principal Accountant Fees and Services

The information required by Item 10, Item 11, Item 12 (with the exception of the Equity Compensation Plan Information provided below), Item 13 and Item 14 is incorporated by reference to, and will be contained in, Equity Residential’s Proxy Statement, which the Company intends to file no later than 120 days after the end of its fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, and thus these items have been omitted in accordance with General Instruction G(3) to Form 10-K. Equity Residential is the general partner and 97.0% owner of ERP Operating Limited Partnership.

Equity Compensation Plan Information

The following table provides information as of December 31, 2023 with respect to the Company’s Common Shares that may be issued under its existing equity compensation plans.

(1)

The amounts shown in columns (a) and (b) of the above table do not include 320,070 outstanding Common Shares (all of which are restricted and subject to vesting requirements) that were granted under the Company’s 2019 Share Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2019 Plan”), and outstanding Common Shares that have been purchased by employees and trustees under the Company’s ESPP.

(2)

Includes 8,213,508 Common Shares that may be issued under the 2019 Plan and 2,418,463 Common Shares that may be sold to employees and trustees under the ESPP.

On June 27, 2019, the shareholders of EQR approved the Company's 2019 Plan and the Company filed a Form S-8 registration statement to register 11,331,958 Common Shares under this plan. As of December 31, 2023, 8,213,508 shares were available for future issuance. The 2019 Plan expires on June 27, 2029.

Any Common Shares issued pursuant to EQR’s incentive equity compensation and employee share purchase plans will result in ERPOP issuing OP Units to EQR on a one-for-one basis, with ERPOP receiving the net cash proceeds of such issuances.

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