Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 104

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 104
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 to providing any such information
or engaging in any such discussions or negotiations.

(d) Except as permitted by , the Parent
Board, including any committee thereof, agrees it shall not:

(i) withhold, withdraw, qualify or modify, or publicly
propose or announce any intention to withhold, withdraw, qualify or modify, in a manner adverse to the Company, the Parent Board Recommendation;

(ii) fail to include the Parent Board Recommendation in the Joint Proxy Statement;

(iii) authorize, adopt, approve, endorse or recommend, or publicly propose or announce any intention to authorize, adopt,
approve, endorse or recommend, any Parent Competing Proposal;

(iv) publicly declare advisable or publicly propose to enter
into, any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding, agreement in principle, acquisition agreement, merger agreement, option agreement, joint venture agreement, partnership agreement or other agreement (other than a confidentiality agreement
referred to in entered into in compliance with ) relating to a Parent Competing Proposal (a “”);

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(v) in the case of a Parent Competing Proposal that is structured as a
tender offer or exchange offer pursuant to Rule 14d-2 under the Exchange Act for outstanding shares of Parent Common Stock (other than by the Company or an Affiliate of the Company), fail to recommend, in a
Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9, against acceptance of such tender offer or exchange offer by its stockholders on or prior to the earlier of (A) three (3) Business Days prior to
the date of the Parent Stockholders Meeting (or promptly after commencement of such tender offer or exchange offer if commenced on or after the third (3rd) Business Day prior to the date of the Parent Stockholders Meeting) or (B) five (5)
business days (as such term is used in Rule 14d-9 of the Exchange Act) after commencement of such tender offer or exchange offer;

(vi) if a Parent Competing Proposal shall have been publicly announced or disclosed (other than pursuant to the foregoing
), fail to publicly reaffirm the Parent Board Recommendation on or prior to the earlier of (A) five (5) Business Days after the Company so requests in writing or (B) three (3) Business Days prior to the date of the Parent
Stockholders Meeting (or promptly after announcement or disclosure of such Parent Competing Proposal if announced or disclosed on or after the third (3rd) Business Day prior to the date of the Parent Stockholders