Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 105

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 105
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(vii) cause or permit Parent to enter into a Parent Alternative Acquisition Agreement (together with any of the actions set
forth in the foregoing through , a “”).

(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary:

(i) the Parent Board may, after consultation with its outside legal counsel, make such disclosures as the Parent Board
determines in good faith are necessary to comply with Rule 14d-9 or Rule 14e-2(a) promulgated under the Exchange Act or other disclosure required to be made in the Joint
Proxy Statement by applicable U.S. federal securities laws; , , that if such disclosure has the effect of withdrawing or adversely modifying the Parent Board Recommendation, such disclosure shall be deemed to be a Parent
Change of Recommendation and the Company shall have the right to terminate this Agreement as set forth in ;

(ii) prior to, but not after, the receipt of the Parent Stockholder Approval, Parent and its Representatives may engage in the
activities prohibited by or with any Person if (A) Parent receives a bona fide written Parent Competing Proposal from such Person that was not solicited at any time
following the execution of this Agreement and (B) such Parent Competing Proposal did not arise from a material breach of the obligations set forth in this ; , , that (1) no
information that is prohibited from being furnished pursuant to may be furnished until Parent receives an executed confidentiality agreement from such Person containing limitations on the use and disclosure
of non-public information furnished to such Person by or on behalf of Parent that are no less favorable in all material respects than

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the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement, as determined by the Parent Board in good faith after consultation with its legal counsel (, , that such confidentiality
agreement does not contain provisions which prohibit Parent from providing any information to the Company in accordance with this or that otherwise prohibits Parent from complying with the provisions of this
), (2) that any such non-public information has previously been made available to, or is made available to, the Company prior to or concurrently with (or in the case of
oral non-public information only, promptly (and in any event within 24 hours) after) the time such information is made available to such Person, (3) prior to taking any such actions, the Parent Board or
any committee thereof determines in good faith, after consultation with its financial advisors and outside legal counsel, that such Parent Competing Proposal is, or would reasonably be expected to