Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
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Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
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 provide the record holder of your shares with instructions on how to vote your shares. Please follow the voting instructions provided by your bank, broker or other nominee. You may also vote shares held in street name by returning a proxy card via mail or by voting at the Compass special meeting or Anywhere special meeting, as applicable. Your bank, broker or other nominee is obligated to provide you with a voting instruction card for you to use.

Banks, brokers or other nominees who hold shares in street name for a beneficial owner of those shares typically have the authority to vote in their discretion on “routine” proposals when they have not received instructions from beneficial owners. However, banks, brokers or other nominees are not allowed to exercise their voting discretion with respect to the approval of matters determined to be “non-routine” without specific instructions from the beneficial owner. It is expected that all proposals to be voted on at each of the Compass special meeting and the Anywhere special meeting are “non-routine” matters. Broker non-votes occur when a broker or nominee is not instructed by the beneficial owner of shares to vote on a particular proposal for which the bank, broker or other nominee does not have discretionary voting power.

If you are a beneficial owner of Compass shares and you do not instruct your bank, broker or other nominee on how to vote your shares:

• your bank, broker or other nominee may not vote your shares on the Compass share issuance proposal, which broker non-votes, if any, will have no effect on the outcome of such proposal; and

• your bank, broker or other nominee may not vote your shares on the Compass adjournment proposal, which broker non-votes, if any, will have no effect on the outcome of such proposal.

If you are a beneficial owner of Anywhere shares and you do not instruct your bank, broker or other nominee on how to vote your shares:

• your bank, broker or other nominee may not vote your shares on the Anywhere merger proposal, which broker non-votes, if any, will have the same effect as a vote “

#### AGAINST
” such proposal;

• your bank, broker or other nominee may not vote your shares on the Anywhere non-binding compensation advisory proposal, which broker non-votes, if any, will have no effect on the outcome of such proposal; and

• your bank, broker or other nominee may not vote your shares on the Anywhere adjournment proposal, which broker non-votes, if any, will have no effect on the outcome of