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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A: If you hold shares of both Compass common stock and Anywhere common stock, you will receive two separate packages of proxy materials. A vote cast as a holder of Compass common stock will not count as a vote cast as a holder of Anywhere common stock, and a vote cast as a holder of Anywhere common stock will not count as a vote cast as a holder of Compass common stock. Therefore, please submit separate proxies for your shares of Compass common stock and your shares of Anywhere common stock.

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#### Q: What do I need to do now?
A: After carefully reading and considering the information contained in this joint proxy statement/prospectus, please vote your shares as soon as possible so that your shares will be represented at the Compass special meeting or Anywhere special meeting, as applicable. Please follow the instructions set forth on the Compass proxy card or the Anywhere proxy card, as applicable, or on the voting instruction form provided by the record holder if your shares are held in the name of your bank, broker or other nominee.

#### Q: Does my vote matter?
A: Yes. The merger and the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement cannot be completed unless the Compass share issuance proposal is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the votes cast and the Anywhere merger proposal is approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares of Anywhere common stock entitled to vote thereon.

#### Q: How do I vote?
A: If you are a stockholder of record of Compass as of the Compass record date of December 12, 2025, you are entitled to receive notice of, and cast a vote at, the Compass special meeting via the Compass special meeting website. If you are a stockholder of record of Anywhere as of the Anywhere record date of December 12, 2025, you are entitled to receive notice of, and cast a vote at, the Anywhere special meeting via the Anywhere special meeting website. Each holder of Compass Class A common stock is entitled to cast one vote on each matter properly brought before the Compass special meeting for each share of Compass Class A common stock that such holder owned of record as of the Compass record date. Each holder of Compass Class C common stock is entitled to cast twenty (20) votes on each matter properly brought before the Compass special meeting for each share of Compass Class C common stock that such holder owned of record as of the Compass record date. Each holder of Anywhere common