Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 174

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 174
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, any provision of this Agreement.                                                           |

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| d. | The obligations of the Stockholders set forth in this Section 3 shall apply whether                                                                   
 or not the Merger, the adoption of the Merger Agreement or any action described above is recommended by the Company Board (or any committee thereof). |

| 4. | Prohibition on Transfers and Conversion. |

| a. | Each Stockholder hereby agrees that it will not, prior to the termination of this Agreement, without the prior                                                                                                                                           
 written consent of Parent, directly or indirectly offer for sale, sell, transfer, assign, give, convey, grant a proxy with respect to, tender in any tender or exchange offer, pledge, encumber, hypothecate or dispose of (by merger, by testamentary   
 disposition, by operation of law or otherwise), either voluntarily or involuntarily, enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of, or enter into any        
 contract, option or other arrangement or understanding with respect to the sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, hypothecation or other transfer or disposition of, any of the Shares, or any legal or beneficial interest therein, whether or not for 
 value and whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law (any of the foregoing, a “Transfer”).                                                                                                                                                  |

| b. | Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit a Transfer of Shares for                                                                                                                                                    
 estate-planning purposes, or by testamentary disposition, or to an Affiliate, or with respect to a trust over which such Stockholder has sole or shared investment power, so long as (i) the transferee, prior to the time of such Transfer, agrees 
 in a signed writing satisfactory to Parent to be bound by and comply with the provisions of this Agreement (the “Transferee Consent”), (ii) the Stockholder provides at least five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice                          
 to Parent of any such Transfer (which shall include the Transferee Consent) and (iii) the Stockholder shall remain responsible for any breach of this Agreement by such transferee (any Transfer permitted in accordance with this                  
 Section 4(b), a “Permitted Transfer”).                                                                                                                                                                                                              |

| c. | Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, (i) each Stockholder is permitted to engage in                                                                                                                                          
 new swaps or hedging transactions or other similar arrangements with respect to shares of Company Common Stock so long