Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 224

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 224
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 merger contemplated by the merger agreement; and

2.

#### Adjournment of the Compass Special Meeting
. To approve the adjournment of the Compass special meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the time of the Compass special meeting to approve the Compass share issuance proposal or to ensure that any supplement or amendment to the accompanying joint proxy statement/prospectus is timely provided to Compass stockholders.

Completion of the merger is conditioned on, among other things, the approval of the Compass share issuance proposal. Only the approval of the Compass share issuance proposal is required for completion of the merger. Compass will transact no other business at the Compass special meeting except such business as may properly be brought before the Compass special meeting or any adjournment or proposal thereof.

#### Recommendation of the Compass Board
The Compass Board unanimously (i) determined that the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Compass share issuance, pursuant to the merger agreement, are fair to, and in the best interests of, Compass and its stockholders, (ii) approved and declared advisable the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the merger and the Compass share issuance, and (iii) resolved to recommend that Compass stockholders approve the Compass share issuance proposal and directed that such matter be submitted for consideration at the Compass special meeting. Accordingly, the Compass Board, by unanimous written consent, recommends that Compass stockholders vote:

1. “

#### FOR
” the Compass share issuance proposal; and

2. “

#### FOR
” the Compass adjournment proposal.

Compass stockholders should read this joint proxy statement/prospectus carefully and in its entirety, including any documents incorporated by reference, and the annexes in their entirety for more detailed information concerning the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement. For additional information on the recommendation of the Compass Board, see the section entitled “The Merger—Compass Board’s Recommendation and Reasons for the Merger.”

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Compass Record Date; Compass Stockholders Entitled to Vote

Only holders of record of Compass common stock at the close of business on December 12, 2025 will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Compass special meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.

As of November 25, 2025, there were 552,113,490 shares of Compass Class A common stock and 10,122,433 shares of Compass Class C