Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001398987-25-000047
Chunk: 121

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 121
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83(b) of the Code, to have income recognized at the date of grant of a restricted stock award and to have the applicable capital gain holding period commence as of that date. If a participant makes this election, we generally will be entitled to a corresponding tax deduction in the year of grant. If the participant does not make an election pursuant to Section 83(b) of the Code, dividends paid to the participant during the restriction period will be treated as compensation income to the participant and we generally will be entitled to a corresponding tax deduction.

Performance Awards; Dividend Equivalent Awards; Stock Payment Awards; Other Incentive Awards. With respect to these types of awards, a participant generally will not recognize taxable income until the cash or shares of common stock are delivered to the participant upon satisfaction of the conditions of the award, and we generally will be entitled to a corresponding tax deduction. The amount of ordinary income recognized by the participant generally will be equal to the amount of the cash or the fair market value of the shares received.

### THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTEFOR
<div align='center'>THE APPROVAL OF THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED 2018 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN</div>

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| TABLE OF CONTENTS |     | CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |     | PROPOSAL 1 |     | EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION |     | PROPOSAL 2 |     | PROPOSAL 3 |     | PROPOSAL 4 |     | PROPOSAL 5 |     | PROPOSAL 6 |     | STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS |     | FAQ |

<div align='center'>PROPOSAL 5: APPROVAL OF AMENDMENT TO OUR CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION TO ELIMINATE THE SUPERMAJORITY STOCKHOLDER VOTE REQUIRED TO REMOVE DIRECTORS</div>

Our stockholders previously approved amendments to our Certificate of Incorporation to eliminate certain supermajority voting requirements.

The Board, after careful consideration and as part of the Board’s ongoing review of the Company's corporate governance profile, recommends that our stockholders approve an amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation to eliminate the remaining supermajority voting requirement to remove a director, with or without cause.

If approved, the amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation proposed under this Proposal 5 would reduce the voting requirements for these actions to a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of