Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-209980
Chunk: 6

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 6
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 is only a summary, does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Merger Agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1 and is incorporated
by reference herein.

The Merger Agreement has been included to provide investors with information regarding its terms. The Merger
Agreement is not intended to provide any other factual information about the Company, Merger Sub or Anywhere. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement were made only for purposes of the Merger Agreement as of
the specific dates therein, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of
allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to
investors. Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the parties thereto or any of their respective subsidiaries or
affiliates. Information concerning the subject matter of representations, warranties and covenants may change after the date of the Merger Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the Company’s or
Anywhere’s respective public disclosures. The Merger Agreement should not be read alone, but should instead be read in conjunction with the other information regarding the parties that is or will be contained in, or incorporated by reference
into, the Forms 10-K, Forms 10-Q and other documents that the Company or Anywhere filed or will file with the SEC.

Support Agreements Concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement, Robert L. Reffkin, chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and certain funds affiliated with Mr. Reffkin, who collectively hold and have the power to vote or direct the voting of approximately 29.6% of the issued and outstanding voting power of the Company common stock (the “ Subject Company Shares”), entered into a voting and support agreement with the Company (the “ Company Support Agreement”) pursuant to which, among other things, Mr. Reffkin and such funds have agreed, subject to the terms of the Company Support Agreement, to (i) vote the Subject Company Shares in favor of the approval of the issuance