Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 12

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 12
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 to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall
there be any offer, solicitation or sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of
securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act.

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SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

| Date: September 22, 2025 |     | ANYWHERE REAL ESTATE INC. 
 By:                       |     | /s/ Marilyn J. Wasser                                             |
|:-------------------------|:----|:--------------------------|:----|:------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                          |     | Name:                     |     | Marilyn J. Wasser                                                 |
|                          |     | Title:                    |     | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |

Exhibit 2.1

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

among

COMPASS, INC.,

VELOCITY MERGER SUB, INC.

and

ANYWHERE REAL ESTATE INC.

Dated as of September 22, 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS

|                                                                                   |     |                                                           |     | Page |    |
| ARTICLE I                                                                         
 CERTAIN DEFINITIONS                                                               |     |                                                           |     |      |    |
| 1.1                                                                               |     | Certain Definitions                                       |     |      |  2 |
| 1.2                                                                               |     | Terms Defined Elsewhere                                   |     |      | 17 |
| ARTICLE II                                                                        
 THE MERGER                                                                        |     |                                                           |     |      |    |
| 2.1                                                                               |     | The Merger                                                |     |      | 19 |
| 2.2                                                                               |     | Closing                                                   |     |      | 19 |
| 2.3                                                                               |     | Effect of the Merger                                      |     |      | 20 |
| 2.4                                                                               |     | Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation |     |      | 20 |
| 2.5                                                                               |     | Bylaws of the Surviving Corporation                       |     |      | 20 |
| 2.6                                                                               |     | Directors and Officers