Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 27

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 27
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ure event, or any
escalation or worsening of such conditions;

(vii) the execution, announcement or performance of this Agreement, or the
public announcement or pendency or consummation of the Transactions (including the identity of the Parties or their respective Affiliates), including the impact thereof on the relationships of the Parties with their employees, independent
contractors, agents, franchisees, partnerships, customers, suppliers, distributors, agents, brokers, partners, service providers or Governmental Entities (which shall, for the avoidance of doubt, include with respect to the Company, any loss or
reduction of engagement with Company Agents, including any such Company Agents who subsequently become engaged by Parent or any of its Affiliates);

(viii) compliance with the express terms of, or the taking of any action expressly required by this Agreement (including the
failure of such Party to take any action that such Party is expressly prohibited by the terms of the Agreement from taking or which such Party did not take on account of withheld consent from the other Party in circumstances where the other
Party’s consent is required prior to the taking of such action under this Agreement);

(ix) changes after the date of
this Agreement in Law or other legal or regulatory conditions applicable to such Party or its assets or operations after the date of this Agreement, or the enforcement or interpretation thereof, or changes after the date of this Agreement in
applicable GAAP or other accounting standards;

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(x) any changes in such Party’s stock price or the trading volume of
such Party’s stock, or any failure by such Party to meet any analysts’ estimates or expectations of such Party’s revenue, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations for any period, or any failure by such Party
or any of its Subsidiaries to meet any internal budgets, plans or forecasts of its revenues, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations (it being understood that the facts, circumstances, effects, changes, events or
developments giving rise to or contributing to such changes or failures (unless excepted under the other clauses of this definition) may constitute, or be taken into account in determining whether there has been or will be, a Material Adverse
Effect);

(xi) any downgrade in rating by Moody’s Investor Service, S&P Global Ratings or Fitch Ratings of any
Indebtedness or debt securities of a Party or any of its Subsidiaries (it being understood that the facts, circumstances, effects, changes, events or developments giving