Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 98

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 98
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 joint venture agreement, partnership agreement or other agreement (other than a confidentiality agreement referred to in entered
into in compliance with ) relating to a Company Competing Proposal (a “”);

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(v) in the case of a Company Competing Proposal that is structured as a
tender offer or exchange offer pursuant to Rule 14d-2 under the Exchange Act for outstanding shares of Company Common Stock (other than by Parent or an Affiliate of Parent), fail to recommend, in a
Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9, against acceptance of such tender offer or exchange offer by its stockholders on or prior to the earlier of (A) three (3) Business Days prior to
the date of the Company Stockholders Meeting (or promptly after commencement of such tender offer or exchange offer if commenced on or after the third (3rd) Business Day prior to the date of the Company Stockholders Meeting) or (B) five (5)
business days (as such term is used in Rule 14d-9 of the Exchange Act) after commencement of such tender offer or exchange offer;

(vi) if a Company Competing Proposal shall have been publicly announced or disclosed (other than pursuant to the foregoing
), fail to publicly reaffirm the Company Board Recommendation on or prior to the earlier of (A) five (5) Business Days after Parent so requests in writing or (B) three (3) Business Days prior to the date of the Company
Stockholders Meeting (or promptly after announcement or disclosure of such Company Competing Proposal if announced or disclosed on or after the third (3rd) Business Day prior to the date of the Company Stockholders Meeting); or

(vii) cause or permit the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to enter into a Company Alternative Acquisition Agreement
(together with any of the actions set forth in the foregoing through , a “”).

(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary:

(i) the Company Board may, after consultation with its outside legal counsel, make such disclosures as the Company Board
determines in good faith are necessary to comply with Rule 14d-9 or Rule 14e-2(a) promulgated under the Exchange Act or other disclosure required to be made in the Joint
Proxy Statement by applicable U.S. federal securities laws; , , that if such disclosure has the effect of withdrawing or adversely modifying the Company Board Recommendation, such disclosure shall be deemed to be a
Company Change of Recommendation