Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 95

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 95
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stockholders of Parent);

(iii) (A) merge, consolidate, combine or amalgamate with any Person or (B) acquire or agree
to acquire (including by merging or consolidating with, purchasing any equity interest in or a substantial portion of the assets of, licensing, or by any other manner), any business or any corporation, partnership, association or other business
organization or division thereof for which the consideration is more than $126,500,000 in the aggregate;

(iv) adopt a plan
or announce an intention to adopt a plan of complete or partial liquidation or dissolution of Parent; or

(v) agree, in
writing or orally, to take any action that is prohibited by this .

6.3 .
Without limiting in any way any Party’s rights or obligations under this Agreement, nothing contained in this Agreement shall give any Party, directly or indirectly, the right to control or direct the other Party and its Subsidiaries’
operations prior to the Effective Time. Prior to the Effective Time, each of the Parties shall exercise, consistent with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, complete control and supervision over its and its Subsidiaries’ respective
operations.

6.4 .

(a) From and after the date of this Agreement, the Company and its officers and directors will, will cause the Company’s Subsidiaries
and their respective officers and directors to, and will use their reasonable best efforts to cause its and their respective other Representatives to, immediately cease, and cause to be terminated, any discussion or negotiations with any Person
conducted heretofore by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Representatives with respect to any inquiry, proposal or offer that constitutes, or would reasonably be expected to lead to, a Company Competing Proposal. Within one (1) Business
Day of the date of this Agreement, the

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Company shall deliver a written notice (for which email shall suffice) to each Person that has received non-public information regarding the Company within
the twelve (12) months prior to the date of this Agreement pursuant to a confidentiality agreement with the Company for purposes of evaluating any transaction that could be a Company Competing Proposal and for whom no similar notice has been
delivered prior to the date of this Agreement requesting the prompt return or destruction of all confidential information concerning the Company and any of its Subsidiaries heretofore furnished to such Person or its Representatives. The Company will
immediately terminate any physical and electronic data access related to any