Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001398987-25-000069
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Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form: S-8
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### EXPLANATORY NOTE
Previously the Registrant registered shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the "Common Stock") under the Anywhere Real Estate Inc. 2018 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-224609 ) filed on May 2, 2018 (the “2018 Registration Statement”), a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-255779 ) filed on May 5, 2021 (the “2021 Registration Statement”) and a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333- 271615 ) filed on May 3, 2023 (the “2023 Registration Statement”). This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this "Registration Statement") is being filed solely to register an additional 6,000,000 shares of Common Stock that may be issued under the Plan listed herein which were added to the Plan when the third amendment and restatement of the Plan was approved by a vote of the Registrant’s stockholders on May 7, 2025. Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the 2018 Registration Statement, the 2021 Registration Statement and the 2023 Registration Statement are incorporated into this Registration Statement by reference, except that the provisions contained in Part II of each of the 2018 Registration Statement, the 2021 Registration Statement and the 2023 Registration Statement are modified as set forth below.

#### PART II.

### INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

## Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents previously filed with the SEC are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

(a) the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 202 4 , filed with the SEC on February 2 5 , 202 5 (except for the Report of Independent