Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001398987-25-000047
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Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form: DEF 14A
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. The Company’s strength was evident in both our financial execution in a tough housing market as well as our ability to deftly navigate changes to industry practices and regulations, while simultaneously accelerating strategic progress and transforming for the future. The Board of Directors is confident in the exceptional leadership of CEO Ryan Schneider and his management team as they proactively chart a stronger future for Anywhere.

The Board continued to actively engage and provide oversight on key areas in 2024, including Investor Outreach, Industry Change, Strategic Transformation, and Board Governance:

#### Investor Outreach
The Board remains committed to direct engagement with our investors through our proactive investor outreach program. For the seventh consecutive year, the Chair of the Compensation and Talent Management Committee and I met with seven of our top ten stockholders during our 2024 Investor Outreach Program, covering key topics such as strategy, leadership, governance and compensation. The proxy statement describes the outreach, investor feedback and the Board’s response. We remain committed to building upon our governance and compensation best practices and continuing to gather and implement feedback from investors.

#### Industry Change
The Board continues to have oversight of the Anywhere strategy, informing and advising the key leadership role Anywhere played as the industry adapted to changes in industry practices, particularly those stemming from the National Association of Realtors settlement in 2024. Anywhere stepped up as the voice of the industry and proactively initiated communications, training and education, and technology to prepare and support its independent sales agents and franchisees to implement changes successfully, as substantiated by the strong feedback from its networks and the industry at large.

Strategic Transformation

The Board’s strategic oversight also includes close engagement with the Company’s transformation strategy, which was the focus of our two-day immersive strategy meeting last June. As the business landscape continues to evolve, Anywhere is preparing for the future with Reimagine25, a proactive transformation strategy to deliver better experiences faster and at lower costs. We are acutely focused on leveraging automation, simplification, and generative AI to operate with agility and position Anywhere to lead the industry on this front.

In addition to transformation, Anywhere is also focused on driving growth in 2025. The company is poised to take advantage of ongoing industry consolidation with a focus on both organic and inorganic growth, particularly as it expands its luxury leadership.

#### Board Governance
Our commitment to strong board governance remains a top priority for the Board, supported by our Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee. In 2024, the Board approved, subject to stockholder approval at the