Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 78

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 78
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 are not any stockholder agreements, voting trusts or other agreements to which Parent or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it is bound relating to
the voting of any shares of capital stock or other equity interest of Parent. No Subsidiary of Parent owns any shares of Parent Common Stock or any other shares of Parent Stock. As of the date of this Agreement, the authorized capital stock of
Merger Sub consists of 1,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, all of which shares are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and are owned by Parent.

5.3 .

(a) Each of Parent and Merger Sub has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its
obligations hereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by Parent and Merger Sub, the performance of Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Agreement and the consummation by Parent and Merger Sub of the Transactions
have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of

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each of Parent (other than the Parent Stockholder Approval) and Merger Sub (other than the approval and adoption of this Agreement by Parent as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub, which shall
occur immediately after the execution and delivery of this Agreement). This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each of Parent and Merger Sub, and, assuming the due and valid execution of this Agreement by the Company, constitutes a
valid and binding obligation of each of Parent and Merger Sub enforceable against Parent and Merger Sub in accordance with its terms, subject as to enforceability to Creditors’ Rights. The Parent Board, has by unanimous written consent
(i) determined that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Parent Stock Issuance, are fair to, and in the best interests of, Parent and the holders of Parent Common Stock, (ii) approved and declared
advisable this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger and the Parent Stock Issuance and (iii) resolved to recommend that the holders of Parent Common Stock approve the Parent Stock Issuance (such recommendation
described in this , the “”). The Merger Sub Board has by unanimous written consent (A) determined that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the
Merger, are fair to, and in the best interests of, Merger Sub and the sole stock