Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 53

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 53
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 the Company in the reports that it files or furnishes under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC in all
material respects. The Company maintains a system of internal control over financial reporting (as defined in paragraph (f) of Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act) that complies with the applicable
requirements of the Exchange Act and is reasonably designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of the Company’s financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
GAAP. The Company’s management has completed an assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s system of internal controls over financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, and such assessment concluded that such controls were effective in all material respects. The Company has disclosed, based on its most recent evaluation of internal controls over financial reporting
prior to the date of this Agreement, to the Company’s auditors and the audit committee of the Company Board, as appropriate, (x) any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of its internal controls over
financial reporting that are reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information and (y) any fraud that involves management or other employees
who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (except, in each case, as would not be material to the

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Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis), and each such deficiency, weakness or fraud so disclosed, if any, has been disclosed to Parent in Schedule 4.5 of the Company Disclosure
Letter. To the Company’s knowledge, there are no SEC inquiries or investigations, other governmental inquiries or investigations pending or threatened regarding any accounting practices of the Company. For purposes of this subsection (c), the
terms “significant deficiency” and “material weakness” have the meanings assigned to such terms in Auditing Standard No. 5 of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, as in effect on the date of this Agreement.

4.6 .

(a) Since January 1, 2025, there has not been any Company Material Adverse Effect. As of immediately prior to the Closing, no Default
that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has been notified of or otherwise becomes aware of, or Event of Default,