Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-335437
Chunk: 1

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: 425
Chunk 1
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 if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

| Item 8.01 | Other Events. |

As previously disclosed, on September 22, 2025, Anywhere Real Estate Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company” or “ Anywhere”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement”) with Compass, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Compass”) and Velocity Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Compass (“ Merger Sub”). The Merger Agreement provides that, among other things and on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company (the “ Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Compass. The Company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC”) a definitive proxy statement (the “ Definitive Proxy Statement”) for the solicitation of proxies in connection with the special meeting of the Company’s stockholders, to be held on January 7, 2026 (the “ Special Meeting”), to vote upon, among other things, matters necessary to adopt and complete the Merger. Litigation Related to the Merger Following the filing of the Definitive Proxy Statement with the SEC, and as of December 29, 2025, three complaints have been filed by purported stockholders of the Company as individual actions with respect to the Merger, as follows: McDanielsv. Anywhere Real Estate Inc. et al.(Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, December 10, 2025) (the “ McDaniels Complaint”); Marinov. Anywhere Real Estate Inc. et al., Index No. 656398/2025 (Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, December 11, 2025) (the “ Marino Complaint”); and Druliasv. Anywhere Real Estate Inc. et al.(Superior Court of New Jersey, December 18, 2025) (the “ Drulias Complaint” and, together with the McDaniels Complaint and the Marino Complaint, the “ Complaints”). The Complaints generally allege that, among other things, the Definitive Proxy Statement is misleading and contains certain disclosure deficiencies and/or incomplete information regarding