Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 164

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 164
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 of, any class in any class action with respect to any claim, derivative or otherwise, against Parent, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates relating to the negotiation, execution or delivery of this Agreement or the Merger Agreement or 
 the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, including any claim challenging the validity of, or seeking to enjoin the operation of, any provision of this Agreement.                                                           |

| d. | The obligations of the Stockholders set forth in this Section 3 shall apply whether                                                       
 or not the Merger, the Parent Stock Issuance or any action described above is recommended by the Parent Board (or any committee thereof). |

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| 4. | Prohibition on Transfers and Conversion. |

| a. | Each Stockholder hereby agrees that it will not, prior to the termination of this Agreement, without the prior                                                                                                                                     
 written consent of the Company, (i) convert any shares of Parent Class C Common Stock into shares of Parent Class A Common Stock or (ii) directly or indirectly offer for sale, sell, transfer, assign, give, convey, grant a proxy                
 with respect to, tender in any tender or exchange offer, pledge, encumber, hypothecate or dispose of (by merger, by testamentary disposition, by operation of law or otherwise), either voluntarily or involuntarily, enter into any swap or other 
 arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of, or enter into any contract, option or other arrangement or understanding with respect to the sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, 
 hypothecation or other transfer or disposition of, any of the Shares, or any legal or beneficial interest therein, whether or not for value and whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law (any of the foregoing, a                   
 “Transfer”).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |

| b. | Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit a Transfer of Shares for                                                                                                                                                    
 estate-planning purposes, or by testamentary disposition, or to an Affiliate, or with respect to a trust over which such Stockholder has sole or shared investment power, so long as (i) the transferee, prior to the time of such Transfer, agrees 
 in a signed writing satisfactory to the Company to be bound by and comply with the provisions of this Agreement (the “Transferee Consent”), (ii) the Stockholder provides at least five (5) Business Days’ prior written                            
 notice to the Company