Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 72

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 72
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the approval of the Company Board of this Agreement and the Transactions represents all the action necessary to render inapplicable to this Agreement and the Transactions any Takeover Law or any anti-takeover provision in the Company’s
Organizational Documents that is applicable to the Company, the shares of Company Common Stock or the Transactions.

4.23 . Except as would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (a) no Company Agent has any material business arrangement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries outside of its arrangement to
provide licensed real estate services, (b) no Company Agent is a party to any joint venture or owns equity in the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (c) each Company Agent is classified as an independent contractor other than those set
forth on Schedule 4.23(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, (d)

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except as set forth on Schedule 4.23(d) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the agreement or arrangement with each Company Agent can be terminated immediately and without liability to the Company
or its Subsidiaries (other than with respect to open listings and compensation owed for services performed through such termination date), and (e) to the knowledge of the Company, no Company Agent is obligated under any contract that would
interfere with their ability to conduct or promote the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries.

4.24 . Except as would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect, the
Company has written controls and procedures in place for all escrow and trust accounts which comply with America Land Title Association Escrow Accounting Standards and which provide that (a) escrow funds and operating accounts are separately
maintained, (b) escrow trust accounts are prepared with trial balances, listing all open escrow balances, (c) escrow accounts are regularly reconciled (receipts and disbursements daily and three-way
reconciliation monthly), (d) monthly bank account reconciliations are conducted by someone other than those with signing authority, (e) escrow accounts are properly identified as escrow or trust accounts including on all bank statements, bank
agreements, disbursement checks and deposit tickets, (f) escrow accounts are maintained in federally insured financial institutions unless directed by the beneficial owner, (g) the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with
applicable Law related to good funds, (h) a