Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 96

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 96
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 such potential Company Competing Proposal previously granted to such Persons.

(b) From and after the date of this Agreement, the Company and its officers and directors will not, will cause the Company’s
Subsidiaries and their respective officers and directors not to, and will use their reasonable best efforts to cause its and their other Representatives not to, directly or indirectly:

(i) initiate, solicit, propose, knowingly assist, knowingly encourage or knowingly facilitate any proposal, offer or inquiry or
the making of any proposal, offer or inquiry that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to lead to, a Company Competing Proposal;

(ii) engage in, continue or otherwise participate in any discussions or negotiations with any Person with respect to, relating
to or in furtherance of a Company Competing Proposal or any inquiry, proposal or offer that could reasonably be expected to lead to a Company Competing Proposal;

(iii) furnish any information regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries, or access to the properties, assets or employees of
the Company or its Subsidiaries, to any Person in connection with or in response to any Company Competing Proposal or any inquiry, proposal or offer that could reasonably be expected to lead to a Company Competing Proposal;

(iv) enter into any letter of intent or agreement in principle, or other agreement providing for a Company Competing Proposal
(other than a confidentiality agreement as provided in entered into in compliance with ); or

(v) submit any Company Competing Proposal to the vote of the stockholders of the Company;

, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company or any of its Representatives may, in response to an inquiry or
proposal from a third party, inform a third party or its Representative of the restrictions imposed by the provisions of this (without conveying, requesting or attempting to gather any other information, except
as otherwise specifically permitted hereunder).

(c) From and after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall promptly (and in any
event within 24 hours) notify Parent of the direct or indirect receipt by the Company or its Subsidiaries, or the receipt by their respective officers or directors, or its and their respective other Representatives (to the extent the Company has
knowledge of such receipt), of any Company

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Competing Proposal or any expression of interest, inquiry, proposal or offer with respect to, or that could reasonably be expected to lead to, a Company Competing Proposal made on or after the
date of this Agreement, any request for information or data