Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 298

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 298
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compass.com |     | For Anywhere Stockholders:     
 Anywhere Real Estate Inc.      
 175 Park Avenue                
 Madison, New Jersey 07940      
 Attention: Investor Relations  
 (973) 407-3677                 
 investor.relations@anywhere.re |

To obtain timely delivery of the documents, you must request them no later than five business days before the date of the applicable special meeting. Therefore, if you would like to request documents from Compass, please do so by December 30, 2025 in order to receive them before the Compass special meeting. If you would like to request documents from Anywhere, please do so by December 30, 2025 in order to receive them before the Anywhere special meeting.

You should rely only on the information contained in or incorporated by reference into this joint proxy statement/prospectus to vote on the Anywhere merger proposal, the Anywhere non-binding compensation advisory proposal, the Anywhere adjournment proposal, the Compass share issuance proposal and the Compass adjournment proposal. Neither Compass nor Anywhere has authorized anyone to provide you with information that is different from what is contained in this joint proxy statement/prospectus.

If you are in a jurisdiction where offers to exchange or sell, or solicitations of offers to exchange or purchase, the securities offered by this joint proxy statement/prospectus or solicitations of proxies are unlawful, or if you are a person to whom it is unlawful to direct these types of activities, then the offer presented in this joint proxy statement/prospectus does not extend to you.

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This joint proxy statement/prospectus is dated December 2, 2025. You should not assume that the information in it (or incorporated by reference) is accurate as of any date other than that date or the date of such incorporated document, as applicable, and neither its mailing to Anywhere stockholders or Compass stockholders nor the issuance of shares of Compass Class A common stock in the merger will create any implication to the contrary.

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#### ANNEX A

### AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

#### among

#### COMPASS, INC.,

#### VELOCITY MERGER SUB, INC.

#### and

#### ANYWHERE REAL ESTATE INC.

#### Dated as of September 22, 2025
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### TABLE OF CONTENTS
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